Card of the Day: Robin Roberts 1964 Topps #285

2022 Topps Chrome Baseball Hobby Box Break & Review

Collector Type: Set/Autograph/Rookie

Hey! Where are the Extended Base Short Prints? Anyone else not finding them? I think something funky is going on here… hahaha!

Topps Chrome Baseball is one of the most anticipated products collectors look forward to each year. The better the rookie class, the more popular the set is. Rookies such as Bobby Witt Jr. #221, Julio Rodriguez #222, Spencer Torkelson #223, Hunter Greene #224, and CJ Abrams #225 were suppose to have Extended Base Short Prints included within the product. Although they made it into the Hobby Lite boxes which were sold directly on the Topps website, and the Sonic and Logofractor Editions, Hobby and Hobby Jumbo boxes DO NOT have them. Mass hysteria swept through the hobby. I don’t blame people for being angry as this was a main selling point.

To make up for this miscommunication/quality control issue Topps is providing (1) 4-card silver pack for each Hobby and Hobby Jumbo box purchased from Topps.com, hobby shops or breakers which purchased their product directly from Topps. Randomly inserted within these packs you will find the missing Extended Base Rookie Short Prints. I’ll refer you to the Chrome Silver Pack Program details Topps has on their site.

The main base set consists of (220) cards. Parallels include Refractor, X-Fractor (10 per Monster), Sepia (2 per Blaster), Pink (2 per Blaster), Prism, Negative, Magenta #’ed/399, Magenta Speckle #’ed/350, Purple Speckle #’ed/299, Purple #’ed/250, Aqua #’ed/199, Aqua Lava #’ed/199, Blue #’ed/150, Green #’ed/99, Green Wave #’ed/99, Blue Wave #’ed/75, Gold #’ed/50, Gold Wave #’ed/50, Orange #’ed/25, Orange Wave #’ed/25, Red #’ed/5, Red Wave #’ed/5, SuperFractor #’ed 1/1, and Printing Plates #’ed 1/1.

Photo variations continue to be a big chase element. Using the CMP codes is the easiest way to identify them.

• Base – #967
• Variation SP – #017
• Variation SSP – #023

Autographs include Chrome Rookie Autographs, Dual Rookie Autographs, Chrome Veteran Autographs, 1987 Topps Baseball Autographs, Future Stars Autographs, Heart of the City Autographs, and Pinstriped Autographs.

Relics are not a huge part of the Topps Chrome brand, but you can pull them in the form of Topps Chrome Authentics Autograph Relics, and Topps Chrome Authentics Relics.

Inserts include 1987 Topps Baseball, Future Stars, Heart of the City, New Classics, and Pinstriped/Club Plaques.

Overall, this was a fairly standard Hobby box. I do wish that Topps/Fanatics would clear up these quality control issues. I sure hope the 2022 582 Montgomery Club Factory Set isn’t missing those same rookies.

I was hoping to pull a Bryce Harper Heart of the City insert showing the skyline of Philadelphia. One showed up in the first pack.

Checklist

Here is what I pulled:

Autos:

• Matt Vierling RC
• Whit Merrifield

Parallels:

• Luis Gil RC Blue Wave Refractor #’ed/75
• Kyle Tucker Prism Refractor
• Andrew McCutchen Prism Refractor
• Byron Buxton Prism Refractor
• John Means Prism Refractor
• Jose Altuve Refractor
• Trea Turner Refractor
• Cody Bellinger Refractor
• (2) Ketel Marte Refractor
• Jake Meyers RC Refractor
• Josh Donaldson Refractor
• Paul Goldschmidt Refractor

Inserts:

• Luis Garcia Future Stars
• George Springer Pinstriped/Club Plaques
• Bryce Harper Heart of the City
• Juan Soto Heart of the City
• Randy Arozarena New Classics
• Eloy Jimenez New Classics
• George Springer 1987 Topps Baseball
• Gavin Sheets RC 1987 Topps Baseball
• Pete Alonso 1987 Topps Baseball
• Miguel Cabrera 1987 Topps Baseball

Card of the Day: Paige 2015 Topps Chrome WWE Gold Refractor #51

Card of the Day: Bernie Kosar 1994 Topps #616

Oakland A’s ’21 Topps Big League Auto Contest Winner Announced

Congrats to Jerold Irabagon on being the lucky winner of the Ramon Laureano 2021 Topps Big League Auto. Once Jerold Irabagon sends me their mailing address, I will ship this card ASAP. Thanks!

Card of the Day: Aaron Judge 2022 Topps Chrome Heart of the City #13

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!!!