Friday morning was my son's final baseball game, most likely ever. He graduated high school in May, and will be moving on to college in August to pursue a degree in music education. After not getting much playing time his senior year, it was nice to be able to look forward to his travel ball season knowing he would get a start each tournament. In his 5 games as the starting pitcher, he was 4-1 with 3 complete games. Good way to finish his career.
Shortly after my son started playing travel baseball as an 8 year old, anytime we would go to a tournament we would try to find a Walmart on the way home and buy a blaster box. Being his last one, we had to stop. We were hoping to find a box of 2025 Topps Chrome Platinum, but the Walmart only had Topps Series 2, Bowman, and Donruss. He opted for the Bowman along with a fat pack of Series 2. Here is what $40 got us along with a stack of base cards.
I was not expecting much from the Topps pack, but was a little disappointed with only 3 non base cards. That was a waste of $7.00 .
The Bowman blaster was better. We got a few of the big name rookies in the a paper portion.
The chrome portion had a couple of decent rookies.
Each pack had one insert or parallel. Nothing outstanding here.
The final insert was the only card we will keep from the box. My son pulled this in his first pack. I would guess the cards we got would run us about $10-15 at a card show. The enjoyment of opening the packs counts for something, but overall this was another example of why I do not buy packs very often.
They grow up fast don't they? That's a nice Walmart tradition you had.
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