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Deion Sanders
1989 · Score Football · #246
Sanders’s Score #246 is identified in PSA’s football rookie-set article.
- Sport
- Football
- Year / season
- 1989
- Set
- Score Football
- Number
- #246
- Format
- Card
- Issue status
- Rookie card
About this card
Deion Sanders’s 1989 Score Football card is number 246 in that release. Score launched in 1988 and put full-color photos on both sides of its cards. Its late-1980s and early-1990s sets hold rookie cards from that era.
The catalog labels this a rookie card, based on the source cited below.
How to identify it
Score printed in large quantities, so condition decides most comparisons. Canadian, supplemental and other versions of the same year are separate issues with their own numbering.
In Deion Sanders’s run
This is the only Deion Sanders entry in the catalog so far.
In the 1989 checklist
The catalog’s selected checklist for the 1989 Score Football release also includes Barry Sanders. It is a partial checklist of cataloged cards, not the full release.
What to know about this issue
- PSA’s rookie-set article lists this exact 1989 Score #246 issue.
- The article describes bright green borders that can show chipping.
Inspect the source
Source reviewed 2026-10-07. The source describes this issue; it does not verify any item offered by a third party.
No assigned grade, market value or verified offer is supplied by this reference entry.
Read the football collecting guideRaw or graded. Inspect the actual copy.
The issue stays 1989 · Score Football. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.
Raw / ungraded
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- Record visible condition
- Inspect corners, edges, centering and surface in suitable photographs or in person. Record damage or unanswered questions without assigning a predicted professional grade.
- Keep authentication separate
- Ungraded does not establish authenticity or mean “never authenticated.” A protective case alone does not establish a professional condition grade.
Professionally graded
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- Compare within the stated scale
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