Buying Fanatics boxes is better than buying at Walmart. It depends how honest if you local card shop because back then there was a shop in Houston (late 1990s) where when the pull a case hit, they would sell the remaining boxes. I never hit any good stuff out of many boxes that I opened. Instead of hair cut and cards, it was hair cuts only until they shutter in early 2000. Speaking of group breaks, avoid buying into 2024 Topps Jumbo, or Hobby- most breaks I've seen just show the colors, autographs, or inserts, very few breaks, or any breakers will show those Golden Mirrors SSPs, or the variations. And avoid 2023 Topps Five Stars, I've seen at least 50 case breaks luckily I only joined 1 and got skunked. I observed that the Astros don't hit much, I've not seen N.Ryan, or Altuve. Very rarely do Bagwell come out, most likely J.Pena, but you can get last year's Pena Rookie Year cheap.
In my case I walked in to my local card shop. I don't know him but I've talked to the owner a few times and he appears to be a good guy and has great Google reviews. He told me he only had 1 hobby box left for $105. I decided to pay $90 on Fanatics and accept the free shipping. It ended up being $103 after tax and $4.99 "handling" I still ended up saving $10 because sales tax here in Washing t on is through the roof ( I think it's 8.5%?) But it wasn't worth the 1 week wait to get it or the "not helping the local business stay in business part"
Fanatics that I know, you can get points for purchases. You should try Fanatics 2024 Topps Series 1 Blaster box, you get the chance of hitting a autograph baseball and they have the blaster parallel, but I think they are sold-out on their website. The only card shop I go to is Houston Connections on Westheimer, but I live too far from work and even farther from home so I haven't been in ages. Don't overbuy, but don't stop, if you stop buying random boxes you may never hit cards you can flip. I once hit a Luka Doncic Prizm Green Pulsar Rookie #/25 buying 1 blaster box, for the rest of the year I didn't buy Prizm BKB and I still have the card that used to be my avatar on here. My best Houston pull was Hakeem, Drexler and Yao Triple Immaculate Autograph. One of biggest regret ever, selling it for a good amount and never finding it again unless for 3x what I sold it for. Learned lessons hard. Joey Loperfido- He doesn't have a MLB license card Around 2 years ago maybe more, I was selling Jake Meyers Sugar Land Skeeter cards for $15, paid a team set for $1 at their website. Meyers didn't have a MLB license card before he was called up. Speaking of game-used, last month, or 1 1/2 months ago, Fanatics was selling a Game-Worn 2nd Year Jalen Green Nike Shoes for $999. It was up there for at least 5 days before it was snatched. If it was a rookie shoes, I would of snatched it, or a rare colored shoes. And I'm not too fond of Green because I feel he plays too nice and doesn't have the fire to drive, too streaky and this separates him being a starter to All-Star.
According to Stryker's spreadsheet, the fanatics and the mega boxes are the best buys right now. I haven't been able to get my hands on any mega boxes. I wasn't happy with the jumbos and hobby boxes this series. I've made almost of my money back on what I've spent so far selling the hits that I did get. I've been mainly getting my Altuve cards on eBay. I've notice everyone that I have purchased from live several states away. NY, California, Wisconsin and etc. I'm curious if these cases are designed to ship out like that for a reason.
what are the chase/hits in the megas? saw some at target and passed since it was paper at $50 i think
1989 Topps Baseball Foil Mega Box Checklist 100 cards. Exclusive to mega boxes. Parallels: Gold – /50 Orange – /25 Red – /5 Black – 1/1 89B-1 Jordan Lawlar, Arizona Diamondbacks 89B-2 Manny Machado, San Diego Padres 89B-3 Jose Canseco, Oakland Athletics 89B-4 Juan Soto, San Diego Padres 89B-5 Jazz Chisholm Jr., Miami Marlins 89B-6 Luis Robert Jr., Chicago White Sox 89B-7 Albert Pujols, St. Louis Cardinals 89B-8 Gavin Williams, Cleveland Guardians 89B-9 Sal Frelick, Milwaukee Brewers 89B-10 Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego Padres 89B-11 Marco Luciano, San Francisco Giants 89B-12 Colton Cowser, Baltimore Orioles 89B-13 Bo Jackson, Kansas City Royals 89B-14 Masataka Yoshida, Boston Red Sox 89B-15 Randy Arozarena, Tampa Bay Rays 89B-16 Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels 89B-17 Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves 89B-18 Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Cardinals 89B-19 Adley Rutschman, Baltimore Orioles 89B-20 Luis Arraez, Miami Marlins 89B-21 Bo Bichette, Toronto Blue Jays 89B-22 Francisco Lindor, New York Mets 89B-23 Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies 89B-24 Luis Matos, San Francisco Giants 89B-25 Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners 89B-26 Justin Verlander, Houston Astros 89B-27 Jose Altuve, Houston Astros 89B-28 Henry Davis, Pittsburgh Pirates 89B-29 Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers 89B-30 Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants 89B-31 Aaron Judge, New York Yankees 89B-32 Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays 89B-33 Josh Jung, Texas Rangers 89B-34 Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers 89B-35 Corey Seager, Texas Rangers 89B-36 Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros 89B-37 Kris Bryant, Colorado Rockies 89B-38 Jordan Westburg, Baltimore Orioles 89B-39 Mike Schmidt, Philadelphia Phillies 89B-40 Bryan Woo, Seattle Mariners 89B-41 Carlos Correa, Minnesota Twins 89B-42 Ichiro, Seattle Mariners 89B-43 Christian Yelich, Milwaukee Brewers 89B-44 José Ramírez, Cleveland Guardians 89B-45 Will Clark, San Francisco Giants 89B-46 AJ Smith-Shawver, Atlanta Braves 89B-47 George Brett, Kansas City Royals 89B-48 Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh Pirates 89B-49 Ryne Sandberg, Chicago Cubs 89B-50 Junior Caminero, Tampa Bay Rays 89B-51 Barry Larkin, Cincinnati Reds 89B-52 Jeff Bagwell, Houston Astros 89B-53 Mark McGwire, Oakland Athletics 89B-54 Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers 89B-55 Robin Yount, Milwaukee Brewers 89B-56 Trea Turner, Philadelphia Phillies 89B-57 Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers 89B-58 Masyn Winn, St. Louis Cardinals 89B-59 Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals 89B-60 Oneil Cruz, Pittsburgh Pirates 89B-61 Rafael Devers, Boston Red Sox 89B-62 Christopher Morel, Chicago Cubs 89B-63 Byron Buxton, Minnesota Twins 89B-64 Anthony Rizzo, New York Yankees 89B-65 Christian Encarnacion-Stra, Cincinnati Reds 89B-66 Julio Rodríguez, Seattle Mariners 89B-67 Nolan Arenado, St. Louis Cardinals 89B-68 Vladimir Guerrero, Montréal Expos 89B-69 Elly De La Cruz, Cincinnati Reds 89B-70 Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels 89B-71 Nolan Schanuel, Los Angeles Angels 89B-72 Ceddanne Rafaela, Boston Red Sox 89B-73 Tony Gwynn, San Diego Padres 89B-74 Matt Olson, Atlanta Braves 89B-75 Sonny Gray, Minnesota Twins 89B-76 Chipper Jones, Atlanta Braves 89B-77 Emmet Sheehan, Los Angeles Dodgers 89B-78 Joey Votto, Cincinnati Reds 89B-79 Endy Rodríguez, Pittsburgh Pirates 89B-80 Don Mattingly, New York Yankees 89B-81 Ozzie Smith, St. Louis Cardinals 89B-82 Riley Greene, Detroit Tigers 89B-83 Nolan Ryan, Houston Astros 89B-84 Wade Boggs, Boston Red Sox 89B-85 Curtis Mead, Tampa Bay Rays 89B-86 Greg Maddux, Atlanta Braves 89B-87 Pete Alonso, New York Mets 89B-88 Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore Orioles 89B-89 Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox 89B-90 Zack Gelof, Oakland Athletics 89B-91 Buster Posey, San Francisco Giants 89B-92 Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees 89B-93 Ronny Mauricio, New York Mets 89B-94 Adolis García, Texas Rangers 89B-95 Kyle Harrison, San Francisco Giants 89B-96 Andrew Abbott, Cincinnati Reds 89B-97 Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers 89B-98 Max Scherzer, Texas Rangers 89B-99 Corbin Carroll, Arizona Diamondbacks 89B-100 Tyler Soderstrom, Oakland Athletics Final mail day for 2023 Diamond Icons, only missing Yordan autograph for all the Stros autograph in the product.
Unopened 1980 Hockey Case ( 16 boxes ) just sold for 3.7M last week. It was 20 Cents a pack. That was in our lifetime.
Without doing any research I suspect that is "The Great One's" rookie year. I saw the total was Canadian dollars. Take 25 cents off of every dollar. Only 2,775,000 in real money. Its a bargain.
When money is involved, shady stuff happens. The sealed wrapping by Baseball Connection had many years experience even PSA supported the business until.....
I collected cards until I was around 10 years old but stopped around that same age. But I was VERY serious about it at the time and I never got rid of any of them. I still have everything locked in a footlocker. There's some good stuff in there, like really good, but I haven't looked at any of it in decades. I don't even know if it's even still intact anymore, but there are some things in there that go back more than a hundred years. Most are from the 70s, but some are early 1900s. A kid down the street used to sell me stuff that I guess he must have gotten from his dad maybe. Mantle. Koufax. Things from the 50s. I'll have to look through it again one day. Most of it is probably junk, but I know for sure some of it is definitely not!
You lucked out on not paying 1k for those Green shoes. They are really going to depreciate in value. They're also pretty available if you're looking. He gives them away a lot. You could probably find a pair for around $500. You could also go to a game and buy courtside tickets next to the Rockets bench and ask him. Be a cool experience and he'd most likely give them to you if he didn't need them (meaning they're a new pair). Hope that helps.
Was looking through some box's this weekend. Came across a small amount of my Astros stuff. some low numbers as wel.
It's strange. I have 5 Altuve autographed cards, and every time I look at them, I swear it's Yuli Gurriel's signature.
I'm currently buying any game used jerseys or bats for Altuve. I have a pretty significant collection already but always on the look out for more. Rest assured they will be going into my private collection. I really want his debut jersey on the off chance someone out there has it.
