Gint-A-Cuffs Practice: 2010 Topps Series 2 Warm Up - Part 9

It's time for the final four packs of the hobby box.  Right now, (barring any great surprise pulls), it looks like Mantle is going to win the competition.  The real battle appears to be for second, third, and fourth...

Scoring summary:
Base cards:
Cincinnati Reds: +10
Pittsburgh Pirate: +5
New York Yankee: -10
Boston Red Sox: -5
Awesome photo: +1 through +5 points, depending on how much I like it.

Inserts:
Gold parallel: +10
Black parallel: +25
Platinum parallel: +50
Printing Plate: +30
Cards Your Mother Threw Out: +2
Cards Your Mother Threw Out Original Back: +4
Topps Legends Vintage Collection: +2
History of World Series: +2
Turkey Red: +2
Legendary Lineage: +2
Peak Performers: +2
Red Hot Rookies: +4
Topps 2020: +4
Sketch Card, Hall of Fame Buyback, or any of the other crazy hard pulls: +100
Million Card Giveaway: +5
Peak Performance Relic: +10
Peak Performance Auto: +20
Manufactured Hat relic: +20
All other relics/autos: +100
Topps Attax cards: +1
Cincinnati Reds: x10
Pittsburgh Pirates: x5
New York Yankee: /10
Boston Red Sox: /5


Pack 02 - Cobb:
354.  Evan Longoria
357.  Scott Downs
371.  Nick Hundley
428.  Baltimore Orioles
494.  Andrew Miller
496.  Rajai Davis
658.  Tommy Hunter
TMC-20.  Million Card Giveaway (+5)
LL-41.  Jimmie Foxx & Prince Fielder (+2)
Topps Attax:  Stephen Drew (+1)
Cobb's Pack Score:  +8
Not much to say about this pack...a sort of dud considering it was Cobb's last chance to catch up.

Pack 02 - Pedroia:
359.  Aramis Ramirez
425.  Dontrelle Wills
478.  Conor Jackson
574.  Milwaukee Brewers
611.  Josh Outman
634.  Casey Kotchman
651.  Mike Aviles
PP-72.  Chad Billingsley (+2)
T14.  Ubaldo Jimenez (+4)

Topps Attax:  Torii Hunter (+1)
Pedroia's Pack Score:  +7
Another dull pack.  This particular hobby box hasn't been overly inspring has it?  Two packs left...hoping for something cool to make it a better buy...

Pack 02 - Ruth:
438.  Jason Bartlett
498.  Sergio Santos
526.  Carlos Guillen
584.  Matt Capps
598.  Alberto Callaspo
619.  Mike Napoli
TR57.  Jimmie Foxx (+2)
CMT107.  Chipper Jones (+2)
CMT Original Back:  Joe Mauer (+4)

Topps Attax:  Grady Sizemore (+1)
Ruth's Pack Score:  +9 points
Another rather dull pack...  I'm hoping Mantle saved something cool for the last pack out of the box...otherwise I'm not overly impressed with this box.

Pack 02 - Mantle
335.  Jordan Norberto
358.  Mark Buehrle
370.  Robinson Cano (-10, Yankee)
395.  Jenrry Mejia
430.  Kazuo Matsui
439.  Emilio Bonifacio
559.  Nick Markakis
VLC15.  Jimmie Foxx (+2)
372.  Philadelphia Phillies - Gold Parallel (+10)

Topps Attax:  Alexei Ramirez (+1)
Mantle's Pack Score:  +3

Leaderboard (after 4 packs - # of packs won in parenthesis):

Mantle: +123.38 (2 wins)
Pedroia: +83.2 (2 wins)
Ruth: +65.2  (2 wins)
Cobb: +58.48  (3 wins)

The final pack score results were interesting - and as close as possible.  It's a little funny that the player with the fewest points ended up with the most individual pack wins!