1995 Score Select Certified Edition

Pujols error leads to the AL's first run in the top of the first. Lincecum fails to cover first and now it's 2-0 AL. Tim McCarver can't quit using the word buoy. NL goes 1-2-3 in the bottom of the first. So far this is fun!

Ok, I'll give credit where credit is due here. These have an interesting look with the bronze shadow silhouetting the player and the black and white background. But with only 135 cards in the whole set, why bother? Oh well, at least Gibby is actually on his own card with this Score issue. Maybe that's why these are certified?

The 1995 Score Select Certified Edition Detroit Tigers:

40 Travis Fryman

45 Kirk Gibson

47 Cecil Fielder

102 Bobby Higginson

1995 Score Select

Two of the things I dislike most about card sets are horizontal designs and small sets, and this set has both of those covered.  These don't look awful though. The selection of players is interesting. No Trammell, Whitaker, or Tettleton, but there are cards of Danny Bautista and Chad Curtis.

I have never noticed this until this moment right now. The action photo on Gibby's card is of Tettleton. Well I'll be.....

The 1995 Score Select Detroit Tigers:

25 Kirk Gibson

31 Danny Bautista

96 Cecil Fielder

132 Travis Fryman

184 Chad Curtis

205 Jose Lima

What? 

Stop!

Lima Time!

Whoa-oh-oh-oh-whoa-oh-oh!!!

1994 Score Select

Damn I was hoping these were the ones where I got to play songs.....

The 1994 Score Select Detroit Tigers:

186 Danny Bautista

194 Chris Gomez

215 Tony Phillips

224 Mike Moore

233 Cecil Fielder

248 Tim Belcher

266 Kirk Gibson

273 Eric Davis

285 Alan Trammell

295 Travis Fryman

323 Lou Whitaker

327 Chad Kreuter

331 Mickey Tettleton

335 John Doherty

357 David Wells

368 Mike Henneman

Score Select Skills

10 Travis Fryman

1993 Score Select

This is another one of those stupid Score sets that was absolute crap and everybody knew it when it came out. For starters, just what in the hell was "Select" about it? There were 405 base cards, 162 insert cards, and 150 Traded cards. By my rough count that's over 700 cards. Not very "Select" in my book. That ratio of base cards to insert cards is something Topps would be very proud of. 

The 1993 Score Select Detroit Tigers:

20 Cecil Fielder

44 Travis Fryman

60 Mickey Tettleton

85 Bill Gullickson

112 Lou Whitaker

138 Mike Henneman

166 Milt Cuyler

186 Rob Deer

218 Tony Phillips

230 Alan Trammell

244 Dan Gladden

298 John Doherty

306 Kurt Knudsen

320 Scott Livingstone

335 Phil Clark

398 Frank Tanana

There was an update set, and it's a shame I don't have any of these because these were three of my favorite Tigers from that era of crappiness.

1993 Score Select Rookie & Traded: 

80T Chris Gomez

92T Eric Davis

113T David Wells

Now for the insert cards. I think the card pictured above speaks volumes about the overabundance of insert cards. Tony Phillips. This may be the card where the ship sailed on insert cards being "special." 

1993 Select Chase Stars

13 Cecil Fielder

1993 Select Stat Leaders

27 Cecil Fielder

31 Cecil Fielder

37 Tony Phillips

I guess it could have been worse. They could have put Cecil Fielder on another insert card instead of TP.

You know the worst part about this set. They don't really look all that bad. This could have been one of Score's nicer sets.