1996 Pinnacle Summit Football pack 2

I pulled my most valuable card of the year so far here!

Here’s what I got:

#4 Jerome Bettis
#14 Jeff Hostetler
#22 Rodney Thomas
#24 Brian Blades
#39 Fred Barnett
#50 Jim Harbaugh
#56 Adrian Murrell
#63 Brett Favre
#65 Charlie Garner
#73 Trent Dilfer
#96 Kordell Stewart
#170 Kevin Hardy [rookie]
#PSTT15 Jerry Rice [Turf Team Foil insert, 456/500]

Pack Stats:

What it cost me: $ 1.00
Beckett NM/MT worth: $25.65
Insert odds I beat: N/A
Most valuable card: #PSTT15 Jerry Rice [Turf Team Foils insert, 456/500] @ $20.00

2004 Playoff Honors Baseball pack 2

Okay, now why would they make an insert set called “Prime Signatures” and make the card look like the autographed sticker fell off the front of the card?! I pulled this Jim Rice insert thinking I was the unluckiest guy in the world, to pull an autograph that wasn’t signed. Turns out it’s supposed to be like that with the big blank space on the bottom. #@!*%!!
Here’s what I got:

#44 Brendan Harris
#86 Chris Burke
#152 Jim Thome
#176 Shigetoshi Hasegawa
#PS-26 Jim Rice [insert, 320/2500]

Pack Stats:

What it cost me: $ 1.40
Beckett NM/MT worth: $4.80
Insert odds I beat: N/A
Most valuable card: #PS-26 Jim Rice [insert, 320/2500] @ $3.00

1995 UC3 Premier Edition Baseball

I would have thought these cleverly named 3D cards’ kind would have died out in the 80’s but I guess they stuck around for a while.

Here’s what I got:

#25 Rafael Palmeiro
#39 Mike Piazza
#67 Dave Justice
#70 Matt Williams
#124 Ken Griffey Jr. [in-depth]
Pack Stats:

What it cost me: $ 1.75
Beckett NM/MT worth: $3.10
Insert odds I beat: none
Most valuable card: #39 Mike Piazza @ $1.25

2001 Royal Rookies Baseball

“1 Autograph in Every Pack!”. I haven’t pulled any autographs for my collection yet so here goes. I bought 3 packs. I’ll open the first today. Peter Bauer.. this guy had a losing minor league record with an ERA of 4.65. He got pushed around by 4 organizations and never made it to the majors. But hey, it’s my first AUTOGRAPH!!

Here’s what I got:

#15 Randel Meadows
#18 Peter Bauer [autograph, 2822 of 5950]
#41 Jamie Brown, Colby Lewis [flipcard]
#A4 Todd Helton [amazing todd helton insert]
#BOS1 Luke Prokopec [boys of summer insert]
#B6 Darron Cox [barnstormers insert]

Pack Stats:

What it cost me: $ 1.75
Beckett NM/MT worth: $3.80
Insert odds I beat: N/A
Most valuable card: #18 Peter Bauer [autograph, 2822 of 5950] @ $2.00

Favorite Card of the Month [January]

2007 Upper Deck Masterpieces #20 Ty Cobb

Favorite Card of the Week [1.25.08-1.31.08]

I seem to like this little trend of throwing politicians into the baseball card mix.. I don’t know why. Maybe because anything in trading card format is cool to me. I’m even looking forward to the 2008 Topps set which has a Campaign ’08 insert set. Fun.

2004 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites Football

I think it’s great that Topps finds a way to reissue classic cards like this to make such a great set of cards.

Here’s what I got:

#29 Gary Larsen
#52 Karl Mecklenburg
#61 Mark Clayton
#70 Ozzie Newsome
#78 Roosevelt Grier
#85 Y.A. Tittle

Pack Stats:

What it cost me: $ 5.00
Beckett NM/MT worth: $6.75
Insert odds I beat: none
Most valuable card: #85 Y.A. Tittle @ $1.50