Cardboard Review:2021 Topps Stadium Club Chrome

One of the most exciting product rips of the year last year for me was Stadium Club Chrome. Yeah, I enjoy Topps Chrome and Bowman Chrome, but SCC puts both to shame with its photography.

Also last year I pulled my first every superfractor which came from this product.

What will 2021 bring....let's check it out.

There are 14 packs of 6 cards per box in 2021 Stadium Club Chrome baseball. There is also one autograph per box and a few refractor parallels. Boxes are roughly $120.

BASE:

I don't remember last year well for this set, but this years base card set is a massive 400 carder. This includes veterans,

 

Rookies

Legends of the game

And even horror legend IT. Sorry, but this card creeps me out though I do enjoy the colorful photography.

PARALLELS:

You can find the following parallels,

Base Refractor, Gold /50, Orange /25, Wave, Red /5, and SuperFractor 1/1.

Base

Base

Gold /50

INSERTS:

These 1991 Stadium Club base are technically base card variations but I will include them under inserts anyways. They have the same parallels as base and fall 1:4 packs.

I was just excited to pull the Griffey version. Such a pretty card.

The inserts below have the following parallels,

Wave, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /5, and SuperFractor 1/1.

 

Crystal Ball has 25 cards and falls 1:14 packs. The Dalbec is the Wave parallel.

 

Virtual Reality has 25 cards and falls 1:14 packs.

Finally, Beam Teams. There are 25 cards that fall 1:4 packs. I want the Griffey!

HITS:

Here is my one promised autograph,

 

WUUZZZZZUUPPPPPPP!! This is a gold /50.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

Let's start with money value since most of the hobby is about that, I can't say there is much here for that aspect. There is plenty of big money chasers, just not in my box.

As for the overall product, beautiful. Base cards are fun with the chrome and photography and of course the refractory goodness.

Your thoughts on this product are welcomed below.

CARDBOARD REVIEW:2019 Topps Fire Baseball Collectors Box

In my opinion, Topps Fire seems to fly under the radar every year and all of a sudden, boom, it's out.

This year I had almost completely forgotten about it until some collectors started to post about it and watching a break of it that Topps did on their Facebook page.

Once again Topps Fire brings what it usually does, the fire. The unique artsy powerful designs throughout the product. This year I hadn't seen early previews of any of it so it was all new to me and to be honest, it was a pleasant surprise.

Let's check out this Target Exclusive product,

In every Collectors Box of 2019 Topps Fire is 20 packs of 6 cards. You will find two hits per box with one at least being an autograph among parallels and inserts per pack. The boxes currently run  $85 per. You can also find the usual blaster box options as well at $20 per.

BASE:

There are 200 bright and colorful base cards in the base set. I wasn't sure how I would feel about the base card design but it kind of grew on me as I opened the packs.

 The base set also includes legends of the game

and rookies.

PARALLELS:

Here is an overall look at the parallels in this product,

Gold Minted, Flame, Orange #d, Green #d, Purple #d to 99, Magenta #d, Onyx SSP and Inferno 1/1. 

Flame 1:4 packs

 Green 1:17 odds

 Orange 1:11 packs

Purple 1:33 packs

INSERTS:
This was probably my favorite part of the product. The base cards are okay, the parallels look even better, but the inserts, the inserts are out of this world beautiful. I tried my best to capture them in a bright light to showcase what they appear in person as.

 Maximum Velocity falls 1:14 packs and has 15 cards to collect

 Flame Throwers fall 1:14 packs and has 15 cards to collect in the set

 

 Fire Up 1:14 packs and has 15 cards to collect

 En Fuego falls 1:8 packs with 25 cards in the set to collect

 Smoke and Mirrors has 15 cards to collect in the set

Lasting Legacies. By far my favorite of the group. Great looking card and layout.  There are 15 cards to collect in the set.

I assume you all by now agree with me about the inserts. Cool huh?

HITS:

 Fire Relic green /99 that falls 1:147

 And my one autograph. Bleh.

Other hits you may find that I didn't include are,

• Fire Autograph Patch
• Fire Autograph Laundry Tag
• Fired Up Artist Autographs
• FlameThrowers Artist Autographs
• Triple Autograph
• Dual Autograph

Something new I am adding to my reviews are the pack wrapper odds and NPN address:

Also I am starting to add checklists. See the entire Topps Fire checklist here
https://www.topps.com/media/pdf/2019ToppsFireBB.pdf

OVERALL THOUGHTS: Well, my hits weren't great, they looked good but weren't great. However, the inserts alone made this break worthwhile for me. If you think they look good here, they are twice that in person. There are a lot of insert sets to collect if I was to chase them. I mean, this blogger doesn't have enough projects already does he?

There are also a lot of big hits to find as well, since I didn't get them, you may.

If you want in on a box break for any product, I suggest Midwest Box Breaks as they pull fire!

Please make sure to take a minute out to thank Topps for providing this box for me to review and to be able to add cards to the giveaway on Twitter I am hosting. Please follow me there to enter @SportCardCollec. Also follow Topps on all social media sites and visit their SITE, as well

Cardboard Review:2019 Topps Series 2 Baseball

It's already June folks. June! This summer and baseball season has flown by so far. I remember just reviewing Topps Series 1 to open up the 2019 card season and here we are already to Series 2. Before I know it, Update will arrive. This is crazy! I hope it doesn't fly by too fast, I haven't really had summer yet. Still stuck in spring with the rain. At least the temps have gone up.

Enough with my rambling on about the weather, Let's take a look at Series 2 now shall we?

In every HOBBY BOX of 2019 Topps baseball, you will find 24 packs of 14 cards. Each box comes with one hit, either a relic or autograph, and boxes currently run right now just under $60.

The base set for Series 2 is the same design as always as Series 1 and starts where Series one ended in terms of the set. There are 350 new cards in Series 2 to collect.

In the Series 2 base set it includes,

Some of the hottest rookies including Vlad Guerrero Jr who is an Sp, but not that tough of a pull, found as an unnumbered card in the product.

Future Stars subset.

Stadium Scenes

Team and player highlights (rookie cup as well but I didn't cover those)

And some great photography.

Speaking of great photography, there are some really great shots on the Sp cards. Yup. More Sp photo variations to find in Series 2.

There are 75 Sp cards and 25 SSP cards to find in Series 2.

The best way to distinguish the difference is as always, going onto the back of the card, looking for the CMP code.

Here are the codes you are looking for,

• Base Cards end in #962
• Advanced Stat parallel ends in #968
• SP Variations end in #031
• SSP Variations end in #032

Here were my pulls of them. Both just plain Sp which are way easier to find than the SSP.

(despite my hatred of the Red Sox, hard to deny this is a great card)

Here is the front of a Advanced Stats parallel

The backs in comparison. Notice how there is numbering and how condensed the stats are on the card compared to the full stats on the other.

And as we always have, there are some parallels to find! I can't think of any products without parallels.

Gold /2019

150th anniversary with a foil stamp on the front that fall 1:6 packs

Rainbow Foil that fall 1:10 packs

Other parallels to find are,

• Purple
• Vintage Stock
• Independence Day
• Black
• Mother's Day Pink
• Father's Day Blue
• Memorial Day Camo
• Platinum 1/1
• Printing Plates 1/1

 Now onto the inserts in Series 2. Most inserts have the following parallels, Blue, Black /299, 150th Anniversary /150, Gold /50, Red /10, and Platinum 1/1.

1984 Baseball Rookies and All Stars. There are 100 cards to collect.

Black /299!

Iconic Card Reprints has 50 cards to collect. If only this Trout wasn't a reprint!!!!!

150 Years Of Baseball has 100 cards to collect in the set.

Evolution has 25 cards to collect and digs deep into the back history of advances in baseball.

Significant Statistics has 25 cards to collect

Gary Vee's Top Entrepreneurs in Baseball has 10 cards to collect.

And there are 35 cards in the Home Run Challenge set. But, most won't be collecting this as a set. they will be using the codes to win cards.

Now onto the hit. I am going to be brutally honest, 9 out of 10 times, you should be expecting a relic or manu relic. Out of all of the years I have been busting flagship baseball or even football when they had a license for that, I pulled one autograph total. One.

And I did this year to.

Other hits I didn't find that you might are,

• 1984 Topps Baseball Autographs Set
• Aaron Judge Highlights Autographs
• 150 Years of Baseball Autographs Set
• Franchise Feats Autographs
• Gary Vee's Top Entrepreneurs Dual Autograph
• Iconic Card Reprints Autographs
• Legacy of Baseball Autograph
• Legacy of Baseball Dual Autographs
• Significant Statistics Autograph
• Cut Signatures
• Major League Material Autograph
• Significant Statistics Autograph Relic
• Topps Reverence Autograph Patch
• 150th Anniversary Commemorative Medallion Autograph
• 150th Anniversary Manufactured Patch Autograph
• MLB Logo Golden Anniversary Manufactured Patch Autograph
• In The Name Relics
• Mookie Betts Highlights Relic
• Major League Material
• Significant Statistics Relics
• 150th Anniversary Commemorative Medallion
• 150th Anniversary Manufactured Patch
• MLB Logo Golden Anniversary Manufactured Patch

OVERALL THOUGHTS: Well, Series 2 was exactly what I thought it would be. Nothing new to me besides new inserts and what appears to be more inserts as well. Keep in mind that this product is mainly a set collectors kind of product. Meaning don't go chasing the big hits even though they are in here.

For me though, I look at this kind of product as a two option product and not three. I would either buy a jumbo box meaning a guaranteed auto with relics or some blaster boxes since you are most likely going to hit a relic anyways. Just think for the cost of this box I could have gotten three blaster boxes that would have given me three manufactured relics instead of just one plain relic I got from a hobby. Just a thought.

Wanna give it a try without the risk/cost of a hobby box, well I suggest a box break with  Midwest Box Breaks. They pull heat and always look out for their customers first. And newbies get freebies as well.

Please make sure to take a minute out to thank Topps for providing this box for me to review and to be able to add cards to the giveaway on Twitter I am hosting. Please follow me there to enter @SportCardCollec. Also follow Topps on all social media sites and visit their SITE, as well.