Sunday, July 05, 2020

2020 Topps Series 2 hanger box recaps

I waited on an Excell employee to restock the card section at a Target to see if I can score a cardboard fix - to his credit, the guy wasn’t letting anyone touch anything as he busied himself with the job of unboxing various trading card product.

In between watching this guy putting out non-sport stock, I saw 2020 Big League value packs and blasters, 2020 Opening Day blasters and eventually 2020 Topps Series Two hanger boxes and value packs being placed on the shelves or hung up on the hooks - I felt silly, but who knows if I'll ever see the card section of any Target with actual unopened product to purchase.

Maybe the trading cards to look for would be NBA cards, but I wouldn't know anything about that - I was really hoping to see at least some 2020 Bowman Mega boxes I probably missed my window for those this year and I didn't see them being put out.

I grabbed the two hanger boxes of Topps while some father / son duo on stand by grabbed all the 2020 Panini Prizm baseball mega boxes and maybe some 'Pokemon' thing - there might be gold in those Prizm boxes but Panini's unlicensed baseball stuff is junk to me.

Box one

#678 Jose Rodriguez - I think I’ve been a fan of this Major League Baseball for about 30 years and while I wouldn’t know everyone who has ever played within that time frame, I feel like I had a better grasp of the rank-and-file guys 15-20 years ago. Now, it’s like my brain doesn’t have the space to acknowledge such players [even on my team] who have come up in recent years.
#654 Tim Lopes
#407 T.J. Zeuch
#451 Justus Sheffield
#492 Paul De Jong
#439 Dee Gordon

#617 Bryan Reynolds
#579 Kevin Kramer
#493 Christian Walker

#432 Walker Buehler
#619 Rick Porcello
#660 Brandon Nimmo
#480 Ozzie Albies

#490 Austin Slater
#450 Jorge Soler
#367 Giancarlo Stanton

#625 Detroit Tigers team card 
#651 Arizona Diamondbacks team card
#390 Emmanuel Clase
#682 Ronny Rodriguez
#502 Willians Astudillo 
#641 A.J. Pollock
#531 David Bednar

#637 Trevor Story
#380 James Karinchak
#457 Kevin Gausman
#511 Jordan Hicks
#589 Eric Lauer
#486 Dawel Lugo
#699 Sheldon Neuse
#501 Tampa Bay Rays team card
#417 Colorado Rockies team card
#592 Chris Dickerson
#664 Yonny Chirinos
#518 Shin-Soo Choo
#667 Adam Haseley
#381 Kyle Garlick
#402 Vince Velasquez - I always chuckle at the fact his father is a long-time So. Cal autograph collector who I still remember trying to ask Frank Thomas at the 2010 MLB All-Star Fan Fest whether or the Nugenix spokesman knew about his 1990 Topps NNOF error.
#693 Jon Berti
#560 Chad Pinder

#401 Jake Fraley
#470 Yan Gomes
#686 Josh Reddick

#606 Martin Maldonado
#525 Jake Cave
#572 Manuel Margot
#588 Tommy Kahnle

#464 Randy Dobnak
#414 Gio Gonzalez

#369 Kolten Wong
#459 Kwang-Hyun Kim
#488 Reynaldo Lopez
#639 Kolby Allard
#551 Clint Frazier
#689 James McCann
#442 Thomas Eshelman

#540 Kean Wong

#WOD-50 Wade Boggs - WARriors of the Diamond insert
#498 Brandon Workman - Rainbow Foil parallel

#FTH-8 Fernando Tatis Jr. - Fernando Tatis Jr. Highlights
#FTH-29 Fernando Tatis Jr. - Fernando Tatis Jr. Highlights

#WOD-23 Pedro Martinez - WARriors of the Diamond insert
#85-AS-25 Jose Altuve - 1985 Topps Baseball 35th Anniversary All-Stars

#TR-58 Babe Ruth - Topps Turkey Red insert
#TR-67 Steve Carlton - Topps Turkey Red insert

#TR-76 Will Clark - Topps Turkey Red insert
#TR-87 Nick Solak - Topps Turkey Red insert

Box two - go figure, maybe the first 40 cards out of the two hanger boxes [up to #401] were all the same and the reality of being so thirsty, only to be screwed over by random collation really hit me.

FWIW, I only listed the section of the brick where it was mostly a different run of cards.

#576 Sergio Romo
#626 Nate Lowe
#557 Adam Ottavino
#440 Carter Kieboom
#427 Edwin Diaz
#447 Griffin Canning
#471 Lorenzo Cain
#379 Ivan Nova

#549 Freddie Freeman
#425 Mike Foltynewicz
#395 Scott Oberg

#404 Raimel Tapia
#414 Gio Gonzalez
#369 Kolten Wong

#459 Kwang-Hyun Kim
#488 Reynaldo Lopez

#85-AS3 Roger Clemens - 1985 Topps Baseball 35th Anniversary All-Stars blue parallel
#673 Anthony DeSclafani - Rainbow Foil
#FTH-23 Fernando Tatis Jr. - Fernando Tatis Jr. Highlights
#FTH-9 Fernando Tatis Jr. - Fernando Tatis Jr. Highlights

#WOD-47 Rod Carew - WARriors of the Diamond insert
#85AS-30 Darryl Strawberry - 1985 Topps Baseball 35th Anniversary All-Stars

#TR-60 Lou Gehrig - Topps Turkey Red insert
#TR-52 Brusdar Graterol - Topps Turkey Red insert
#TR-84 Ozzie Smith - Topps Turkey Red insert
#TR-97 Stan Musial - Topps Turkey Red insert

3 comments:

John Bateman said...

Trevor Story always seems to be a horizontal base card.

Fuji said...

Love that Romo. Second time I've seen that card this weekend. He kinda looks like a lawn gnome.

Troublewiththecurve.net said...

First time I've seen that Tapia card - looks like he's on his way to a nice grab. The Freeman looks good too. I need to pick up a few packs of these. My Target never has any and the Wal-Mart keeps the cards directly in an isle RIGHT at the register so you literally have to get IN THAT LINE and wait until you get up there to check everything out. All the while, people behind you are getting impatient. Total pain and I never want to deal with the hassle.