[sonic311]

I always love when a card company tries something cool and different. That is one reason the 90s were one of the best times for collecting cards. One of the more annoying things card companies did in the 90s was to make parallels of inserts that were extremely difficult to tell apart unless you knew what to look for. Fleer and Score were some of the worst with this. What makes it worse is that the odds for some of these cards were insanely high, so during the 90s you might not have ever even seen one to know what to look for. In 1997 Score did a insert set called "Franchise", which in itself was a nice looking set. They also made a parallel of the insert set called "Glowing" using glow in the dark ink. Glow in the dark cards sounds really cool, and they are when you can find find them. These cards were inserted around 1 in 10 boxes, making them very difficult to find. On top of that when you did pull one you had to hold it up to a light then take it into the dark to see if it glowed. You could tell them apart if you knew the subtle difference in the ink, but if you had never seen one before you couldn't be certain until you did the light test. Today's card is the 1997 Score Franchise Glowing card of Cal Ripken Jr. If you have one of the regular ones and didn't know about the glowing parallel, you might want to try the light test to see if you got one of these rare parallels.

Very cool. First I've heard of the Glowing version. I have a few of these, I'll have to do the light test. I wonder if there are graded ones with the wrong label due to people perhaps not knowing they had the parallel.

[nolan5000]

Very cool. First I've heard of the Glowing version. I have a few of these, I'll have to do the light test. I wonder if there are graded ones with the wrong label due to people perhaps not knowing they had the parallel.

That's a great question.

[DrMitchJ]

Very cool. First I've heard of the Glowing version. I have a few of these, I'll have to do the light test. I wonder if there are graded ones with the wrong label due to people perhaps not knowing they had the parallel.

+1
Never knew they existed! I'll be looking for them from now on! Can you do a 'Glow' picture of the card?

[nolan5000]

+1
Never knew they existed! I'll be looking for them from now on! Can you do a 'Glow' picture of the card?

Yes. I just happened upon some Nolans. They wanted $300.

[djohn]

Never knew they existed! I'll be looking for them from now on! Can you do a 'Glow' picture of the card?

Ok, here is one of John Smoltz with the lights on and glowing with the lights off.

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Yes. I just happened upon some Nolans. They wanted $300.

Not sure which Nolan you are referring to, as he is not in this set.

[alfredoleal2001]

+1
Never knew they existed!

I had no clue either!!!! Its the first time ive ever seen one. Pretty cool!!

[woogie23]

GLOWING CARDS!!! Next thing you know, they'll be putting pieces of bats and jerseys in cards. Man that would be cool!

Seriously, didn't know of the glowing cards either, pretty cool.

I love this thread btw!

[waynetalger]

OH WOW.
I did not know about that set too. I will have check check and see if I have any

[alfredoleal2001]

kinda funny that the set has been out for 18 years and many people here including me had never seen those before, the hobby can give us surprises i guess lol

[djohn]

kinda funny that the set has been out for 18 years and many people here including me had never seen those before, the hobby can give us surprises i guess lol

Based on the responses from this last post I think I am going to focus on some more rare, lesser known 90s cards for the next few posts. There are a lot of parallels of inserts that a lot of people don't know about. I already have a few in mind.