It has been around 3 months since the last time I bought into a box break. The one back in May was not really worth the money, but that is the risk you take. Quite a few new products have been released since then, but I have found none at the local Walmart. Wanting to make some progress on recent team sets, I won an EBAY auction last week with 20 different blaster boxes. The break featured 5 blasters each of Stadium Club, Gypsy Queen, Select, and Absolute. I paid a little less than the price of 2 blasters. This one turned out quite well for me.
Absolute boxes have 5 packs of 8 cards and 1 hit per box. The base cards are nothing too exciting, but it was nice to get Arenado in a Cardinals uniform. I received 2 of them along with a Molina base that I already had from a trade.
Stadium Club blasters also have 40 cards like Absolute. Unlike Absolute, Stadium Club is 8 packs of 5 cards. I did not put much of a dent in my team set as I only received 4 base cards. Too bad I already bought the Kim and Gibson cards at a card show in July.
Gypsy Queen blasters have 7 packs of 7 cards. I received 7 total Cardinals base cards with one being a duplicate Molina and also my 3 Carlson card. It would not be the last.
The only other card I got was a great Beam Team black parallel numbered to 99. This was my second nice Carlson inserts and second insert numbered to 99 out of the first 15 boxes. Already a lot better than the last box break I was in.
Autographs fall 1:110 packs in blaster boxes. I admit I let out a yell when I saw the Carlson card. These are selling for a little over what I won the auction for. Throw in the black Beam Team and all the other inserts and base cards, and I think I came out smelling like a rose on this one.
Looks like you got a really nice variety of cards. Those Select parallels are beautiful!
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