This post is terribly overdue. I’ve been insanely busy, and I’ve had the box that Topher sent me sitting next to my scanner for far too long. Anyway, since Ginter got pushed back this year, and because we all just need to bust something every once in a while, he was having a little 10 box mixer, with random products from the past decade or two. These are the goodies I got for my Red Sox slot.
I’ve been slowly adding to my Brock Holt collection over the past month or so. I’ve had a bit of trouble getting my hands on the harder to find cards (Bowman /25 refractors, etc) since he got called up a couple weeks ago. I had several auction bids in for things, ranging from $0.99 to a couple dollars only to have sellers pull the cards and relist them starting at $60+. I guess making it to the big show will probably do that. So, what interesting cards did I add to the collection?
Pat from Hot Corner Cards and I did a little PWE exchange last week. He sent a couple cards I needed for my Gypsy Queen set and I sent a couple Tigers his way. Here’s my half.
The three GQ cards I needed. Kevin Milwood for the “No-Hitters” insert set, CarGo and Austin Jackson for the “Sliding Stars” set. Check and check.
That wasn’t all. Pat also snuck in a nice Iglesias emerald sparkly.
Thanks for the quick trade Pat!
When I say things like “I’ll post about that tomorrow” and then don’t deliver it actually ticks me off a bit. Alas, life is busy and things happen. Also, no one probably cares, so, that’s an upside. What I have today, and what I should have had 4 days ago, is a box break of 2013 Panini Golden Age Baseball.
Just like calling A&G a “baseball product” is a bit of a stretch, so to is Golden Age Baseball. Yes, there are plenty of baseball players in it. Even one of the sub-sets is about the Bad News Bears. There are also a whole range of other athletes as well as celebrities and actors.
That said, I do love retro products and this one was no exception. The checklist is fun while not being overly crowded. The relics are neat. The card quality is excellent. It has minis. What else could you want? Let’s crack this open…
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So, surprise, I’ve got some boxes to bust! I was the winner of Panini’s “Find it Friday” contest and they sent me two awesome hobby boxes of cards. I received a box of 2013 Panini Prestige Football and a box of 2013 Panini Golden Age. I busted them seperately, and I’ll post the Golden Age box tomorrow, but for today we’ve got an epic box of Prestige Football.
Disclaimer: I’m probably the least qualifies person to be opening a box of football cards. Baseball is my thing, I make no claims to being knowledgeable about football at all. I’ll sit down and watch football on a random Sunday in the fall, but I don’t follow any teams, I don’t have any football in my personal collection and outside a couple random players, I’m more or less clueless. As you’ll see in the video, I even manage to butcher Kevin Kolbs name (I thought this whole time Kolb was spelled Cobb, doh!). Scans after the break of my biggest person pull ever.
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