Huge Bulk Lot of 36 MLB Baseball 1991 Score Cards Game From Wax Packs

I'm about to tell the story of how I came up with what you are about to (HOPEFULLY LOL) purchase. This listing is for baseball cards. But the story I'm about to tell has to do with football. It's how I came up with this game. It works the same for baseball as it does for football though. I just wanted to share how I came up with this. But again, rest assured, this listing is for BASEBALL.

Where to start. I was recently having a couple adult beverages on a Sunday afternoon in the garage watching a 49ers game from 1994. My favorite (and the best) football team of all-time. I will argue (and win) that fact until the day I die. Young (THE G.O.A.T), Rice (number 3 G.O.A.T.), Deion, Watters, Jones, Taylor, Bryant Young, Merton. I could keep going on and on but I digress.

I was thinking how there really isn't any home football board games. After a few more beverages this idea popped in my head. I have like 80 boxes of 1990 Score football cards. That's a lot of wax packs. So I figured out a way to put some of them to use. I thought a cool football game would be a game similar to the card game WAR. I opened up a few of these packs and started organizing them a bit due to player stature. And these packs of cards each came with a trivia card which I thought could add a little bit to the game. A deck of cards box will only hold 34 trading cards plus 2 trivia cards for a grand total of 36 cards.

So after doing all that for the football boxes, I realized the game would work the same for baseball as well. And I have like 40 unopened boxes of 1991 score wax packs. That's a lot of wax packs. I decided to do the same thing for the baseball cards as I just did for the football cards.

I worked them into piles. Each box contains what I would consider 4 Aces. For example, the box I am looking at right now contains a Rickey Henderson, Tim Raines, Cal Ripken Jr., and Ken Griffey Jr., (these players wouldn't necessarily be in your box, I'm just giving an example of the higher echelon players that I would consider Aces), 2 trivia cards, and 30 regular cards with the players ranging anywhere from maybe players you never heard of all the way up to maybe a player/insert card you would consider an Ace. For the grand total of 36 cards in each box.

The box you receive WON'T be the same as the box in the photo. It will obviously be very similar but the players may be different. The photo is just to be used as an example of the types of cards you will receive.

My buddy came over that night and I had him play a couple rounds of this with me. First we played it with the football cards. Then we played it with the baseball cards (or you can't get really nuts and play with both baseball and football at the same time hahahaha). We played it exactly like the card game WAR. We kind of made up the rules as we went along but I gotta say, I had a great time. I love cards, talking baseball, and arguing over baseball so this was perfect for me. 

The great part is you can make up your own rules for these. But I'll give a quick description of how our games went. We shuffled up the cards. We each got 17 cards plus 1 trivia card each. We tried not to look at our piles and would each throw one card in the middle. Whoever we thought threw in the better player would win that round and take both cards. We considered all Aces to be equal. If there was an actual WAR, or say you are going to lose your ACE, you can use your 1 trivia card to null and void that round and keep your cards from WAR. And say two cards come out that are pretty much equal. Either because you never heard of the players or because they both had pretty similar careers. Well then you can turn over the card and use the stats on the back to back up your argument of who should win that round of WAR. Could be where they were drafted. Or what we found worked well was using the colleges they attended to settle the argument. And if you still can't come to an agreement, then it's off to WAR.

There are plenty of different ways to play, that was just the idea I came up with and how we played. I had a lot of fun. I love early 90's baseball (although that's not saying much since I love pretty much everything from the 80's and 90's hahaha). Hey, it was a great time talking baseball and having some beers. It might be fun to do with your buddies. Or teach your kid or grandson a little history of baseball and the players while having a nice time with them.

I created this out of thin air. Figured I'd try sharing it with others and maybe it will catch on. For the record, Brady is G.O.A.T. number 2 and Montana is G.O.A.T. number 4.

As for baseball, it obviously all starts with The Babe. Then my two favorite players would be Konerko and Dawson. Anyways, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy.