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Welcome to Topps Archives Week - a week dedicated to Topps' newest card set! A few days ago, I highlighted one of the blasters of Archives that I bought. As I mentioned in that post, I purchased a pair of blasters originally. The first one was interesting - the second one (that I already showed) was quite awesome seeing how I landed this Bryce Harper Autograph card (that is currently on eBay).
Today, it's time to look at the other blaster that I originally purchased. I will admit to having purchased a few more blasters after I landed that Harper - so you can expect to see some of the results of those later in the week. Without further ado, let's look at the next blaster.
2012 Topps Archives:
Blaster #2:
Blaster #2:
Pack 1:
21. Jeremy Hellickson
42. Aroldis Chapman
76. Victor Martinez
118. Desmond Jennings
128. Shin-Soo Choo
169. Michael Morse
180. David Wright
217. Luis Tiant
Other than the short printed Tiant card, that pack was a complete waste. I've only bought and collated one blaster thus far - and yet, all 7 non-short printed cards were duplicates.
Pack 2:
13. Mark Teixeira
71. Jimmy Rollins
80. Troy Tulowitzki
122. Dustin Pedroia
125. David Freese
172. James Shields
175. Justin Morneau
1967 Sticker: 67S-JM. Joe Mauer
Two packs into the blaster and once again it's a pack full of all duplicate base cards! At least I needed the Mauer, a small victory...
Pack 3:
5. Freddie Freeman
34. Jaime Garcia
62. Hanley Ramirez
84. Nyjer Morgan
113. Ryan Howard
136. David Ortiz
164. Kevin Youkilis
Topps Reprint: Roberto Clemente
The Clemente card was (once again) the only card I needed in the pack. This blaster has turned out to be a complete waste of money (at least in terms of set collecting) thus far. I am, however, working up a nice sized stack of cards to use as trade bait - a silver lining I suppose.
Pack 4:
33. Jon Lester
44. Cal Ripken Jr.
54. Jemile Weeks
94. Anibal Sanchez
101. Adrian Gonzalez
156. Ubaldo Jimenez
190. Josh Hamilton
1968 Topps 3D: Al Kaline
Stop me if you've heard this before - the only card I needed was the insert. Grr! I'm beginning to wonder about Topps' collation seeing how I'm four packs into only my second blaster and I haven't hit a single new base card... Frustrating to be sure.
Pack 5:
1. Matt Kemp
47. Drew Pomeranz
83. Craig Kimbrel
135. Mike Napoli
145. Howie Kendrick
184. Jim Rice
192. Brad Peacock
201. Don Mattingly
I finally landed a new base card - the Matt Kemp. If I were a betting man, I would bet the Bryce Harper autograph redemption card took the place of Kemp's base card in the previous blaster...Here's hoping I'm wrong though and that I do actually get a few new base cards in the last three packs of the blaster.
Pack 6:
59. Hunter Pence
98. Johan Santana
112. Todd Helton
148. R.A. Dickey
161. Chase Utley
195. Brandon Morrow
1977 Cloth Sticker: 77C-RJ. Reggie Jackson
The first thing I noticed was the fact that I got ripped off in this pack - only seven cards (rather than the promised eight). Given that piece of bad news, there was also a bit of good news - only three of the cards in the pack were duplicates! Hooray.
Pack 7:
19. Brandon Beachy
36. Martin Prado
68. Drew Storen
95. Yoenis Cespedes
119. Yu Darvish
151. Stephen Strasburg
167. Michael Pineda
1969 Deckle Edge: 69DE-11. Carl Yastrzemski
Woah - I should have started whining even earlier in the post! A full pack of cards that I needed - sweet! I might be able to complete the set yet (not with this blaster, but at least I'm getting closer).
Pack 8:
8. Matt Moore
16. Yunel Escobar
51. Roy Halladay
65. Jordan Zimmermann
105. Torii Hunter
116. Alex Avila
1982 In Action: 82IA-TG. Tony Gwynn
Reprint: Eddie Murray
The 1982 In Action cards are seeded 1:32 packs making them rarer than the relic cards (which are seeded 1:30 packs)! I don't know about you, but I find that bit of information a little weird!
All told, this wasn't a terrible blaster but it certainly wasn't a great blaster either. I ended up with 40 duplicates which is way too many considering I had only opened one blaster prior to this one. All of my inserts were new though, so that part is good. Stay tuned throughout the week - there will be plenty more Topps Archives posts coming up!
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I have a decent stack of duplicate base cards. Drop me your want list if you want to make a trade.
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