1989 Score

By 1989 it was painfully obvious that Score was not about to let Donruss run away with cards designed for five year olds. The wild cyan/green, purple/orange, and teal/pink color combos were Score's way of telling us that they would not be outdone in the poor design department. It was bad enough that they fooled Tigers collectors into thinking that Ray Knight was wearing a cool road jersey that said "Tigers" across the chest instead of "Detroit." Even worse was that they corrected it.

The 1989 Score Detroit Tigers:

23 Matt Nokes

26 Gary Pettis

44 Chet Lemon

110 Alan Trammell

112 Frank Tanana

129 Doyle Alexander

131 Mike Heath

135 Ray Knight

168 Don Heinkel

171 Darrell Evans

204 Pat Sheridan

230 Lou Whitaker

250 Jack Morris

269 Tom Brookens

275 Guillermo Hernandez

279 Larry Herndon

284 Jeff Robinson

293 Mike Henneman

311 Jim Walewander

314 Walt Terrell

316 Luis Salazar

469 Dave Bergman

471 Eric King

545 Dwayne Murphy

595 Paul Gibson

627 Steve Searcy

Despite other companies giving us loads of traded and rookie players in their traded, update, and rookie sets, Score gave us one.

43T Tracy Jones

It looks like they tried to make up for it by releasing some insert sets, but I don't have any of them, so there's not much else I can add.

1989 Score Hottest Stars:

7 Alan Trammell

34 Jeff Robinson

59 Mike Henneman

1989 Score Young Superstars II: (I have no clue about Young Superstars I....)

7 Eric King

8 Jeff Robinson

27 Steve Searcy

They did however release a nifty little 42 card box set of "painted" looking cards, but this would be the only time they did so. Too bad, because these are pretty nice. They were obviously the precursor to the 2006 Bowman Heritage issue.

1989 Score Masters:

8 Jack Morris