Showing posts with label 1971. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1971. Show all posts
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Monday, May 11, 2020
Dion Sends A Biggie
What seemed to originally look like a long drawn out trade with Dion's Autograph Collection blog turned out much shorter as I was "forced" to the Post Office to mail out another package. So I figured while I was out, why not finish up my trade with Dion as well.
It's really odd to write the words "forced" and Post Office but with this whole Covid thing going on, I am avoiding going out as much as possible.
But, with a couple of big PC cards that could be had in these trades, I pushed myself and went to get these completed.
Dion had recently acquired a lot of Giants cards and he knew the collector to come to first and here we are. One thing to note, not all of the Giants cards from this trade will be featured in this post. You gotta check out SNAGGING CARDBOARD if you want to see the rest.
Up first, some Saquon. The bottom right is a not a Topps rookie, but someone using the Topps design. I have had my eye on these just because they look cool.
Odell Beckham Jr. Just a couple of the ones I grabbed from Dion
This guy is going to break out soon, I just know it!
Dexter will have a big role in the Giants defense next season. If they are going to get better, it's gotta start with this guy
Eli! Going to miss him. Glad there is so much more cardboard I can collect of him
Love had a solid season last year and will be apart of the Giants secondary somewhere
LT needs no introduction and then comes a Sterling player who hopefully will be healed from multiple concussions. This offense needs him and he doesn't need those.
The final card, this is one of the biggies I spoke about, Terry Bradshaw rookie card! Dion had some rookies up for grabs including this one and to my surprise nobody claimed it. So I did. Been wanting to add more to my Hall Of Fame rookie card collection and now did.
Big thanks to Dion for the trade. I know we will do another as we are already working on the next one.
(WHILE I AM AT IT, GO FOLLOW Cards Over Coffee . FIRST POST IS UP!)
It's really odd to write the words "forced" and Post Office but with this whole Covid thing going on, I am avoiding going out as much as possible.
But, with a couple of big PC cards that could be had in these trades, I pushed myself and went to get these completed.
Dion had recently acquired a lot of Giants cards and he knew the collector to come to first and here we are. One thing to note, not all of the Giants cards from this trade will be featured in this post. You gotta check out SNAGGING CARDBOARD if you want to see the rest.
Big thanks to Dion for the trade. I know we will do another as we are already working on the next one.
(WHILE I AM AT IT, GO FOLLOW Cards Over Coffee . FIRST POST IS UP!)
Monday, March 2, 2020
CARDBOARD REVIEW:2020 Topps Heritage Baseball
Welcome to 1971! Well, a look at what a card design looked like in 1971.
Last year we saw Heritage take on the 1970 design and today we dig in 1971, the dark year. Once again, I am talking about baseball cards.
When seeing mockups for the design I was worried about having a black border like that on cards again. I could see chipping issues galore!
But, would I feel that way after I opened the box? Well, read on to see my thoughts.
In every hobby box of 2020 Topps Heritage baseball, there are 24 packs of 9 cards. There is one hit per box either autograph or relic and boxes currently sit at $70 or so.
Each box also comes with 1 buyback box topper
Here is what my pack had. PC add. So can't complain.
BASE:
Like I said earlier, the base card design tackles 1971 design in spectacular fashion. I also must mention now that I didn't run into any dinged corners but that doesn't mean with this design that there won't be any.
There is also a whopping 500 cards in the base set including Sp's. That's insane for a product from today. I didn't say it was a bad insane either for those set chasers that still exist this is heaven.
Those darn short prints are out again to make us blind. Here is the back of the base card Pujols which tells us the CMP code ends in 13 which means base.
HOWEVER, a big HOWEVER, this years version labels the variations on the back of the card just below the name. If only I had known that before hand I wouldn't have wasted my time looking at the CMP codes. You still have to turn the card over to see what you have, but, that's easier to read than the code.
If you still want the codes to help you decipher what you have, here they are,
Here were the Sp's I found in my box. These fall 1:3 packs.
CMP CODE on the back.
Here's a couple of my favorite base cards in the set
My first Cole in a Yanks uniform
And this photo of Judge is superb!
Along with some great photos, there are a few subsets as well.
Such as teams celebrating World Series wins and LCS wins. They are just missing the Yankees celebrating.....
League Leaders
Rookies
Rookie Cups
BASE CARD VARIATIONS
Falling at 1:27, easiest to find of the variations, was this Action Photo. Luckily for me out of all of them I landed this guy...
Mike stinkin' Trout!
CMP is 47
BASE CARD PARALLELS
There is two parallels to find White which is limited to 50 copies and Flip Stock which is to 5 copies and to my surprise I found one that is 1:67 packs
White Parallel
Base and Parallel side by side. I think the black looks better.
INSERTS
25 of the leagues youngest talent is here in New Age Performers. Found that Vlad guy here.
Flashbacks has 15 cards to collect and commemorates things that happened at that time.
20 Giants has well, 20 cards.
Then and Now has 15 cards to chase as well.
HITS:
The odds of hitting an autograph card from this product is astronomical, at least in my opinion. A box that doesn't pass by where I don't land a relic from this product and I did once again with a familiar face. This will make the 5th Pujols relic I have pulled in the past year from a one-hit product.
At least this time it's a bat swatch. I also dig the design.
Other hits not found in my box but could be in yours includes,
I do like this years design as the black really makes the color photos pop and the insert themes keeping that throughout is great as well.
If you have collected Heritage in the past and are a fan, I don't think you will be disappointed by this years. I like this years a lot.
Thanks to Topps for providing me this box to review and to giveaway some of the cards on Twitter. You can check out Topps website HERE. And find them on FACEBOOK and TWITTER as well! Don't forget to give them a follow on each!
Last year we saw Heritage take on the 1970 design and today we dig in 1971, the dark year. Once again, I am talking about baseball cards.
When seeing mockups for the design I was worried about having a black border like that on cards again. I could see chipping issues galore!
But, would I feel that way after I opened the box? Well, read on to see my thoughts.
BASE:
There is also a whopping 500 cards in the base set including Sp's. That's insane for a product from today. I didn't say it was a bad insane either for those set chasers that still exist this is heaven.
HOWEVER, a big HOWEVER, this years version labels the variations on the back of the card just below the name. If only I had known that before hand I wouldn't have wasted my time looking at the CMP codes. You still have to turn the card over to see what you have, but, that's easier to read than the code.
If you still want the codes to help you decipher what you have, here they are,
- Base cards 1-400 are 13
- Base SP cards 401-500 are #27
- French Text have a #40
- Error has a #44
- Missing Signature has a #45
- Silver Team Name has #46
- Action Image has #47
- Throwback has #48
- Nickname has #49
Here's a couple of my favorite base cards in the set
Along with some great photos, there are a few subsets as well.
BASE CARD VARIATIONS
Falling at 1:27, easiest to find of the variations, was this Action Photo. Luckily for me out of all of them I landed this guy...
BASE CARD PARALLELS
There is two parallels to find White which is limited to 50 copies and Flip Stock which is to 5 copies and to my surprise I found one that is 1:67 packs
INSERTS
HITS:
The odds of hitting an autograph card from this product is astronomical, at least in my opinion. A box that doesn't pass by where I don't land a relic from this product and I did once again with a familiar face. This will make the 5th Pujols relic I have pulled in the past year from a one-hit product.
Other hits not found in my box but could be in yours includes,
- Base Chrome
- Base Mini Set
- Real One Autographs
- Real One Dual Autographs
- Real One Triple Autographs
- Senators Final Season Autographs
- Cut Signatures
- Clubhouse Collection Autograph Relics
- Clubhouse Collection Dual Autograph Relics
- Flashbacks Autograph Relics
- Clubhouse Collection Dual Relics
- Clubhouse Collection Triple Relics
- Clubhouse Collection Quad Relics
- 1971 Mint Relics
- 1971 U.S. Postage Stamp Relics
I do like this years design as the black really makes the color photos pop and the insert themes keeping that throughout is great as well.
If you have collected Heritage in the past and are a fan, I don't think you will be disappointed by this years. I like this years a lot.
Thanks to Topps for providing me this box to review and to giveaway some of the cards on Twitter. You can check out Topps website HERE. And find them on FACEBOOK and TWITTER as well! Don't forget to give them a follow on each!
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