After not buying a single pack of 2017 baseball cards for the first five months of the year, I've found myself going "all in" on 2017 Topps Archives (pulling a sweet Frank Thomas autograph will help convince me to keep going). Unfortunately for me, my local Wal*Mart has one of the worst baseball card aisles in all of big box land...after my previous blaster purchases, they've never bothered to restock their shelf. Thus, since I still have quite a bit of set needs, I had to buy myself one of the two remaining rack packs instead.
The rack packs have 18 cards in them - but from what I can tell they aren't as good of a deal as the blasters. Still, I had the itch to open up some cards so the rack pack is better than nothing.
So, what did I get? Rather than listing all the base cards, I'll simply show the highlights.
For the base cards, I needed 10 of the 16 cards in the pack. That's pretty good - and within those ten cards was the Aaron Judge rookie card and the Mike Trout base card (two cards that are tough to come by via trades)!
As I mentioned earlier, each rack pack contains 18 cards. Since I had 16 base cards, that leaves a pair of inserts. Unfortunately for me, neither of my inserts were of particular interest to me...
First up, a Bazooka card of Carlos Correa.
It's certainly a nice enough card - and if I were to collect a single insert set from this year's Archives set, it would definitely be the Bazooka set.
The other insert was less interesting (at least to me):
That's one of the Rookie Stars cards - and those don't interest me much at all.
In the end, the rack pack might not have offered me a lot in the way of inserts but it did give me 10 more base cards that I needed (and it definitely helped satisfy the pack ripping itch).
I know how that is. My Walmart if terrible as well. 3/4th the aisle is pokemon and the last teeny 1/4th is sports cards and magic.
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