Breaker's Club Recap: 2005 Donruss Team Heroes

I've fallen slightly behind in my Breaker's Club recap posts so let's at least get caught up on the first week's worth of breaks.  The second box from week #1 was a box of 2005 Donruss Team Heroes.  This was a retail-only version set with an advertised 440-card base set.  

The design is simple enough but I like it.  There's a nice mix of stars, rookies, and plenty of random relievers that wouldn't normally get a card.  Think of this as Donruss' answer to Topps Total.

The focus of the set is definitely on the base cards themselves but that doesn't mean that there aren't a few parallels and other goodies to chase after.  We ended up finding 8 red parallels...

...and 4 blue parallels.

Neither the red nor the blue parallels are serially numbered but the gold (brown? copper?) parallels are - we found one such parallel in our box:

That's Harold Baines for the White Sox and it's numbered 034/100 on the back of the card.  Definitely a nice little pick-up for Chicago in the break.

Finally, while it wasn't guaranteed our box did produce an autograph:

I don't know the first thing about Tim Olson but it was cool to find an unexpected signature pop out of the pack.  

Like I said at the outset, this box is (mostly) all about the base.  Once I get the entire box sorted out, I expect each team in the break will end up with a nice handful of cards including cards of "lesser" players that you might not otherwise have in your collection.  I wouldn't want every set to be this way but it is nice to have one or two sets that celebrate the middle relievers and AAAA players who come up to the majors for a cup of coffee and that's about it.

That does it for week #1 of Breaker's Club...now I need to get caught up on week #2 since week #3 will happen this coming Tuesday!