Baseball Cards 101

One more night of Chrome breaks! Tomorrow 6/25 at 7pm central.
Still no extra auto to make up for my short box, but the 2nd red refractor was a nice find. The rest of the box produced -

65 base cards
9 Refractors - Erik Bedard(16), Alex Rios(25), Tim Hudson(37), Travis Hafner(105), Josh Hamilton(116), Ryan Theriot(172), Gregg Zaun(189), Brian Bocock(205), Fernando Hernandez(209)
2 Copper Refractors - Greg Zaun(189), Alex Romero(202)
4 Heritage Chrome - Josh Anderson(C130), Eric Chavez(C133), Freddy Sanchez(C147), Jeff Francoeur(C171)
1 Heritage Refractor - Luke Hochevar(C199)
6 Trading Card History - #14-#19
2 All-Rookie Tream - Ichiro, Teixeira
2 Mantle Story - #47 & #48
2 Mantle HRH - 425, 430
1 All-Rookie Team red refractor - Chipper Jones #18/25

and 2 autos:

Base - Evan Meek (2nd one)

Base - Nyjer Morgan

and here’s the break video:

Don’t forget to join me every night until 6/25 for another box.
I fixed the sound issue so this video has sound to it.  Still don’t know why it didn’t work with last night’s video.  So I’m hoping one of these boxes has 3 autos to make up for last night.  Sadly this box didn’t have the extra auto. Instead the rest of the box produced -

65 base cards
8 Refractors - Mickey Mantle(7), Yovani Gallardo(11), Chris Young(18), Andruw Jones(34), Justin Upton(38), Ben Sheets(46), Ichiro(83), Justin Verlander(135)
2 Copper Refractors - Daisuke Matsuzaka(6), Robinson Cano(40)
4 Heritage Chrome - J.R. Towles(C119), Garrett Atkins(C161), Carlos Guillen(C184), Bobby Abreu(C190)
2 Heritage Refractor - Carl Crawford(C137), Kenji Johjima(C138)
7 Trading Card History - #41-#46, + another #43
2 All-Rookie Tream - Braun, Sabathia
1 Mantle Story #46
2 Mantle HRH - 510, 520
1 Trading Card History refractor - Johan Santana - NFT!

and 2 autos:

Base - Armando Galarraga

Base - Chin-Lung Hu

and here’s the break video:

Don’t forget to join me every night until 6/25 for another box.
I ripped open the first pack to find..

a Chris Yound red refractor #22/25.  That’s the way to start a box.  The rest of the box produced -

67 base cards
8 Refractors - Victor Martinez(17), Justin Morneau(31) - NFT!, Todd Helton(57), Dan Haren(71), Brett Myers(73), Chien-Ming Wang(81), Derrek Lee(91), Josh Beckett(147)
2 Copper Refractors - Elijah Dukes(84), Edison Volquez(191)
1 Red Refractor - Chris Young(144)
4 Heritage Chrome - Melky Cabrera(C139), Aaron Hill(C140), Chin-Lung Hu(C144), Akinori Iwamura(C163)
1 Heritage Refractor - Eric Chavez(C133)
6 Trading Card History - #5-#10
3 All-Rookie Tream - Sheffield, Rodriguez
1 Mantle Story #48
2 Mantle HRH - 425, 430
1 Mantle HRH refractor - 530

and 1 auto, first time to be short in a topps box:

Base - Evan Meek

and here’s the break video if you’d like to watch it unfold, no sound it wasn’t working:
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Don’t forget to join me every night until 6/25 for another box.
I ripped open the first pack to find..

a Josh Beckett refractor.  Kind of a eh… start.  The rest of the box produced -

66 base cards
9 Refractors - Orlando Cabrera(14), Roy Oswalt(63), Brian McCann(78), Mark Teixeira(87), Derrek Lee(91), Grady Sizemore(94), Johnny Damon(106), Josh Beckett(147), Blake DeWitt(211)
2 Copper Refractors - Noah Lowry(188), Nick Blackburn(197) - NFT!
4 Heritage Chrome - Hideki Okajima(C102), Adrian Beltre(C121), Dan Uggla(C125), Joey Votto(C165)
1 Heritage Refractor - Jon Lester(C178)
1 Heritage Black Refractor - Orlando Cabrera(C189)
6 Trading Card History - #28 to #33
3 All-Rookie Tream - Rollins, Pujols
1 Mantle Story #55
2 Mantle HRH - 470, 475
No insert variations

and my 2 autos:

Refractor - Chin-Lung Hu

Base - Jayson Nix

and here’s the break video if you’d like to watch it unfold:Online Video provided by Ustream

I developed an itch and just had to scratch so the first box is without video.  I’ll be doing 5 more boxes. 1 each night at 7pm central on ustream.tv from 6/21 to 6/25.

This year topps has broken away from  the last two years of chrome format.  They shortened the set to 220 base cards and only 19 base autos.  This should make putting the set together just a bit easier.  I’m still working on last years autos! They also continued the series of chrome from the heritage product, expanding it to a full 200 cards.

Let’s start off with the pack odds -
Refractor 1:3, Copper Refractor 1:12, Red Refractor 1:143, Superfractor 1:3584, Printing Plate 1:896, Topps Heritage Chrome 1:6, Topps Heritage Chrome Refractor 1:21, Topps Heritage Chrome Black Refractor 1:196, Trading Card History 1:4, All-Rookie Team 1:9, Mantle Story 1:20, Mantle HRH 1:12, Combined Insert Odds refractor 1:31, Combined Insert Odds copper refractor 1:117, Combined Insert Odds red  refractor 1:315, Combined Insert Odds superfractor 1:7885, Combined Insert Odds printing plate 1:1971, Auto Base 1:15 Auto Refractor 1:95, Auto Blue Refractor 1:230, Auto Copper Refractor 1:980, Auto Red Refractor 1:2185, Auto Superfractor 1:41,500, Auto Printing Plate 1:10,961

Wow…  odd that the blue refractor base is retail only, but you can find the autos in hobby.  Yet the Xfractor is completly in retail only.

So based on those odds I should pull,

8 Refractors
2 Copper Refractors
4 Heritage Chrome
1 Heritage Refractor
6 Trading Card History
2/3 All-Rookie Team
1 Mantle Story
2 Mantle HRH
1 Insert Variation
and 2 autos of some kind.

At 24 packs of 4 cards (96) that should leave me with 66 base cards.  I ripped open the first pack to find… (more…)