I hate to tell you Zef that those were retail boxes. One less auto per box!
Still not a bad price though considering the retail packs are $2.99 each. You would have to pay $60 to get the same amount of packs from blaster boxes.
Ah yes. So I saved $12 per box as apposed to buying more blasters. At least I am assured 1 auto as apposed to my recent 5 blaster box purchase with 0 autos. Not as good a deal as I thought...but better than my previous purchase
The skinny on Fan Favorites - Hobby cases (8 boxes) are going for $650, $81.25/box. This looks like another well structured mid-range issue from Topps. They really have the idea about collector's needs. Pack the boxes with inserts so that buyers do not feel ripped off. Box loaders are great. With the base set to 150 you don't waste a lot of money.
For you football fans, watch for Topps 50th Anniversary Football at the end of July. Word has it that they are loading it up to celebrate the 50th issue of Topps FB.
2005 TOPPS ALL TIME FAN FAVORITES BASEBALL:
Releasing June 8th, 2005 Once again, the enormously popular Topps All-Time Fan Favorites Baseball takes a look back at the retiredplayers who made your favorite team, your favoriteteam! These cards proudly display every classicTopps base card design from 1952 - 2005, and feature fan favorite players using new photos, which have never before been used on a Topps card!
~;~Configuration: 8 boxes/24 packs/6 cards SRP: $5.00 per pack
THIS PRODUCT MAY BE ALLOCATED!
2 AUTOGRAPHED CARDS PER BOX! 1 HOBBY EXCLUSIVE RELICCARD BOX LOADER! 10 REFRACTOR PARALLELS NUMBERED TO 299 OR LOWER PER BOX! NEW! AUTOGRAPHED & RELIC RAINBOW PARALLELS #'D TO 10 OR 25! NEW! GOLD-BORDERED CHROME REFRACTOR #'D TO 25! NEW! 1 OF 1 PRINTING PLATES!
BASECARDS (150) Fan Favorites (150) 149 Retired Legends and current legend Barry Bonds appearing on classic Topps designs and featuring never before seen photos!
COMBINEDINSERTION RATE FOR AUTOGRAPHED/RELIC CARDS - 3 PERBOX!
AUTOGRAPHED CARDS - 257 totalsubjects - 2 PER BOX! Fan Favorites(122) 122 subjects have an Autographed version of the base set!
NEW! Fan Favorites - Rainbow (122) - seq #'d to 10 Autographed Rainbow foil card version, sequentially numbered* to 10!
NEW! League Leaders Tri-Signer (9 subj/3 cards) - seq #'d to 50 League Leaders from the same year sign - 9 players, 3 per card!
NEW! Rookie Card - Dual (4 subj/2 cards) - seq #'d to 50 4 Retired Players who share a rookie year - 2 per card!
REFRACTOR PARALLEL CARDS (300 total subjects) NEW! Gold-Bordered (150) - seq#'d to 25 White-Bordered (150) - seq #'dto 299
1 OF 1 PRINTING PLATES NEW - 1 of 1 Printing Plates (150 subj/4 plates per subj) - #'d 1 of 1! 150 players,4 unique plates per player, each numbered* 1 of 1!
HOBBY EXCLUSIVE BOX LOADER RELIC CARDS (80 total subjects) - 1 PER BOX! 1 individually wrapped relic card is inserted into eachbox as a box loader!
Fan Favorites (27) Game-worn uniform and bat relics!
NEW! Fan Favorites - Rainbow (27) - seq #'dto 25 Rainbow foil card version, sequentially numbered to 25!
Best Seat In TheHouse (18 subj/6 cards) Franchise-specific, multi-player card featuring a stadium seat swatch where players became fan favorites!
NEW! Best Seat In The House - Rainbow (18 subj/6cards) - seq #'d to 25 Rainbow foil card version, sequentially numbered to 25!
NEW! Topps Originals (10) Game-worn uniform and game-used bat pieces inserted between twovintage cards of the same year!
I just picked up two hobby boxes yesterday ($95.00 per), and will break them this weekend. The classic designs are what peaked my interest in the set - I'll post some scans of what I get later this weekend.
IMO, retail seems the way to go. $2.50 a pack as opposed to $4-5. Odds are a little longer, but autos are still not too hard to pull, and are the type of autos that you will likely pull worth the extra $$$ to guarantee that you'll get them?
<< <i>IMO, retail seems the way to go. $2.50 a pack as opposed to $4-5. Odds are a little longer, but autos are still not too hard to pull, and are the type of autos that you will likely pull worth the extra $$$ to guarantee that you'll get them? >>
Mud Just be careful with the blaster boxes - 8 packs - I got lucky last yr with them - this yr I bought 2 boxes of FB and yielded 1 auto - which isn't bad but someone bought 4 boxes and got zero. The set is nice but I really like the autos!
My wife and I picked up one blaster box last night. We had fun busting it, pulled a Lemke auto and nothing else of note. It was nice that out of the 8 packs there were no duplicates.
I picked up a hobby box at the local card shop today and nearly completed the set. There are 144 cards in the hobby box and I picked up 140 of the 142 base cards. The other 4 were:
Mike Norris Chrome 125/299 Edgar Martinez Chrome 073/299 Roger Craig Autograph Tony Gwynn Autograph
There was also a box loader:
Best Seat in the House Tiger Stadium Seat
All in all, this was a cool box to rip and I love the fact that I only need two cards to complete the base. **cough 27 and 110 cough***
Mark Ya did good!!! Congrats on the Gwynn!!! Scan? I bought 3 booster boxes - 60 bucks - got 2 autos - no one to write home about! I went to the hobby store near my house - no product.
I will be buying more - I love the autos! If I get those numbers, I will ship them out to you. Right now, no got.
I bought my first packs today, nothing exciting but I did get an auto. It's also no one to write home about (MGR Jim Leyland) but it is #'d 10/10. I'm assuming its a gold or something of the sort? /Shrug
<< <i>I bought my first packs today, nothing exciting but I did get an auto. It's also no one to write home about (MGR Jim Leyland) but it is #'d 10/10. I'm assuming its a gold or something of the sort? /Shrug >>
Orion If you haven't thrown out your wrappers, you will see on the back what the odds are of pulling the auto.
Scan? Congratulations! I would like to get one of the triple signed cards! Thank you.
<< <i> I've been checking all weekend and I think they just got into my town today, so I think they'll be gone if I dont go get them! What to do, what to do >>
I was about to jump off that ledge I was just talking about. 3 blasters and I didn't get anything until the second to last pack in the 3rd box.
editted to add: In one of the boxes I bought EVERY card in the box had one of the corners dinged. Think I should send them to topps or just see if I can make me set without them and leave it at that?
Thanks Stone. I think I will send them back. Do they exchange auto's that are messed up as well? Kinda figure I'm stuck with it but I've never tried sending anything back so I don't know. It's the #'d auto thats messed up. The other two are fine.
PS:
Axtell, if you haven't found the cards you are looking for I have 2 that you need. LMK
Okay - 2 hobby boxes broken, I was going to provide scans but can't at the moment...
Daryl Strawberry auto Bill Freehan auto Jim Leyland auto Davey Johnson auto
3 Chrome cards - the best of the bunch was Yogi Berra...
2 relic cards - Willie McGee Bat, and Gary Carter Bat.
I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed - and probably won't buy more. The base cards are nice, but after one hobby box break, you pretty much have seen them all. I'll look for the blasters if they are cheap, but I think this was quite enough.
Check out this Auction!!!! The price on this card is just nuts! I'm not sure what's going on yet...shill or what....misinfo on what it is? Even if it's an SP, it's not worth that kind of money? Quien sabe?
I just realized I never shared my 2 box buy that I thought was a steal but was informed was not hobby boxes. Needless to say I was thrilled with my Freehan that isn't even worth 5 bucks
I suddenly remember why I stopped trying to like modern a few years ago. >>
Zef If he would have started the bidding at 99 cents, he would have gotten some action.
But, if you really hate the common autos, please ship them to the "Stone" Institute! I understand he is doing a common collection!
i just noticed doing a search on ebay. the john elway auto's are rare and sell for around 275-300$ how rare are these? i havent even looked at this set this year. is Elway the biggest pull from this set?
Hi Chris I only bought a couple of booster boxes of FB and don't have a price guide yet on them but in general, I think people are spending too much on some of these autos. I can get an auto ball PSA/DNA for what some people are paying for HOF'ers!
Orion has a Killibrew on ebay and it's up to 30 bucks - I didn't pay that much for his ball with a stickered PSA/DNA COA!!!
This stuff is just crazy! Now, I am doing the common list portion of the set - and I'm going to see if I can trade with guys here for heritage SP's, chromes and stuff. Heck, I can even throw in some nice early 80's star cards!
Is that your card? I would put it up and hype the crap out of it! mike
Yeah Mike, lmk too. If ctsox doesn't have it, I have I think the base set and mucho doubles. These modern cards are new to me, but I am guessing there are better boxes for me to buy to kick off my newest bad habit. Any thoughts are not only appreciated but welcomed!
Thanx guys I'll LYK when I collate what I need. I've got a bunch of the common autos bookmarked - I picked one up for 3 bucks this week. Maybe I'll get lucky.
If anyone doesn't want their common autos LMK and I'll try to arrange a trade - I have plenty of good stuff to trade that's just collecting dust.
According to Buckett, I present the list of SPed autographs - that's why some of them are going for crazy numbers. Also, you guys that are opening TFF - if you pull any rare Brett Butler cards, LMK.
Barry Bonds 15 Ernie Banks 40 Andre Dawson 40 John Elway 40 Johnny Podres 40 Don Zimmer 40 Duke Snider 40 George Brett 40 Johnny Bench 40 Mike Schmidt 40 Nolan Ryan 40 Reggie Jackson 40 Stan Musial 40 Tom Seaver 40 Wade Boggs 40 Bob Gibson 90 Brian Sabean 90 Brooks Robinson 90 Cal Ripken 90 Carl Yastrzemski 90 Dave Winfield 90 Dick Williams 90 Dr. Jim Beckett 90 Juan Marichal 90 Lou Whitaker 90 Marvin Miller 90 Michael Kaye 90 Ron Gant 90 Ron Santo 90 Scott Brosius 90 Steve Carlton 90 Theo Epstein 90 Tony Gwynn 90 Walt Jockety 90 Whitey Ford 90 Yogi Berra 90
I bought 1 hobby box...24 (packs) and 2 retail boxs at target ( 6 packs per + 1 bonus box) no autos in the hobby box, I did get a dibble refactor /299
in the retail boxs I pulled a Ron Bloomberg auto...
so all in all I wasnt to happy...
I think the investment in this set is ending there, It was more the excitment of the opening the packs ( I missed that part of it)...seeing the cards with the little gold stamp and realizing I have the real thing kinda feels wierd.
Are you sure that was a hobby box? You should have definitely gotten 2 autos in a hobby box, I haven't read a break of this product yet without them. You might want to contact Topps customer service and see what they will do for you (they have been great in the past).
fan favorites are always a popular set. Guys actually atempt the auto set, which explains the crazy prices on some of those cards. I have opened 5 retail bosters and have pulled 3 autos..2 of the them Marty Barrett..OUCH, I did pull a Sid Bream gold of 25 and a Matty Williams 9/200..his jersey #
<< <i>fan favorites are always a popular set. Guys actually atempt the auto set, which explains the crazy prices on some of those cards. I have opened 5 retail bosters and have pulled 3 autos..2 of the them Marty Barrett..OUCH, I did pull a Sid Bream gold of 25 and a Matty Williams 9/200..his jersey #
These are great cards!!
JS >>
Kevin If I pull a double or if there is something you need, I'll be happy to take one of the Barrett autos.
I think I'm cutting myself off on these, since I got the 2 players I most idolized as a kid - pulled a Brooks Robinson refractor 280/299, and a Gary Carter auto. (I was a weird kid, okay?) But I still need a bunch of base cards, and have a bunch of doubles/triples of other base cards, so I'll probably be looking to trade to make the base set.
Wow a complete set of autos? That's nuts. The Elway is the only one I'd really want...though I love this set. I am going to try to complete this base set and chrome set, then be done.
hey guys, i know this thread has been dead for a while but if there is anyone whith a bunch of base doubles laying around willing to trade could you lmk. i'm 8 commons short from the base set and would appreciate any help. -luke-
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I think these were a steal.
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I just bought 2 hobby boxes from this guy at $48.00 each.
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Still not a bad price though considering the retail packs are $2.99 each. You would have to pay $60 to get the same amount of packs from blaster boxes.
Shannon
My Steve Carlton Basic Registry Set
Ah yes. So I saved $12 per box as apposed to buying more blasters. At least I am assured 1 auto as apposed to my recent 5 blaster box purchase with 0 autos. Not as good a deal as I thought...but better than my previous purchase
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Not a *single* duplicate, and just need 6 cards to complete the base set.
2 cards 3'd to 299 (Denny McLain and Johnny Pesky).
The base set extends to #142 (barry bonds) right?
Cards I need:
26
35
87
123
135
138
If anyone has them I'd be willing to buy them. Thanks!
This looks like another well structured mid-range issue from Topps. They really have the idea about collector's needs. Pack the boxes with inserts so that buyers do not feel ripped off. Box loaders are great. With the base set to 150 you don't waste a lot of money.
For you football fans, watch for Topps 50th Anniversary Football at the end of July. Word has it that they are loading it up to celebrate the 50th issue of Topps FB.
2005 TOPPS ALL TIME FAN FAVORITES BASEBALL:
Releasing June 8th, 2005
Once again, the enormously popular Topps All-Time Fan Favorites Baseball takes a look back at the retiredplayers who made your favorite team, your favoriteteam! These cards proudly display every classicTopps base card design from 1952 - 2005, and feature fan favorite players using new photos, which have never before been used on a Topps card!
~;~Configuration: 8 boxes/24 packs/6 cards
SRP: $5.00 per pack
THIS PRODUCT MAY BE ALLOCATED!
2 AUTOGRAPHED CARDS PER BOX!
1 HOBBY EXCLUSIVE RELICCARD BOX LOADER!
10 REFRACTOR PARALLELS NUMBERED TO 299 OR LOWER PER BOX!
NEW! AUTOGRAPHED & RELIC RAINBOW PARALLELS #'D TO 10 OR 25! NEW! GOLD-BORDERED CHROME REFRACTOR #'D TO 25!
NEW! 1 OF 1 PRINTING PLATES!
BASECARDS (150)
Fan Favorites (150)
149 Retired Legends and current legend Barry Bonds appearing on classic Topps designs and featuring never before seen photos!
COMBINEDINSERTION RATE FOR AUTOGRAPHED/RELIC CARDS - 3 PERBOX!
AUTOGRAPHED CARDS - 257 totalsubjects - 2 PER BOX!
Fan Favorites(122)
122 subjects have an Autographed version of the base set!
NEW! Fan Favorites - Rainbow (122) - seq #'d to 10
Autographed Rainbow foil card version, sequentially numbered* to 10!
NEW! League Leaders Tri-Signer (9 subj/3 cards) - seq #'d to 50
League Leaders from the same year sign - 9 players, 3 per card!
NEW! Rookie Card - Dual (4 subj/2 cards) - seq #'d to 50
4 Retired Players who share a rookie year - 2 per card!
REFRACTOR PARALLEL CARDS (300 total subjects)
NEW! Gold-Bordered (150) - seq#'d to 25
White-Bordered (150) - seq #'dto 299
1 OF 1 PRINTING PLATES
NEW - 1 of 1 Printing Plates (150 subj/4 plates per subj) - #'d 1 of 1!
150 players,4 unique plates per player, each numbered* 1 of 1!
HOBBY EXCLUSIVE BOX LOADER RELIC CARDS (80 total subjects) - 1 PER BOX!
1 individually wrapped relic card is inserted into eachbox as a box loader!
Fan Favorites (27)
Game-worn uniform and bat relics!
NEW! Fan Favorites - Rainbow (27) - seq #'dto 25
Rainbow foil card version, sequentially numbered to 25!
Best Seat In TheHouse (18 subj/6 cards)
Franchise-specific, multi-player card featuring a stadium seat swatch where players became fan favorites!
NEW! Best Seat In The House - Rainbow (18 subj/6cards) - seq #'d to 25
Rainbow foil card version, sequentially numbered to 25!
NEW! Topps Originals (10)
Game-worn uniform and game-used bat pieces inserted between twovintage cards of the same year!
<< <i>IMO, retail seems the way to go. $2.50 a pack as opposed to $4-5. Odds are a little longer, but autos are still not too hard to pull, and are the type of autos that you will likely pull worth the extra $$$ to guarantee that you'll get them? >>
Mud
Just be careful with the blaster boxes - 8 packs - I got lucky last yr with them - this yr I bought 2 boxes of FB and yielded 1 auto - which isn't bad but someone bought 4 boxes and got zero. The set is nice but I really like the autos!
mike
Morrie
I picked up a hobby box at the local card shop today and nearly completed the set. There are 144 cards in the hobby box and I picked up 140 of the 142 base cards. The other 4 were:
Mike Norris Chrome 125/299
Edgar Martinez Chrome 073/299
Roger Craig Autograph
Tony Gwynn Autograph
There was also a box loader:
Best Seat in the House Tiger Stadium Seat
All in all, this was a cool box to rip and I love the fact that I only need two cards to complete the base. **cough 27 and 110 cough***
Mark
Ya did good!!! Congrats on the Gwynn!!! Scan?
I bought 3 booster boxes - 60 bucks - got 2 autos - no one to write home about!
I went to the hobby store near my house - no product.
I will be buying more - I love the autos! If I get those numbers, I will ship them out to you. Right now, no got.
mike
<< <i>I bought my first packs today, nothing exciting but I did get an auto. It's also no one to write home about (MGR Jim Leyland) but it is #'d 10/10. I'm assuming its a gold or something of the sort? /Shrug
Orion
If you haven't thrown out your wrappers, you will see on the back what the odds are of pulling the auto.
Scan? Congratulations! I would like to get one of the triple signed cards! Thank you.
Thanx for sharing
mike
<< <i> I've been checking all weekend and I think they just got into my town today, so I think they'll be gone if I dont go get them! What to do, what to do
Go get 'em!!
<< <i>Go get 'em!! >>
Okkkkkkk, you talked me into it
I'm headin out for more this week! I've got to beat last year's Yount SP auto pull! I have been snake bit for about 18 months!!!!
editted to add: In one of the boxes I bought EVERY card in the box had one of the corners dinged. Think I should send them to topps or just see if I can make me set without them and leave it at that?
That Killibrew card is serious!
On the dinged corners - I would return them out of principle.
mike
PS:
Axtell, if you haven't found the cards you are looking for I have 2 that you need. LMK
Daryl Strawberry auto
Bill Freehan auto
Jim Leyland auto
Davey Johnson auto
3 Chrome cards - the best of the bunch was Yogi Berra...
2 relic cards - Willie McGee Bat, and Gary Carter Bat.
I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed - and probably won't buy more. The base cards are nice, but after one hobby box break, you pretty much have seen them all. I'll look for the blasters if they are cheap, but I think this was quite enough.
Notable cards were Mike Norris Auto and Barry Lyons Chrome.
I'm not sure what's going on yet...shill or what....misinfo on what it is? Even if it's an SP, it's not worth that kind of money? Quien sabe?
mike
Yo se. It looks like 2 dudes duking it out.
I just realized I never shared my 2 box buy that I thought was a steal but was informed was not hobby boxes.
Needless to say I was thrilled with my Freehan that isn't even worth 5 bucks
I suddenly remember why I stopped trying to like modern a few years ago.
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<< <i>Yo se. It looks like 2 dudes duking it out.
I just realized I never shared my 2 box buy that I thought was a steal but was informed was not hobby boxes. Needless to say I was thrilled with my Freehan that isn't even worth 5 bucks
I suddenly remember why I stopped trying to like modern a few years ago. >>
Zef
If he would have started the bidding at 99 cents, he would have gotten some action.
But, if you really hate the common autos, please ship them to the "Stone" Institute! I understand he is doing a common collection!
I only bought a couple of booster boxes of FB and don't have a price guide yet on them but in general, I think people are spending too much on some of these autos. I can get an auto ball PSA/DNA for what some people are paying for HOF'ers!
Just my take
mike
I am looking at the John Elway auto in baseball uni. the yankees 81 topps.
ebay
But not for that kind of money.
Orion has a Killibrew on ebay and it's up to 30 bucks - I didn't pay that much for his ball with a stickered PSA/DNA COA!!!
This stuff is just crazy! Now, I am doing the common list portion of the set - and I'm going to see if I can trade with guys here for heritage SP's, chromes and stuff. Heck, I can even throw in some nice early 80's star cards!
Is that your card?
I would put it up and hype the crap out of it!
mike
<< <i>Needless to say I was thrilled with my Freehan that isn't even worth 5 bucks >>
Great! That card was the highlight of my 2 boxes! I thought for sure 'ol Bill would be worth more than that...
In case you didn't see fireworks, Enjoy!
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I'll LYK when I collate what I need. I've got a bunch of the common autos bookmarked - I picked one up for 3 bucks this week. Maybe I'll get lucky.
If anyone doesn't want their common autos LMK and I'll try to arrange a trade - I have plenty of good stuff to trade that's just collecting dust.
mike
Barry Bonds 15
Ernie Banks 40
Andre Dawson 40
John Elway 40
Johnny Podres 40
Don Zimmer 40
Duke Snider 40
George Brett 40
Johnny Bench 40
Mike Schmidt 40
Nolan Ryan 40
Reggie Jackson 40
Stan Musial 40
Tom Seaver 40
Wade Boggs 40
Bob Gibson 90
Brian Sabean 90
Brooks Robinson 90
Cal Ripken 90
Carl Yastrzemski 90
Dave Winfield 90
Dick Williams 90
Dr. Jim Beckett 90
Juan Marichal 90
Lou Whitaker 90
Marvin Miller 90
Michael Kaye 90
Ron Gant 90
Ron Santo 90
Scott Brosius 90
Steve Carlton 90
Theo Epstein 90
Tony Gwynn 90
Walt Jockety 90
Whitey Ford 90
Yogi Berra 90
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in the retail boxs I pulled a Ron Bloomberg auto...
so all in all I wasnt to happy...
I think the investment in this set is ending there, It was more the excitment of the opening the packs ( I missed that part of it)...seeing the cards with the little gold stamp and realizing I have the real thing kinda feels wierd.
Link To Scanned 1952 Topps Cards Set is now 90% Complete Plus Slideshows of the 52 Set
Not bad for a crap shoot on 10 packs. I would have bought the whole box but the wife was with me!
Shannon
My Steve Carlton Basic Registry Set
cards. I have opened 5 retail bosters and have pulled 3 autos..2 of the them Marty Barrett..OUCH, I did pull a Sid Bream gold
of 25 and a Matty Williams 9/200..his jersey #
These are great cards!!
JS
<< <i>fan favorites are always a popular set. Guys actually atempt the auto set, which explains the crazy prices on some of those
cards. I have opened 5 retail bosters and have pulled 3 autos..2 of the them Marty Barrett..OUCH, I did pull a Sid Bream gold
of 25 and a Matty Williams 9/200..his jersey #
These are great cards!!
JS >>
Kevin
If I pull a double or if there is something you need, I'll be happy to take one of the Barrett autos.
Thanx!
mike
Morrie
-luke-