Back in the Game- Allen & Ginter

Allen & Ginter blaster report as follows.

Pack 1
51 Jason Kipnis
1 Miguel Cabrera
155 Austin Jackson
214 Alexei Ramierz
227 Fernando Rodney mini
ATY-DJ Across the Years Derek Jeter

Pack 2

125 Matt Holliday

140 Tommy Lee

164 Chris Mortensen

PS-TA Palaces and Strongholds The Alamo

18 Matt Harrison mini A&G back

336 Chase Headley SP

Pack 3

196 Josh Willingham

75 Lou Gehrig

53 Mark Teixeira

137 Pedro Alvarez

18 Matt Harrison mini

ATY-JC Across the Years Johnny Cueto

Pack 4

119 Adam Richman

147 Ian Desmond

63 Jose Bautista

CAP-VK Civilizations of Ages Past Vikings

105 Tyler Skaggs mini black border

302 Brandon McCarthy SP

Pack 5

113 Brandon Beachy

141 Trevor Cahill

7 Mike Trout

CC-NOW Curious Cases The Illuminati/New World Order

291 Edwin Encarnacion mini A&G back

ATY-AJ Across the Years Adam Jones

Pack 6

247 Ryan Howard

81 Al Kaline

174 Nathan Eovaldi

OLC-SD One Little Corner Scattered Disc

217 Pope Francis I mini

319 Matt Kemp SP

Pack 7

37 Nelson Cruz

153 Alex Cobb

AGFR-DDJ David DeJesus full sized relic (road grey)

HHH-QE Heavy Hangs the Head Queen Elizabeth II

ATY-PG Across the Years Paul Goldschmidt

Pack 8

297 Jeff Samardzija

47 Robin Ventura

169 Todd Frazier

MM-GD Martial Mastery Gladiators

291 Edwin Encarnacion mini

325 Johan Santana SP

Another pleasant surprise with the David DeJesus jersey relic. Of course the Cubs would trade him the day after I pull the card. Oh well. I never expect to pull a hit when I buy at Wally World much less two hits from just a blaster and a rack pack. So I doubt I will be pulling that off again anytime soon. In fact with the odds as they are I doubt I'll pull any hits from Walmart anytime soon.

Back in the Game- Bowman Platinum

I arrived home a week ago from my trip to Ukraine and had been itching to get some Allen & Ginter at my earliest convenience. Things have been hectic since I got home with catching up with work etc. So I didn't have a chance to make a stop at Wally World #2 until a couple days ago. I decided to pick up an A&G blaster as well as a Bowman Platinum rack pack. The ripping proved fruitful and the results are as follows.

First up the Bowman Platinum rack pack

Pack 1

BPP22 Bubba Starling

38 Michael Young sapphire parallel

1 Albert Pujols

BPP67 Joey Gallo

Pack 2

28 Buster Posey

BPCP10 Javier Baez refractor parallel

TP-ZW Zack Wheeler Top Prospects

BPP72 Luis Heredia

Pack 3

BPP4 Gerrit Cole

BPAP-WS Will Swanner green refractor prospect autograph 098/399

53 Freddie Freeman gold parallel

97 Chris Sale

Bonus Purple Prospect Refractors

BPCP88 Mark Montgomery

BPCP96 Tyrone Taylor

BPCP51 Alex Meyer

The Will Swanner on-card AU was a pleasant surprise seeded at 1:160 packs. Swanner had a really good year playing in Class A last year. This year in Class A+ his run producing numbers still seem to be ok but his average has dropped off significantly. At this point he doesn't seem like a prospect that is very likely to make it to the majors, but who knows.

A&G blaster will be report on in following post.

Howdy folks

Well I'm back from my two week trip to Ukraine. It was incredible and life changing. This was my second time visiting and I intend to be spending a lot more time there in the future.

As for now, the hobby awaits. I will have a post forthcoming in the next day or so to report on a purchase I made at Wally World a couple days ago of Allen & Ginter and Bowman Platinum. If you're waiting on a trade proposal from me I promise I will have that for you soon too.

Happy collecting!