2026 Topps Holiday: box 2 My Braves HOT BOX

 This one will be half the size of the post last night. 

I scan from each pack.... here we gooooooooooooooooooo.

Had to throw my first Braves pull. It is a base card.

Woo Hoo, my second Braves card. Unfortunately another disappointment for me was a total of 6 Braves cards in all three boxes. Two base cards, 2 red foil, and 2 green foil.

Three pack sin a row with a Braves. Lindor is obviously a Holiday SP.

What 4 packs in a row with a Braves card.  Teel is a back variation. You can see the Chrome too.

This pack didn't even have a good base card let alone the additional parallel card.

A blue parallel. DeLauter back variation.

The Holliday card is the base card.

Carroll is the Holiday SP variation.

There you go for my 5th Braves card in box #2. None in box 1, so box 3 had one for me too.

Have a great weekend.

You ain't gonna believe this.

 Then again....yes you will. We are used to this CRAP by now. I am talking about Topps gimmicks, tricks, and overall BS.

Last month was my birthday and a couple of my siblings gifted me money/gift card. I decided right away I would use those funds to take care of Topps Holiday and Update once they were released.

I pre-ordered three (3) Mega boxes of the Holiday 5 days later when they were available. Sure enough I got my 3 boxes on release day which was yesterday. A very small box containing all 3 was delivered to houses over by UPS, no biggie I still got them. Each box of the MEGA contained 10 packs with 10 cards each plus 1 over size ornament. Each box would also contain either a relic, auto, or a base chrome card. I was really looking forward to the latter. 

Just 2 of the boxes. the boxes had no unused space inside which is nice for a change.

The three OZ d/c ornament cards. There are other standard size ornaments again this year with stockings again,and I think gingerbread (not sure on that one).

Now for box one. I scanned all 100 cards. All 10 packs.

Pack 1:

Yes you see that correctly. Each pack (basically) gives you 3 three base cards, 1 other parallel usually the standard metallic/glitter (whatever they call it), 3 green foil, and 3 red foil cards. In essence, you are building three equally distributed per pack parallel sets. Here I thought 3 boxes would net me close to a full base set.....WRONG. 1/3 AT BEST!

next pack:

The Walker is NOT a base card it is an card back variation. The "difference is mainly around the border of the team logo on the back of the card, so stupid that I won't scan it. The are a total of 3 SP/SSP variations in each box.

pack 3:

pack 4:

pack 5

pack 6

Anthony is one of the regular Holiday Variations. Topps coded these ending in 006 and the back variations are 007. The standard base cards and the red and green parallels end in 977.

pack 7

Ah crap.. There is a Chrome base in this box meaning no relic or auto for me.

pack 8

Mookie is a back variation.

pack 9

box 10

Thanks a lot Topps. Now even 10 MEGA boxes isn't enough to build a complete 200 card base set. I should have stuck to my usual habit of just waiting it out and buying a cheap base set on EBay. (I may still do that just to complete the base set).

For boxes 2 and 3 (separate posts) I did NOT scan every card, just parallels for the most part and variations. Half the scans are gone. So those will be quickies that I'll do tomorrow and again on Tuesday.

I am so disappointed! I don't rip hardly any packs, and I was so looking forward to ripping these packs this year. But right from the first pack and definitively from the 2nd pack the wind was sucked right out of me. This was not good very bad. Now even after all 3 boxes were opened I didn't get any dupes, not a single one. But when you only get 3 cards (including the parallels) dupes would have made this so much worse, but alas no dupes of any kind at all across the board. NONE.

SPOILER ALERT:

1). I didn't get any relics or autos either. All three boxes had Topps Chrome SPs.

2) I have already gone to Ebay, found the cheapest complete set and made an offer and it was accepted. So for less than what I paid for just 2 of those Mega boxes I have the complete "regular" base set coming to me. I should have done that to begin with.

Wacky Wednesday

 Two more days and the World Series starts. It has already been a long October. Either winner will be a first, so that is nice. 

Hopefully these will tide you over.

Compliments from 1997 Upper Deck.

MDA and a Bet ya didn't know!

 Last month fellow OCTer Tim Morales offered up on our message board a complete set of 1991 Muscular Dystrophy baseball cards with the mini binder included. I waited for a half a day and no one jumped at the odd ball set, so I replied if no one else wants them I'll take them.

That is the binder above. You know the little mini booklets with standard size 4 pocket pages inside. This set is a 20 card set with two of the card unnumbered. The booklet had several more unfilled pages and I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe the booklets were pre-made and all that was needed was the front and back. Who knows.

4 PC guys.

Two more PC guys.

4 more PC guys one of which is also a b-day guy. Speaking of which, I finished the TCDB update on the b-day binders.

Four more for PC guys bringing the total to 14/20 (14/19). Yeah, I'm glad no one else was interested. I kept the set together as whole and placed it on top on my bookcases with the other odd ball stuff.

There was a 2nd MDA set produced the following year 1992. I checked one out on Ebay but didn't bite. It was like 7.00 plus 7 for shipping. I figure I'll catch one at a show for $5.00 one day. 

Now for the Bet ya didn't know. When I was a kid here in Ocala, my mom made me join a "singing group" The Little People (she made my sister Kathy too but she didn't really participate). This is NOT the "famous" group that came much much later. Believe it or not the group did quite a bit back in the day. In my tenure we sang at the White House, performed with Tanya Tucker, and to tie this to MDA, we even did a Jerry Lewis MDA telethon. I remember that well. My mom gathered lots and lots of autographs from famous singers of the day (I believe I still have them). Jerry himself was present which no where on the internet does it say he was ever in Florida in person, but I tell you he was. I think we were in Jacksonville, not positive on that as it could have been down south a bit. Anyways some "star" got really pissed off at Jerry because he had "our group" do an encore that bumped the star. Obviously that was not shown on t.v. but was live and up front to me and told them (the female star) tough.

Just Another Maddux Monday

 Hey, last week got a few more commenters and thus spreading the odds. However, LOL RJ wins again.  I think he secretly owns random.org....Just kidding Congrats RJ. 

This weeks freebies:

Hope your week has begun on the right path :)

Oh Boy! Hot Digity Dog!

 There are a ton of post titles I could use with this one. Like "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Deal of the Day, Just my Luck, FAVORS, Doing Math .... again, So many more bounced through my head and all of those were before I actually got the cards in hand. You see I won an Ebay auction for a box (not actually counted) of 400 Braves parallels. Technically I didn't win an auction, as the seller sent me an offer on the lot after it went unsold and they relisted it. Same price as the first time, but then his offer was half. I got the box for $18.00 plus $10.00 shipping. and $2.07 in tax. $30.07 to be exact.

I wasn't sure how I would make out. The description said a lot of Tiffany and Glossy and Limited. No dupes. There was 365 cards. I actually needed for my Braves teams sets at first 183 of them (half), but turned out 20 of those were dupes.

These factory diamond anniversary cards are the 20 that turned out to be dupes.

I've broken down what I got in needs.

The Tiffany:

84 Topps: I got 23 needed 7 and still need 7 base and 2 traded.

86 Topps: I got 24 needed 2 and still 4 base and all traded.

87 Topps: I got 28 needed just one and completed the set.

88 Topps: I got 23 need none and still need 3 base 1 traded.

89 Topps: I got 22 needed 11 and still need 7 base and all traded.

90 Topps: I got 35 needed 25 and still 3 base and 1 traded.

91 Topps: I got 24 needed 16 and still need 6 base and 4 traded.

89 Bowman: I got 13 needed 5 still need 4.

90 Bowman: I got 17 needed 14 and still need 3.

The other stuff:

93 Topps Marlins: I got 25 needed 16 and still 8 (also need 5 more Rockies).

00 Topps Limited: I got 11 didn't need any it was already complete.

11 Topps Factory Limited: I got 20 all dupes and still need 7.

15 Topps Limited: I got 21 needed 17 and still need 3.

16 Topps Silver 65th: I got 20 all dupes still need Freeman and the team card.

17 Topps ASG: I got 17 needed 16 (got dupe team card), still need 1 Dansby.

18 Topps ASG: I got 16 all dupes (but 2 for the PC) and still Acuna RC.

11 A&G Glossy: I got 9 needed 3 and still need 1 (Freeman RC). (dupes go to a franken-set).

87 Fleer Glossy: I got 2 needed non as it was already complete.

88 Score Glossy: I got 21 needed 10 still need 5 base and 1 traded.

This turned out to be a really great deal for me. I was able to add 163 Atlanta Braves to TCDB (still 1200+) behind that other guy......GO FIGURE!

You can calculate this 3 ways and still a great deal. from .10-16 cents a piece.