Wander Who Sent Me This Eli?

I am a NY Giants collector first, but I also dive into many other parts of the hobby as well.

One of the parts of the hobby I have collected since I began is rookie cards. Every year I seek out a rookie card of every player just to have on hand.

With no luck in finding Series 1 at the time, I was in desperate need of a Wander Franco rookie and that's when my buddy @DarkCards66, saw that I needed one and sent one along in his recent mail day to me. Not only did he cover my Franco need, but blew my socks off with another card.

First, the Franco rookie. I find it so odd that this years rookie logo is so small. I actually had to take a double look just to see it.

@DarkCards66 also passed along this dual with Vlad Jr and Wander.

Then came the card that made me fall out of my chair.

 

TRIPLE THREATS PATCH RELIC /50 of Eli Manning, Andre Williams and Odell Beckham Jr!! Wow! Such a stunning card!!! And if you are wondering, I am counting this as an Eli card when it comes to my collection.

This card features two Super Bowl winning players along with a guy I have a TON of cards of as a side PC. One of which will be posting tomorrow.

Thanks again to @DarkCards66 for the RAK mail day. I have been staring at this card sitting on my desk for the past few days.

Thoughts on this years Topps rookie card logo, if you collect rookies like I do and my newest Eli Manning add welcomed in comments.

CARDBOARD REVIEW:2021 Bowman's Best Baseball (AND NICE GIVEAWAY )

Will there be a baseball season? Do any of us know? I can't see the entire season being lost but some for sure at this point. Let's hope we at least get half a season and a Yankees World Series win.

I see your glare about that last part, and I also see the high fives from fellow Yankee readers. For me, that was a winning sentence.

At least for now, baseball enthusiasts have cards to open and can see their favorite players that way.

Today, while I am waiting for the season to kickoff, I am opening up a box of Bowman's Best baseball 2021. Let's see how it goes shall we?

Each Master Box of 2021 Bowman's Best baseball comes with 2 mini boxes. Each mini box comes with 6 packs. Each Mini box also comes with refractors and 2 autographs each. Each Master Box is roughly $450-500. So a steep gamble.

BASE SET:

 

The base set for Bowman's Best is chromed like it always has been. It is only 100 cards and is built up of veterans (check out my first Gallo in a Yankee uni)

Rookies

And rookies.....hmmm...no rookie logo...prospects then. This is a hard one for me. My definition for a true rookie card is a rookie that is apart of a base set. This one is. However, a product like Bowman has its prospects separately making those non rookies.

So before I move on, let me know your thoughts on this topic in comments. Is this Franco a rookie card?

PARALLELS:

Anything that comes chromed, has plenty of parallels.

Here are the offerings for Bowman's Best

Refractor, Atomic, Purple /250, Aqua Lava /199, Blue /150, Green /99, Gold Lava /75, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /10, Red Lava /5, and SuperFractor 1/1.

Green /99

Purple /250

Base silver refractors that fall 1 per pack.

More base refractors. Not bad names mixed in at all!

 

Atomic

INSERTS:

Inserts have the following parallels,

Atomic, Lava /50, and SuperFractor 1/1

Heatwave. This may possibly be the greatest looking insert I have ever seen. I want the Jasson Dominguez version and want it now! These fall 1:6 packs and have 30 cards to chase. I saw someone on Twitter recently finish this set. Looks sweet!!

Rookie Craftsmanship that falls 1:8 packs. There are 18 cards to collect.

Future Vibrance has 40 cards to collect that fall 1:3 packs.

HITS:

Four autographs were to be found..

I keep hearing things about this guy but don't know much about him other than his poor signature.

Fun auto, but don't know him.

Here's a name I know! And guess what, you're gonna have a chance to win it!

And my final hit, I recognize this name as well but it's a redemption. Bleh.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

Price point is really high on this one, but it's a fun rip. I love chromed products as you guys know and refractors. Other than price, this product is for me.

Did I feel I got my money back on this one, no. But, the Mize was a solid pull.

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

ONE PERSON SCORES THIS LOT FOR MY 10 YEAR BLOG GIVEAWAY THAT CONTINUES!

TO ENTER,

1. Have a U.S. Address. Sorry, can't afford to ship outside U.S.
2. Thank Topps for their support in these giveaways by checking out their website I linked.
3. Comment below your thoughts on this product or the Wander Franco "rookie"
4. Earn an extra entry by FOLLOWING Big Blue Cardboard on the right side of the blog which you can HERE. Comment below if you did and i will double check!
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6. POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR ON YOUR BLOG SOMETHING WITH A LINK TO BIG BLUE CARDBOARD AND OR CARDS OVER COFFEE FOR ANOTHER BONUS ENTRY. MAKE SURE TO LINK IT BELOW FOR IT TO COUNT!
7. You can earn up to 4 bonus entries on this one. 
8. Good Luck to all that enter. A winner will be announced next week and then the next giveaway will be coming.

Wander Who Sent Me This Eli?

I am a NY Giants collector first, but I also dive into many other parts of the hobby as well.

One of the parts of the hobby I have collected since I began is rookie cards. Every year I seek out a rookie card of every player just to have on hand.

With no luck in finding Series 1 at the time, I was in desperate need of a Wander Franco rookie and that's when my buddy @DarkCards66, saw that I needed one and sent one along in his recent mail day to me. Not only did he cover my Franco need, but blew my socks off with another card.

First, the Franco rookie. I find it so odd that this years rookie logo is so small. I actually had to take a double look just to see it.

@DarkCards66 also passed along this dual with Vlad Jr and Wander.

Then came the card that made me fall out of my chair.

 

TRIPLE THREATS PATCH RELIC /50 of Eli Manning, Andre Williams and Odell Beckham Jr!! Wow! Such a stunning card!!! And if you are wondering, I am counting this as an Eli card when it comes to my collection.

This card features two Super Bowl winning players along with a guy I have a TON of cards of as a side PC. One of which will be posting tomorrow.

Thanks again to @DarkCards66 for the RAK mail day. I have been staring at this card sitting on my desk for the past few days.

Thoughts on this years Topps rookie card logo, if you collect rookies like I do and my newest Eli Manning add welcomed in comments.

Cardboard Review:2021 Topps Heritage Minors

As baseball season winds down, still can't believe we are in the World Series and still can't believe the matchup we ended up with as well, the baseball releases are as well.

Today, we look to the future of baseball with my break of 2021 Topps Heritage Minors.

In every box of 2021 Topps Heritage Minors is 18 packs of 8 cards. There will also be 2 on-card autos in every box and boxes currently run an affordable $70 or less.

 

There is also one box topper as well.

1972 Topps Baseball Posters are within. There are also 1/1 foilboard versions and autograph versions of these as well. There are 20 of these cards overall.

BASE:

The base set is designed after the 1972 design and includes In Action and 1972 Topps Traded subsets.

(some collectors are not happy about these, not sure why)

The overall base set is 200 cards deep with many of the upcoming stars.

SHORT PRINTS/PARALLELS:

There are 20 base card Sp's that covers numbers 200-220.

/Black Border parallel  and are /50

Erik Rivera flip stock /25. It's glossy on the back and cardboard feel on the front.

INSERTS:

There are a variety of inserts in Heritage Minors.

 

There are 21 cards to collect in the Pack Cover set that falls 1:6 packs.

1:4 packs you will find yourself Boyhood Photos Of The Stars. There are 14 of these to collect overall.

1972 Topps Venezuelan Stamp Cards Set falls 1:4 packs and has 15 cards to collect.

HITS:

I don't know the players, but the signatures themselves are solid. Some effort put in and they are on-card.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

Garrett Mitchell, Spencer Torkelson, Austin Martin are among the big names you can find on the autograph checklist.

I think the cost per box with a solid checklist seems worth the risk here.

Let me know your thoughts in comments!

Bo Knows Cardboard

One of my most common trade partners in 2019 has been @Jake1725 as you have seen from multiple posts this year.

But, this was the grand finale of them all!

Let's see what I was able to do here.

Jonathan Loaisiga Inception base and parallel

 New Gleyber for my PC

I didn't get a Wander from my Bowman break, now I have one. Just need the chrome version

Some Washington Nationals for trade bait I needed

I traded one of these to Jake last year, but he had an extra copy so he sent it back to me. I don't get why people pay so much for a non rookie. I didn't even know about this card til I saw a Beckett post and discovered I had one. I am glad to actually have a copy back now. Not sure what it is, but been having kind of a Trout crush recently.

I do some prospecting on and off, my form of prospecting is hoarding all rookie cards, so I traded for this one. However, it didn't stay with me too long as I traded it away within a day for something much bigger....

And the final card in this mail day is Bo. Bo knows he was on my autograph needs so when Jake had one available, I had to have it. This card is beautiful and numbered 1/10.

A big thanks goes out to Jake for the trade as always. Looking forward to our next!