CARDBOARD REVIEW:2019 Topps High Tek Baseball

We are not only creeping towards the Christmas season, we are also creeping towards the end of the 2019 Topps Baseball Card season. Can't believe another year will be soon and gone.

One of the late season releases I look forward to is Topps High Tek. I love acetate and foil designs even if I can't figure out what level they are til I do lots of research. The design is just appealing.

The latest groovy High Tek just released so let's give it a look.

 (yes I know the background behind the box may be too festive for some too early in the month) In every master box of 2019 Topps High Tek baseball there are three mini boxes. In every mini box there are six cards including one autograph. There are three autographs per master box. Boxes are roughly $115 per.

BASE CARDS

The base set is as confusing as usual. There are 112 cards in the base set, what an odd number, with a mix of legends, rookies and veterans. How this base set is broken down other than the fact the base cards have three different versions and each version has their own parallels.

PARALLELS: 

Overall look at the parallels:

White, Blue, Green /150, Purple /99, Pink /75, Black /50, Orange /25, Red /10, and Gold 1/1. 

White background falls 1:1 packs even though this is the only one I found. Not a bad one to find however.

Blue also fall 1:1 packs. I assume the blue now must replace the white when you don't pull one of those. A nice PC Griffey Jr card find here.

 Green parallels fall 1:4 mini boxes. Solid pull here.

Pink falls 1:7 packs or mini boxes.

Black falls 1:10 mini boxes.

INSERTS:

Inserts have the following parallels,
Orange /25 and Gold SpecTEKular Diffractor 1/1. 

PortraiTEK Set Checklist. I don't remember inserts in the past for this product. But, if they all look like this Ripken Jr, they are beautiful! This one falls 1:49 packs or mini boxes. So pretty much 1:16 master boxes.

HITS:
ON CARD autographs throughout with mix of vets, rookies and legends. All you can hope is that you can land one.

Autographs have the following parallels,
Purple /99, Pink /75, Black /50, Orange /25, Red /10, and Gold 1/1.

 McCullers auto

 Keller rookie auto

Lindor redemption auto. Best hit of the box was a redemption. I do wished Lindor would stop stalking me. How come Mike Trout or Ken Griffey Jr can't???

Other hits not found in my box but could be in yours includes,

• CelebraTEK Autographs
• Future TEK Autographs
• PortraiTEK Autographs
• ReflecTEK Autographs
• TEK Buyback Autographs

Find the complete checklist for 2019 Topps High Tek, HERE.

Here is the odds information,

OVERALL THOUGHTS:Well, my hits weren't the greatest, but I sure do love the look of this product and it is fun to open. I think the three packs format instead of the 40 cards honestly isn't as much fun. I liked digging through a big stack to find it's creamy center. I think for me, this is more of a player collecting product. So I would look at grabbing all of the Ken Griffey Jr's and parallels, variations, etc.

There are also a ton of big hits and I have seen a few pulled on Twitter in Trout and Ichiro.



If you want in on a box break without paying box prices, 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 add more cards to a future giveaway I will be 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 Bowman Sterling Baseball (HUGE HITS)

Guess what's back...back again...Sterlings back..tell your friends.

Well, I am.

It's been five long years since we have seen Bowman Sterling but now it's back on the market and it is hot stuff. I have seen so many breaks of it and just about all of them had big hits.

So when I finally got my hands onto a box, I hoped to hit the same and guess what....I did.

Wanna see it, well read on!

 

Every box of 2019 Bowman Sterling baseball comes with 5 packs of 6 cards. Each pack has an autograph, making it five autographs per box, and each box runs roughly $220.

BASE:

The base is a simple chrome design. Looks pretty familiar to past releases. Has a border which most collectors like.

There are 100 cards in the base set including rookies and prospects. So this is not a veteran based product. However, all of the key prospects and rookies are included.


PARALLELS:
Being chromed, we are expecting refractors and they did not disappoint here.

Overall look at refractors:
Base Refractor /199, Speckle /99, Gold /50, Blue /25, Black Atomic /10, Red /5, SuperFractor 1/1, and Printing Plates 1/1.

Base refractor

Blue /25

INSERTS:
I don't know how often inserts fall, but I pulled one and it was a beaut!

Sterling Retrospect Black Atomic refractor /10!

HITS:
Overall looking at the autograph parallels, Base Refractor /150, Wave /125, Speckle /99, Orange /75, Gold /50, Blue /25, Black Atomic /10, Red /5, and SuperFractor 1/1.

Blaze Alexander

Ronny Mauricio

Travis Swaggerty Speckle /99

Luis Urias refractor! Nice card!

Vladimir Guerrero Jr! Woooooooooooooooooo! Blue Sterling Die Cut auto /25! This was actually out of my first pack so it set the pace for the rest of the break.

Other hits not in my box include,

• Sterling Retrospect Autographs
• Dual Refractor Autographs
• Triple Refractor Autographs

OVERALL THOUGHTS: Don't think I have opened anything this hot all year. Two nice autos, three others with potential. Then on top of it some decent named base and a /10 insert hit. I can see why I could hear and see so many collectors raving about this product.

My only wish going forward if this product continues to stay is adding in some veteran content. Maybe like 50 base. I know most Bowman products focus on rookies and prospects but it would be great to see some vets mixed in with these great designs.

If you want in on a box break of this product without paying box prices, 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