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The Breaks

Posted on February 23, 2019February 26, 2019 by BBCARDZ 1 Comment

Okay, it’s time to share some more 2019 Topps Series 1 Baseball cards that I got from a few group breaks. I think I may have overdone the group break buy-ins this year but those darn things are so darn attractive to me–darn it!

For each of these breaks, I was really hoping to get the Dodgers spot but, except for one group break, they were already taken. As one old-school rapper once proclaimed, these are the breaks…

The Mets Cards

These cards are from a pick-your-team full jumbo case break from my local card shop, Hall of Fame Baseball Cards, located in Arcadia, CA. You can view their videos here. Along with 84 Mets base cards (lots of duplicates), I got some nice inserts/parallels and a 1984 Jacob DeGrom jersey card.

Silver pack promo cards (1984 Topps chrome design) were also included and as you can see above, I got two Darryl Strawberry cards. One of those will go to the Stadium Fantasium Trading Block. (Fun fact: According to my gf, Darryl Strawberry’s grandmother used to live three houses over from us.)

The Angels Cards

I bought into a second jumbo case break at Hall of Fame Baseball Cards but this one was a random team break. No Dodgers for me in this case break but that’s okay because the Angels are my second favorite team. From this break I got 93 base cards, some more nice inserts, a couple of cool silver pack 1984 chrome cards but no relic or auto.

The Dodgers Cards (Woohoo!)

So I thought I was done buying into group breaks with Hall of Fame Baseball Cards. But about a week after I bought into the above case breaks, Hall of Fame Baseball Cards offered a pick-your-team hobby 1/2 case break. I checked to see if the Dodgers were still available and sure enough they were still available. Of course I jumped on this. So this half-case break resulted in 68 Dodgers base cards, a few Dodgers inserts (including my first Revolution of the Game insert), a Joc Pederson Advanced Stats cardback (#’d to 150, inserted 1:75 hobby packs), a Corey Seager SP (shortprint) and a Clayton Kershaw Retro Hat Logo relic. I am very pleased with these Dodger cards.

The Cubs Cards

Another case break I had bought into was one done by online casebreaker Crackin’ Wax. I’ve been in case breaks with Crackin’ Wax‘s husband-and-wife team for maybe three or four years now and they are top-notch. You can see there YouTube videos here. This was a pick-your-team jumbo case break. Again I was too late to take the Dodgers so I chose the Cubs. I ended up with 142 regular base, a Willson Contreras vintage stock variation (#’d to 99), a short-print Kris Bryant photo variation card, a 1984 Kris Bryant jersey relic, and quite a few inserts/parallels/chrome cards.

I do love the insert cards and parallels and I’m glad I got plenty of those from these group breaks. I think I did pretty decent too with three hits out of four breaks. The two SPs, the vintage stock card, the Advanced Stats card and the Home Run Challenge cards are also very cool.

Sorting through all of these Series 1 cards in preparation for Series 2 will keep me very busy for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, stay tuned…