2009 Topps Heritage: Target Blaster #1

A few days ago, I talked about my pulls from four different 2009 Topps Heritage blasters from Wal*Mart. In an effort to give each retail giant a fair shake at my hard-earned dollars, I found myself in Target and ended up buying four blasters there as well.

In my four blasters, this blaster had the most in the way of inserts... Did it have any cards I needed for my base set though? Read on.

What I got:

4: Edison Volquez
11: Ross Gload
20: Matt Capps
25: Paul Konerko
26: Miguel Tejada
29: Johan Santana - Needed it
41: Dave Bush
59: John Maine
62: Greg Maddux

64: Matt Harrison
69: Ray Durham
77: Kelly Shoppach
82: Scott Baker
85: Justin Verlander
129: James Parr
132: Mat Gamel
134: Phil Coke

137: Kila Ka'aihue
145: Jesse Chavez
154: Rich Aurilia - Needed it
167: Jeff Mathis
171: Matt Joyce
191: Jonathan Broxton
198: Chris Dickerson
207: Aubrey Huff - Needed it
211: Manny Parra
212: Manny Acta
219: Bob Geren - Needed it
224: John Russell

241: Corey Hart - Needed it
242: St. Louis Cardinals
246: Brandon Jones - Needed it
257: Mark Teixeira
263: Dioner Navarro
270: Chien-Ming Wang - Needed it
282: Chris Volstad
290: Jose Reyes - Needed it
295: Casey Blake
297: Aaron Boone - Needed it
300: Ryan Howard
306: Scott Linebrink
333: Anibal Sanchez - Needed it
334: Jimmy Rollins - Needed it
344: Rafael Furcal
345: Aaron Harang

349: Steve Pearce - Needed it
355: Rick Ankiel
359: Willy Taveras
361: Gerald Laird - Needed it
389: World Series Game 5
392: Chad Cordero
394: James Loney - Needed it
411: Paul Bako
414: Miguel Cabrera
419: Brian Roberts
425: Chad Billingsley

Short Prints:

429: Pedroia & Ichiro - Needed it
484: Chase Utley All-Star - Needed it
493: Ichiro All-Star - Needed it

Chrome:
C65: Ken Griffey Jr. - Needed it

Baseball Flashback:
BF4: Paul Richards - Needed it

New Age Performers:
NAP10: Ryan Braun - Needed it

News Flashback:
NF2: Bathyscaphe Trieste - Needed it

Then & Now:
TN4: Luis Aparicio and Willy Taveras - Needed it

Overall, this was a great blaster for inserts - usually you only get one or two and I pulled 4, plus a chrome and 3 short prints. (Spoiler: a later blaster from the same Target yielded NO inserts, so I ended "breaking even" in terms of the inserts.)

I ended up needing 22 / 64 cards in the box, which is approximately 34% of the box...certainly not a great percentage, especially considering that my binder has holes in it on every single page at this point. If nothing else though, I've got a bunch of these for trade fodder...I'll put together my list of duplicates (and a list of what I need) after I sort through the remaining three Target blasters.