2022 Topps Opening Day Blaster Box

Another post featuring cards from 2022. I bought a box of 2022 Topps Opening Day...I can't remember what I paid for it...but here are the highlights of the base cards. According to Baseballcardpedia.com, the print run for the base cards was more than double than the 2021 edition.

The Scherzer Blue Parallel is not numbered (although they are limited to 2022 copies). The rest are from the Bomb Squad subset.

Most here are mascot cards. The last two cards are from the Opening Day subset.

First two cards are from the Opening Day subset, the last three are from the Triple Play subset. This one is my favorite because it resembles the 1980 - 81 Topps basketball cards. I was fortunate enough to have opened a few packs of these basketball cards back in 1980, but not fortunate enough to realize I should have bought a lot more.

I like Opening Day...unfortunately this was the final year for it.

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Don McLean - American Pie

2021 Topps Update Series Baseball

I have a lot of half finished posts so I didn't just buy this...this is from late 2021. I can't remember how much I paid for this, I think it was somewhere around $59. It didn't have a "hit" in the box so it really shows how much you are paying for a memorabilia card you could probably find in a dollar box 6 months later.

For those of you who have read a few posts of mine, you probably know that I am a set collector. I do spend a lot of time reading the "forums" and it seems that I am a dying breed. 

So here are the highlights of the base cards. "Worthless trash" I've heard them referenced as. 

There were a few numbered cards. This Seth Elledge was part of the Advanced Stats parallels and was numbered 268/300.

The Edwin Uceta was 600/2021 and the Matt Strahm was 1987/2021.

These are from the All-Star Game subset.

I'm a big fan of the 1993 Black Gold subset, so I liked seeing it revived for this. The Reggie is from the Cards That Never Were subset and the Eddie Murray is from the Platinum Player Die Cuts.

I pulled 6 of the 1986 Topps Inserts. 

As you can see, the 1992 Topps Inserts were quite plentiful...which is fine because I like them.

These are exclusive to retail packs, which means I purchased a retail box at my LCS.

The black Christian Yelich parallel was numbered 1/25 and the Mookie Betts red Chrome parallel was numbered 51/70. The Judge, Yelich and Hayes were Chrome parallels, while the Lincecum, deGrom and Mize were from the 70 years of Topps subset.

Currently I only have a few cards that I need to complete this set. Please check my want lists...if you have any of them I'd like to work out a trade if possible. Thanks for reading!

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Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Collector's Edge Football Repack Box

 

My last couple of posts featured the baseball version of this and both were quite horrible. I also had purchased the football version as well. Now there were no descriptions on the boxes of what was inside any of these and I can't remember if this was $8.99 as well. 

There was one pack in the box. Here it is. 

1990 Score. Outstanding. 

And that's it. I sincerely hope I didn't pay $8.99 for this. I thought I had bought these about a year ago, but I realized I actually purchased these at Walgreens at the end of 2021. I have not looked in a Walgreens for cards since then. To call these terrible would be an insult to all things terrible.

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U2 - Rattle and Hum

Collector's Edge Baseball Repack Box (Part 2)

 

My last post featured this superbly awful Baseball Collector's Edge repack box. I mentioned I had purchased two of them, so unfortunately you're going to have to suffer through another one. You never know, this one could be better...or maybe not.

1990 Fleer. Sweet!

There was also a box of 49 commons. Why 49, I have no idea. 

At least there were a couple of older commons in this one. I suppose in this case ROI stands for Return On Idiocy. All for just $8.99.

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Metallica - And Justice For All