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Players you can't get away from

WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
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For those that rip modern packs, are there certain lesser-name players that you seem to pull over and over, regardless of brand or set? I rip modern football and seem to get far too many of Justin Blackmon, Josh Freeman, and Darren McFadden. In fact, when I ripped a 2013 Score jumbo hobby box, the one veteran auto was Justin Blackmon. And with Josh Freeman, I not only pull a lot of his cards, most are him in those orange Bucco Bruce throwback Tampa Bay jerseys! image

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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Hilarious. I've ripped 4 jumbo rack packs of 3014 Heritage baseball, and keep getting yunel Escobar and wade Miley
  • mcolney1mcolney1 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭
    As a kid in the 70's who loved ripping football cards I could almost guarantee that every other pack I was going to pull a Rockne Freitas, Myron Pottios, and/or Walt Sweeney. It would take a full week of ripping and then some to pull a Namath, Simpson or Staubach! My buddy and I swore that there were Topps employees that were pulling all the good cards before they went into packs!
    Collecting Topps, Philadelphia and Kellogg's from 1964-1989
  • DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
    Somehow I always seem to get Uggla, Holliday and LaRoche cards; and of course I don't collect any of them. image
    "A full mind is an empty bat." Ty Cobb

    Currently collecting 1934 Butterfinger, 1969 Nabisco, 1991 Topps Desert Shield (in PSA 9 or 10), and 1990 Donruss Learning Series (in PSA 10).
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    For early 80s rips, I can't seem to NOT pull a Goose Gossage.
  • cwazzycwazzy Posts: 3,257 ✭
    I had a two year stretch in the mid-90s where I always pulled Frank Thomas cards. Nothing of value but if he was in a cheap insert set I pulled him.
    Chris
    My small collection
    Want List:
    '61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
    Cardinal T206 cards
    Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
  • Gemyanks10Gemyanks10 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭
    1980 Topps baseball...Al Bumbry and Jim Bibby in every pack. It sure seems that certain cards are more shortprinted than others.


    Jimmy
    Always looking for OPC "tape intact" baseball wax boxes, and 1984 OPC baseball PSA 10's for my set. Please PM or email me if you have any available.
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Early 70s, Dick Bosman, all the time.
  • psychumppsychump Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭
    Every pack it seems had Jose bleepin' Oquendo and being a Giants fan we ripped up every card of him and filled up Hefty bags. The early Upper Deck Oquendos are probably a short print now. He killed the Giants and we STILL see him coaching first base on the Cardinals!image
    Tallulah Bankhead — 'There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.'
  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 990 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I seemed to pull Andrew Miller out of every high end product after it seemed he wasn't going to be the stud everyone said he was going to be. It's funny the Wade Miley comment above as he haunts me currently.
    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • jrbolesjrboles Posts: 566 ✭✭
    1981 Topps - Matt Alexander


  • slum22slum22 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭✭
    I cannot get away from Mark Texeira. I think I have him in nearly every product I have opened. I don't really buy much modern product, in most cases maybe 2 or 3 retail rack packs or one blaster. I think I even bought one pack of 2012 Bowman Platinum and sure enough one of the four cards (I believe there were 4 cards in that product) was Mark Texeira.
    Steve
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mid 70s - Joe Kerrigan.
    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • oddityoddity Posts: 124 ✭✭
    Julio Franco
  • nflhofnflhof Posts: 189 ✭✭
    I remember this all too well, but it seemed every pack of 1974 Topps Baseball I opened I would find a Lee Lacy!
  • thehallmarkthehallmark Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭
    Ripped a LOT of 1989 Upper Deck as a kid hunting for Griffeys. Instead set a record for frequency of the Sandy Alomar Jr RC.
  • BigRedMachineBigRedMachine Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭
    Every modern hit for me will be a one color game used piece worn by Todd Helton.

    Or so it seems.
  • kevsayskevsays Posts: 25
    80's Football - Frank Minnifield.

    Late 80's Baseball - Dave Henderson… I'd always see oakland colors and the name Henderson…. get excited thinking it was Rickey…. only to see Dave starring at me. Griffey and Ripkin Sr.'s did the same thing to me.
  • vintagefunvintagefun Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭
    Just finished ripping a box of 2012 Heritage. Zimmerman as my game used. Which happens to resemble the game used I got from my 2013 box last week. I've got a 2011 box scheduled for next week, and if he's in there too, I'll be a bit creeped.

    image
    52-90 All Sports, Mostly Topps, Mostly HOF, and some assorted wax.
  • cardsfan73cardsfan73 Posts: 205
    Charlie Hough seemed to be following me for decades..
  • slum22slum22 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭✭
    I bought my son two 2012 Panini Basketball boxes from DACardworld for Xmas and each box came with two guaranteed autos. Each box yielded the same two players autographs. I got the same Bernard James auto card twice and I ended up with a Kyle Singler base auto and a Kyle Singler Rated Rookie auto. Luckily we had a Kobe patch card in the box but it was a bit of a disappointment to get the same two marginal players as my hits.
    Steve
  • WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
    Josh Freeman, now available in Vikings Purple! image Just pulled from a pack of 2013 Topps Strata:

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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Can't get away from Fouts! 3 different cards in my 82 rip tonight!
  • Nathaniel1960Nathaniel1960 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1987 Topps Todd Worrell.
    Kiss me once, shame on you.
    Kiss me twice.....let's party.
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