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Gint-A-Cuffs Practice: 2010 Topps Series 2 Warm Up Part 3

It's time for the third pack of cards for each "player."  Let's see how it goes.  Before that, a reminder of the scoring:

Base cards:
Cincinnati Reds: +10
Pittsburgh Pirate: +5
New York Yankee: -10
Boston Red Sox: -5
Awesome photo: +1 through +5 points, depending on how much I like it.

Inserts:
Gold parallel: +10
Black parallel: +25
Platinum parallel: +50
Printing Plate: +30
Cards Your Mother Threw Out: +2
Cards Your Mother Threw Out Original Back: +4
Topps Legends Vintage Collection: +2
History of World Series: +2
Turkey Red: +2
Legendary Lineage: +2
Peak Performers: +2
Red Hot Rookies: +4
Topps 2020: +4
Sketch Card, Hall of Fame Buyback, or any of the other crazy hard pulls: +100
Million Card Giveaway: +5
Peak Performance Relic: +10
Peak Performance Auto: +20
Manufactured Hat relic: +20
All other relics/autos: +100
Topps Attax cards: +1
Cincinnati Reds: x10
Pittsburgh Pirates: x5
New York Yankee: /10
Boston Red Sox: /5


Pack 02 - Cobb:
332.  Brad Hawpe
450.  Omir Santos
523.  Phil Coke
528.  Brian Bannister
575.  Ryan Perry
635.  Carl Pavano
656.  Jon Lester (-5 points)
HWS18.  Paul Molitor (+2)
LL-33.  Carlton Fisk & Victor Martinez (+2 / 5 Red Sox = 0.4 / 5 for the second Red Sox = +0.08)
Topps Attax:  B.J. Upton (+1)
Cobb's Pack Score:  -1.92
Ugh.  This pack was terrible it doesn't even deserve a scan...  Moving right along.

Pack 02 - Pedroia:
333.  Ryan Ludwick
376.  Esmil Rogers
409.  Kosuke Fukudome
419.  David Aardsma
581.  Chris Dickerson (+10, Red!)
602.  Kansas City Royals (+5, awesome photo - the waterfalls completely make the picture.)

633.  Daniel Bard (-5, Red Sox.  Booo!)
CMT114.  Derek Jeter (Cards Your Mother Threw Out Three Years Ago:  +2 / 10 = 0.2)
PP-60.  Mike Schmidt (Peak Performance +2)
Topps Attax:  Pablo Sandoval

Pedroia's Pack Score:  12.2
A fairly decent pack showing for Pedroia.  Will it be enough to carry him to a pack victory?  It certainly was enough to crush Cobb...but Ruth and Mantle have been putting up much more of a battle.

Pack 02 - Ruth:
362.  Travis Snider
415.  Cincinnati Reds (+10, great card!)

487.  Dan Uggla
532.  Hunter Pence
This is the third Pence card in the box so far...
601.  Blake DeWitt
610.  Alex Gordon
642.  San Diego Padres
The non-gold parallel version which goes along with gold version I pulled in an earlier pack.
TR80.  Kosuke Fukudome (+2 Turkey Red)
TMC-11 Million Card Giveaway (+5)
Topps Attax:  Jon Lester (+1 / 5 = 0.2)
Ruth's Pack Score:  17.2
Another nice pack from Ruth.  Will it be enough to win the individual pack title for this round?

Pack 02 - Mantle
369.  David Ortiz (-5)

381.  Miguel Montero
414.  Sean West
476.  Yadier Molina
503.  Austin Jackson
517.  Cliff Pennington
603.  Gerardo Parra
VLC23.  Cy Young (+2, Vintage Legend)
474.  Kyle Kendrick (+10, Gold Parallel)
Topps Attax:  Felix Hernandez (+1)
Mantle's Pack Score:  +8
And there it is, after three packs only Pedroia hasn't won an individual round.  Of course, he's still almost 20 points ahead of last place Cobb in the overall standings.  Mantle maintains his hold on first place but Ruth did gain a bit of ground this round...  What will happen next?  Only time will tell!

Leaderboard (after 3 packs - # of packs won in parenthesis):

Mantle: +48.1    (1 win)
Ruth: +38.2  (1 win)
Pedroia: +22.2
Cobb: -0.72  (1 win)

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