The Next Six Packs from my 2023 Topps Hobby Box: I Find My Promised Hit!

I'm back today with the next batch of packs out of my 2023 Topps Series 1 hobby box.  I opened the first six packs from the box yesterday, now it's time to rip the next six packs!

Pack 7:

244.  Cesar Hernandez

51.  Chas McCormick

117.  Emmanuel Clase

280.  Julio Urias

54.  Marcus Stroman

5.  Albert Pujols

320.  Cade Cavalli

151.  Tyler Wells

235.  Robbie Ray

Greatest Hits:  22GH-4.  Mookie Betts

29.  Trevor Rogers

8.  Sam Moll

32.  Jordan Montgomery

37.  Josh Smith

I like the foil sheen on the Greatest Hits cards but not quite enough to try and collect that set for myself.  As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm only planning on trying to build the Aces insert set.

Pack 8:

144.  Marco Gonzeles

104.  Keston Hiura

195.  George Kirby

45.  Gerrit Cole

87.  Ethan Small

167.  Michael Massey

123.  Zach Davies

57.  Ha-Seong Kim

214.  Graham Ashcroft

162.  Isiah Kiner-Falafa

76.  Josh Winckowski

105.  Seth Beer

75.  JT Brubaker

97.  Brandon Hughes

I like the design of the Future Stars subset a lot this year, it reminds me of the early/mid-90s Topps sets which was my prime collecting years.  I think Topps knows what they are doing when it comes to appealing to older collectors and the associated nostalgia of cards!

Pack 9:

278.  Aaron Nola

90.  Korey Lee

290.  Max Fried

179.  Carlos Rodon

286.  Ezequiel Duran

79.  Tyler O'Neill

275.  Vaughn Grissom

38.  Jorge Mateo

223.  Eli Morgan

1988 Topps:  T88-8.  Alek Manoah

203.  Gary Sanchez

201.  Trevor Larnach

26.  Trent Grisham

25.  Bryon Buxton

Another 1988 Topps insert, not much to say about Manoah though.  

Pack 10:

47.  Ryan Mountcastle

98.  Mike Yastrzemski

264.  Steele Walker

282.  Tim Anderson

247.  Gavin Lux

180.  Dominic Leone

274.  Matt Duffy

Major League Material:  MLM-ABR.  Alex Bregman

256.  Jose Ramirez

78.  Sonny Gray

218.  Jhoan Duran

253.  Max Kepler

Well, there's the one promised hit of my box.  A plain white jersey bit of Alex Bregman.  Certainly not the most exciting hit that I could have pulled...but I also could have done a whole lot worse so I won't complain!  

Pack 11:

305.  Ji-Man Choi

111.  Hunter Brown

14.  Brandon Drury

124.  Nathanial Lowe

295.  Bryson Stott

199.  Starling Marte

16.  Nolan Gorman

299.  Gleyber Torres

Rainbow foil:  136.  Dylan Bundy

All Aces:  AA-24.  Julio Urias

159.  A.J. Minter

46.  Jorge Alfaro

173.  Giants team card

178.  NL Home Run Leaders

While the previous pack had the promised hit of the box, for my money it's Pack 11 that has been the best pack thus far!  I love that All Aces set and I'm definitely going to track down the full set - and as luck would have it, I needed that Urias still!

Pack 12:

63.  C.J. Cron

130.  Keibert Ruiz

121.  Luis Garcia

1.  Juan Soto

3.  Bryce Harper

119.  Oscar Gonzalez

213.  Owen Miller

324.  Santiago Espinal

166.  Tyler Stephenson

261.  Martin Perez

303.  Checklist

211.  NL ERA Leaders

191.  Caleb Smith

301.  Ryan McMahon

We end today's pack rips with card #1 in the set - always a good one to acquire for binder purposes!  Overall, I'm happy with this batch of packs - mostly because of that Aces card (but also a hit that I think is tradeable).  There's still the other half of the box to rip through in future posts, so come on back to see what I end up with in those packs in a future post!