2008 Upper Deck Baseball Hobby

I picked up this pack at the card show from two weekends ago. It came from the table of “Overpriced Wax Guy.” I always feel a little bad, since he’s at every show and all I do is look and run. As it turned out, he had a bunch of 2011 Topps singles I…

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The date of my birth puts me in just about the perfect wheelhouse NOT to be a fan of Johnny Quest. The original series aired in 1964-65, and probably lived on through the 1970s through reruns. This was followed decades later by The New Adventures of …

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The long, arduous journey comes to a close today with the only pack worthy of the closing ceremonies: 2007 Upper Deck Series 2.After all, for a blog whose purpose is to open and showcase packs of trading cards, it is certainly fitting that the final pa…

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This is a product I have opened very little of since I bought a complete set of Series 2 at a card show shortly after it came out. I don’t know what prompted me to do so. Perhaps it was a side effect of being in the middle of building the ’07 Heritag…

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This is the pack I was least excited to find in the repack thingy. I liked this set enough to collect the whole thing along with all of the inserts, so unless something amazing emerges, there is literally nothing new I can get from this pack.Let’s tea…

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With a four-card pack, there’s not a whole heckuva lot to write about. To keep things interesting, I will share my favorite thing about each card.Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:75 Carlton FiskFavorite Thing: The funky design element behind those red red …

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As with any five-year-old pack of a rookie-centric set, it’s probably a good idea to track down each of the players in order to gauge the success of that pack. We shall do the same tonight.Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:212 Paul HooverSince his old Marli…

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2007 Fleer… its last year as a baseball brand. You tend to find a lot of ’07 Ultra in repack boxes and as discounted loosies, but regular Fleer not so much. How will this pack turn out?Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:307 Marcus Giles223 Carlos Guillen …

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All y’all thought Thorzul had quit this project and wasn’t going to post again until Guy Fawkes Day, didn’t you?Y’alls were wrong.Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:48 Joakin Soria20 Carlos Quentin158 Mat GamelYES!29 Adrian Beltre85 Brad HawpeThat Gamel rooki…

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Here’s the first of the non-visible packs from the repack pack, 2008 Topps Opening Day. Is it the most famously red design since 1990 Donruss? We’ll let history be the judge.Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:220 Nyjer Morgan”Tony Plush” is now a Brewer. A…

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Up next, the visible pack that partially made up my mind to take this beast home: 2009 Upper Deck X.Really?Oh yeah. X is still one of the sets I’m trying to complete, and I figured I had at least an outside chance of snagging one of the die-cut parall…

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I won’t bore you with another retelling of the circumstances surrounding the purchase of this repack pack, but I did allow a reader to choose the first pack I would open.Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:53 Jim Thome26 Cole Hamels15 Carlos Lee Silver Board P…

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Well, well, A Pack A Day is still alive, look at that….Today we bust a pack of 2001-02 Vanguard hockey from Pacific. At the time, it was a high end set, selling for, as you can see, $6.49 a pack. Today? .50 cents. We’ll blame it on the economy. …

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Thanks to Thorzul for providing some motivation to start posting here again. The NHL season is heating up, so what better time to post a hockey pack. Today we have a pack of 2007-08 Between the Pipes hockey, produced by In The Game. This is the “Are…

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Yes, the time has come. After being cooped up in the house for the better part of two days, I needed to break free. Finally the alley got plowed, and at last I could drive somewhere, anywhere. Driving down the alley now feels like the trench run to …

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Today, we’re going to take a look at this pack of cards in a rather grim way. Since most of these players will likely be dead, I will fill you in on the circumstances of each man’s death. This ought to be a doozy.Let’s tear in, and tear this pack fro…

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A lot can happen in the span of seven years. Coincidentally, that’s how long ago this pack of cards came out. In case you didn’t know, I freed it from a cheap-o box of cards I got at K-Mart.Since this pack was produced somewhere before the dawn of te…

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Yet another Target cheapie.Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:20 Jorge Posada8 Mark Teixeira19 Jason Bay2 Tim Lincecum144 Justin Ruggiano First Day IssueIt still hurts with regard to the way this set was constructed. The design and photography is just about …

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Topps Widevision.The ultimate in non-sports cards.They’re back.In 3D.And there isn’t any half-thought-out garbage to junk it all up. These hearken back to a time before we referred to these as “episodes.”Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:46 “Plans for His S…

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Asked one of my recent graduates where his friend was. “He’s dropping the Browns off in the Super Bowl.”

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These cards are the latest in my discounted Target finds. Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:BDP43 Clayton RichardBDP15 Blake DeWittBDPP89 Elvis AndrusBDPP102 Clayton Richard (Ummmm… how can he be in both? The answer: Clayton Richard Hot Pack. Odds – 1:2…

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So a bunch of these discounted packs have started showing up at my local Target, and for $1.59, I can’t resist.Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:36 Nomar Garciaparra22 Jason Varitek20 Ivan Rodriguez1 Albert Pujols Gold Parallel (250/499)71 Oliver Perez79 Bob…

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*Pfff* *Pfff* Whoa, what is up with all the dust around here?  This is a pack a *DAY* right?  Man, we need to step up, fellow bloggers!The 2009 Upper Deck Signature Stars cards come in a box that lets you know in BIG, BOLD PRINT that these ca…

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I received this pack as part of a recent non-sport purchase.  As it turned out, there were some sport-related packs of cards in the mix after all!  I had never heard of these before, and when I saw there was a chance of pulling a “Stan Musial…

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So… Target hit the secret number in my head that would get me to buy any more of this garbage. It’s still overpriced by about a buck-and-a-half.The fronts of the wrappers make a clear promise: “ONE ROOKIE CARD INSIDE!” I got four. Well, which one …

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Sometimes it’s fun to transpose the initial consonant sounds of two word, like in a name. I am told that my wife’s relatives make a habit of this, especially when masking light profanity, such as doing something for “gits and shiggles.” Let’s try it …

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Reading Night Owl’s post earlier today made me think that the decline in activity on A Pack a Day has been kind of sad. This was one of the blogs that really influenced me when I got back into collecting, so the least I can do is post a pack. I came h…

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I’ve been away from APAD for longer than I care to admit.  And, with that, let us delve into a pack of cards I received as part of a “Non-Sport” purchase.  Evidently, cartoonized cards featuring Reggie Jackson and Nolan Ryan are not “baseball…

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I guess I just refuse to let this blog die. (Should the words “with dignity” end that last sentence?)First of all, let me state that this pack of cards has been sitting, opened, on my shelf, for probably at least six months, if not more. At the prese…

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Anytime you get a chance to buy a Topps hobby jumbo pack for $2, you have to pounce on it. I don’t care what year it is. It also doesn’t hurt that I am trying to collect this set.187 – Ismael Valdes191 – Ramon Hernandez216 – Todd Hundley218 – Derek L…

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The pack that finally made me swear off this stuff once and for all. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT buy Donruss Americana unless it is a first series hobby box.Let’s tear in.Top to Bottom:49 Denzel Whitaker (I have no idea who you are. Thus, you are the re…

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Hello, A Pack A Day. It’s been a little while. The boss is back, so I figured I’d better look busy. I received a box of 1995 Stadium Club High Series as a gift awhile back and I thought I’d show off the first pack. At least, I think it was the firs…

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2009 Upper Deck 1st Edition Basketball108 David West143 Brandon Roy155 Manu Ginobili198 Ty LawsonBA-11 Troy Murphy – Behind the Arc insert1007 Michael Jordan Legacy189 Jeff Teague88 Jermaine O’ Neal74 Sasha Vujacic#27 Delonte West

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2009 Upper Deck 1st Edition Football50 Calvin Johnson28 Lance Briggs177 Shonn Greene102 Domenik Hixon89 Wes Welker – silver parallelCT-5 Ed Reed – Crunch Time insert72 Rashean Mathis56 Greg Jennings – Lambeau Leap199 Josh Freeman129 Frank Gore

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Being a baseball guy, I actively ignore other sports cards, because it is more simpler to focus on one sport – impulsively, I guess I’d grab cheap base cards of stars from other sports as well as a few of the most cheapest packs [maybe a dollar each] o…

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