Baseball Card Collectors

As many of you know, I am opening 20 cases of 2011 Bowman Draft.  Yes, 20 cases!

2011 Bowman Draft Bryce Harper

So, for the many people in my breaks – and for myself – I am creating this small prospecting tool.  Hopefully it will be of some use for anyone that is planning to open any of these products.

Bryce Harper autographed cards

There are actually 3 different Bryce Harper autos in 2011 BDPP.  There is the green parallel of the original Bowman card #BD1 that you see on the right – this is inserted in both retail and hobby packs.  There is an autographed Futures relic card #BHAR1 that is separate from the main futures subset – this is hobby only.  The third and final Harper auto card is retail only (and listed separately in that section).

BHAR1    Bryce
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I don’t mean to brag, BUT…

I PULLED 2 SUPERFRACTORS!

Granted, I opened 12 cases, but still the odds were against pulling any superfractor at all.  I pulled:

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So I just busted the master case of 2011 Topps Marquee tonight.  Had 2 MONSTER hits and a bunch of very, very good hits.  I will not be buying anymore of this – I know to quit when I am ahead – but man this was a fun break!

2011 Topps Marquee 12 Box Master Case

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How cool are these Allen & Ginter custom cards?

As many of you know by now, I really like the idea of parody baseball cards or even just well done custom cards.

The 2011 Topps Monopoly set has received about 5000 hits or so on my YouTube page.  That set was created by Beardy of mojobeardy.wordpress.com.

This new set that I am showing you now was created by a member of BlowoutCards forums, Metsfan1121.  To date he has created about 32 versions – each and every one is better than anything that Topps has produced.

Perhaps some day Topps will take the hint and start producing “hit” cards that collectors actually want.  How many Carlos Marmol relics do we really need anyway?  In 25 boxes of Lineage recently, my club pulled 5 Ty Wigginton sticker autographs.  That’s 1:5 – a 20% chance in any given box at a Wigginton sticker auto. Read the rest of this entry

The Original 1964 Topps Giants Set Was Awesome!

1964 Topps Giants Joe Torre

The 1964 Topps Giants set was a test issue by Topps of the first postcard sized set.  There were 60 different cards and a handful of them were short printed.  Two of these short prints were Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax.

Although many of the names on the 1964 Topps Giants set will not be players you would necessarily recognize today, there were several future Hall of Famers included.  You have probably seen pictures of the Mickey Mantle or the Roberto Clemente, but there were also cards featuring Whitey Ford, Al Kaline, Nellie Fox, Joe Torre, Frank Robinson, Warren Spahn, Brooks Robinson, Carl Yastrzemski, Hank Aaron, Harmon Killebrew, Billy Williams, and Orlando Cepada – among others. Read the rest of this entry

2011 A&G Ryan Howard auto does not exist!

2011 Allen & Ginter Mythical Ryan Howard auto

I know that Topps has done this sort of thing before, but it never fails to infuriate me.  They have been advertising the Ryan Howard auto since the day the 2011 Allen & Ginter sell sheet went live – it is the fourth baseball auto listed #AGA-RHO Ryan Howard…

The have the been using the image of this card on both their retail and hobby packaging all along… it is listed in the checklist. Read the rest of this entry

2011 Topps Monopoly Baseball Cards

2011 Topps Monopoly Babe Ruth Relic

Now Topps is just being cruel.  With their new 2011 Topps Monopoly cards they are really just trying to rub it into Upper Deck and Pannini’s faces.  Monopoly?  Are you kidding me?

Many of you have probably already seen the 2011 Topps Monopoly preview images on the Mojo Beard website.  The images and card design have truly impressed most collectors and hobby enthusiasts.  As a matter of fact, other than a handful of pathetic whiners on a few forums, the response has been amazing. Read the rest of this entry

Topps Sparkle Bounty Cards

The new 2011 Topps Double Sparkle Bounty cards are already sparking controversy and I have not even seen one pulled yet.  I checked the eBay listings and nothing, nada, zip, zilch.  I am guessing these cards are REALLY rare.

Personally, if these cards have the regular backs and not some “contest” back, then I think they are fine.  I enjoy the gimmick parallels that Topps puts out each year.  (I realize I am probably in the minority on this front though.)

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I am currently running a group break on Blowoutcards…  Cheap Fun Break 6 (3 cases 2010 BDPP and 1 case 2010 Bowman Sterling).  So what you see below is actually the draft from this break.  On Monday 7/11, I am busting all 4 cases live on ustream.  It is going to be alot of fun.

1. hester72598 – Bowman Sterling Draft Pick #1
2. kelleys1 – BDPP 80 Manny Machado Auto
3. kevinshreves – Bowman Sterling Draft Pick #2
4. Axeldog15 – Bowman Sterling Draft Pick #3
5. hester72598 (from DizzyDSki from reddeer) – Bowman Sterling Draft Pick #4
6. houdini – Bowman Sterling Draft Pick #5
7. hester72598 (from ExpFacilitators) – Bowman Sterling Draft Pick #6
8. Bruvydsb – BDPP84 Matt Harvey Auto
9. SethMurphy (from dimer10) – BDPP Cito Culver Auto
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Bowman Platinum Baseball Case

So, we did another baseball case break the other day.  A 12 box case of 2010 Bowman Platinum with an extra pack of 2011 Topps Tribute after each 6 box mini case. Had 30 teams in each mini case with the USA hits being randomed at the end.

The Bowman Platinum really was a fun case to break.  It was relatively cheap too.  There were 60 spots and they all cost less than $25 each.  The best pull was a Stephen Strasburg green refractor auto, but there were many other great pulls.  The hits:

Auto Relics:

2010 Bowman Platinum Refractor Autos

BLUE Jose Tabata Pirates 12/50
BLUE Matt Barnes USA 23/50
GREEN Mikie Mahtook USA 188/199
GREEN George Springer USA 184/199
GREEN Stephen Strasburg Nationals 145/199
GREEN Prince Fielder Brewers 066/199
GREEN George Springer USA 104/199
Sean Gilmartin USA 416/740
Carlos Pena Rays 396/740
Matt Barnes USA 414/740
Jason Esposito USA 139/740
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