1997 Score Baseball The Franchise
6 of 9. Albert Belle
For as plentiful as they are, 1990 and 1991 Score Baseball laid a lot of the groundwork for the future of the brand. In these sets, Dream Team and The Franchise subsets arguably garnered more attention than the rest of the set.
The Franchise went on to become a separate insert set. The 1997 incarnation shown here takes something of a minimalist approach, at least on the surface. The large borders mimic a baseball – they’re all white and the “ball stitching” is embossed to give it a nice feel. The small photo has been given a sepia tone. The only foil on the card comes from the set’s name.
The basic version of the set contained nine cards and were inserted in 1:72 1997 Score Series One packs. A glow-in-the-dark version (yes, there’s glow-in-the-dark baseball cards out there somewhere) paralleled at a rate of 1:240 packs.
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