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 ?

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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 !!

1991 Donruss - Mets Team Set

Another team set with a low value. But for 2$ it's nice to own it as a Mets fan. Enjoy ...

Mike Piazza Jersey

OMG I just forgot to post my 2011 Topps Mike Piazza Relic Jersey card. Shame on me ...
Here is it. Isn't it beautiful?

There is a little white spot on the top of the card. But it doesn't matter so much.

Ichiro - Rookie Cards

Hi BB-Card fans,

a week ago I placed a little wantlist in a local card forum and just an hour after I received an offer for some great Ichiro Rookie Cards. (My favorite player) And here they are.

On the left you see the Topps RC and on the right the UD RC. Both 2001.

Ichiro was the first japanese born position player to play in the majors.

Click here! to see the backs.

Excited for 2011 Allen & Ginter's

It's my first year of collecting Baseball Cards and for this reason I didn't know this product. After I found some 2010 cards in the web and some new 2011 cards on eBay today,  I have to say that this is the most beautiful product of Topps.
I think the retail price of a pack is 2,50$ ?? Am I right?
(leave comment pls)

I'm not able to say much about the product cause I have to open at least
a pack. I think in 1-2 weeks I can post some Scans from my favorite pulls.

About the product:
There are 350 base cards. Every of these cards is available as one of the following parallels:

• Mini
• Black Bordered
• Ginter Black
• No Number (?)
• Bazooka 1/25
• Printing Plates
• Wood 1of1
• 150 Cards of the base set are available in "Framed Cloth" 1/10

Then there are "Code Breaker" (?) Cards, and 50 "Mini Exclusive" Cards.

The special thing about Allen & Ginter's is that there are so much different Inserts.

There are Auto/Relic cards, framed relics, dual autos, book cards and cut signatures also.

Update: 
Chris Olds from Beckett said: "There are more than 5,000 unique cards in Ginter this year..."

1989 Fleer - Mets Team Set

I bought this set on ebay for a very low price. And "Yes" these cards are not worth so much but it could be interesting for some Mets fans so see these late 80s players.

Error on Gypsy Queen Josh Johnson Relic ??

Topps Gypsy Queen is a new product of 2011. But my Josh Johnson jersey tells me different on the back. Is it an Error? I think it is!

btw.: Could anyone price this 3 cards for me? I don't have the july Beckett magazine.

Nolasco Auto - Gypsy Queen

Finally i received my Ricky Nolasco auto from 2011 Gypsy Queen. (See Scan)
I think it's a nice card but maybe the last of Gypsy Queen for me this year. The normal Topps series is more beautiful I think.