The Chase Has Begun!!!

The theme for the 2013 Topps Baseball cards this year is "The Chase" and I am starting to understand exactly what they mean. On Wednesday night I headed over to Target in hopes of getting a few of the blaster boxes that I just knew they would have. It turns out that they do not update their card isle daily and would not be putting out the new Topps cards until the weekend. I wanted Target because I thought the red border would look better than the blue border that Wal-Mart cards would have. I ended up at Wal-Mart and purchased two blaster boxes, 4 regular packs, and 1 rack pack. When I arrived home I quickly went to our sports room and started ripping open my new obsession. I was very happy with the overall product and I really was surprised at the value that each blaster box contained. Here are a few of the cards that I pulled form the blaster boxes.

The first card here is a blue parallel card of rookie pitcher Dylan Bundy. The blue
parallel cards are only available at Wal-Mart. I currently have more of the blue cards than any of the other colored parallels, so it makes sense to complete that set also. The two cards below are the emerald parallel and gold parallel versions of this year's set. I really like how the emerald cards look, they really stand out and are noticeably different than the other parallel sets. The gold parallel cards area all numbered out of 2013 which makes them a bit more difficult to find in packs than the emerald cards. I will most likely work on the gold set along with the others, but I  am more concerned about finishing the emerald and blue sets first.

The last card that I scanned is one of the 25 SP (short print) cards that Topps put out this year. The theme is "out of bounds" and all of the pictures on these cards depict players catching or attempting to catch a ball that is out of bounds. I was very excited to have pulled one of these cards from my blaster box at Wal-Mart.

Here is where I currently stand on set completion. I have one possibly two complete base sets, 25/330 emerald parallel cards, 14/330 gold parallel cards, 43/330 blue parallel cards, and I have a single pink (breast cancer) parallel. I am looking to buy some lots on eBay if the price is right and I am really looking at trading for a lot of these parallel cards. I will post some more pictures next week of the autographs I pulled from the two jumbo boxes I purchased. I will also be posting more cards that are for trade. Please send me an email if you want to trade for any of the cards I put in my previous post or if you have a lot for sale. I am sure I will be going back to Wal-Mart to get some more blaster boxes later this week.


thank for reading,
Bubba