Friday, January 3, 2014

Busted A Box Of Timeline

2008 Upper Deck Timeline retail from Blowout Cards.
I think it was $12.00 or something like that.

24 packs in a box, 6 cards per pack.
That means 144 cards towards the set of 385.


Note the "on average" for two insert cards per pack.
I must have had about 2-3 packs with only 1 or no insert it seemed.
And with the high numbers so hard to pull this made completing a set even more difficult.


Here's the stack after all the packs were opened.
I already had most of the base set before I tore in.
This effort was to pick up the shorter print cards numbered 100-385.
Yes, there are a lot of those.



1992 UD Minor League style cards I pulled numbered 101-130.
Twelve of them.
I needed several of these.
Nice to pull both a Longoria and a Votto rookie.



Of the 1994 All-Time Heroes I needed about half.
Again, twelve pulled.
Starting to see a trend.
These are numbered 131-180.



Pulled these 1995 SP Top Prospects 181-210 of which I needed most.
Only 8 not 12 though..
Probably due to the several packs that only had 1 or no inserts.

The higher the number the scarcer the pull so these are getting harder and harder to pull.
That means that I needed almost all the rest of the cards I pulled.


Another pretty good amount of 2004 Timeless Teams numbered 211-310 in the box.
Twelve again, see what I mean?
I needed every single one of these.



Only 1 each of the super high numbers.
1993 SP #311-336 Jed Lowrie
1994 SP #336-360 Chin-Lung Hu
1995 SP #361-385 Rico Washington


Blast!
And only 1 gold parallel in the whole box!



I also got a waste of space threesome of Yankee Stadium Legacy.
These have already gone bye-bye through Listia.
I hate these.

After counting up the inserts I have more than the quota of 2 per pack = 48.
Can't figure how that happened.
Oh well.

I grade the contents of this box a C.

All-in-all though I knocked off a little chunk of cards towards the complete set.

5 comments:

  1. I like this set, but I gave up on completing it. What a pain.

    How many base Braun's, Rodriguez's and Hunter's do you have? I think that's the most aggravating part of this set.

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    1. Agreed. The handful of players in the base set that I got 3-4-5 cards of in one box was very frustrating.

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  2. So it was true to it's word with the Average as long as you got the 48 I'd be happy. on the other hand if you grabbed a handful of packs at a show and got the packs with 1 or none then not so happy. there is a method to the card companies madness as stating "ON AVERAGE" lol

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  3. i still have my wantlist for this set up at gcrlwants.blogspot.com. i'll check my doubles and see if i have any that you need.

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    1. GCRL youve been on my list of things to do. Hopefully this weekend.

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