Trade night Booty Part 6 ... The Baseball Packs

Here we have the baseball packs from my winnings at trade night last Wednesday.  I'll start with the Bowman Chrom and BDPP and then highlight the inserts from Topps Update.

This product just seems pointless to me.  Maybe not as point less and BDPP, but still if you can only put out so many baseball sets a year with your exclusive license why not something originial?  The highlight of the pack was of course the Josh Beckett Blue Refactor.

Wow. I'm so glad I never bothered to waste any money on this product.  I just don't see any difference between this and the regular Bowman and Topps doens't even bother to change the design even a little.  The Mike Trout and Craig Kimbrel were the highlights of the pack.

Now onto Topps Update.  

From Series 1

Both from Series 2

I've already bought too much Update, but getting a jumbo and regular pack is always nice and getting a jersey relic ain't too bad either.

2011 Topps Update Box label and others.

I know a lot of set builders out there like to put there sets in 9 pockets and binders.  That's cool, but I don't have the room for that kinda storage.  So I put the cards in an old fashion cardboard card box.  I try to get the right size for the job.  You have to be careful and take into consideration card thickness with set size.  Up into 2008 Topps was including box label stickers with there flagship sets in Baseball and Football, both Topps and Bowman.  It was great for set builders like me who hand collate and store the set in a box.  Well Topps stopped doing it and I had to start making my own.  My first attempts were pretty lame. With me just either writing on the box itself, which looks unsightly with my awful handwriting or I'd type something up in Word and print it out and tape it on.  I tried to get as creative as possible, but some were much better than others.  Now that I have fairly decent photo editing software I'm trying to incorporate box design into the label as much as possible.  I also decided I'd like to share them with you if your looking for a label for you set.  I've been buying lots of vintage bad wax and putting cheap sets together so those box labels will be there too.  I'm going to add a nice stand alone page dedicated to the box labels.  So check it out.  And if you have any suggestions of things you'd like to see let me know. I can whip them out fairly quick if I can find a good scan or have one saved somewhere.  I might also offer a couple so you can have some variety.

What I do is for my labels is.. I have a Word document that I put six 2 inch by 3 inch boxes on the page.  Then I use the fill object function with the label I've made.  I usually do front and back label so it doesn't matter which way I put the box back on the shelf.

Here we have my new 2011 Topps Update box label.

I've done a little photoshopping to it. But it's basically the box top cropped.  You can see the box bends in the  photo sorry.  

Next we have 2011 Topps Football

With Dirty Sanchez

2010 National Chicle

2010 T206

2010 Magic. You can also replace the 2010 with 2009 if you need a 2009 box label.  This is probably one set I would love to put in a binder.  The card art is just so awesome.

92 Stadium Club Baseball

95 Select.  yeah not one of my best.

This years opening day box label.

I had a great 2011 Allen and Ginter box label but I can't find it and I might have, gasp, deleted it.

cb out

2011 Topps Jumbo Box Break Number 2

As promised I picked up my second box of Topps Update Jumbos.

The first box yielded some great stuff and a full set, so I was happy with that.  This box wasn't as good as the first, but still not terrible.  No damaged cards, which is a big plus, and all my hits were there, so I was very happy. No Hope Diamond parallel in this one but I did get some nice variations.

First the relic and leather nameplate.

I have to say I really like the look of these All Star Relic cards.  Very classy.  I know I have at least 3 Brewers I need to pick up.  

Rookie Zack Britton.  I'm still disappointed with these cards.  I think Topps could have done so much better than they did here.  

I also got 50 cognac diamonds.  I noticed that the first box all my cognac where either update or Series 2. This box they were all update or Series 1.  Nobody really awesome except for this one variation.

This is actually a Series 1 Variation. 

See here's the back.

My one update variation is this nice Tris Speaker in an Indians uniform.

I seem to pull a lot of Tris Speaker stuff for some reason.

I also pulled a Platinum Diamond Variation.  You might know this guy, but not the uniform.

What??!!?? You say Ty Cobb in an Athletics uniform? Blasphemy!!  Well he did play his last two years with the A's. Look it says so right on the back

I also got one Black with is seems to be the going rate of 1 per jumbo.

But by far the best hit was the autograph.  

I got another great Next 60 auto.

Not too shabby!!!