Newest 2024 Braves

 As mentioned yesterday/last night I had made an Ormond run last week. My goal was to not go crazy (my theme all year thus far). I really only wanted the Bowman, Big League, and Heritage Braves plus the Bowman set builds. Kyle's 6' dime table was slammed 3 boxes high on top and under.  I didn't bring an empty box on purpose so I wouldn't be overly tempted. Yeah, FAIL! Tons of Heritage and Big League, and Bowman. I filled 4 monster boxes (brand new ones from Kyle's shop). Probably could have filled a couple more. I could have forgone the Bowman as Kyle had complete sets for $10.00 on the vets, $25 prospects, and $35 chrome prospects. $70.00 for a complete set, those hobby boxes cost nearly $300. I decided to not to go that route and build the hard way. I did get the base set, 6 cards shy of the prospects, and half of the chrome. I'm good with that as I really don't chase the prospects and chrome (I just pick them out of dimes boxes here and there). I did get all of my Braves base and prospects, and 3 shy on the chrome.  I still need three more Big League, pretty sure those 3 won't be in a dime box, lol.

Most of the Topps inserts and parallels above came from those dollar box grabs that Kyle threw in.

I'll find those 3 chrome Braves in a dime box for sure.

 Now for my Heritage.

I put the 2 Fried cards backwards on purpose.  You can easily see the difference in the card backs. Now apparently this is nothing, however out of the 4500 Heritage cards I bought only 24 have this difference. There are 50/50 on the even darker backs, but this I just don't get. I called my buddy in Ormond who ripped the two cases and he said he caught that too on the 2 nd case and said they were falling about 1 or 2 per box. I probably should have used one of the darker backs to compare the light one. Things like this irk me, gets under my skin clearly somebody was messing with the product.

There you have it, minus the one Heritage Brave that I still need. Numero Uno Acuna.

Off to play trivia with my brother.