Description

After a one year hiatus, Pinnacle Brands released 1994 Score Rookie/Traded Baseball in October 1994. The set consists of 165 cards with 80 cards of traded players, 83 of rookies, and two checklists. This is one of the few late-season 1994 sets released without a "true" Alex Rodriguez rookie card -- although it has one of A-Rod's scarcest rookie year cards. The only notable rookies are of Chan Ho Park and Jose Lima (see below).

Unlike traditional "traded sets," the design of '94SR/T was radically different than of 1994 Score, with bold red borders and separate designs for the rookies and traded players.

Unfortunately, '94SR/T suffered from a lack of rookies, a horrible design, and most importantly, bad timing. The product went live in October 1994 -- around the time of the canceled World Series.

The Jose Lima SP and the A-Rod Redemption

Midway through '94SR/T's production run a press plate needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, Pinnacle's computer database accidentally deleted Jose Lima's card, thereby making Lima's card a short-print. Rather than leave a hole in the middle of the plate, Pinnacle filled it by double-printing John Mabry's card. Towards the end of the production run, the plate broke again. This time, rather than fill Jose Lima's space with John Mabry, Pinnacle filled it with a redemption good for a card of the first player drafted in 1994 to make his Major League debut.

Unfortunately for Pinnacle Brands, then came the 1994 Baseball Player's Strike, and the cancellation of the remainder of the 1994 season. Pinnacle later announced that the "September Call-Up" card would be redemmed for a card of Alex Rodriguez, the first player selected in the 1993 Major League Draft.

Distribution

36 packs per box, 10 cards per pack. Hobby and Retail.

Reviews

http://blog.stalegum.com/2009/01/1994-last-great-year-score-rookietraded.html

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	165	?	?
Gold Rush	165	one-per-pack	one-per-pack
Changing Places	10	1:36	1:36
Super Rookies	18	1:36	N/A
September Call-Up Redemption	1	1:240	1:240

Checklist

Promos

RT1 Will Clark

RT2 Lee Smith

RT3 Bo Jackson

RT4 Ellis Burks

RT5 Eddie Murray

RT6 Delino DeShields

RT102 Carlos Delgado

CP2 Rafael Palmeiro

SU2 Manny Ramirez

NNO Title Card

NNO September Call-Up/Redemption Sample

Base Set

RT1 Will Clark

RT2 Lee Smith

RT3 Bo Jackson

RT4 Ellis Burks

RT5 Eddie Murray

RT6 Delino DeShields

RT7 Erik Hanson

RT8 Rafael Palmeiro

RT9 Luis Polonia

RT10 Omar Vizquel

RT11 Kurt Abbott

RT12 Vince Coleman

RT13 Rickey Henderson

RT14 Terry Mulholland

RT15 Greg Hibbard

RT16 Walt Weiss

RT17 Chris Sabo

RT18 Dave Henderson

RT19 Rick Sutcliffe

RT20 Harold Reynolds

RT21 Jack Morris

RT22 Dan Wilson

RT23 Dave Magadan

RT24 Dennis Martinez

RT25 Wes Chamberlain

RT26 Otis Nixon

RT27 Eric Anthony

RT28 Randy Milligan

RT29 Julio Franco

RT30 Kevin McReynolds

RT31 Anthony Young

RT32 Brian Harper

RT33 Gene Harris

RT34 Eddie Taubensee

RT35 David Segui

RT36 Stan Javier

RT37 Felix Fermin

RT38 Darrin Jackson

RT39 Tony Fernandez

RT40 Jose Vizcaino

RT41 Willie Banks

RT42 Brian Hunter

RT43 Reggie Jefferson

RT44 Junior Felix

RT45 Jack Armstrong

RT46 Bip Roberts

RT47 Jerry Browne

RT48 Marvin Freeman

RT49 Jody Reed

RT50 Alex Cole

RT51 Sid Fernandez

RT52 Pete Smith

RT53 Xavier Hernandez

RT54 Scott Sanderson

RT55 Turner Ward

RT56 Rex Hudler

RT57 Deion Sanders

RT58 Sid Bream

RT59 Tony Pena

RT60 Bret Boone

RT61 Bobby Ayala

RT62 Pedro Martinez

RT63 Howard Johnson

RT64 Mark Portugal

RT65 Roberto Kelly

RT66 Spike Owen

RT67 Jeff Treadway

RT68 Mike Harkey

RT69 Doug Jones

RT70 Steve Farr

RT71 Billy Taylor RC

RT72 Manny Ramirez

RT73 Bob Hamelin

RT74 Steve Karsay

RT75 Ryan Klesko

RT76 Cliff Floyd

RT77 Jeffrey Hammonds

RT78 Javier Lopez

RT79 Roger Salkeld

RT80 Hector Carrasco

RT81 Gerald Williams

RT82 Raul Mondesi

RT83 Sterling Hitchcock

RT84 Danny Bautista

RT85 Chris Turner

RT86 Shane Reynolds

RT87 Rondell White

RT88 Salomon Torres

RT89 Turk Wendell

RT90 Tony Tarasco

RT91 Shawn Green

RT92 Greg Colbrunn

RT93 Eddie Zambrano

RT94 Rich Becker

RT95 Chris Gomez

RT96 John Patterson

RT97 Derek Parks

RT98 Rich Rowland

RT99 James Mouton

RT100 Tim Hyers RC

RT101 Jose Valentin

RT102 Carlos Delgado

RT103 Robert Eenhoorn

RT104 John Hudek RC

RT105 Domingo Cedeno

RT106 Denny Hocking

RT107 Greg Pirkl

RT108 Mark Smith

RT109 Paul Shuey

RT110 Jorge Fabregas

RT111 Rikkert Faneyte RC

RT112 Rob Butler

RT113 Darren Oliver RC

RT114 Troy O'Leary

RT115 Scott Brow

RT116 Tony Eusebio

RT117 Carlos Reyes

RT118 J.R. Phillips

RT119 Alex Diaz

RT120 Charles Johnson

RT121 Nate Minchey

RT122 Scott Sanders

RT123 Daryl Boston

RT124 Joey Hamilton

RT125 Brian Anderson

RT126 Dan Miceli

RT127 Tom Brunansky

RT128 Dave Staton

RT129 Mike Oquist

RT130 John Mabry RC DP

RT131 Norberto Martin

RT132 Hector Fajardo

RT133 Mark Hutton

RT134 Fernando Vina

RT135 Lee Tinsley

RT136 Chan Ho Park RC

RT137 Paul Spoljaric

RT138 Matias Carrillo

RT139 Mark Kiefer

RT140 Stan Royer

RT141 Bryan Eversgerd

RT142 Brian L. Hunter

RT143 Joe Hall

RT144 Johnny Ruffin

RT145 Alex Gonzalez

RT146 Keith Lockhart RC

RT147 Tom Marsh

RT148 Tony Longmire

RT149 Keith Mitchell

RT150 Melvin Nieves

RT151 Kelly Stinnett RC

RT152 Miguel Jimenez

RT153 Jeff Juden

RT154 Matt Walbeck

RT155 Marc Newfield

RT156 Matt Mieske

RT157 Marcus Moore

RT158 Jose Lima SP RC

RT159 Mike Kelly

RT160 Jim Edmonds

RT161 Steve Trachsel

RT162 Greg Blosser

RT163 Mark Acre RC

RT164 AL Checklist

RT165 NL Checklist

Parallels

Gold Rush (one-per-pack)

NOTE: It does not appear that the Jose Lima Gold Rush parallel was short-printed.

Inserts

September Call-Up Redemption

HC1 Alex Rodriguez

NNO September Call-Up Expired Trade Card

Changing Places

CP1 Will Clark

CP2 Rafael Palmeiro

CP3 Roberto Kelly

CP4 Bo Jackson

CP5 Otis Nixon

CP6 Rickey Henderson

CP7 Ellis Burks

CP8 Lee Smith

CP9 Delino DeShields

CP10 Deion Sanders

Super Rookies

SU1 Carlos Delgado

SU2 Manny Ramirez

SU3 Ryan Klesko

SU4 Raul Mondesi

SU5 Bob Hamelin

SU6 Steve Karsay

SU7 Jeffrey Hammonds

SU8 Cliff Floyd

SU9 Kurt Abbott

SU10 Marc Newfield

SU11 Javier Lopez

SU12 Rich Becker

SU13 Greg Pirkl

SU14 Rondell White

SU15 James Mouton

SU16 Tony Tarasco

SU17 Brian Anderson

SU18 Jim Edmonds