I smashed the retail odds to bits.
It should be assumed from this day forward that if I have left my house, I have probably returned with some baseball cards of some sort- trade, Target, eBay, etc. Well this time (and most other times) it was a Target kind of day. Over the past two days I have opened an embarrassing number of retail packs simply because I have been having fun with them and getting some decent hits.
Here were the hits:
And holy schnikeys!! Albert Pujols Old Mill game used jersey. Which I had to do a triple take to make sure I was really seeing what I was seeing. I was smiling and practically dancing after opening this.
Cycle /99 Bates, and Old Mill Fielder
NNO SP A-Rod
At this point I was ready to return the unopened packs because really, I didn’t think anything else could possible come out of the rest after hitting 2 “box hits” and a bunch of SP’s. However, as I was opening these packs I was talking to Flash on G-mail and the following conversation took place:
9:16 PM i opened 2 more packs.
AIR
me: see
Marie: i should return the rest
me: you really want to open air on your bday?
what if there’s a nno pujols?
Marie: sigh
fine. i shall keep them.
9:17 PM me: sucker
didn’t take much to convince you
9:18 PM you write your blog?
Marie: no ive been studying the spinal cord”
Mini Polar Bear Cervelli. Go Italy.
Boatload of mini cards.
For anyone debating on buying hobby packs, don’t bother it really didn’t make any difference in either my or Sooz’s pack breaks. I may have very close to a complete set of these cards, and I thought about going for it but since I am still 29 cards short of my OPC venture and like 6,000 short on YSL I can’t take on anything else. I love T206 and retract any former complaints.
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Very nice, this isn't a huge surprise on the retail of this product in my opinion, the original Mayo football had the same situation. Glad to see Topps throws retail a bone once or twice a year!
Nice!!! I'm not sure how I feel about the base set T206, but I LOVE the look of the relics. Good to know that retail is a viable option with this one.
It is safe to say that you have had a very good week then…awesome retail pulls!
Awesome pulls …
The Topps 206 arrived this week at the Concord, NH. While you're write-up made it very tempting… I'm not going to start collecting MLB until spring, and that style is not my cup of tea.
Keep the great posts coming!
Nice pulls.
I wish my Target had something newer than Updates & Highlights. Actually, no I don't… I already have too many cards lying around that I haven't sorted and put away.
An Albert Old Mill relic out of retail! Old Mill relics are 1 out of 1,1010 packs! Nice pull!
I have a page started for Topps 206 with a complete NNO SP list if anyone is interested.