Cheap Wax Wednesday Box Breaks: 1994 Score Rookie/Traded Baseball

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October 30, 2024

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1994 Score was split into two Series. The base cards? Remember those super plain cards with the blue borders? That was 1994 Score Baseball. 1994 Score Rookie/Traded Baseball, however, has a completely different design. These base cards use bright red borders and multiple accent colors. The player names were bright red and yellow, a huge change from the other 1994 releases.

The base set also features a full parallel that matches 1994 Score Baseball. Gold Rush cards are found one per pack and gave the cards a gold mirror finish. Aside from that, there are just two insert sets to hunt down in Rookie/Traded. Super Rookies look somewhat similar to the Gold Rush parallels. Changing Places inserts highlighted players that had recently switched teams. Both inserts are found just once in each box and are not easy pulls.

1994 Score Rookie/Traded Baseball Box Break

Cards per pack: 10
Packs per box: 36
Price paid: $15

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Pack 1 highlights:

Pedro Martinez & Bo Jackson Gold Rush (one per pack)

1994 was Martinez’s first season in Montreal. As a 22-year old, he went 11-5 with a 3.42 ERA.

Pack 2:

Pedro Martinez & Marvin Freeman Gold Rush

Pack 3:

Chan Ho Park, Jack Morris, Omar Vizquel, Rondell White, Will Clark & Rikkert Faneyte Gold Rush

Pack 4:

Jim Edmonds, Manny Ramirez & Bip Roberts Gold Rush

Pack 5:

Chan Ho Park, Ellis Burks & Eric Anthony Gold Rush

Park spent most of the 1994 season in Double-A, throwing just four major league innings.

Pack 6:

Alex Gonzalez Gold Rush

Pack 7:

Otis Nixon, Tony Pena & Walt Weiss Gold Rush

Pack 8:

Tony Fernandez, Rafael Palmeiro, Rick Sutcliffe, Javier Lopez & Chris Sabo Gold Rush

Pack 9:

Omar Vizquel, Jack Morris, Julio Franco & Miguel Jimenez Gold Rush

Franco was 35 in 1994. Crazy to think that he was still playing in the majors in 2007.

Pack 10:

Rondell White, Jack Morris, Julio Franco & Jerry Browne Gold Rush

Pack 11:

Carlos Delgado, Howard Johnson & Shawn Green Gold Rush

Pack 12:

Rickey Henderson, Bo Jackson & Joey Hamilton Gold Rush

Pack 13:

Bob Hamelin, Rickey Henderson, Bo Jackson & Greg Hibbard Gold Rush

Hamelin was the 1994 AL Rookie of the Year. He hit .282 with 24 HR and 65 RBI in just 101 major league games.

Pack 14:

Carlos Delgado, Vince Coleman Gold Rush & Javier Lopez Super Rookie (1:36 packs)

Pack 15:

Matt Mieske Gold Rush

Pack 16:

Kurt Abbott Gold Rush

Pack 17:

Shawn Green & Ellis Burks Gold Rush

Burks played just 42 games in 1994 but posted his best OPS of any season of his career, 1.066.

Pack 18:

Harold Reynolds, Shawn Green & Dave Staton Gold Rush

Pack 19:

Julio Franco, Troy O’Leary, Pedro Martinez & Brian Harper Gold Rush

Pack 20:

Vince Coleman, Lee Smith & Lenny Harris Gold Rush

Pack 21:

Mark Acre Gold Rush

Acre pitched in 34 games out of the Oakland bullpen in ‘94, posting a 3.41 ERA.

Pack 22:

Jim Edmonds, Lee Smith, Manny Ramirez & Gerald Williams Gold Rush

Pack 23:

Deion Sanders, Cliff Floyd & Raul Mondesi Gold Rush

Pack 24:

Bret Boone & Charles Johnson Gold Rush

Pack 25:

Javier Lopez, Tony Fernandez & Hector Carrasco Gold Rush

Lopez caught 75 games for Atlanta in 1994. He would be a mainstay behind the plate for the Braves for the next decade.

Pack 26:

Billy Taylor Gold Rush

Pack 27:

Carlos Delgado, Howard Johnson & Keith Mitchell Gold Rush

Pack 28:

Rafael Palmeiro, Rick Sutcliffe & Jorge Fabregas Gold Rush

Pack 29:

Charles Johnson, Alex Gonzalez, Rafael Palmeiro & Tony Tarasco Gold Rush

Johnson made his major league debut in 1994, appearing in just four games. He moved up to the majors for good in 1995, winning his first of four straight Gold Gloves.