Baseball Cards 101

This years Heritage is based on the 1960 Topps card design.  I think they look better then the last two years.    Topps has simplified the product a little by reducing the number of short prints to 75.  Even better all short prints are easily identified by the darker brown back.  Only 2 variation cards exist and are a very tough pull.  One card features Tom Glavine with his name misspelled “Thom”.  The other variation is of Hanley Ramirez in a Red Sox uniform.

Ad panel box loaders are back again from last year as well as the foil stamped 1960 Topps buybacks.  This is one product that never changes it’s configuration.  24 packs of 8 cards to a hobby box.  Here’s the hobby pack insert odds:
Short print 1:3, Chrome parallel 1:6, Chrome Refractor parallel 1:23, Chrome Black Refractor 1:255, New Age Performers 1:15, Then & Now 1:15,  Baseball Flashbacks1:12, News Flashbacks 1:12, Real One Autographs 1:308, Real One Dual 1:2005, Real One Special 1:514, Flashback Autographs 1:12400, Clubhouse Collection Auto Relics 1:6150, Flashback Auto Relics 1:12300, Clubhouse Collection Dual Auto Relics 1:10200, 1960 Cut Sig 1:250000, Clubhouse Collection Relics A 1:219, B 1:52, C 1:97, Clubhouse Collection Dual Relics 1:4800, Flashback Relics 1:383, Flashback Dual Relics 1:34000

My box gave me;
171 base, 40% of the base set
8 short prints, 11% of the short prints
5 chrome, C14 - Derek Jeter, C16 - Aramis Ramirez, C49 - James Looney, C65 - Ken Griffey Jr., C72 - Adrian Gonzalez
1 chrome refractor, C3 - Miguel Tejada
2 baseball flashbacks, bf4 & bf9
2 news flashbacks, nf6 & nf8
1 then & now, tn10 - Sabathia & Ford
1 new age performer, nap15 - Evan Longoria

My box hit was one of the Flashback Relics

Bobby Richardson

I’ve got 2 more hobby boxes to bust, but I’m waiting to bust them with a collecting friend.  I’ll be doing it live on Ustream.tv March 14th @ 1pm CST.
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