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Gint-A-Cuffs Practice: 2010 Topps Series 2 Warm Up - Part 7

It's time for the seventh pack of cards for each "player."  Right now, Pedroia holds the lead...will that lead hold up?  The box hit still has yet to be discovered so no lead is safe right now!  A quick scoring reminder:
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:
350.  Bernie's Bash Brothers
364.  Trevor Hoffman
421.  Doug Fister
502.  Jhoulys Chacin
551.  Evereth Cabrera
623.  Miguel Cabrera
CMT67.  Willie McCovey (+2)
LL-51.  Juan Marichal & Tim Lincecum (+2)
PPA-JR.  Juan Rivera - Peak Performance Autograph (+20.  It's not the most exciting hit in the world...but I guess an auto beats a relic)!

Topps Attax:  Pablo Sandoval (+1)
Cobb's Pack Score:  25 points.  That autograph sure helped Cobb's score...but as of this moment, it's not enough to put him into third place.

Pack 02 - Pedroia:
467.  Fausto Carmona
516.  Marlon Byrd
531.  Matt Cain
572.  Clay Buchholz (-5, Red Sox...again)
573.  Johan Santana
576.  Paul Maholm (+5, Pirate)
616.  Franklin Gutierrez
625.  Grady Sizemore
PP-56.  Felix Hernandez (+2)
T11.  Joe Mauer (+4, Topps 2020.  The more of these I get, the more I like the set.  I think I'll be chasing this one).

Topps Attax:  B.J. Upton (+1)
Pedroia's Pack Score:  +7 points

Pack 02 - Ruth:
334.  Jayson Werth
408.  Detroit Tigers
418.  Aaron Leffey
461.  Tyson Ross
472.  Toronto Blue Jays
501.  Jake Peavy
591.  Fernando Rodney
HWS14.  Jim Palmer (+2)
TR66.  Nelson Cruz (+2)
Topps Attax:  Max Scherzer (+1)
Ruth's Pack Score:  +5 points
A basically boring pack, five points is the expected mininum for any given pack.  There wasn't even thing scan worthy in here.

Pack 02 - Mantle
440.  Willie Harris
442.  Dan Runzler
460.  Aaron Cunningham
525.  David Huff
538.  Travis Hafner
566.  Maicer Izturis
644.  David Purcey
VLC22.  Roy Campanella (+2)
T13.  Andrew McCutchen (+4 Topps 2020 x5 Pirate = +20 points)

Topps Attax:  Yunel Escobar (+1)
Mantle's Pack Score:  +23 points
A pack saved by McCutchen!  The 23 points are enough to put Mantle back into first place in the overall standings but they weren't enough to overtake Cobb's 25 points this round for a pack win.

Leaderboard (after 4 packs - # of packs won in parenthesis):

Mantle: +85.38 (1 win)
Pedroia: +73.2 (2 wins)
Ruth: +61.2  (1 win)
Cobb: +45.48  (3 wins)

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