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I like to bring this segment back here and there. The fun of reading the comments and captions being the biggest reason or maybe a lack of thought on what to post for the day. Either way, have fun with these!!

Please CAPTION THIS CARD in comments. Keep it clean for the little eyes. If I was to caption this I would call it,

"Big Module (reference off from Big Unit)"

Kerry Collins Of The Week Part 2

A new week full of Kerry Collins bliss!

Let's check out this weeks adds....

 

1997 Bowmans Best uncut proof refractor Kerry Collins/Michael Irvin

 

2004 Leaf Certified Materials Mirror White

1995 Upper Deck Sp Championships die cut

2002 Prestige Connections dual relic with Amani Toomer

And the big whammer of the week.....2002 Score Originals Buyback autograph of his 1995 Score rookie. I really loved this card. Only 100 made of it as well.

Well, a short week of adds, but believe me, next week will have many, many more!

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. 

REVIEW:2017 Topps Update Baseball

Topps Update is one of those sneaky valuable products that you wouldn't even consider being worth as much as it is. For some reason or another, people want the rookie cards from the product. Some prime examples of valuable rookies from this product's past are Mike Trout, Bryce Harper and Jose Altuve.

Is there a future in the 2017 edition? You bet there is! This has been the hottest baseball rookie class that I can remember in some time. So you better go snag some at the price or you may not get any.

While I leave you with that thought, let's check out a hobby box break of it.

In every box of 2017 Topps Update baseball, you will find yourself emerged with 36 Packs and 10 Cards Per Pack. So 360 cards. That's a lot. There will be one autograph or one relic card per box. Boxes run around $65.

The base set is 300 cards which a box will not get you there with all of the other stuff Update offers.

Updates base cards have players not from the first two series, highlights from the All Star game and rookies that weren't included in the first two series either. Part of why it's so popular.

  

Speaking of rookies, your boxes should give you plenty as I found a lot of packs had 3-4 rookies per. There are also plenty of Bellinger,

and Judge! #AllRise!

There is also plenty of short prints. Holy moly! I can't remember a Topps product where you could pull so many but they only fall 1:4 packs. Flip your cards around and check the bottom where the CMP code is and look at the last 4 digits. These Sp's end with the code #5557 while base cards have #5517.

 

There are legend sp's as well.

And SSP that are case hits at 1:256 packs. These end with code #5904.

 Now that we are done talking base, we can move onto parallels which there are plenty to find of.

Golds, 1:8 packs. That Hunter Renfroe guy is following me.

Black are numbered to 66 and fall 1:100 packs.

Rainbow Foil, my favorite of the group #shiny, fall 1:10 packs.

There are also,

• Vintage Stock Parallel
• - Mother's Day Hot Pink Parallel
• - Father's Day Powder Blue Parallel
• - Memorial Day Parallel
• - Clear Parallel
• - Negative Parallel
• - Platinum Parallel
• - Printing Plates

Now onto the inserts.

Topps All-Rookie Cup fall 1:8 packs.

The best thing about these cards are the backs where they put that these are reprints. I have been waiting for that. So many try passing off these reprint cards for real to unsuspected collectors. Now they can't.

Untouchables is a really nice looking insert line that has Cy Young pitches galore for the ones who helped lead their teams down the stretch. It looks like some may have more than one card. These fall 1:8 packs.

The third installment of this continuity showcases more of your favorite on-air personalities from MLB Network and falls 1:36 packs

Salute cards celebrate performances from superstars throughout the season! Themes to find are celebrating rookie call-ups, walk-off moments, pitching performances and web gem catches. These fall 1:8 packs.

More of this wood grained insert series from 1987 Topps continues in Update. This time featuring set 2017 MLB rookies, rising stars and traded veterans and falls 1:8 packs

And still continuing on this year is more of those Rediscovering Topps cards. I think the best one I have found all year is this Winfield. These fall 1:6 packs and come with a variety of stamp color variations.

Now onto the hits!

Here is my first pull. Yup, I found two. This is a All Star Game relic that falls 1:48 packs.

My second hit which was a surprise is this Hank Aaron Award of Jose Bautista which falls 1:477 packs.

 

Other hits not found in my box include, 

All-Star Stitches Autograph Cards, All-Star Stitches Dual Autograph Cards, All-Star Autographed Jumbo Patch, All-Star Jumbo Patch Cards, All-Star Stitches Dual Cards, All-Star Stitches Triple Cards, Topps Salute Autograph Cards, 1987 Topps Baseball - Rookies, Rising Stars, & Traded Autograph Cards,Own the Name Relics and Cut Signatures.

OVERALL, some collectors look at this and go, $65 for one hit, no thanks. I don't look at it that way like I used to especially after this rookie class. This is a long term investment of sorts is the way I appeal to it now.

There are also some really big hits to be found as well. This is one of those products that is a great find in retail as well if you don't want to fork out the hobby box costs. I think if you are in it for the big hits, you go jumbo box with this product. 

I think my box was pretty well. Some good sp's, an ssp, an extra hit and some top rookies. Can't say you can go wrong here.

Please make sure to take a minute out to thank Topps for providing this box for me to review as they help provide prizes for me to giveaway in the MLB Pick Em Promotion! Follow Topps on all social media sites and visit their SITE, as well