Guess The Autograph #6

Before I announce the latest Guess The Autograph, let's reveal the last one I posted....

 

Yup one of you nailed it right on the head card and all!

Way to go....

HudsonFan15

And to Dion's IP Autos Only For guessing Lippett. 

If you can guess this weeks, I will put whoever guesses it right in next rounds post.

Now onto the next! Good luck!

Guess the autograph is as easy as it goes. I will throw up an autograph "swatch" and you guys have to simply guess whose autograph it is. There are no prizes involved, it's just for fun to test your autograph knowledge and give you bragging rights.

The autographs will spread across multiple sports and non sports so it should be fun to see the challenge it presents and see how many of you can correctly guess it. If you really want to take it a step further, try guessing the brand of card as well.

I will reveal the "answer card" and the autograph in the next post of this series.

So here is the next autograph to this series, 

 

Can you guess it? Good luck. 

Let me know in comments!

Eli's Picks: 2015 Topps High Tek Purple Rainbow Diffractor

Eli's Picks is a new segment where Eli himself, well a stuffed Bleacher Creature version, picks his favorite base/insert cards to show off.

Eli made a great choice for his first card picking a Topps Tek parallel card. This is a product I didn't bust, but picked up/traded for cards from. The card above I picked up in a trade with 90's Niche Football Card Blog. 

The parallels fall one-per-box on average and this parallel is one of the easier ones to get. It's also the one parallel that isn't number.  But, with only a few cards per box and a decent amount of players on the checklist, still isn't that easy to land your favorite players or teams.

REVIEW:2016 Topps High Tek Baseball

Everyone who collected back in 1998-2000 remember the Topps Tek name. Now those of this generation should as well as it makes the Topps baseball lineup for the third year in a row bringing what it has always brought..... Lot's of acetate.

Let's see how my first bust of the product in the new era went.

READ ON!

In every box of 2016 Topps High Tek baseball, you will find 1 pack with 8 cards. There will be one on-card autograph and one insert/parallel per pack. Boxes run around $60 which to me isn't too shabby.

The base cards are what I stated above, acetate with a fun rainbow foil shine design in the background. There are variations of the backgrounds with some being tougher than others to find. The best way I could tell the difference with them was this article on Beckett I suggest you check out HERE.

The base also include players from past, present and future.

Here are the easiest and most common base in my pack.

 

 

Here is a bit tougher of a base find in variation 2B, the buckle.

I found a couple of rookies in my pack.

This is the tougher pattern in 3, this is 3B. Waves.

I pulled a pretty nice parallel in my box. A Kris Bryant green numbered to 99

Other parallels include,

• Tidal Diffractor Parallel
• Green Rainbow Parallel
• Orange Magma Diffractor Parallel: Sequentially numbered to 25
• Black Rainbow Parallel: Numbered 1/1.
• Black Galactic Diffractor Parallel: Numbered 1/1.
• Printing Proofs: Numbered 1/1.

Inserts you can find include, HOME UNIFORM SHORT PRINTS, BRIGHT HORIZONS and HIGHLIGHTS: 

Now time for my autograph pull. All autographs are on card so you know that already rocks. Looks really nice on the acetate too.

I pulled a base version of Juan Gonzalez. 

 

These have parallels to. They are:

• Gold Rainbow Parallel: Sequentially numbered.
• Orange Magma Diffractor Parallel: Sequentially numbered to 25.
• Red Orbit Diffractor Parallel: Sequentially numbered to 5.
• Black Galactic Diffractor Parallel: Numbered 1/1.
• Printing Proofs: Numbered 1/1.

There is also TEK BUYBACKS.

Topps buybacks of Diffractor parallels and inserts from the 1998 - 2000 Topps Tek series will be signed ON-CARD and numbered. That's a nice addition. 

Overall, I felt good about this break and felt the price wasn't too high. I would probably wait a little bit for it to drop before I would try another just because the value is based on that one hit. But there are plenty of good ones to have. 

The cards look really nice and the on-card autos are a great addition. The checklist of players in both base and autographs are solid.

I think the toughest thing for a collector in this product is telling the difference in the base cards but hopefully the guide that Beckett provided will make things a bit easier. It's probably not a kid friendly product just because of the base depth.

This product is a great one for team and player collectors as you try to chase down the parallels and base card variations of them.

Thanks to Topps for providing this box to review and please check them out on all social media sites and their website. Look for some of these cards in a future promo!

Breakin Wax:2000 Topps Tek Baseball Pack Break

Topps Tek brings many things to the table. One, it brings some pretty sick base cards. Two, it brings tek-nology that the hobby hasn't seen. Three, it brings some major headaches and confusion if you don't know what you are looking for.

Each pack of 2000 Topps Tek baseball comes with 4 cards printed on acetate-type material. Like I am about to explain, the pack will be made up of many different cards including Sp's and possible inserts.

2000 Topps Tek is only a 45 base card set. However, it has 20 different background variations. A master base set, which contains 20 different patterns for each of the 40 players, is 900 total cards. Yes, you read that right, 900. That is crazy and trying to figure out each card can be challenging. The best thing to do is read the paperwork that is included in the pack. That's how I figured mine out.

Jim Thome signature background

Batting Avg background

MLB logo background on this nice El Duque PC add

And then I pulled an ArchiTEK insert of Larry Walker. These fall 1:5 packs.

Overall, some really nice cards. I like the designs and I think as a whole, despite the confusion and headaches the backgrounds may cause, they would make for one great chase. Especially for player collectors.