Box break - 1991 Score 2 Baseball

THE PRODUCT: 3 boxes of 1991 Score Series 2 Baseball

These three boxes show different players on the front - John Olerud, Kevin Mitchell, and Barry Larkin.  I don't know how many other box varieties exist.

1991 Score Series 2 baseball boxes

Each box contains 36 packs.  Each pack contains 16 cards plus 1 Magic Motion trivia card.

1991 Score Series 2 baseball pack

THE BIG HITS: serial-numbered Mickey Mantle autographs

In Series 2 boxes in 1991 Score inserted a special Mickey Mantle tribute set of seven cards.  A grand total of 38,500 cards were produced.  Mantle autographed 2,500 samples of the seven cards.  According to the pack wrappers, the odds of pulling a Mantle insert are "no less than 1 in 2,000."  The odds for pulling an autographed cards are "no less than 1 in 30,000."  Even with three boxes of 1991 Score 2, the odds are way against me for pulling something decent.

THE CONTENTS

As expected, this boxes had lots of base cards but no inserts, let alone autographed inserts.  The first box afforded 365 different cards of the 452 needed for Series 2.  That's 81% of the complete set.  I also picked up 31 different trivia cards toward the full set of 56 (55%). Once all the dust had settled I was short 5 base cards (447 of out 452) and lacking 4 of the trivia cards (52 out of 56).  (Note that Beckett says that there are 72 trivia cards, but that's just for Series 1.  The Series 2 trivia cards are complete at 56.)

Despite the fact these boxes only contain base cards, this is one wild and crazy set.  All the base cards have one of four different background colors - blue, teal, white, and black.  The blue and teal cards are all just vanilla player cards.  A couple are shown below.

550 - Orel Hershiser

554 - Fred Lynn

The white cards are exclusively a complete mess of subsets.

669 - Eric Davis
671 - Chipper Jones
685 - Doc Gooden

690 - Jose Canseco
702 - Dave Stewart
768 - Gary Disarcina

The black cards are largely simple player cards, but they also include a number of special tribute-type cards.

773 - Bo Jackson
788 - Curt Schilling
795 - Reds' October

815 - Ryne Sandberg
841 - The Griffeys
858 - Ken Griffey Jr.

The series ends with a handful of Dream Team cards.  These have a black-and-white or sepia appearance.  Most are nice shots, but the Rickey Henderson card is a bit creepy.  Are these baseball cards or a product of Playgirl?

890 - Rickey Henderson

CONCLUSION

I can't be surprised at striking out on this break, but there are plenty more 1991 Score 2 boxes on eBay.