Independence Day Packs

I had a little Christmas in July celebration yesterday. The pack-ripping itch got the best of me and I ordered a few discounted 2018 blasters from Blowout Cards. Two of them were beat-up boxes of 2018 Topps Series two, which yielded these bonus packs..

I also got a couple fat packs of 2015 Prizm football, which contained a 3-card pack of Red, White, & Blue Prizms.

The regular packs contained these cards:

 I never liked Deion Sanders, but I love those old Falcons uniforms.

The Prizm parallel is always the third card.

The rookie is always the fourth/last card. No Packers in these packs :(


I don't know where Jon Pennysleeves ran off to, but I picked a pair of Panini Classics blasters because he's raved about the set. I'll wait to discuss those until he's around. 


Back to the 2018 Topps blasters. I was able to add 40 cards to my set build - and a whole bunch of tradebait inserts.

Judges, including two blue Judges. 

Future Stars, including a pair of Julio Urias.

Legends in the Making. The Washington delegation was strong here (hold that thought). I got two Michael Conforto - a blue and a black - but no base. That's kind of interesting.

1983 Topps inserts, including a pair of Sox, a blue Gary Sanchez (not SN #/d) and a black Richard Urena (SN #/d to 299.)

Another Raffy Devers, another Ohtani, and a Cutch Home Run Challenge. If it seems like I have a lot of inserts here, that's because there were either two or three in every pack. Is that normal? I always forget.

Here's the rest of the inserts. There were 13 Yankees, including all 8 Aaron Judges. Not counting those, there were still too many Yanks. Especially Gray and Chapman :/


Would you like to see what was in the two Independence Day packs at the top of this post?


Here's that manufactured patriotism in all its old glory:

Yep, I pulled two Ryan Zimmermans (Zimmermen?) And the "patch" on the second card is a little off-center. #Murica


I've got a bunch of blog posts in the works, including part two of my Christmas In July break, so whatever escapes my brain first will be posted this Saturday. 

Have a happy (and safe) Fourth of July everyone! Go watch Stranger Things!

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