Well last Saturday I decided to get a couple of boxes. I ordered them from www.Dacardworld.com. They have become the place that I buy boxes from, unless it is at a show. I ordered a box of 2012 Topps Heritage a box of 2011 Topps Series 2. I order the Topps because I still need quite a few cards to complete my set. Total cost of boxes plus shipping $118.These were probably the two of best boxes that I have had. So here is what I got:
Topps 2011 Series 2: (36 pack box)
Base cards- got all but 2 of the cards that I needed (still need 552, 554)
9 Kimball Champions-Boggs, Bench, Feller, B. Robinson, F. Robinson, Rizzuto, Gwynn, Biggio, Maddux Topps 60- Walter Johnson, Bautista, Mel Ott, Carpenter, Mauer, Castro, Maddux, Carlos Gonzalez,
Gold Parallel- Garza, Sogard, Leake,Belt
Diamond Stars- Votto, Hanley Ramirez, Heyward, Cabrera, Holliday, Howard
60 Years of Topps- Ed Matthews, Killebrew, Yastrzemski, Bench, Ryan, Gary Carter, Palmer, Ripken, Schilling, Jeter, Pujols, Posey
60 Years of Topps Original Back- David Ortiz
Diamond Duos- Gonzalez-Crawford, Uggla-Heyward, Beltre-Andrus, Chapman-Sele, Halladay-Hernandez, Price-Lester, Johnson-Verlander, Pujols-Holliday, Koufax-Kershaw
Before There Was Topps- Gum Inc., Exhibit Supply Company
Topps Diamond Parallel- Berra, Burrell, Hawpe, Zimmerman, Teahen, Fontenot, Smoak, Schumaker, Freese, Hundley
Topps 60 Relic- Mark Teixeira
Framed Silk Collection- Adrian Gonzalez 42/50
Magenta Printing Plate-1/1 Barry Enright #386
That is the first 1/1 that I have pulled.
On the Topps Heritage Box I won't give a complete breakdown right now as I haven't had time to look at SP and all that so I will give you the highlights.
3 Stickers- Cruz, Kinsler, Ortiz
Heritage Chrome- Ervin Santna, Jacoby Ellsbury, Ian Kennedy
News Flashbacks-Kennedy (Camelot, Berliner) Koufax, Aaron
New Age Performers- Votto, Lincecum
Then & Now-Koufax-Kershaw, Matthews-Bautista
Clubhouse Collection Relic- Hunter Pence
and the pull of the box (pull of the case from what I have read
A redemption Card- 1963 Mint Quarter of Mickey Mantle
I will try to update the Heritage with SP cards, just need to find a list of them.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
A few new packs...
Well I checked out the new card shop on Saturday. I had to work and then went bowling. There is a new card shop next to it. So I decided to stop in. I wasn't overly impressed. Lots of autos for sale, lots of Jordans, not alot of packs or vintage.
I did buy 3 packs of 2012 Topps and 2012 Topps Heritage each. I didn't pull much, I think I had 2 of the 2012 Topps that I didn't already have. Nothing special in the Heritage, but I do like the Heritage cards. In fact I bought a box from DAcardworld.com that I am looking forward to opening.
I did buy 3 packs of 2012 Topps and 2012 Topps Heritage each. I didn't pull much, I think I had 2 of the 2012 Topps that I didn't already have. Nothing special in the Heritage, but I do like the Heritage cards. In fact I bought a box from DAcardworld.com that I am looking forward to opening.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Introduction
I will be updating my purchases for sports cards on this blog. Both new and vintage cards. I am creating this so that I can keep track of how much some of my cards cost me. Then I can look back later and decide if I made good or bad purchases.
A little background on my collecting history. I started collecting cards as a child, at the age of 6 or seven. I started with baseball and basketball. I would stick to mostly Topps and Hoops for a few years and then collected some Fleer, Upper Deck, and Donruss. Around '94, I got out of collecting and I was only buying a few packs a year. Then right about '02-03 I started collecting again, I was making a little money with a 10hr. job. I was sticking to mostly basketball. During the '03-'04 season (Lebron's rookie year) I really started getting back in, buying multiple boxes. Around this time I also started a collection of Jason Kidd cards. He was my favorite NBA player since his rookie year. Then my buying of boxes and packs went down and I started focusing more on my Kidd collections.
In 2009, I started getting back into collecting baseball again as well, focusing on Topps and Topps Heritage. I have stopped collecting basketball except for Jason Kidd, and a few packs here and there.
In August of 2010, I purchase about 2000 cards from one of my parents' friend. I paid $7000 dollars for these. In the collection were cards from 1952-1971, and then some big Donruss cards from the '80s. The majority of these cards were in the 1954-1957 years and then 1971. The majority of the cards are Topps with a decent number of Bowman.
Since this purchase I have enjoyed adding to this collection including completing the 1954 Topps series. I am currently working on completing the 1955, 1956, 1957 Topps complete sets.
Here is my current progress on all sets up to 1958:
Topps 1952 48/487 10%
Topps 1953 138/274 50%
Topps 1954 250/250 100%
Topps 1955 196/206 95%
Topps 1956 305/340 90%
Topps 1957 149/407 37%
Topps 1958 108/534 20%
Topps 1959 52/572 9%
Topps 1960 9/572 2%
Topps 1961 13/587 2%
Topps 1962 6/689 1%
Topps 1963 2/576 .3%
Topps 1971 280/752 37%
Bowman Color 1953 128/160 80%
Bowman B/W 1953 35/64 55%
Bowman 1954 223/225 99% (Two #66, different players)
Bowman 1955 267/320 83%
A little background on my collecting history. I started collecting cards as a child, at the age of 6 or seven. I started with baseball and basketball. I would stick to mostly Topps and Hoops for a few years and then collected some Fleer, Upper Deck, and Donruss. Around '94, I got out of collecting and I was only buying a few packs a year. Then right about '02-03 I started collecting again, I was making a little money with a 10hr. job. I was sticking to mostly basketball. During the '03-'04 season (Lebron's rookie year) I really started getting back in, buying multiple boxes. Around this time I also started a collection of Jason Kidd cards. He was my favorite NBA player since his rookie year. Then my buying of boxes and packs went down and I started focusing more on my Kidd collections.
In 2009, I started getting back into collecting baseball again as well, focusing on Topps and Topps Heritage. I have stopped collecting basketball except for Jason Kidd, and a few packs here and there.
In August of 2010, I purchase about 2000 cards from one of my parents' friend. I paid $7000 dollars for these. In the collection were cards from 1952-1971, and then some big Donruss cards from the '80s. The majority of these cards were in the 1954-1957 years and then 1971. The majority of the cards are Topps with a decent number of Bowman.
Since this purchase I have enjoyed adding to this collection including completing the 1954 Topps series. I am currently working on completing the 1955, 1956, 1957 Topps complete sets.
Here is my current progress on all sets up to 1958:
Topps 1952 48/487 10%
Topps 1953 138/274 50%
Topps 1954 250/250 100%
Topps 1955 196/206 95%
Topps 1956 305/340 90%
Topps 1957 149/407 37%
Topps 1958 108/534 20%
Topps 1959 52/572 9%
Topps 1960 9/572 2%
Topps 1961 13/587 2%
Topps 1962 6/689 1%
Topps 1963 2/576 .3%
Topps 1971 280/752 37%
Bowman Color 1953 128/160 80%
Bowman B/W 1953 35/64 55%
Bowman 1954 223/225 99% (Two #66, different players)
Bowman 1955 267/320 83%
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