Friday, July 12, 2024

Still Missing The Models, But Winning The Game

Continuing on with the case of 2024 Heritage, my PC's got a nice boost, and things got colorful.

Box 2

Alright!  I've got seven PC guys in the box toppers, and Fisk is one of the two Hall Of Famers.  Strike him off my want list!

Got another of the Luis Matos image variants.  

Dupes already!

 

Also pulled a "Missing signature" flavor Jordyn Adams.  

But the biggest highlight was the "hit":

Fisk Hot Box!  Oh Yeah!   Hit location - Top of 3rd stack.

Here's the whole box.

Also had a couple good Orioles pulls - Gunnar SP and the white border Adley.

But these are still the best.


Box 8

Meanwhile, on Stuart's side....

Another 70's star box topper.  These are one of my favorite parts of the set, even though Stuart called dibs on them.

Color swap Owen White (blue & green is the variation). 

Refractor Davis /575...

His hit was a little more typical of what I see most often.  If it wasn't Rockies, I'd expect Mariners, Rays, or maybe Giants.  At least it's a purple swatch.

Interestingly got three white borders.  Same numbers on all the rest though.  A lot of purple, but not as much as the next one...


Box 3

Boom!  Two of my PC guys in a row!  I don't recall this color combo on the original '75 A's, but it's not bad.  Could I possibly pull his auto too?!

Silver refractor /375 of Jarren Duran.  I think he's a popular player isn't he?  He must be...

...He's a short print too.

We may have found another color or no-sig later, because this is all I have from this box.  No Vida auto - pulled a "Cousin Bryan" bat piece.  (Stuart and Bryan have the same last name.)


Box 9

Dang!  I should get another one of these to fill out the Adley Rainbow....

The MVP's look really good in white border!

But after a couple packs, we realized this was a special box....

Because these just kept showing up!  One in each pack.  Purple Chrome Hot Box for real!

Castellanos in a red & yellow swapped flavor...

But this one was mostly grape flavor overall.  Some decent names too, and a few of our fun nicknames - Colts & Cows the farmer, and Max "my brain is" Fried.  Nice to get De La Cruz.  Is he still worth something?

And another HoF hit!  Hit location - Bottom 1st

One of the better boxes of the dozen, for sure.

Summarizing the hits so far:

Box #1:  jersey - unknown
Box #2: auto - top 3rd
Box #3: bat - top 4th

Box #7: jersey - top 4th
Box #8: jersey - top 4th
Box #9: auto - bottom 1st

Something to keep in mind if you're picking packs from a fresh hobby box...  Stay tuned for the rest of the case.  The hits keep coming...

7 comments:

  1. I'll vote for Fisk over Simmons. Good hits though.

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  2. A Fisk and Simmons auto -- there is NO problem with that! ... You're right there are no red-yellow A's in the original set, only plenty of yellow-reds.

    The color border swaps are kind of fun. The missing signatures are dumb. That's stupid Gypsy Queen behavior.

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  3. I can never remember to check for variations on sets that I don't collect. It does help when Topps lists the variation with the card number.

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  4. Sweet Fisk auto, jealous. Congrats! Simmons to boot, but love me Fisk.

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  5. Congratulations to you and Stuart for pulling two HOF autos.

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  6. Congrats on the Fisk sig!

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