2009 Ballpark Collection Box Break
As most of you know I write for the Upper Deck Blog week to week (lately bi-weekly because of the Yankees games) and I got my box of fun from them yesterday. This installment was a 2009 Ballpark Collection box. Normally I wouldn’t be able to afford such a high end product so this was very exciting for me to open. Though it was only 4 packs, I opened them very slowly to to enjoy it for as long as possible.
Pack 2:
I wanted to buy this card on eBay so bad, and did a jig when I saw it. Hi Adam!
I am considering burning this card…
Pack 3:
Holler @ the Hamiltonian…
Pack 4:
Nick Swisher.
If anyone has something from this set, SP Authentic, or Triple Threads that they might be interested in trading for any of these please let me know.
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I'm puzzled why a 2009 product has Manny still in a Red Sox uniform when he's been gone for two years. For $50 a pack, I would expect up-to-date cards and a little more than white and gray swatches.
Opening stuff like this when you normally can't is a blast. I got to open a box of Bowman Sterling basketball that I got from Topps when I sent them a damaged card and I had a blast opening that.
Upper Deck produces some beautiful cards at times, but everything they do seems to be so overpriced. It seems like I can't buy any of it until the price drops a year after it comes out. I love it when the price drops on stuff like 2007 Elements and I can pick up a box.
Congrats on the gig writing for Upper Deck. I've enjoyed the articles even if some of them have been a little Yankee-centric for my taste.
I would be pissed with those auto's. Swisher…pfff.
That is a tough break. Wow, um, yeah, that's a terrible product for that kind of cash, but as we all know, nothing beats the low low cost of free.
Nice, Hamilton. 🙂
Off to search for Pujols.
That Mozart card is kind of creeping me out though.
You didn't tell me you got that Jeter!
Btw, they also have Thome in a Phillies uni.
But it was fun breaking even if I was on gmail.
Oh noes, I need to find you something good to save David Ortiz from getting burned!
Dang, maybe I need to find about five something goods, in case the one with Hanley or the other one with Ortiz give you pyromaniacal tendencies for any reason.
Thome in a Phillies uniform is ridiculous. That jersey is at least four years old.
There isn't much in there that I liked, but I enjoyed opening a high end box since that isn't something I get to do ever.
Swisher auto is terrible, but I also bought an Adam Lind auto so I don't think I would find anyone else I'd like from this set other than a Jeter auto if he is in this set. Pujols and Cano sign for Topps.
Boy, that was just full of Sox sprinkled in everywhere. You must have loved it! 🙂
I have a Pablo Sandoval by the letter from SP that I'd give up for one of those Markakis relics…I could probably add to it if need be.
Aaron, I don't collect Pablo Sandoval. If you have one of the guys I collect we can work something out.
I'm going to take a look and see what I've got, I know I have a giant pile of YSL cards that I would really like to never see again…