Yeah right, maybe if it was Panini

Recently I picked up some old wax packs at a card show. One was a pack of 1991 Topps that I got for a quarter. I guess that is about what it would have cost back then, so factoring in inflation I got a good deal. I hastily tossed the 22 year old stick of, what was even back then, not very good chewing gum. Of course it had left a nice oily imprint on the back of the card it had been sealed against for so many years. Ozzie Martinez I believe or some such other 4th outfielder that merited a card in the eyes of Topps back then. The gum imprint makes the card more notable in my collection now than his stats ever did. The pack as a whole was filled with forgettable players who I had either forgotten about or never even heard of in the first place. Robin Yount was the only player of particular note in the bunch. The pack did however include this.

Obviously I didn't win. If I had been an instant winner I wonder how hard it would have been to convince Topps to honor it 21 1/2 years after it should have been claimed....heh..yeah right, maybe if it was Panini. But nonetheless, what a nice prize! The first 40 years of full Topps baseball sets. Wow! I wonder who won it back then and what they did with it. I wonder if they sold the sets or if perhaps they're just gathering dust in someone's attic in suburban Ohio. For some reason that is how I picture it.

I wish Topps still did giveaways like this.

Dime Box Doozies

Only The Big Unit could have fielded that ball.

Topps Chrome blaster break

Recently I felt the urge to get some Topps Chrome so I picked up a blaster from the local branch of Walton's Conglomerate. Contents are as follows. Most everything is available for trade so if you're interested shoot me an email.

Pack 1

68 Paul Konerko

67 Ryan Vogelsong

162 Donald Lutz RC

138 Yasiel Puig RC

I am not a Pweeg fan. At all. So if you want this card I would love to get rid of it. But I also know how much its going for. So make me a fair offer and its yours. I like pretty much anything Braves. =) 

Pack 2

47 Jake Peavy

182 Paco Rodriguez RC X-fractor

172 Mark Teixeira

185 Kevin Youkilis

Pack 3

179 Aaron Hicks RC

21 Carlos Santana

120 Jason Kipnis Refractor

108 Rickie Weeks

Pack 4

208 Cliff Lee

136 Albert Pujols

46 Mike Napoli

105 Casey Kelly RC

I scanned these cards a few days ago and I'm not sure why I didn't scan one from this pack.

Pack 5

133 Will Middlebrooks

122 Adrian Beltre

CC-JV Justin Verlander Chrome Connections Die-cut

215 Domonic Brown

Pack 6

30 Adam Warren RC

150 Justin Verlander

119 Michael Wacha RC Refractor

55 Mike Olt RC

Pack 7

85 Bruce Rondon RC

DY-EL Evan Longoria Dynamic Die-cut

135 David Freese

166 Jackie Bradley Jr. RC

Bonus Purple Refractor pack

134 Kendrys Morales

170 Carter Capps RC

153 Dan Straily

27 Rob Brantley

Pretty good blaster. Pulling the two die-cuts was nice. I'll probably be picking up some more Chrome in the near future.

Whatcha think?

So I'm wondering, does holding contests actually gain followers for you guys? I don't have many followers myself and it seems that most of my page views are just random traffic. Maybe what I write is just uninteresting.

But do contests work? Or do they just bring you a temporary increase in traffic and cost you some money, but then after its over it goes back to normal.

World Series contest at Collector' Crack

Check out the World Series Contest over at Collector's Crack!! Very easy to enter!