Cynicalbuddha's Top 100 #54

I love oddballs and I love the old Topps inserts and of course I love the Packers.  I've had a few different cards from this set on and off.  It's hard not to like these.  There smaller in size so there's the mini appeal and of course there vintage so that always helps.  There's quite a few HOFer's in this set.  2 players per team.  The other Packer featured in this insert set is #22 Willie Wood.  I have that card somewhere.

Anywho number 54 on the Top 100.....

1971 Topps Football Bart Starr Game Insert #50.

Topps Series 2 Baseball Two Jumbo Box Break

Well I've been out in the field for a good long stretch and just got back and get to go out again tomorrow but in the few days I had in town I manage to hunt down a couple of Jumbo Boxes of Series 2.  I got the last one from Don's and the second from Bosco's here in Anchorage.

I'll do a box by box of the hits since the only real new inserts are "Before there was Topps" and "Diamond Stars"  I'm sure you've all seen these already.  And the two boxes had some differences

First the box from Don's

I like the Jumbo's because you get three hits, even if one of those hits is a manufactured relic.  Here we have a JD Drew relic.

My manuglove was this nice Brooks Robinson.

And I was very happy with my Auto a Felix Hernandez.  Great sig of the Mariners ace.  Of course I got all the other insert goodies and gold parallels and diamond parallels.  Plus this variation

Johnny Mize.  Nice.

Pretty good box I only noticed two cards that had any damage to them and just a couple commons.

But this is were it all goes wrong.

Box 2.  Where box 1 all the relics were in mint shape box 2 all the relics had some kind of damage.
And here's the part I get a little pissed off about.  The relics were the only damaged cards in the box.  All the inserts, parallels and base cards were fine.  Here we go...

The worst was the Mat Latos relic.  I've blown it up but you can see how bad the lower right hand corner is and the upper right and lower left had rounding as well.

I didn't notice it at first glace but the upper left corner is pretty badly dinged here in this Black Leather nameplate.  Bummer.

While the damage to this Josh Tomlin Auto isn't as bad, it's still noticeable on the right hand side about 3/4 of the way from the top, and the corners were a little rounded on this card too.  If this had been the only card with damaged I might have let it go, it's not too bad, but since I was sending the other two back to Topps I might as well throw this one in too. 

I did get this nice variation in the box though.

Nothing like getting a card of a player you collect. 

Oh and I also got two black parallels one from each box.

Like I said I'm sending in the three damaged hits to Topps and I'm leaving early in the morning for another trip into the field for work and won't be back home till the 26th.  I'll post a list of other goodies I got in the box and anything for trade then.  

Have a great week and Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there!!

cb out.

Man it's getting boring going to go to the card shop and some Trade night pick ups.

Well I went to Don's Sportscard Trade night the other night.  Both card shops in town do this.  Bosco's on the first Wednesday and Don's usually a Wednesday in the middle of the month.  Both nights I walked out barely buying anything.  At Bosco's I literally left with out purchasing a single trading card but I did pick up a few comics.  There just hasn't been anything I want to buy and with Heritage prices going threw the roof again this year and Tribute topping 70 bucks a pack, no thank you, there's not really much to buy for a baseball/football collector.  Sorry UD Football with pros in college uni's doesn't count, at least not in my book.  So there I was looking through Don's dropboard seeing if there was anything that peaked my interest and looking through his 1972 Topps Baseball for some Brewers to help me finish my set.   I did manage to find a few things to take home with me.  This is exactly what happened last year and why I ended up spending so much money on Heritage.  Boredom with the hobby.  Topps exclusive severely limits what I can buy which is too bad.  Yes there is new Basketball and Hockey, but those are both sports I really don't collect. Enough with the soap box here's what I picked up.

First I found a nice 1971 Topps Football game Bradshaw for about 2 bucks.  I really like these cards and the only other one I have is the Bart Starr.  I really want to get my hands on a Willie Wood as well.

Got me a Favre for  the old Favre collection.  Even if it is in those awful colors.  Another buck off the dropboard.

A Prince Fielder/Pablo Sandoval 2010 Bowman Sterling Dual Relic unnumbered.  For 3 bucks I couldn't pass it up.

I also grabbed three MSA blank back discs of Johnny Bench, Mike Schmidt and Tony Perez, each a buck.

I also grabbed 4 1972 Brewers cards for my team set and I decided to splurge on a pack of UFC Knockout.
I have to say if I followed UFC more, I have friends who are nuts for it, I would definitely go after these cards and the other UFC sets.  I pulled 2 numbered cards, one of Dan Hardy, who I actually know who he is, and this guy.

I ain't complaining, but for 25 bucks a pack I won't be going after this set.  Maybe I'll see if I can pick one up on ebay for cheap.

cb out.