A few days ago, I wrote about discovering some forgotten packs. Today, I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I can trump the forgotten packs with an entire forgotten box! That's right. Next to my desk, I have a filing cabinet. Most of the cabinet is full of things like bills, health insurance information, and boring stuff like that. However, it also has a little bit of extra space that I sometimes use to hold stuff for the blog.
I guess you could say time claimed the box - because while I opened up the packs months ago, I left them all in their respective wrappers with a plan to blog about the box at some point. Who knew that some point would be almost a full year later?!
As I discovered before, it's actually kind of cool to open a box up, and then put it away for months on end. You get twice the joy of opening packs (unless you memory is really good - mine clearly isn't) for the price of a single box. That's a much better deal than anything that Topps is currently rolling out.
1999 Fleer Sports Illustrated (hobby box):
Packs 1 and 2:
I plan to (re)-open the box over the next few days. It should provide a nice change of pace since I haven't actually purchased any new packs of cards since July!
Pack 1:
39. Dennis Martinez
82. Jason Giambi
96. Matt Stairs
122. Al Leiter
173. Vladimir Guerrero
180. Checklist
Eesh. Maybe that was why I put the box away and promptly forgot about it...what a boring start! A pair of Athletics and a checklist (that counts as a "real" card). I guess it technically is a real card since it is numbered as part of the set, but even so it still stinks...especially in a 6-card per pack product.
Pack 2:
22. Roberto Alomar
89. Bret Saberhagen
99. Mark Grace
136. Travis Fryman
166. Manny Ramirez
17 of 25 HL. Headliners: Nomar Garciaparra
The first insert of the box - the Headliners are seeded 1:4 packs. Unlike the base cards, the Headliner card does not have a glossy front, making it feel more like a newspaper. A small touch, but a nice one. Kudos to Fleer for that.
The box contains 24 packs with 6 cards per pack. Since the set appears to have 180 cards in it, there's no chance that I'll end up with a full set. I think I may have opened up a pack or two of this stuff back when it was first released so I'll have to go back through my old binders to see if I can come close to completing the set (once the entire box is re-opened of course)!
I guess you could say time claimed the box - because while I opened up the packs months ago, I left them all in their respective wrappers with a plan to blog about the box at some point. Who knew that some point would be almost a full year later?!
As I discovered before, it's actually kind of cool to open a box up, and then put it away for months on end. You get twice the joy of opening packs (unless you memory is really good - mine clearly isn't) for the price of a single box. That's a much better deal than anything that Topps is currently rolling out.
1999 Fleer Sports Illustrated (hobby box):
Packs 1 and 2:
I plan to (re)-open the box over the next few days. It should provide a nice change of pace since I haven't actually purchased any new packs of cards since July!
Pack 1:
39. Dennis Martinez
82. Jason Giambi
96. Matt Stairs
122. Al Leiter
173. Vladimir Guerrero
180. Checklist
Eesh. Maybe that was why I put the box away and promptly forgot about it...what a boring start! A pair of Athletics and a checklist (that counts as a "real" card). I guess it technically is a real card since it is numbered as part of the set, but even so it still stinks...especially in a 6-card per pack product.
Pack 2:
22. Roberto Alomar
89. Bret Saberhagen
99. Mark Grace
136. Travis Fryman
166. Manny Ramirez
17 of 25 HL. Headliners: Nomar Garciaparra
The first insert of the box - the Headliners are seeded 1:4 packs. Unlike the base cards, the Headliner card does not have a glossy front, making it feel more like a newspaper. A small touch, but a nice one. Kudos to Fleer for that.
The box contains 24 packs with 6 cards per pack. Since the set appears to have 180 cards in it, there's no chance that I'll end up with a full set. I think I may have opened up a pack or two of this stuff back when it was first released so I'll have to go back through my old binders to see if I can come close to completing the set (once the entire box is re-opened of course)!
Awesome! I have to go around and leave a box here and there around my place. Finding a unopened box to break must be like waking up on Christmas morning to a tree with tons of presents under it. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteAnd that Headliners insert set looks pretty cool. Have fun with the box.
Well, it is an opened box...but i kept each pack wrapper (and the cards within the pack wrapper) so it sort of feels like I'm opening the box for a second time! It's been fun so far - I don't remember the vast majority of the cards from the box!
ReplyDeleteThat's even a better idea... that means two times the fun! ;-)
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