2013 Topps Series 2 Baseball - 2 HOT Packs

HOT PACK TIME

So i don't like people who are sitting on the floor

at WalMart and searching retail boxes.

BUT if i don't buy them on eBay ... some other guy does.

So here are 2 packs i bought 2 weeks ago ... 

Normal Pack 5,99$

Value Pack 7,99$

Should be good! 

And series 2 is loaded with cool relics and autos ....

just check it out:

Took this from: 

Sportscardradio

Chasing History Relic Cards
Odds: - 1:15 HTA Jumbo Packs - Gold Parallel #/99 1:192 HTA Jumbo Packs
CHR-AB Adrian Beltre CHR-AC Asdrubal Cabrera CHR-AG Alex Gordon CHR-AGO Adrian Gonzalez CHR-AP Andy Pettitte CHR-AR Alex Rodriguez CHR-AS Alfonso Soriano CHR-BB Billy Butler CHR-BM Brian McCann CHR-BP Brandon Phillips CHR-BPO Buster Posey CHR-CB Chad Billingsley CHR-CC Carl Crawford CHR-CF Carlton Fisk CHR-CG Carlos Gonzalez CHR-CL Cliff Lee CHR-CR Colby Rasmus CHR-DJ Derek Jeter CHR-DM Don Mattingly CHR-DP David Price CHR-DW David Wright CHR-EA Elvis Andrus CHR-FH Felix Hernandez CHR-FJ Fergie Jenkins CHR-GS Gary Sheffield CHR-HP Hunter Pence CHR-JA John Axford CHR-JH Josh Hamilton CHR-JK Jason Kipnis CHR-JS James Shields	CHR-JSM John Smoltz CHR-JV Justin Verlander CHR-JVO Joey Votto CHR-JZ Jordan Zimmermann CHR-LL Lance Lynn CHR-MC Matt Cain CHR-MH Matt Holliday CHR-MR Mariano Rivera CHR-MS Max Scherzer CHR-NC Nelson Cruz CHR-OC Orlando Cepeda CHR-PF Prince Fielder CHR-PK Paul Konerko CHR-PN Phil Niekro CHR-PS Pablo Sandoval CHR-RC Roberto Clemente CHR-RHA Roy Halladay CHR-RHO Ryan Howard CHR-RZ Ryan Zimmerman CHR-SC Starlin Castro CHR-SM Stan Musial CHR-SR Scott Rolen CHR-SS Stephen Strasburg CHR-TC Ty Cobb CHR-TL Tim Lincecum CHR-TT Troy Tulowitzki CHR-VW Vernon Wells CHR-WM Willie McCovey CHR-WMA Willie Mays CHR-YB Yogi Berra

Chasing History Autograph Cards
Odds: - 1:13 HTA Jumbo Packs - Gold Parallel Autograph 1:2,872 HTA Jumbo Packs
CHA-AC Alex Cobb CHA-AE Adam Eaton CHA-AG Adrian Gonzalez CHA-BH Brock Holt CHA-CA Chris Archer CHA-CC Collin Cowgill CHA-CD Cole De Vries CHA-DB Dylan Bundy CHA-DC David Cooper CHA-DG Didi Gregorius CHA-DM Don Mattingly CHA-FL Fred Lynn CHA-GC Gary Carter CHA-GS Gary Sheffield CHA-JB Jay Bruce CHA-JBA Jose Bautista CHA-JG Jason Grilli CHA-JK Jason Kipnis CHA-JP Jim Palmer CHA-JPO Johnny Podres CHA-JPR Jurickson Profar	CHA-JS James Shields CHA-JW Jered Weaver CHA-MC Miguel Cabrera CHA-MM Manny Machado CHA-MS Mike Schmidt CHA-MT Mark Trumbo CHA-MTR Mike Trout CHA-NM Nick Maronde CHA-PF Prince Fielder CHA-PR Paco Rodriguez CHA-SD Scott Diamond CHA-SG Steve Garvey CHA-SM Starling Marte CHA-SMA Shaun Marcum CHA-TG Tony Gwynn CHA-TS Tyler Skaggs CHA-WB Wade Boggs CHA-WP Wily Peralta CHA-WR Wilin Rosario CHA-ZC Zack Cozart

Chasing History Autograph Relic Cards
Odds 1:1,108 HTA Jumbo Packs
CHAR-AP Andy Pettitte CHAR-BP Brandon Phillips CHAR-CG Carlos Gonzalez CHAR-CR Cal Ripken Jr. CHAR-DS Darryl Strawberry CHAR-DW David Wright CHAR-FJ Fergie Jenkins CHAR-GS Gary Sheffield CHAR-HA Hank Aaron CHAR-JK Jason Kipnis	CHAR-JS John Smoltz CHAR-MC Miguel Cabrera CHAR-MH Matt Holliday CHAR-MS Mike Schmidt CHAR-MT Mark Trumbo CHAR-NR Nolan Ryan CHAR-PF Prince Fielder CHAR-TG Tony Gwynn CHAR-YD Yu Darvish CHAR-ZC Zack Cozart

Chasing History Dual Relic Cards

Serial Numbered #/50

Odds 1:1,540 HTA Jumbo Packs

CHDR-CB Starlin Castro - Ernie Banks CHDR-CC Roberto Clemente - Ty Cobb CHDR-DR Jose Reyes - R.A. Dickey CHDR-JH Rickey Henderson - Reggie Jackson CHDR-KM Justin Morneau - Harmon Killebrew CHDR-MB Ryan Braun - Paul Molitor CHDR-PT Albert Pujols - Mike Trout CHDR-RD Yu Darvish - Nolan Ryan CHDR-RJ Cal Ripken Jr. - Derek Jeter CHDR-RR Alex Rodriguez - Mariano Rivera CHDR-SB George Brett - Mike Schmidt CHDR-SS Gary Sheffield - Giancarlo Stanton CHDR-UU B.J. Upton - Justin Upton CHDR-VP Justin Verlander - David Price CHDR-WS Tom Seaver - David Wright Chasing History Jumbo Relic Cards Serial Numbered #/20 Odds 1:2,872 HTA Jumbo Packs CHJR-AJ Adam Jones CHJR-AM Andrew McCutchen CHJR-BP Buster Posey CHJR-CH Cole Hamels CHJR-DF David Freese CHJR-DP David Price CHJR-DW David Wright CHJR-FH Felix Hernandez CHJR-GB George Brett CHJR-GS Gary Sheffield CHJR-JB Jay Bruce CHJR-JV Joey Votto CHJR-KG Ken Griffey Jr. CHJR-MC Matt Cain CHJR-MK Matt Kemp CHJR-PF Prince Fielder CHJR-RB Ryan Braun CHJR-RH Rickey Henderson CHJR-RHA Roy Halladay CHJR-SS Stephen Strasburg

Making Their Mark Relic Cards Odds 1:40 HTA Jumbo Packs
MMR-AS Andrelton Simmons MMR-BH Bryce Harper MMR-DB Darwin Barney MMR-JH Jeremy Hellickson MMR-JK Jason Kipnis MMR-JPR Jurickson Profar MMR-LL Lance Lynn MMR-MO Mike Olt	MMR-PG Paul Goldschmidt MMR-SC Starlin Castro MMR-SS Stephen Strasburg MMR-WR Wilin Rosario MMR-YC Yoenis Cespedes MMR-YD Yu Darvish MMR-ZC Zack Cozart

Making Their Mark Autograph Cards
Odds 1:51 HTA Jumbo Packs
MMA-BR Bruce Rondon MMA-DB Dylan Bundy MMA-MM Manny Machado MMA-MO Mike Olt MMA-TS Tyler Skaggs	MMA-WM Wade Miley MMA-WMI Will Middlebrooks MMA-YC Yoenis Cespedes MMA-YD Yu Darvish

Cut to the Chase Die Cut Relic Cards Serial Numbered #/25
Odds 1:4,700 HTA Jumbo Packs
CTCR-AB Albert Belle CTCR-AK Al Kaline CTCR-AP Albert Pujols CTCR-AR Alex Rodriguez CTCR-BP Buster Posey	CTCR-JW Jered Weaver CTCR-MH Matt Holliday CTCR-PF Prince Fielder CTCR-RD R.A. Dickey CTCR-RH Rickey Henderson

Cut to the Chase Die Cut Autograph Cards Serial Numbered #/10

Odds 1:23,000 HTA Jumbo Packs

CTCA-DS Duke Snider CTCA-JW Jered Weaver CTCA-MC Miguel Cabrera CTCA-MT Mike Trout CTCA-RK Ralph Kiner

Cut to the Chase Die Cut Autograph Relic Cards

Odds 1:17,375 HTA Jumbo Packs

CTCAR-CR Cal Ripken Jr. CTCAR-MC Miguel Cabrera CTCAR-AB Albert Belle CTCAR-RH Rickey Henderson CTCAR-MT Mike Trout

And MORE in Hobby boxes i won't list cause we have some retail here!!! 

So i'm ripping it now and scan some of the bases, parallels , inserts and

of course the HITs later! 

......

... later: 

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Let's get it on ...

Some base cards from Series 2 

Base Card of 2013 All Star Michael Cuddyer

Leonys Martin and the great Matt Harvey

(was Harvey's rookie card in 2012 oO ? Or was it in one of those crappy

opening day/Updates&Highlights products?)

Wal Mart Blue Parallel

J.J. Hardy - WalMart Blue Parallel

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A really cool insert , new in series 2 ...

Salvador Perez - Making their Mark

(looks like the Museum Collection product 

by Topps. Very nice)

Mike Schmidt - Chasing History

.. as we know them from series 1 !

Jason Kipnis - Chasing History (Refractor Finish)

... yuuuup you might not see it on the scan but they made

a refractor like version of the CH cards in series 2. Very cool ... 

Stan Musial - Chasing History (Refractor Finish)

Stephen Strasburg (Die Cut) - Cut to the Chase

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The 2 Hits

Chad Billingsley - Chasing History - Jersey Relic

( What jersey is this? Alternate ? )

And a damn nice hit ....

Fergie Jenkins - Chasing History - Bat Relic

That's all for now...

I just got a lot of 2000 Skybox Baseball base cards.

Stay tuned for this and thanks for reading! 

2010 Tri-Star OBAK - Hot Box (3/3)

2010 TriStar OBAK

Welcome to the last part of the Box Break

.. remember it was a Hot Box with 10 Autos in it !

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The Autographs

We've got not only normal Autos (# to125), we have also

Parallel Autos ..

Brown # to 75

Black # to 50

First Auto is 28/75 Austin Romine of the Yankees , just promoted to the Bigs on April 26 this year. 12$BV

The second is Charlie Ward 45/50 , '93 Heisman Trophy winner. Drafted by Milwaukee in '93 and then again by the Yankees in '94 but started playing Basketball for the Knicks from '94 to '04 12$BV

Let's contiue with kind of a dupe ^^ (never had 2 Autos of the same player in one box)

Both of them are brown parallel Autos of Steve Matz, a pitching injury prone minor of the Mets. First is 68/75 and second 70/75 ... One of them is for trade !!  NO BV

Now my favorite one ...

This is Wayne Terwilliger, one of two minor league managers to manage after the age of 80.

And just by the way , he played for the Chicago Cubs , The Brooklyn Dodgers , The Washington Senators , The New York Giants and The Kansas City Athletics after his debut in 1949. I'm proud to own his autograph .. NO BV

Nothing amazing with .. first Ken Landreaux 108/125 record hitting 31 consecutive games for Minnesota and the "One Game" John Paciorek Brown parallel 39/75

Tom Paciorek 48/125 and the "3 time drafted but never played one game" Neil Medchill 65/125

The last one is really nice ..

Dustin Ackley - Black parallel Auto - 13/50 24$BV

That was the break ... it was really fun and i got some cool hits out of it!

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for a

 2013 Topps Series 1 - Group Break with 5 Teams !! 

2010 Tri-Star OBAK - Hot Box (1/3)

2010 Tri-Star OBAK Baseball

Hot Box

I decided to buy a box of 2010 Obak on Amazon in March.

I looked at some pictures and i thought the product is nice.

OK , no MLB license but you can learn a lot of Major leagues history including

some really funny facts.

So first of all, give it a chance if you see one.

I got it for a good price of 43$ (that's very good on the german market)

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Before it arrived i checked it closer on the web and found a checklist .. 

Some Infos:

• T-212 Obak Design
• 20 Packs per Box
• 6 Cards per Pack
• 2 "Real" Hits per Box (they are talking parallels as hits)
• AND only 3000 Boxes are produced !!! 

849 of 3000 Boxes

And i recognized the following:

" One of the exciting things about 2010 Obak Baseball is the chance to hit a hot box. You'll get 10 Autographs per hot box and over 25 other hits! Now that's some serious hits. There is one guaranteed hot box per 24 box case, so if you have the money, don't be afraid to splurge on a case of this product to get that hot box.  " (source: http://www.sportscardradio.com/index.php/product-previews-a-reviews/676-2010-tri-star-obak-baseball-box-checklist )

I was one of the lucky ones to hit one of these Boxes :) 

Let's chek it out ....

(i'll show the Variations and Parallels in Post 2 and the Hits in Post 3)

and i will try to add the right BV for some cool cards

Pack

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Box Toppers:

Al Reach - Box Topper

Chris von der Ahe - Box Topper

Some interesting base cards first ...

Eddie Cicotte - Front and Back

Doc Adams - Inventor of the Short Stop

Jim Creighton - First professional ball player 

Cal Ripken Jr. 5$BV and Derryl Strawberyy

The Guy who sold Hot Dogs at a Baseball game for the first time and the HEINZ Ketchup guy

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for Part 2 and 3 ...

2012 Topps Series 1 - Hot Pack 2

It's Hot Pack Time

... and i think i did good! :) 

Golden Moments - Relic 

Josh Hamilton - Relic (Home Jersey)

That's just awesome. Ebay says just 15$ .. dunno why but i think

this one will raise ... a lot! Love it ..

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Some other cards frome the pack! 

Antonio BASTARDO

He's a faggot for having such a last name.

GOOF! 

David Wright

BEST MET! 

Inserts! 

Joe DiMaggio - Golden Greats

Want some more of this guy! 

Mark Kotsay - Gold Parallel

Cool .. Really cool pack!

Thanks for reading! 

Stay tuned! 

2012 Topps Series 1 - Hot Pack

It's Hot Pack Time

I just won an auction on eBay for a Hot Pack of 

2012 Topps Series 1.

36 Card Retail Jumbo Pack.

Cost me about 6,50$ plus 6$ shipping !

Is that strange people ? Yes it definitaly is!!! -.-

BUT i paid 12 for those packs at times,  .. without shipping. So anyways .. Here it is:

The " Hit " :

Alex Gordon - Golden Moments - Relic

Maaaan why? -.-

I spend dollars and dollars and most of the time my hits are crap.

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There was a Gold parallel also. A really cool one. .. 

The 2011 National League Leaders in Wins!! 

Ian Kennedy

Clayton Kershaw

Roy Halladay

... in solid GOLD ^^ haha

And one cool 1987 Mini card:

Derek Jeter - 1987 Mini

Actually the best mini in set you can get with an HI value of

4,00$ ^^ ... Coooool !

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Something funny at the end ... 

Caption this ...

and this ...

Thanks for reading!

2011 Topps Lineage Value packs

Good morning baseball card fans ... I ordered some Topps Lineage value packs and breaked them today. Let's see what we got:

There are some nice classic players like Lou Gehrig, George Sisler and Jimmie Foxx 

Click to enlarge

Again I got luck to get the sets Ichiro card ..

A very nice card again ... 

As a Mets fan I'm very happy to get this diamond variation 

Johan Santana Diamond Variation

A mini of Eddie Murray ...

Best pulls at the end .. 

A Carlos Gonzales mini jersey and a awesome Chipper Jones mini jersey (but away jersey, didn't like that)

Finally I have to say that Lineage is a fine product with a lot of different cards. Present players and many from the past. A lot of inserts too ... but the price is way to high .. 

thanks for reading