4 Hobby Packs - 2011 Allen & Ginter's

A sad huhu from me here in germany. I opened 4 hobby packs of 2011 Allen Ginter and what I pulled was only crap. One card I cannot believe. Ok let's start.

2 Parallel cards: A Derek Lowe Black Corner SP  and a Brett Anderson Mini - Black bordered

btw. I have NO pricing for any Allen Ginter card yet. AG pricings are not included in the newest Beckett Baseball magazine. And eBay is too much work.

A funny Gecko card :)

I like these inserts. 

Hometown Heroes - Josh Hamilton

A CC Sabathia "Baseball Highlight Sketches" Card ... nice !

And the last scan for today:

The most crappy, shitty and fucked up card on the whole product ...

A 2011 Allen Ginter "Son of a bitch" 

Who the HELL is this ugly hairless guy ??? oO

The card says he is a a champion in "Bean Bag Toss" 

Haha bean bag toss omg LOOOSER! 

Thank you Topps for Matt Gay! 

Next year there will be a card with the olympic curling team ... OMG

Allen Ginter is not my product. There are sooo many insert cards ... And I pull 

only shit. No Auto or Relic ... nothing ... not even a numbered parallel.

BONUS: SP variation of the "Son of a bitch" card ... 

LOL!

First Look at 2012 Topps Baseball

Hi,

I searched the web for some previews for 2010 Topps Baseball and found something.

Source: Beckett Media

2010 Upper Deck - Bonus Packs -

Hi ho,

I placed a collective order with some guys of a local forum at Dacardworld and received 3 packs of 2010 Upper Deck series 1. I don't like Upper Deck and the 2010 cards are not very nice. But I checked my Beckett and the only card in the series I would buy on eBay is the Buster Posey RC.

So I opened the 3 packs (Retail , 18 cards per pack) and tada in pack number 2 ... The Buster Posey Rookie Card. wuuhuuu :) And here it is . ... .

Click to enlarge ... 

Beckett says 15 - 30 $ ... on eBay the average price is 29 $. But I wont sell it. I'm thinking about getting a TTM auto ? Anybody experience with Posey TTM ?? (comment)

Yes and the other "good" pull is a Grady Sizemore Upper Deck Portrait but the question is : Is this a Gold Portrait card or a normal card ? The gold cards are numbered to 99. But there is no numeration oO 

So please let me know!! Gold is 1,4x to 4x of the basic card.

There are some hobby packs of Topps series 2 and Allen Ginter left .. I will break the today or tomorrow and will post my pulls HERE ...  so stay tuned for updates.

I built myself a storage box ^^

What's up ? Look what I've done. Without glue or something :D haha

I just wanted you to see this ... *proud*

Retail Pack Break - Series 2, Allen & Ginter - Part 3

Welcome again Baseball card fans. It's the last part of my retail pack break. 2 Allen Ginter and 3 Topps series 2 were left to break. I pulled some interesting things but again : NOTHING special ... and that sucks !

Let's begin with another Gold parallel card ... Daniel Bard

Then 2 great looking Topps 60 cards of Rickey Henderson and Mariano Rivera. First to honor his great speed and second for his 559 career saves (second most behind Trevor Hoffman with 601).

Let's continue with my favorite base card and a nice diamond variation. Prince Fielder and Ryan Sweeney ...

At least a great lokking 2003 Albert Pujols reprint (no original back)

Now it's time to show you Allen Ginter ... First I want to know what this is :

What is this shit? Seems to be like these Topps Attaxx advertising shit? 

Why should I follow someone on twitter ? There are people who don't even

have twitter ... oO

PLEASE comment and tell me (no i'm not able to use google)

I'll continue with 2 minis ... some circus minis! Knife Throwing and The Human Blockhead ..

I love the colors ...

My favorite ist this David Wright (woooop wooooop METS ) Baseball Highlight Sketches card.

He was the youngest Mets player to reach 1000 hits ! (see back of the card)




Now two I wanted to scan cause they are unusual .... Mat Hoffman (BMX guy and the USS Texas)

My Conclusion :

It was a big big mistake to buy retail packs.

I spent 40$ and get NOTHING 

Just  a lot of base card crap and 30 dupes.

There was no Jersey or Autograph in all 16 packs.

Yes, Allen Ginter is a nice product but 6 cards per pack for this price? 

Next time I'll pay 10 bucks more and buy the whole set.

Retail Pack Break - Series 2, Allen & Ginter - Part 2

What's up Baseball fans? It's time for part 2 of my retail pack break. Today I opened 4 packs of Topps series 2 and one Allen Ginter. There are some interesting pulls. Nothing special but interesting for me ...

Lets see what we have ... A Geovany Soto gold parallel .... you know it's numbered to 2011!

3 nice base cards I didn't have before ...

Evan Longoria, A-Gonz and Fukudome .... Woopi ^^

And know a yummi Diamond Variation and a special A-Gonz card ... Diamond Stars. It's a DS-4 

A Topps 60 of Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson and a Brian McCann

1965 Topps Frank Robinson (no Original Back )

Now going over to the Allen Ginter pack (favorite product)

The first card was this Buster Posey .... one  of my favorite young players ... unfortunately injured now.

Amazing :)

A Hometown Heroes card of Prince Fielder .... great too.

And at least a scary Mini of a house called "The Villisca Axe Murder House" (see back) 

Thanks for reeding this post ^^ Stay tuned for Part 3 ...

2011 Topps Series 2 - Bad Quality (only RCs?)

Good morning card collectors. Recently I pulled some cards out of Topps series 2 retail packs and I had to realize that the quality of these cards is very bad. The chrome color of 5 cards out of 4 packs is completely loose.

Another strange fact is that 3 of these cards are Rookie Cards. But why ? That makes it a lot worse for me.

Look at the picture. Can you see the difference ?

Click to enlarge 

The Halladay card is normal so you can see the difference.

Take a close look at the the Tim Collins card. His position is imperceptible. (right word ? ^^)

That sucks!

How to grade this cards??? Could you tell me? 

Retail Pack Break - Series 2, Allen & Ginter - Part 1

Good morning card collectors. My time to wait for my first Allen & Ginter packs is now over. I get some retail packs from Target yesterday (not the best chances for big hits) and I will show you my pulls in 3 parts.

First I opened 3 2011 Topps series 2 packs and in 2 of them I found gold parallels. The odds are 1:11 in retail and 1:9 in hobby but these 2 are the first I pulled ever and I justed bought hobby packs before.

Here they are ... Josh Beckett and Chris Heisey (Gold Parallels are numbered to 2011)

I also pulled 2 nice Kimball champion mini cards ... 

Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford 

At least I pulled a 1952 reprint of Yogi Berra ... but no original back!

And now my first 2 packs of Allen & Ginter ... there was nothing special in it but it's by far the best looking product this year. 

How you do something like this with a photo ?? oO

That's just awesome.

*grrr* the RED WOLF :D haha  .... it's a mini card ^^

What the hell ?? Who is this guy ?? Could be the father of Raj from "the Big Bang Theorie" :D lol

And at least my favorite : Hometown Heroes - David Wright (my favorite Mets player)

So please stay tuned for part 2 and subscribe if you want ... use your email adress !!