Guess The Set – September 30, 2022

Can you Guess The Set?  This evening I’ll post the correct answer in the comment section and on Twitter.  Good luck!

Card of the Day: Darryl Strawberry 1994 Flair #444

Card of the Day: Takeo Spikes 1998 Bowman Chrome Refractor #4

Card of the Day: William Perry 1994 Fleer #374

2-Card Phillies Pickup

Upon returning home from attending a mall card show, I began to rearrange a few items on my shelf. When finished, I realized I had two empty spots which needed to be filled.

What did I find to fill those spots?

First on my list was to reacquire a card I left go many years ago. Its a Scott Rolen 1997 Leaf #174. I originally picked this card up in 1997 while visiting my first card shop, The Penalty Shot. Although it says “Rookie” on it, we all know Rolen’s true rookie cards arrived two years earlier in 1995 Bowman and 1995 Bowman’s Best.

Second is a Bryce Harper 2022 Topps 3D #250. I’ve been wanting to add a 3D card to my collection for awhile. If Topps is looking to innovate, I wouldn’t mind seeing them attempt to make a Chrome 3D card.

Card of the Day: Rhys Hoskins 2022 Topps Chrome Refractor #8

2022 Topps Museum Collection Baseball Hobby Box Break & Review

Collector Type: Autograph/Relic/High-End Risk Takers

Museum Collection has and most likely will always be about the hits. Yes. There is a base set that consists of (100) cards. Parallels include Copper, Sapphire #’ed/150, Amethyst #’ed/99, Ruby #’ed/50, and Emerald #’ed 1/1. Bobby Witt Jr., Spencer Torkelson, and Julio Rodriguez all have rookie cards in here.

Found inside each master hobby box are (4) mini-boxes. Each mini-box contains (1) hit, (1)autograph parallel, and a few base cards. You are SUPPOSE to find (1) on-card autograph, (1) autographed relic, (1) relic, and (1) quad relic card per box. As you can see I did not find any autographs or quad relic. The patches I pulled are decent, especially that Brewers card, but with a price tag of almost $400/box its a hard pill to swallow when zero autographs are found. I watched Luft Brothers Trading open a box of Museum Collection, and the Cal Ripken Jr. autograph they pulled is missing the signature. The quality control could have been a bit better here.

Outside of my main hits I was satisfied with the rookies and parallels I pulled. We’ve seen Wander Franco cards cool down, but its still good to find one of his rookies. Not only did I find base rookies of George Kirby and Alek Thomas, but this box also had the Ruby parallels of each too.

Like a lot of high-end products it might be more affordable for some collectors to purchase singles of their favorite players on the secondary market. I’d suggest group breaking with your specific player and/or team, but with all of the scandals surrounding that part of the hobby right now I wouldn’t even get near a group breaker. With the downturn in sports card prices, shrinking profit margins, and more direct sales to customers it doesn’t surprise me that group breakers are resorting to shady practices in an attempt to survive.

Overall it was a fun break. But it would have been nice to find a few autographs.

Checklist

Here is what I pulled:

Relics:

• Christian Yelich/Corbin Burnes Dual Meaningful Material Copper Patch #’ed/35
• Logan Webb Meaningful Material Relic #’ed/50
• J.D. Martinez Meaningful Material Copper Patch #’ed/35
• Cody Bellinger Meaningful Material Gold Patch #’ed/25

Parallels:

• George Kirby RC Ruby #’ed/50
• Alex Thomas RC Ruby #’ed/50
• Aaron Judge Copper #48
• Justin Verlander Copper #74

Insert:

• Pete Alonso Canvas Collection Reprints #CCR-10

Base:

• Bryson Stott RC #25
• Wander Franco RC #59
• Alek Thomas RC #62
• Jarren Duran RC #43
• Brandon Marsh RC #10
• George Kirby RC #23
• Randy Johnson #81
• Carl Yastrzemski #45
• Frank Thomas #22
• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. #85
• Greg Maddux #30

Card of the Day: Elbert Drungo 1974 Topps #388

Oakland A’s ’21 Topps Big League Auto Contest! – NOW CLOSED

This contest is for a Ramon Laureano 2021 Topps Big League Auto. Good luck!!!

Contest Details:

• This contest will end Friday, September 30, 2022 @ 7:00 p.m. EST.
• To enter, please leave a comment in this post.
• You can enter once per day.
• The winner will be selected at random.
• Please provide a valid e-mail address when entering.
• U.S. residents only.
• The winner will receive an e-mail when the contest is over.
• The winner has one week to send me their contact information or the contest will be held again.
• Once the contest is over, I will need the winner’s mailing address so I can ship them this card for FREE!!!

Card of the Day: Wade Boggs 1998 Pinnacle Inside #55