Funny you should ask that. I swear to God, not having my Retail case in is going to cost me a mint. I got another box today and the results were less than inspiring. OK, they were crap. How's this?
The really unbelievable part was the other local shop near me that I bought this box from called to say he did have a box available, but that he had just sold a case to a customer that was a hot case. 24 Autos and the Jim Edmonds sketch card out of the rip card. I tried to pry it out of the fellow that pulled it, but he wouldn't budge. I shouldn't have purchased another box there.
I went home and decided to go by the comic shop near home that sold individual packs. I bought another 5 to prove to myself to stop buying until I get my shipment. Another time to say crap to myself.
I still think it's going to cost me money not having my stuff to rip.
<< <i>Good Luck Jason, I hope we can make some trades this year!
Kevin >>
You bet Kevin, I'm really looking forward to getting plenty of trades done with all you guys.
I opened half of my case last night, and the highlights were:
Misty May Treanor auto - To eBay unless anyone here has a strong interest Piazza /99 rip card - Haven't ripped it yet, but I think I probably will Some snake, a duplicate Emperor (Marcus Aurelius), and a stack of minis I have yet to go through.
Fantastic looking cards, but I'd say a so-so case so far...
Why would they need a Mother Theresa expert? The card was pulled from a case at the National and immediatly taken to Beckett to be graded. It came from a Dave and Adams case.
I don't know, I suppose I was just being cynical. I'm assuming not just card collectors would be after it and a little bit of blind faith (sorry, I had to do it) would be necessary. The assumption that it's authentic coming from Topps and than what process does the grader go through to say "yes, it's authentic" so quickly? Does somebody that deals with sports cards really know? I would just think that something like this might take a bit, that's all.
Kurt, nice pull on the A. Rod. Lockwood said he would probably be shipping out the retial cases on the 10th so hopefully we'll have them by the middle of next week.
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5 Stephen Drew, Arizona Diamondbacks SS 43 Scott Rolen, St. Louis Cardinals 3B 48 Gary Matthews, Angels OF 58 Mike Mussina, New York Yankees P 63 Bengie Molina, San Francisco Giants C 107 Jason Varitek, Boston Red Sox C 110 Michael Young, Texas Rangers SS 119 Hunter Pence, Houston Astros OF 130 Jason Schmidt, Los Angeles Dodgers P 137 Jason Isringhausen, St. Louis Cardinals P 152 Carlos Lee, Houston Astros OF 159 Michael Barrett, Chicago Cubs C 178 Juan Pierre, Los Angeles Dodgers OF 193 Rich Hill, Chicago Cubs P 194 Francisco Cordero, Milwaukee Brewers P 203 Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers P 219 Dan Uggla, Florida Marlins 2B 222 Rocco Baldelli, Tampa Bay Devil Rays OF 224 Josh Bard, San Diego Padres C 243 Brad Hawpe, Colorado Rockies OF 263 Jim Edmonds, St. Louis Cardinals OF 301 Chris Duncan, St. Louis Cardinals OF 302 Augie Garrido, Champion Baseball Coach 303 Tyler Clippard, New York Yankees P 306 Morgan Ensberg, Houston Astros 3B 307 J.J. Hardy, Milwaukee Brewers SS 308 Mark Zupan, U.S. Quadriplegic Rugby Captain 309 Laila Ali, Boxing Champion 310 Greg Maddux, San Diego Padres P 316 Dan O'Brien, Decathlon Champion 317 Michael Bourn, Philadelphia Phillies OF 318 Jonny Gomes, Tampa Bay Devil Rays OF 319 Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! Champion 320 Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants OF 321 Gary Hall Jr., Swimming Champion 322 Kerri Walsh, Beach Volleyball Champion 325 Grady Sizemore, Cleveland Indians OF 326 Alex Rios, Toronto Blue Jays OF 327 Ted Toles, Pittsburgh Crawfords Pitcher & Outfielder 330 Bob Geren, Oakland Athletics OF 331 Dennis Rodman, Basketball Champion 334 Gustavo Molina, Chicago White Sox C 335 Bartolo Colon, Angels P 336 Misty May-Treanor, Beach Volleyball Champion 339 Jason McElwain, Greece Athena Trojans Manager & Player 340 Placido Polanco, Detroit Tigers 2B 345 Sammy Sosa, Texas Rangers DH 348 Roger Clemens, New York Yankees P 349 Jesse Litsch, Toronto Blue Jays P 350 Adam LaRoche, Pittsburgh Pirates 1B
<< <i>Kurt, nice pull on the A. Rod. Lockwood said he would probably be shipping out the retial cases on the 10th so hopefully we'll have them by the middle of next week. >>
<< <i>I don't know, I suppose I was just being cynical. I'm assuming not just card collectors would be after it and a little bit of blind faith (sorry, I had to do it) would be necessary. The assumption that it's authentic coming from Topps and than what process does the grader go through to say "yes, it's authentic" so quickly? Does somebody that deals with sports cards really know? I would just think that something like this might take a bit, that's all. >>
If you are refering to how quickly they stated the autograph is authentic. From what I understand... Beckett's "Authentic" grade doesn't have anything to do with the signature, only the card. So technically they are slabbing the card and stating that the overall card itself is authentic. I am almost positive that's the way they work, but if I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
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I gave $419 a case, which is substantially cheaper than hobby, but retail does have it's downside: 8 boxes/case, 1 less card per pack, no rip card, no wood minis, and one hit per box instead of two.
Ive seen some retail busts over on beckett, so far nothing that great. I hope you all land some nice stuff. I want to say that there were woods in retail last year!
So I was reading this thread and it started to get me pumped up for modern cards. The only modern pack I've opened in the last 15 years are three packs of Topps Heritage. I about a hour ago I went to Target to see if they had A&G. I went directly to the cards, and Nothing. I them proceded to back of the store to grab some Ultra Pro 9 pocket sheets (they keep the 65 page packs in the back with the non sport cards) then proceded to the checkout. As I got closer I saw two very nice grey haired lady's over at the sports cards. BINGO, they just put up Fleer Ultra and fresh boxes of A&G. I only bought two boxes so keep your fingers crossed.
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Kevin - I just went through the SPs I set aside based on your first list, and that is the same exact list that you posted earlier in the thread based on the cards I set aside, so where was your mistake?
newbe question, don't shoot me. What's with the different color stock?? Does that mean anything?? Some are really light and some darker. I have a checklist that seems to be about half as thick as the normal cards. It feels like an 80's OPC. Again, take it easy on me these are the first modern boxes I busted in 15 years.
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Found 4 blaster boxes today, 10 retail packs and another hobby box that was seperated into packs and hung up so no box topper but atleast I got all 24 packs.
This stuff is getting real hard to find around here.
It'll be nice not to see the Perez cards in every pack. I'm gonna start using those as cardboard protectors around the real cards i mail out.
Just opened two more hobby boxes. Cards of note were a "Mule" Miles SP auto and a Stanley Glenn Bazooka back /25. GU were Nick Swisher and someone else.
I PULLED A WASHINGTON MONUMENT NO NUMBER ON BACK WHITE MINI. sorry for caps. is that only numbered to 50? i listed it on ebay as that. just want to make sure im not misleading?
<< <i>Zep, for some reason the page breaks don't seem to transfer over when you save it like that. there should be a page break after line 52 and line 104. >>
I see, I wasn't printing it, just looking at it. It printed just fine - thanks again
<< <i>people are still listing the dk perez cards as 1/1.. and they are selling high. gonna be some pi$$ed off buyers. >>
I've been trying to email high bidders in those auctions and letting them know there getting had. Think I've done it 6 or 7 times so far and not one reply to say thanks.
10 packs of retail: 7 reg minis 1 flag - russia 2 AG minis - Pujols Prince Fielder bat
4 Blasters: In 1 blaster, 3 packs had 2 reg minis in them - first I'd seen that and one of those packs with 2 had a Jeremy Hermida auto 1 black mini out of all 4 blasters - no # 22 reg minis 4 flags 1 emperor and other hit was a Marcus Giles jersey
Tony Larussa cyan printing plate Ivan Rodriguez jersey Scott Rolen jersey 3 black minis w/# 6 AG mini (first time I've seen more than 5) 13 reg mini (Okajima) 2 flags (US)
and only 21 Perez 1/1 cards - best part of getting the 3 hits
Well I opened two blaster boxes from Target tonight 2 black mini w/#'s 7 reg minis 4 A&G Minis 2 flags (Peru) (Argentina 1 snake (Copperhead) I guess these are a little hard to pull. One Arod road to 500 (250)
Tomorrow I'm going to grab 2 more boxes I'm going for a base set only, so if anyone wants to trade let me know
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I finally located some retail A&G and came up with these numbers. They were pretty easy to figure out using a bit of algebra. Serial numbering helps too!
There are 1,225,000 hobby packs or 51,041 boxes or 4253 cases.
There are 726,528 retail packs. This will include across the entire retail print run: 2 George Washington Hair relics 6 Pujols Autos 11 of each group B 12 Frazier Autos 23 each group D 26 each group E 2 cuts 6 Arod 500 HR 1/1 Autos.
Pretty scarce if you are looking for ink at target!
I think if you pull one of the bigger autos in retail you did very well. Hobby autos were very hard to pull and that only funneled down to retail, but I think we need to also remember that there seemed to be some packaging errors, especially in hobby that make is possible to crush the odds. We already saw that two minis in a pack made the packing machine cough up an auto!
I felt Kurt's longing and couldn't wait for lockwood's order (2 cases) so i made a run to target and like Kevin, helped them out by opening their shipping boxes to find some star wars blasters, but also 5 a&g blaster. Resisted the urge and just bought one.
got 1 snake (coral) 1 black mini 1 a&g mini 1 flag mini 4 minis (1 was sp 330)
and 1 stupid a-rod
I see the retail have those really flimsy checklist cards. oh yeah i forgot, I got 4 perez's....but hey, they're all 1/1's what are the chances!!??
They still have two boxes of picked-through heritage packs so i picked one up, and the hit was yet another a-rod. oh the humanity!
If anyone collects those a-rods, shoot me a pm, i still have a bunch from heritage.
Thats now the second snake we've seen in retail....are they easier in retail? Kevin, what are the pull rates on the snakes? unannounced?
That's funny about Arod being last card in your packs. Every Arod I got was followed by an Alex Gordon and Gordon was the last card in my packs
Also got a Jack The ripper after every groundhog day in the hobby boxes but no ripper after groundhog in the blasters.
noticed quite a few patterns while opening the case but those stuck out the most. and even had the same patterns in the other hobby boxes I got from other stores.
Yeah I noticed that with the A. Rods in the retail I've opened, always the last card. I've had three packs so far that have had two minis, each was out of a different blaster.
I went to the local wally world and they had 8 boxes of blasters, but I only bought one. I pulled 2 a&g backs Konerko and Joe Frazier I pulled a Willis Jersey and regular cards of Bruce Lee and that rookie pitcher from San Fran. Not too bad. I am gonna pass on this years set. I am saving my money for Sport Kings.
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Funny you should ask that. I swear to God, not having my Retail case in is going to cost me a mint. I got another box today and the results were less than inspiring. OK, they were crap. How's this?
The really unbelievable part was the other local shop near me that I bought this box from called to say he did have a box available, but that he had just sold a case to a customer that was a hot case. 24 Autos and the Jim Edmonds sketch card out of the rip card. I tried to pry it out of the fellow that pulled it, but he wouldn't budge. I shouldn't have purchased another box there.
I went home and decided to go by the comic shop near home that sold individual packs. I bought another 5 to prove to myself to stop buying until I get my shipment. Another time to say crap to myself.
I still think it's going to cost me money not having my stuff to rip.
Kurt
How can they authenticate so quickly?
Did they get on the Bat phone to the resident Mother Teresa authority?
<< <i>Good Luck Jason, I hope we can make some trades this year!
Kevin >>
You bet Kevin, I'm really looking forward to getting plenty of trades done with all you guys.
I opened half of my case last night, and the highlights were:
Misty May Treanor auto - To eBay unless anyone here has a strong interest
Piazza /99 rip card - Haven't ripped it yet, but I think I probably will
Some snake, a duplicate Emperor (Marcus Aurelius), and a stack of minis I have yet to go through.
Fantastic looking cards, but I'd say a so-so case so far...
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5 Stephen Drew, Arizona Diamondbacks SS
43 Scott Rolen, St. Louis Cardinals 3B
48 Gary Matthews, Angels OF
58 Mike Mussina, New York Yankees P
63 Bengie Molina, San Francisco Giants C
107 Jason Varitek, Boston Red Sox C
110 Michael Young, Texas Rangers SS
119 Hunter Pence, Houston Astros OF
130 Jason Schmidt, Los Angeles Dodgers P
137 Jason Isringhausen, St. Louis Cardinals P
152 Carlos Lee, Houston Astros OF
159 Michael Barrett, Chicago Cubs C
178 Juan Pierre, Los Angeles Dodgers OF
193 Rich Hill, Chicago Cubs P
194 Francisco Cordero, Milwaukee Brewers P
203 Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers P
219 Dan Uggla, Florida Marlins 2B
222 Rocco Baldelli, Tampa Bay Devil Rays OF
224 Josh Bard, San Diego Padres C
243 Brad Hawpe, Colorado Rockies OF
263 Jim Edmonds, St. Louis Cardinals OF
301 Chris Duncan, St. Louis Cardinals OF
302 Augie Garrido, Champion Baseball Coach
303 Tyler Clippard, New York Yankees P
306 Morgan Ensberg, Houston Astros 3B
307 J.J. Hardy, Milwaukee Brewers SS
308 Mark Zupan, U.S. Quadriplegic Rugby Captain
309 Laila Ali, Boxing Champion
310 Greg Maddux, San Diego Padres P
316 Dan O'Brien, Decathlon Champion
317 Michael Bourn, Philadelphia Phillies OF
318 Jonny Gomes, Tampa Bay Devil Rays OF
319 Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! Champion
320 Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants OF
321 Gary Hall Jr., Swimming Champion
322 Kerri Walsh, Beach Volleyball Champion
325 Grady Sizemore, Cleveland Indians OF
326 Alex Rios, Toronto Blue Jays OF
327 Ted Toles, Pittsburgh Crawfords Pitcher & Outfielder
330 Bob Geren, Oakland Athletics OF
331 Dennis Rodman, Basketball Champion
334 Gustavo Molina, Chicago White Sox C
335 Bartolo Colon, Angels P
336 Misty May-Treanor, Beach Volleyball Champion
339 Jason McElwain, Greece Athena Trojans Manager & Player
340 Placido Polanco, Detroit Tigers 2B
345 Sammy Sosa, Texas Rangers DH
348 Roger Clemens, New York Yankees P
349 Jesse Litsch, Toronto Blue Jays P
350 Adam LaRoche, Pittsburgh Pirates 1B
<< <i>Kurt, nice pull on the A. Rod. Lockwood said he would probably be shipping out the retial cases on the 10th so hopefully we'll have them by the middle of next week. >>
What price range were retail cases going for?
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<< <i>I don't know, I suppose I was just being cynical. I'm assuming not just card collectors would be after it and a little bit of blind faith (sorry, I had to do it) would be necessary. The assumption that it's authentic coming from Topps and than what process does the grader go through to say "yes, it's authentic" so quickly? Does somebody that deals with sports cards really know? I would just think that something like this might take a bit, that's all. >>
If you are refering to how quickly they stated the autograph is authentic. From what I understand... Beckett's "Authentic" grade doesn't have anything to do with the signature, only the card. So technically they are slabbing the card and stating that the overall card itself is authentic. I am almost positive that's the way they work, but if I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
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were woods in retail last year!
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I about a hour ago I went to Target to see if they had A&G. I went directly to the cards, and Nothing. I them proceded to back of the store to grab some Ultra Pro 9 pocket sheets (they keep the 65 page packs in the back with the non sport cards) then proceded to the checkout. As I got closer I saw two very nice grey haired lady's over at the sports cards. BINGO, they just put up Fleer Ultra and fresh boxes of A&G. I only bought two boxes so keep your fingers crossed.
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Adrain Gonzalez 341
PT Barnum 26
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Jim Thome 233
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Curt Schilling 126
Jim Thome 233
Jose Vidro 145
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What's with the different color stock?? Does that mean anything??
Some are really light and some darker. I have a checklist that seems to be about half as thick as the normal cards. It feels like an 80's OPC.
Again, take it easy on me these are the first modern boxes I busted in 15 years.
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Results to follow!
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24 packs
black minis (1:5) 5
A&G Back minis (1:5) 6
Flags (1:12) 3
Mini SP's (1:13) 3
Relics...Trot Nixon Bat
1 Emperor
Arod HR (1:24) 2
Kevin
This stuff is getting real hard to find around here.
It'll be nice not to see the Perez cards in every pack. I'm gonna start using those as cardboard protectors around the real cards i mail out.
I think you should just be able to right click it and hit "save target as"
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thanks for taking the time to do it
Many Refs, just ask.
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<< <i>Zep, for some reason the page breaks don't seem to transfer over when you save it like that. there should be a page break after line 52 and line 104. >>
I see, I wasn't printing it, just looking at it. It printed just fine - thanks again
<< <i>people are still listing the dk perez cards as 1/1.. and they are selling high. gonna be some pi$$ed off buyers. >>
I've been trying to email high bidders in those auctions and letting them know there getting had. Think I've done it 6 or 7 times so far and not one reply to say thanks.
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7 reg minis
1 flag - russia
2 AG minis - Pujols
Prince Fielder bat
4 Blasters:
In 1 blaster, 3 packs had 2 reg minis in them - first I'd seen that and one of those packs with 2 had a Jeremy Hermida auto
1 black mini out of all 4 blasters - no #
22 reg minis
4 flags
1 emperor
and other hit was a Marcus Giles jersey
not bad for about the same price of a hobby box
Tony Larussa cyan printing plate
Ivan Rodriguez jersey
Scott Rolen jersey
3 black minis w/#
6 AG mini (first time I've seen more than 5)
13 reg mini (Okajima)
2 flags (US)
and only 21 Perez 1/1 cards - best part of getting the 3 hits
2 black mini w/#'s
7 reg minis
4 A&G Minis
2 flags (Peru) (Argentina
1 snake (Copperhead) I guess these are a little hard to pull.
One Arod road to 500 (250)
Tomorrow I'm going to grab 2 more boxes
I'm going for a base set only, so if anyone wants to trade let me know
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to figure out using a bit of algebra. Serial numbering helps too!
There are 1,225,000 hobby packs or 51,041 boxes or 4253 cases.
There are 726,528 retail packs. This will include across the entire retail print run:
2 George Washington Hair relics
6 Pujols Autos
11 of each group B
12 Frazier Autos
23 each group D
26 each group E
2 cuts
6 Arod 500 HR 1/1 Autos.
Pretty scarce if you are looking for ink at target!
Kevin
PS..Sorry black minis are 1:10 no 1:5
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1996 Select Certified Mirror Gold Ozzie Smith
2006 Bowman Chrome Orange Refractor Chris Carpenter
4 19.99 blaster boxes - 1 auto
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we need to also remember that there seemed to be some packaging errors, especially in hobby that make is possible to crush the odds. We already
saw that two minis in a pack made the packing machine cough up an auto!
Kevin
got 1 snake (coral)
1 black mini
1 a&g mini
1 flag mini
4 minis (1 was sp 330)
and 1 stupid a-rod
I see the retail have those really flimsy checklist cards. oh yeah i forgot, I got 4 perez's....but hey, they're all 1/1's what are the chances!!??
They still have two boxes of picked-through heritage packs so i picked one up, and the hit was yet another a-rod. oh the humanity!
If anyone collects those a-rods, shoot me a pm, i still have a bunch from heritage.
Thats now the second snake we've seen in retail....are they easier in retail? Kevin, what are the pull rates on the snakes? unannounced?
- jim
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I had two packs that had no minis.
I had one pack that had 9 total cards in it (7 regular, 1 Perez and 1 mini).
I had two 3 hit boxes and one 1 hit box. The 3 hit boxes both had an auto and 2 GU.
If a pack had an A-Rod in it, it was always the last card.
If a pack had Adam Wainwright in it, it also had Chris Carpenter.
1996 Select Certified Mirror Gold Ozzie Smith
2006 Bowman Chrome Orange Refractor Chris Carpenter
Also got a Jack The ripper after every groundhog day in the hobby boxes but no ripper after groundhog in the blasters.
noticed quite a few patterns while opening the case but those stuck out the most. and even had the same patterns in the other hobby boxes I got from other stores.
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