The 50 + Pack Ebay win

A few weeks ago I posted about an Ebay win of 50+ unopened packs.  I won them for $9.99, however shipping was $15.25. I figured they’d be coming in a medium flat rate box, they did not. They just came Tuesday.  But here is what was inside (in the order that I opened them):

One 2005 Tristar .99 pack 5 cards

Nothing much inside certainly no Honus Wagner! I did pull an insert from 2001 Fleer Diamond Tribute Jeff Bagwell #20 of 30DT along with a 1982 Donruss Lenny Randle #307, 1984 Donruss Dave Henderson #557 (another 42 card), a 1986 Topps Teddy Higuera #347, and a 1997 Pinnacle Certified Edgar Martinez #84.

Two packs of 2006 Ultra 5 cards each:

Golds :  Vizquel,  Stemle.   Inserts:  Helton,  Johnson.   Base: Lucky 13 Verlander,  Glavine,  Colon,  Mauer,  L. Gonzalez,  Edmonds.

Not starting out so well.

One rack pack of 2007 Upper Deck series 1 & 2 combo 32 cards.

Inserts:  Helton  Triple Play, Sizemore Triple Play. Some of these cards are really cool.

I like the Gordon fist pump (another mini of mine), nice Armas card with the bat in the bag shot, and of course that's a great shot of the Rangers Michael Young card. 

One fat pack of 2009 Upper Deck series two  16 cards.

Insert:  Silver common Star Quest  Jay Bruce (no scan)

5 packs of 2005 Upper Deck First Pitch (.99 5 card packs)

A Thomas,  Jr,  cool Cabrera card ("PLAYN DIRTY" another future regular post and mini of mine), check that hat on Furtunato, and a throwback.

Now for what I hope will be the good stuff..... Topps products. 

Up first is One 2007 Topps 52 6 card pack

Pulled a Dynanmic Duo Maybin/Miller #DD13  (no scan)

Two .99 10 card packs of 2005 Topps Total

My first Braves card, yeah. The Clemens is an insert of some kind its shiny and he’s at the plate bunting. The Pujols made the scan because he had the highest rating (9).

Maybe this deal is turning around....

One 2005 Topps series 1 pack 12 cards

Five packs of 2005 Topps Opening Day 6 cards each. Nothing worthy of scanning :(

4 packs of 2006 Topps series 1 six cards each, 9 packs of series 2 six cards each, and 1 combo rack pack.

Series 1 packs netted another Andruw Jones Braves card, a Mantle insert HR 1, Bonds insert Hr 684 (ha), Ichiro, and a Jeter albeit he was paired with Arod.

Series 2 netted another Mantle HR 87, the Constitution George Washington insert, 2 more Braves Sosa and Hampton, a Jr and Vlad.

Fat pack combo netted 2 more Braves, Smoltz and Betemit.

Eight 2007 Topps Series 1 packs 6 cards each , a fat pack 22 cards, and a series 2 rack pack 22 cards.

The break down is as follows (what came from what).

Fat pack: rcs ethier, bj upton, and uggla

Series 2 rack:  Hanley Ramirez, Andruw Jones World Domination insert #WD10, and a nice run down card (classic combo) with Casey, Polanco, and Pujols.

Series 1:

Pack 1- cool Montero rc, Mantle HR insert #276,

Pack 2- Yogi Berra Distinguished Service insert #DS2

Pack 3- Josh Gibson 680 HR History insert #JG86

Pack 4- David Ortiz Own the Game insert #OTG2

Pack 5- nice Greg Maddux Padres card, insert is Generation Now Mike Napoli #GN111

Pack 6- Generation Now Ryan Howard #GN16

Pack 7- Generation Now David Wright #GN150, and a Smoltz Gold parallel #d 458/2007

Pack 8- no insert dangit, a nice Verlander though.

Two packs of 2008 Topps Series 1 ten card each

Inserts  Mantle  reprint, Own the Game Adam Dunn and a Vlad, Future Star Kazuo Uzuki

No scan

2009 Topps Series 2 Blaster box 10 packs 8 cards each and a Commemorative patch, and 2 individual packs of series two 12 cards each.

Patch: Mickey Mantle 1960 All Star Game at Yankee Stadium

Series 2: Braves card Escobar, Inserts from just the 2 packs of series 2:

Turkey Red Michael Young, ToppsTown Granderson and Ortiz, Legends of the Game Jimmie Foxx, and Career Best Legends Christy Mathewson.  Talk about a nice 3 packs (counting the patch pack)

Series 2 Blaster Packs

Pack 1- Kawakami RC, toppstown Manny

Pack 2- Turkey Red Pujols, toppstown Granderson

Pack 3- toppstown rollins, and neat card of Torii Hunter

Pack 4- Turkey Red Helton, toppstown Carlos Lee

Pack 5- Career Best Legends Tris Speaker, toppstown GOLD Fukudome (that name kills me),  Braves Garrett Anderson, and a nice “black eyed” Lannan rc (great pack!)

Pack 6- Baseball Classic Series Rios, toppstown Mclouth, Braves Lowe

Pack 7- toppstown double Ortiz,

Pack 8- Turkey Red Rogers Hornsby, toppstown Helton

Pack 9- Career Best Legends Rogers Hornsby, toppstown Utley

Pack 10- toppstown Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Well thanks to the 2009 Topps I got my $10.00 worth, the shipping on the other hand iffy.

But it was fun to open all of those packs!!!!

Favorite of all 54 packs, duh the Mantle Patch, and it's not even a KEEPER.

A gripping end

A few more GRIPS to carry through the rest of the day.

Normally I don't like the ball grip shot at the face (too posed), but that is an awesome Karsay. Oh look another double dip for Ethan, hehe maybe.....

Technically that Franco isn't a GRIP card, but it is as good as any.

Great SHADOW SHOT (another future SAT/Sun regular post I plan on doing). I'm not sure what the title will be exactly. I'm torn between just "SHADOW SHOTS", Super Saturday (or Sunday) Shadow Shots Segment. I leaning towards "shadow shots"  and just making it a Sat. or Sun. thing.

COMMENT TO LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.

More GRIPS for now.

Some minor leaguers. How long before those smirks were wiped off their faces?

Love those Condos  in the background.

That's all folks!

Get a grip on the Day

Here are a few grip shots to start the day off with.

I like the apple shot the best.

That Welch just looks like it hurts.

Again, ouch! Classic Prior nice shot.

 In your face.

The Diamond King GRIP is sweet.

Awe look a double dipper for Ethan, Grip and Turtleneck.

More tonight. later

Signing the balls

As promised we'll finish up the cards featuring players signing....with the Balls.

What a great smile on Joe Carter.  What do you think about the bat in the pocket by Will Clark? I like it.

A pair of Ishii's, nice and you can see the writing on the Foster card. Looks like a he's writing a book.

Hey that fan has 5 hands, oh wait that's 5 fans.  The kid smiling on the Frazier is cool, but the kid next to him is frowning, that's sad.

Pay attention Tony.

A nice pair of Sox, again what's with the look away. Can't people see that  player is busy with a fan?

Sorry....... hey that Rolen card is neat.

Both versions of the Huskey

Tomorrow will throw some Grips at cha.

Here's your SIGN(ings)

LOL. Anyways, I thought I put a few cards up with the boys signing "STUFF".

It's hard to call a favorite above. You have a pennant, a glove, and a hat.

Bob, I'll take door #2. That seat cushion (or first aid kit???) in pic 1 is uncommon for cardboard, but not as much as the "SIGN". I wonder how many autos that guy has on the back of that.

How bout some Gwynn jerseys?

Might as well throw in a Ryno jersey too. Looks like all kinds of goodies to sign waiting.

Let's do some bats.

We will finish up tonight with "What did they sign?"

No clue.

Still no clue, but you gotta appreciate the little tykes. Hey one of those kids could be a fellow blogger today, after all it has been 20+ years.

Nice shiny parallel, but again the photog missed the"item", at least we can see the pen. It is mightier than a sword you know.

Now this one, well the item is there but hidden behind all those bats. Great shot of the Will Clark tee shirt, eye black and all.

Tomorrow I'll put my balls on the table, I mean in the post.