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(2) 2021 Topps Finest Basketball Hobby Box Break

The Topps 582 Montgomery Club was never advertised as a way for flippers to make money. I think a lot of members need to be reminded of that. Early on Topps underestimated the demand for some of the pre-sale items offered to members first, and didn’t price them accordingly. This led to a side effect where you could flip products on a regular basis, and make good money doing so. Overtime Topps has kept an eye on what some of these products sell for on the secondary market, and have priced them closer to what it looks like the public is willing to pay. With that being said, its still possible to flip some of these pre-sales. 2022 Topps Series 1 1st Edition Baseball being a good example.

I took a chance on a few 2021 Topps Finest Basketball boxes offered to members a few weeks ago. Images of this product began to popup on social media last summer, but we weren’t too sure what they were going to be used for. Its the first Finest Basketball product issued since the 2007-08 NBA season. Given that Topps currently does not have an NBA license you won’t find team names and/or logos on these cards. All cards picture the subjects in street clothes.

After a few failed attempts at flipping these boxes (they don’t sell for much more than what they cost) I decided to bust them open. A demand for these cards exists because its the first Finest Basketball cards made in over a decade. The demand would be stronger if they were pictured in their NBA uniforms.

Here is what I pulled:

Autos:

• Toni Kukoč
• Vince Carter

Parallels:

• Dan Majerle Orange Refractor #’ed/25
• James Worthy Gold Refractor #’ed/50
• Horace Grant Pink Refractor #’ed/75
• Shawn Kemp Green Refractor #’ed/99
• Isiah Thomas Blue Refractor #’ed/150
• Kurt Rambis Speckle Refractor #’ed/199
• Kurt Rambis Purple Refractor #’ed/250
• Tim Hardaway Atomic Refractor #’ed/299
• Detlef Schrempf Refractor
• Steve Kerr Refractor
• Scott Burrell Refractor
• Steve Smith Refractor
• Earl Boykins Refractor
• James Worthy Refractor

2021 Bowman Chrome Sapphire Edition Baseball Coming 5/12/22 To Montgomery Club Members

The next pre-sale for Topps 582 Montgomery Club members is 2021 Bowman Chrome Sapphire Edition Baseball.

Card of the Day: Isiah Thomas 2021 Topps Finest Basketball #11

(2) 2021 Topps Big League Baseball Hobby Box Break & Review

Collector Type: Set

Big League Baseball is a blast to open. The retro design (not based on a past set) is refreshing. I think it would be fun to see it get a limited online-exclusive Chrome release.

The base set consists of (300) cards. Four subsets make up the overall base set – Veterans & Rookies, Big League Best, Award Winners, and Highlights. Parallels include Electric Blue (blaster exclusive), Orange (1 per pack), Rainbow Foil #’ed/199, Green Foil #’ed/75, Black & White #’ed/50, Blue Foil #’ed/25, Black Foil #’ed/15, and Red Foil #’ed 1/1.

Nice to see a manager card. We don’t see them as often as we use to.

Autographs include Base Autographs Electric Blue (blaster exclusive), Art of the Game Artist Autographs, Big League Autographs, Defensive Wizards Autographs, Opening Act Autographs, Souvenirs Autographs, and Wanted Autographs.

Inserts include Art of the Game, Defensive Wizards, Home Team Traditions, Souvenirs, Wanted, and Value Blaster Box Cutout Cards.

In addition to blasters and hobby boxes, fans of the Big League Baseball brand also have Collector’s Boxes. A Collector’s Box contains (1) exclusive Super7 action figure. There are (4) types of package variations that you can pull – 1983 Topps Cardback Design, 1983 Topps Cardback Design Image Variation, 1959 Topps Cardback Design, and 1959 Topps Cardback Design Image Variation. Each of these has a Gold parallel #’ed 1/1.

Topps has worked with Super7 in the past. 2020 Big League Baseball also offered Super7 figures. Other Topps properties that Super7 has made figures for include Garbage Pail Kids and Mars Attacks.

For a product that doesn’t guarantee any hits per box, I think I did pretty well for two boxes. The easiest autographs to pull (Big League Autos) fall 1:65 packs. Between two hobby boxes I had (36) packs. That gave me less than a 50% chance at pulling one autograph. I ended up pulling three. Lets not forget a few numbered parallels too. I really beat the odds on these to hobby boxes.

Fun and very affordable.

Checklist

Here is what I pulled:

Autos:

• Dylan Cease Big League Auto
• Ramon Laureano Big League Auto
• Jose Urquidy Big League Auto

Parallels:

• Max Kepler Blue Foil #’ed/25
• J.P. Crawford Green Foil #’ed/75
• Wil Myers Rainbow Foil #’ed/199
• Alejandro Kirk RC Orange #231
• Sixto Sanchez RC Orange #142
• Anthony Rizzo Orange #202
• Kenta Maeda Orange #244
• Carlos Carrasco Orange #197
• Bryan Reynolds Orange #243
• Luis Patiño RC Orange #174
• Ha-Seong Kim RC Orange #85
• NL Batting Leaders Orange #246
• Alex Verdugo Orange #168
• Mike Brosseau Orange #152
• Trevor Story Orange #101
• Elvis Andrus Orange #120
• Sonny Gray Orange #79
• Gerrit Cole Orange #8
• Rafael Marchan RC Orange #181
• Mookie Betts Orange #67
• NL Saves Leaders Orange #265
• Keibert Ruiz RC Orange #143
• Walker Buehler Orange #92
• Austin Hays Orange #46
• Adonis Medina RC Orange #216
• Brandon Woodruff Orange #62
• Brandon Lowe Orange #47
• Austin Meadows Orange #133
• Shohei Ohtani Orange #114
• Michael Conforto Orange #49
• Marcell Ozuna Orange #208
• Pete Alonso Orange #16
• Kyle Schwarber Orange #7
• Daz Cameron RC Orange #166
• Blake Snell Orange #194
• Yu Darvish Orange #146
• Cavan Biggio Orange #78
• Willson Contreras Orange #111
• Evan Longoria Orange #44

Inserts:

• Kyle Lewis Wanted #5
• (2) Mookie Betts Wanted #2
• Jackie Bradley Jr. Wanted #9
• Kevin Kiermaier Wanted #14
• Christian Yelich Wanted #4
• Mike Yastrzemski Wanted #11
• Juan Soto Wanted #15
• Christian Yelich Souvenirs #18
• Fernando Tatis Jr. Souvenirs #24
• (2) Javier Baez Souvenirs #7
• (2) Alex Bregman Souvenirs #14
• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Souvenirs #27
• Mookie Betts Souvenirs #16
• Rafael Devers Souvenirs #6
• (2) Sixto Sanchez RC Art of the Game
• Gleyber Torres Art of the Game
• (2) Alec Bohm RC Art of the Game
• Austin Meadows Art of the Game
• Ke’Bryan Hayes RC Art of the Game
• Shane Bieber Art of the Game
• Fernando Tatis Jr. Defensive Wizards #10
• (2) Francisco Lindor Defensive Wizards #5
• Yadier Molina Defensive Wizards #7
• Willson Contreras Defensive Wizards #15
• Javier Baez Defensive Wizards #2
• Cody Bellinger Defensive Wizards #13
• Anthony Rizzo Defensive Wizards #9
• Nolan Arenado Defensive Wizards #4
• J.T. Realmuto Defensive Wizards #6
• Matt Chapman Defensive Wizards #3

Card of the Day: 2021 Topps Star Wars Masterwork – Boba Fett – Out Of The Box #12

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2021 Wild Card Alumination Football Blaster Box Break

Another impulse buy from Walmart.

Wild Card is one of those manufacturers from the early 90’s who was around for about as long as Pro Set and Action Packed. Thanks to their multi-tiered Stripe cards collectors were introduced to the hobby’s first parallels. Today some of those rare Stripe parallels of popular players can sell for big money. Even the long expired redemption cards.

2021 saw the return of the Wild Card brand. Their new products range from affordable retail blasters all the way to high-end sets. All licensed by the IPL (Independent Player Licensed).

A retail blaster box of 2021 Wild Card Alumination Football contains (32) cards. You should receive (4) parallels per box. Retail exclusive cards include Ocular (50+ parallels), Splintered (8 parallels), Light Show (6 parallels), and Starbright (8 parallels). Blasters are the only place you’ll find the Blue Groovin’ inserts. 1:20 boxes contain a Red Pack. Red Packs can contain exclusive low-numbered parallels.

Here is what I pulled:

Parallels:

• Trey Lance Ocular Purple #OC-6
• Travis Etienne Ocular Red #OC-9
• Rashod Bateman Splintered Blue #SP-17
• Penei Sewell Light Show Purple #LS-29

Error – Front says “QB”, but he is a RB

Base:

• Trevor Lawrence #ABC-1
• Jayson Oweh #ABC-31
• (2) Justin Fields #ABC-2
• (2) Javonte Williams #ABC-40
• (2) Amon-Ra St. Brown #ABC-68
• (2) Greg Rousseau #ABC-19
• Ian Book #ABC-51
• Chuba Hubbard #ABC-24
• Tylan Wallace #ABC-69
• Ernest Jones #ABC-50
• Joe Tryon #ABC-62
• Azeez Ojulari #ABC-43
• Jevon Holland #ABC-42
• Robert Rochell #ABC-60
• Trey Sermon #ABC-41
• Michael Carter #ABC-37
• Hunter Long #ABC-30
• Amari Rodgers #ABC-45
• Elijah Mitchell #ABC-53
• Tyson Campbell #ABC-63
• Terrace Marshall Jr. #ABC-13
• Patrick Surtain II #ABC-14
• Sam Ehlinger #ABC-26
• Dayo Odeyingbo #ABC-36

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