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[otis0220]

Hello everyone, hope you're well. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I've been busting some stuff from the holidays. It's been the least in recent memory with these rising prices. I also bought off eBay and in-person. I will be seeking more off eBay, I haven't checked this much in quiiiiite some time.

Baseball - (36) 2020 Topps Ser 2 Retail Packs
Baseball - 1989 Upper Deck High Series Set
Football - 1991 Upper Deck Box
Football - (22) 2020 Panini Absolute Retail Packs
Football - 1996 Topps Stadium Club Retail Box
Hockey - 1992/93 O-Pee-Chee Premier Box

I will kick it off with the 91 UD. How many Favres did I pull? Did I have a pack all of the same guy? Tune in.

[aceecards]

good luck brother

[otis0220]

1991 Upper Deck Football Box

Finally decided to go for UD's first football set. Was on Steel City Collectibles for I think 15. 36 packs and 12 cards per.

Star Rookies

Found on average just about 1 rookie per pack.

Eric Bieniemy, Jarrod Bunch, Rob Carpenter, Aaron Craver x3, Mike Croel, Mike Dumas, Favre! x2, Alvin Harper x2, Greg Lewis x2, Lyght x2, Marinovich x2, Maryland, Dan McGwire, H. Moore, Browning Nagle, Bruce Pickens, Mike Pritchard, Stanley Richard, Eric Swann, E. Turner x2, Watters, Chuck Webb x2, Harvey Williams, Chris Zorich

Need 4 more, nobody big.

Inserts

Team MVP

Got 30 of these, just fewer than the rookies. Some of the notables: T. Thomas x2, Emmitt, Marino, Woodson, Rice, Rison x3

Football Heroes

All featuring Montana. Pulled 5 in total, 2 doubles

Holograms

I pulled 7. All of them, Thurman. LOL

There's also some Season Leaders, found 3 of the 6.

Not bad. It's odd to find holos of all the same guy, considering UD was already in year 3 after already having 2 baseball releases and a hockey. I'd expect collation issues like that for 89. I think I'm gonna open a high series box instead of getting a set. Might be picking that up soon. And we'll see what I report on next.

[otis0220]

2020 Topps Ser 2 Baseball Retail Packs

Got over 20 packs. 5 cards in each.

Rookies

Kim x2, Dunn, Berti, Willi Castro, Chad Wallach, Jake Fraley, Akiyama, Jack Mayfield, Lamonte Wade Jr, David Bednar, Tom Eshelman, Sheldon Neuse, Dom Nunez, Jonathan Hernandez, Yonathan Daza, Kean Wong

Pretty cool luck on the Kims. Some football or hockey to come next.

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1996 Topps Stadium Club Series 1 Retail Box

24 packs and 10 cards per. 2 double foil stamped theme cards, including rookies.

Rookies

Marvin Harrison x2, Alstott, Keyshawn, Moulds x2, Willie Anderson x2 Biakabatuka x2, Kevin Hardy, Rickey Dudley x2, Jerome Woods x2, Duane Clemons x2, Regan Upshaw, Lawrence Phillips, Marco Battaglia x2, Alex Van Dyke

Inserts

Contact Prints Reggie White, Sam Mills
Golden Moments M. Allen x2, Morten Anderson x2, Favre, Rice x2
Namath Finest NF3 - there are refractors also. 1:96 packs
Pro Bowl Power Matrix B. Sanders
Shining Moments Only missing a few. Notables: AFC Championship Game x2, Faulk, Elway, Galloway, Moon, Rice, Martin

Parallels

Dot Matrix Anthony Miller, Scott Mitchell

Was pretty enjoyable. I will have another that should be even more enjoyable coming up in the future. Funny how couple times I got the same Moments cards back-to-back. Thinking if I will pursue the set, got more dubs than I thought and series 2 is bit more pricey. Good looking rookie design. Have to see which football will be next.

[aceecards]

dont you have a big bricking problem with those old stadium club packs? and certainly the 91 ud had to be brick bats..lol

[otis0220]

Oh those stadium club yes! Thin bricks. Even had the hardest time ever pulling 2 cards apart, no joke. No problem with the 91s though.

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1991 Upper Deck Football High Series Box

Attempt to knock out some high cards and needs from the other break. At least I get a box bottom. 36 packs and 12 cards per. Before I begin, found something interesting. Usually when I open boxes, I don't just open one stack and move on to the next. I just take one from one stack, one from another etc. This time I decided to open them by the stack, went counterclockwise. I don't know if this was typical of products back then but I noticed a pattern by the 2nd pack. So from the 1st pack, this was the layout of the cards: card 1 was number 1-100, the 2nd was 101-200 and so on for the first 7 cards. The rest of the cards followed a consecutive number sequence, either in ascending or descending order. 2-126-250-397-436-594-627-53-52-51-50-49. In the rest of the packs of the stack, the first 7 cards went in ascending or descending order from the last. In my case: down, up, up, down, up, down, down. And everytime except once, those final 5 cards in every 3 packs in a stack followed this pattern: #1-100, 400s, 400s. Couple times in a stack you were shorted a card and also you may have had an extra one, the ones with the hologram. The final pack of the first stack didn't follow suit. It seemed like the bottom pack should've been on top. The pattern didn't carry on from one stack to another. After the first stack, there were a few inconsistencies here and there. Like the top pack was out of pattern from the rest underneath. But still you can sense a pattern throughout for the most part. It was interesting to go through this. So from doing a high series break from their first basketball and hockey, I was expecting to get maybe 4 high series in each pack. This would be just 2.

Star Rookies

I was able to find all of them. Most likely a guarantee for a high series box. Fewer doubles, for rookies at least lol. The 4 I needed were Charles McRae, Wesley Carroll, Randal Hill & Nick Bell. Found doubles of Eric Bieniemy, Carroll, Mike Dumas & Lyght

Rookie Force

Exclusive to high series, around 50 of them. Dan McGwire, James Joseph x2, Harvey Williams, Browning Nagle, Alfred Williams, Leonard Russell, John Flannery, Nick Bell, William Thomas, Wesley Carroll, Darren Lewis, Bruce Pickens, Lyght, Favre!, Jake Reed

Found other rookie cards but only couple worth mentioning: Bryce Paup & Jeff Feagles

Inserts

Team MVP

Had most of them from last break. Now have them all. With the last cards in the pack being mostly 400s, you'll get quite a few of these. There was only one not found in this box - Dennis Byrd. I did find doubles of mostly good ones - Rison, Thurman, Emmitt, Neal Anderson, Esiason, Metcalf, Sterling Sharpe, DeBerg, Albert Bentley

Football Heroes

Namath is the subject for the high series. I only pulled 2, and they were the same. FH10
At least the box bottom was different.

Arch Rivals

Exclusive to high series. Vencie Glenn/Deion Sanders, Robert Delpino/Tim McDonald

Holograms

Hooray. None were Thurman! M. Allen, James Brooks x2, Earnest Byner x2

Found more Season Leaders this time, 5 of the 6. Now have them all.

I'll end up getting the high series set sometime but I liked this break. It was interesting. And I also found out how the high series cards and some of the low ones have a different hologram sticker from the low series packs lol. Coming up next will be more football or hockey.

[otis0220]

1989 Topps Football Box

36 packs and 15 cards per. 1000 Yard Club insert and one gum stained card back in each pack. Been sooo long since I've opened packs with gum in them. Felt kinda good. Would I hit any good rookies with that dreaded gum?

Rookies

Super Rookie

Irvin x3, Thurman, Spielman, Ickey Woods, John Stephens x3, Erik McMillan x2, Hasty, Aundray Bruce x2, Mark Rypien, Jamie Morris x2, Chip Lohmiller

Other notable rookies - Tim Brown x2, Bruce Matthews x2, Eric Allen, Woodson x2, Heyward x2, Carrier x2, Beuerlein x3, Sterling Sharpe, Chris Chandler x2, Jumbo Elliott x3, Anthony Miller, Simon Fletcher x4, Carl Lee x2, Vaughan Johnson, Mark Collins x2

Inserts

1000 Yard Club

Missing 2. Notables - Rice, Dickerson x2, Herschel, Toon x2, Curt Warner x2

Nice little....I mean big....break. Got just over 300 of the cards. There are actually 2 Tim Brown rookies in this, turns out I've had the other one already as well as 1 of the 2 inserts I wasn't able to pull. Not familiar with some of the RB and WR from that era that were expendable or had their moments but it was wholesome. I would've rather busted the Score but this will do. Hopefully I'll find the traded set soon and cheap. Even without Aikman and Sanders, the box can be worth it. Up next, maybe hockey finally.

[otis0220]

Well I was going through a box of 92/93 OPC Premier Hockey.

36 packs and 8 cards per. An insert in each pack. I liked this product because it was a small set, under 150 cards. I didn't look much at the checklist. Along with weak rookies featured, even the base subjects were kind of weak. Not even halfway through the box I decided to stop. Don't care to put together the set. But anyway I'll report on some of what was pulled.

Rookies

Guerin x2, Hamrlik, Straka, Nylander, Lang x2, Kovalenko, Smehlik, Hebert Petrov, Korolev

Inserts

Star Performers

Roenick, Ferraro x2, LaFontaine, Gilmore, Sakic, Roberts x2, D. Hunter, Richer, Messier, Savard, Ranford, Bure

Top Rookies

Roussel

I do like the card design but the checklist is a bit of a letdown. Pretty much the top stars were featured only as an insert. So to conclude, soon there will be some 2020 football. And another surprise break to come.

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2020 Panini Absolute Retail Football

Got 22 packs. 2 rookies and a parallel in each pack.

Rookies

Justin Jefferson, Jeudy, Aiyuk, Ruggs III, Edwards-Helaire, Gabriel Davis, Hamler, Van Jefferson, Lamb, Pittman Jr, Mooney, D'Andre Swift, Trevon Diggs, Perine, Duvernay, Dobbins, Peoples-Jones, Jamycal Hasty, Bryan Edwards, DiNucci, Josh Uche, Thaddeus Moss, Dalton Keene, Jared Pinkney, Gross-Matos, Javon Kinlaw, Steven Montez, Kyle Dugger, Xavier McKinney, Devin Asiasi, Fromm, Raekwon Davis, Isaiah Coulter, Ross Black lock, James Morgan, Jeff Gladney, Patrick Queen, A.J. Epenesa, Darrell Taylor, Gallimore, Isaiah Simmons, Collin Johnson, Bowden Jr, Nate Stanley

Parallels

Yellow

Ekeler, V. Miller, Bell, D. Jackson, Bridgewater, Donald, Mack, Waller, Lock, Brady, Mahomes, J. Jefferson RC, DeeJay Dallas RC, Juan Jennings RC, Queen RC, D. Taylor RC, Gallimore RC, Akers RC, Stanley RC, Coulter RC, I. Simmons RC, Jeremy Chinn RC

Some good stuff, hopefully can get more.