new topps 'all american' set

Ahmanfan

anyone seen this set yet? It's really spectacular!



a nice fix for those of us who can't put together a real '55 AA set!
John

joestalin

Im hooked! Retail is loaded too.

Kevin

iamthegreatcornholio

i just saw this stuff yesterday. i'm definitely going to buy a box or two soon. one of these days, i'm going to pull something decent from a pack...

MuckyMutt

Wow - nice card!!!

and I'm an old-time Packer fan too...

CopperJJ

BOUGHT A 8 PACK RETAIL BOX AT TARGET FOR $19.99...PULLED 1 AUTO OF LORENZO WHITE AND 1 GOLD OF LORENZO WHITE #112/555. NOT BAD FOR RETAIL

i'LL PROBABLY SEND SOME OF THE CARDS OFF TO BE AUTO'D TTM.

JJ
edited for bad grammar

kingraider75

oh no!!! I am going to have to build a master set of this probably!!! I went crazy and built a PSA graded set, use to be #5 for masters on the registry, but might have dropped. Once I got done with the master set, I made a raw set. This is probably my favorite design of all time.

How much are Hobby boxes going for???

Ahmanfan

110ish at my local shop, probably 80 on the bay. maybe less?

duner

This set is great and the price is right. It's not everyday you can find auto'd cards of hall of famers in their college uniforms. Except for a couple of a the major players, putting together the auto set should be relatively inexpensive. I've scooped up a 1/4 the set so far, but now the remaining auto's i need seem to be quickly drying up.

UTVolsFan

This is one of the coolest products to come out this year (Actually for a while). I busted one hobby box and one of the cheap retail 8 pack retail boxes....

The hobby box netted a Danny Wuerffel and Troy Aikman autograph and the usual 4 chrome cards #ed to 555 which were Barry Sanders,Wuerffel,Mike Singletary,and Bubba Smith.....The retail box netted a Steve Bartowski chrome as well as a Mean Joe Greene Gold Refractor Chrome #36/55.

joestalin

r the aikman and danny for trade?

lmk
kevin

UTVolsFan

The shop owner snatched the Wuerffel up as soon as I pulled it for one of the FL collectors.....I think for now I will hold the Aikman, if I decide to let it go I will let you know


Chad

joestalin

If you were going to trade the Aikman, who would you be looking for? I have a nice Manning auto

LMK
Kevin

bobbybakeriv

Nice cards. I bought a Retired Box today. There were several chrome cards in there as well as a Lawrence Taylor Gold Chrome Refractor (38/55) and an autographed Bruce Mathews Chrome Refractor (16/55). I wonder what these things are worth? I am going to go check Ebay to see. The signed Mathews card is really nice I must admit and I don't usually like modern stuff.

CopperJJ

I have duplicates of most of the set...I was able to get two complete sets out of what I opened...so the rest can be traded away.

BigRedMachine

<< <i>If you were going to trade the Aikman, who would you be looking for? I have a nice Manning auto

LMK
Kevin >>



How many Manning auto's do you have Kevin??? What else you looking for?? The last one you sent me was a beauty...

PM me............sorry to hijack, back to the thread.

joestalin

wow, nice job on that 10. congrats. As you know Manning is as hot as it is in football. I have two other Manning autos, but would
need something very nice in trade. Caddy or some nice auto out of all american.....are you going to open any? I hope your boy
is doing well

Kevin

tkd7

I did see this set and it looks great.

I've seen a bunch of ebay auctions for sets of cards 1-91 but the set numbers to 100 (like the original). Are the cards 92-100 short prints? Any other SP's?

joestalin

there are no 92-100 cards

Kevin

tkd7

thanks. i saw a press release on the topps website that listed 100 cards.

Link

kingraider75

kingraider75

I had to search around the "greater Los Angeles" area to find a shop that had any. I have seen some retail boxes on ebay, and didn't want someone to pull a fast one on me. Well I have some boxes on order now, at $90 a piece. Probably a bit high, but maybe not horrible.

According to the checklist that comes with the box, the set has 91 cards.

joestalin

I got creamed on 3 retail 8 count boxes..no ink and only a few chromes...I left two back at the store and I wonder if they are loaded

Kevin

tkd7

Just found a great deal on ebay. Bought a hobby box for $50. Hope it shows up.

Seller seems to have more if anyone is interested.

Hopefully I can put a couple of sets together from the box.

joestalin

can I get a link?

Thanks
Kevin

brianwintersfan

<< <i>Just found a great deal on ebay. Bought a hobby box for $50 >>



You bought a retail box. Hobby boxes will get you two auto's per box where he clearly states one auto on the one you got.

tkd7

Link

OK, thanks for the clarification. Didn't realize that extra auto and inserts would cost me so much more money.

tkd7

Just got my box.

Made a set, but my Tommie Frazier card is damaged. If anyone has an extra, I will trade 2 for 1, let me know what you need and I'll see if I have dupes.

CopperJJ

<< <i> my Tommie Frazier card is damaged. >>



PM your address and I'll send it out in the AM

JJ

envoy98

I just checked my wholesaler and he's $77.70/box for hobby.

joestalin

77 abox...is that good or bad? higher or lower?

Thanks
Kevin

PS..when are we going to make another blockbuster trade? I know you have Caddy!! LOL

BigRedMachine

Isn't it ironic that I swear off anymore hobby boxes and modern stuff so I can concentrate on one thing, and the one thing I choose is the '55 all american set, and then this comes out?

Talk about teasing a guy. Any of you have any more scans of this stuff?? Looks cool, but I promised myself
NO MORE!! (except heritage of course )

I certainly can't afford all of it, but wish I could.

Shawn.

joestalin

Shawn

I could provide you a complete set if you want....for whatever they are going for on ebay, that way you could avoid the pain and
suffering of opening wax! LOL LMK

Thanks
Kevin

TheThrill22

JJ-Would you happen to have an extra Bert Jones laying around? I need his card to finish my set. Send me an email at nugerox@aol.com to let me know what you want for it. Thanks.

BigRedMachine

<< <i>Shawn

I could provide you a complete set if you want....for whatever they are going for on ebay, that way you could avoid the pain and
suffering of opening wax! LOL LMK

Thanks
Kevin >>



It's only suffering because I USUALLY end up on the short end of the stick. I'll probably break down and by some though, and I'll let you know what I pull.

Merry Christmas Kevin
Shawn.

kuhlmann

picked up a box of retail 19.99 at target and pulled an anthony carter auto. and 1 gold card of chuck long i think. at least i got an auto.

tkd7

better than me. all i got was a Chuck Long redemption card.

bobbybakeriv

I just pulled a Herschel Walker refractor auto from a retail box. They are nice cards.

joestalin

Im interested in any of the autos you all have. I have plenty to trade and can ever trade complete sets, if anyone is interested.

Thanks
Kevin

PS Merry Christmas Shawn!

envoy98

Kevin-I don't know if $77.70/box is good or not, I just checked his site last night for comparison.

I'm all for blockbuster trades, surprisingly enough though I have not busted hardly any wax this year. I'll probably rip some Ultimate, Leaf Limited, Contenders and SPA. I didn't touch but 5 packs of SPx and a few packs of this Topps AA. Other than that, I've been pretty quiet...and sorry, I have nothing of Caddy, wish I did. I am trying to trade for an SPx of his, but that's another story. I am working on moving my SPx triple auto from last year of Eli, Roeth and Rivers #/25. Tough to make a deal on an $800 card with 12 year olds on the beckett and scf boards. Which is yet another reason why I spend more time on these boards...at least everything isn't in lowercase, missing punctuation and there are more provoking thoughts than just "i think u suck at life crap face"... just an observation.

-Josh

envoy98

Just found this today. I don't know if it's been posted already or not.

Following are the short printed subjects accompanied by the number of cards
signed.

Barry Sanders 4
Jim Brown 19
Joe Montana 19
Joe Namath 19
John Elway 19
Gale Sayers 19
Marcus Allen 19
Roger Staubach 19
Troy Aikman 19
Tony Dorsett 19
Earl Campbell 44
Eric Dickerson 44
Lawrence Taylor 44
Ronnie Lott 44
DAN FOUTS 44
JAKE SCOTT 44
KELLEN WINSLOW 44
PAUL HORNUNG 44
TED HENDRICKS 44
BO JACKSON 69
ARCHIE GRIFFIN 144
BILLY SIMS 144
BOB GRIESE 144
BOB LILLY 144
BRUCE MATTHEWS 144
BUBBA SMITH 144
CHARLIE WARD 144
CRIS CARTER 144
DESMOND HOWARD 144
DICK ANDERSON 144
DICK BUTKUS 144
FRED BILETNIKOFF 144
HERSCHEL WALKER 144
IRVING FRYAR 144
JIM McMAHON 144
JOE GREENE 144
MIKE ROZIER 144
MIKE SINGLETARY 144
RANDY WHITE 144
STEVE SPURRIER 144
ALAN PAGE 194
ANTHONY CARTER 194
CARL ELLER 194
CHRIS SPIELMAN 194
CHUCK LONG 194
DAVE FOLEY 194
JAY NOVACEK 194
JIM PLUNKETT 194
KEITH BYARS 194
LORENZO WHITE 194
MARK MAY 194
MARTY LYONS 194
MIKE MONTLER 194
RANDY GRADISHAR 194
REGGIE McKENZIE 194
TONY MANDARICH 194
ANDRE WARE 194
GINO TORRETTA 194

brianwintersfan

<< <i>77 abox...is that good or bad? higher or lower? >>



Good price for hobby box

joestalin

wow only 4 Barry Sanders! I know of at least 2 guys going for the set.ahhhh thats going to be TOUGH!

You think there are more than 4 Ok St fans?? LOL

Kevin

duner

where'd the short print numbers come from? i know several are wrong. for instance i have a lawrence taylor refractor auto that's numbered to /55....which means there's also like base auto's too. same with the jake scott, fouts, lott, and i'm sure several others.

I've even seen a namath that's not numbered....meaning there's likely other variations that are numbered.
there's also a bo jackson/jim brown numbered to 25....but haven't seen any brown single autos

I'm not sure the exact numbers, but i'm willing to be there's far more than 144 autos of the most common cards too.

dirtystarfish

How many packs are in this box?

How many packs?

WinPitcher

This box comes factory sealed and contains retail 8 packs with 6 cards in each pack.



Different then a hobby box................no?

SD

envoy98

<< <i>where'd the short print numbers come from? i know several are wrong. for instance i have a lawrence taylor refractor auto that's numbered to /55....which means there's also like base auto's too. same with the jake scott, fouts, lott, and i'm sure several others.

I've even seen a namath that's not numbered....meaning there's likely other variations that are numbered.
there's also a bo jackson/jim brown numbered to 25....but haven't seen any brown single autos

I'm not sure the exact numbers, but i'm willing to be there's far more than 144 autos of the most common cards too. >>



Apparently it was announced by Topps. Here's where I saw it.

Edited to fix the link.

LINK

joestalin

These are only for the base autos. All of the chromes in groups A/B are numbered to just 5, all the others are numbered to 55. Duals are
numbered to 25.

They only give the numbers for the short prints cards, all the others have plentiful print runs

Kevin

ArchStanton

The Elway was in the 1st pack I opened. These are all of the refractors and ink that came from the retail box.

duner

stalin, I'm confused....for example, if it says 44; that means there's 44 signed unnumbered cards plus the others ie. chrome refractors etc? if that's the case, many of the unnumbered cards have a smaller population than the /55 refractors that accompany them......that doesn't make any sense.

joestalin

Actually in most sets like this the base card is more valuable than the refractor version. You are right, there are more refractor autos
than base for all the group c players. This is the only exception besides the Barry Sanders.

The short prints will prove to be great sellers. These numbers are pretty limited, even at 144. This set has huge upside!


Kevin

ArchStanton

Okay. I'm lost. Are there base cards that are short printed? If so, which cards?

Yes, I am always this slow.