2013 Panini USA Baseball Champions

NickM

I cannot recommend this set strongly enough. MSRP was $72 for 24-pack hobby boxes. Many of the larger wax dealers are selling it considerably cheaper (DA blew their stock out at $40 a box plus shipping, BO has it on special right now at around $50).

The average box will yield 3 autos and 3 relics, plus 4 numbered parallels, 6 SPs, several other inserts, and most of a base set (123 cards, not the 125 it says on the box - 2 were never printed).

Lots of the autos are prospects, some still in high school or college, but veteran auto content includes stuff up to McGwire and Frank Thomas.

I have bought and busted 8 boxes of this myself, and have been thrilled with the results. I have 3 of the Mirror Gold #/25 parallels, 3 autos #/25 (including a Michael Wacha), several other nice autos including Jameson Taillon and Jason Varitek (he's a redemption), and a great jumbo patch #/10 of Robert Refsnyder that looks like pieces of either two letters or two numbers.

This product is the best value for your money in the market currently IMO.

Nick

slum22

Thanks for the heads up. This may be something I get for my son to rip. I don't generally collect too much modern stuff and I usually buy unopened material and keep it that way, but kids love ripping stuff and this sure beats $20 for no hits in a retail blaster.

Steve