Friday, June 26, 2015

2015 Topps Stadium Club blaster recap I

I was going to pick up a blaster box of TSC and a 2015 Topps Series II blaster, but somehow I lost my Topps Series II $5 off coupon, so I went with two TSC blasters - in the battle of cards that just came out in the last week or two, I think I prefer these cards over Topps Archives since TSC seems a little more high brow [whatever that means for a baseball card product].

Unlike Topps Archives, there is one card design used for the entire 300 card set with no pesky short prints - while Archives uses three rehashed Topps designs with a short printed subset that may only serve to frustrate collectors.

The photos are sharp, though it's almost disappointing to see typical baseball images [hitting / pitching / fielding] used - since the 'unique' images really pop.

Maybe a minor complaint is the player names on front of the cards are occasionally hard to read - when the foil stamping goes over a dark part of the full bleed image used

Pack one
#135 Mike Trout
#98 Jim Rice
#159 Torii Hunter

#18 Zack Wheeler

#192 Kolten Wong

Pack two
#146 Mike Mussina
#154 J.D. Martinez
#51 Miguel Cabrera
#155 Nick Swisher

#295 Michael Taylor

Pack three 
#256 David Robertson
#178 Steve Pearce
#199 Ryan Howard
#135 Mike Trout - Gold parallel
#180 Adam LaRoche

Pack four

#277 Oswaldo Arcia

#190 Stan Musial
#134 Mitch Moreland
#133 Kenley Jansen
#76 Bo Jackson

Pack five
#293 Trevor May
#283 Aaron Sanchez

#266 Derek Jeter

#SCA-JC Jarred Cosart - certified autograph
#3 David Cone

Pack six
#224 Kendall Graveman
#197 Dalton Pompey
#238 Roberto Alomar
#223 Lorenzo Cain
#198 Cole Hamels

Pack seven
#300 Kris Bryant
#176 Matt Barnes
#99 Chase Utley
#30 Dilson Herrera - Gold parallel
#37 Carlos Ruiz

Pack eight
#68 Brooks Robinson
#93 Andy Van Slyke
#30 Dilson Herrera

#CS-16 Anthony Rendon - Contact Sheet insert
#227 Jon Singleton

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