2021 Topps - eBay blaster nearly a disaster

For the times I've searched around the Targets I can get to and have seen bupkis, maybe $27 shipped wasn’t necessarily a bad price to pay for something delivered from eBay - considering a box is about $20 and maybe the premium I’m paying for in this instance merely covers the cost to ship the item.  

On an afternoon where I actually, finally found some 2021 Topps on the shelves at my local Target and was able to buy some baseball cards - I checked the mail after I got home, it looks like my eBay blaster came in, so maybe things 'evened out' a little where I had some new cards to play with.

Unfortunately,  I saw the small box the blaster was shipped in was crushed along with the actual blaster box itself - I had second thoughts fast, but because I had suffered from a bit of FOMO the past 3 weeks, I took my chances and opened the blaster up. 

Fortunately it doesn’t seem like any of the cards got damaged - this was a basic box with no bonus inserts / parallels, only a coupon ‘book’ for future purchases throughout the rest of the year.

Topps 70th Anniversary patch card pack

#70LP-JB Johnny Bench - there are never outright duds on the checklist and the cards usually look nice, though super thick and has been some variation of these manufactured cards for the past decade or so.

Pack one

#11 Max Kepler

#186 Luke Voit

#268 Johnny Cueto

#67 Clayton Kershaw

#231 Dane Dunning

#270 Mitch White

#249 Trent Grisham

#182 Eduardo Rodriguez

#70YT-17 Gleyber Torres - 70 Years of Topps insert

#T52-30 Yadier Molina - 1952 Topps Redux insert 

#190 Sonny Gray

#158 Buck Farmer

#245 Aristides Aquino

#240 Jose Urquidy

Pack two

#302 Max Muncy

#254 Zack Britton

#237 Willy Adames

#313 Matt Shoemaker

#233 Dansby Swanson

#6 Justus Sheffield

#246 Cavan Biggio

#195 Baltimore Orioles team Card

#TC52-43 Shohei Ohtani - 1952 Topps Redux insert; Chrome parallel

#T52-15 Jacob deGrom - 1952 Topps Redux insert

#103 Daniel Johnson

#10 Daulton Varsho

#243 Santiago Espinal

#65 Isaac Paredes

Pack three

#218 Matt Olson

#51 Sean Manaea 

#157 Aroldis Chapman

#234 Lorenzo Cain

#283 Texas Rangers team card

#296 Joey Wendle

#201 Get up! - checklist feat. Pete Alonso and Michael Conforto

#86B-35 - Vladimir Guerrero Jr. - 1986 Topps insert

#T52-16 Justin Verlander - 1952 Topps Redux insert

#187 Christian Pache

#291 Miguel Cabrera

#189 Adam Plutko

#69 Gio Gonzalez

Pack four

#33 Yonathan Daza

#42 Kyle Lewis

#62 Stephen Vogt

#203 Trea Turner

#139 Humberto Mejia

#324 Nick Neidert

#55 Nick Senzel

#128 Dylan Bundy

#36 Charlie Morton - Rainbow Foil parallel

#T52-47 Sonny Gray - 1952 Topps Redux insert

#165 Willson Contreras

#38 Mitch Moreland

#27 Mike Trout - the centering on the back is is off for a handful of the cards I've pulled; that might be worth noting.

#105 Shane Bieber

Pack five

#87 Jorge Alfaro

#31 Brandon Kintzler

#95 Gerrit Cole

#133 Mitch Keller

#149 Mitch Haniger

#68 Washington Nationals team card

#318 Chicago White Sox team card

#159 Postgame Hand Wash - Clean Hands Needed - checklist - feat. Danny Jansen and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

#TTY-21 Derek Jeter - Through the Years insert - I wouldn't get fooled but I've never liked cards picturing cards.

#T52-34 Albert Pujols - 1952 Topps Redux insert

#121 Matthew Boyd

#252 Luke Voit

#289 Josh Reddick

#85 Brusdar Graterol 

Pack six

#266 Jurickson Profar

#57 Will Smith

#292 Oscar Mercado

#106 Brandon Nimmo

#216 Adam Frazier

#311 Codi Heuer 

#316 Alex Gordon

#206 Wade Davis

#101 Travis D'Arnaud

#T52-24 Manny Machado - 1952 Topps Redux insert

#53 Andres Gimenez

#197 Nick Madrigal

#167 James Kaprielian

#277 Alec Bohm

Pack seven

#36 Charlie Morton

#3 Matt Chapman

#54 Joakim Soria

#71 Randy Drobnak

#161 Lewis Brinson

#60 Yu Darvish

#196 Ryan Yarbrough

#287 Arizona Diamondbacks team card

#86B-42 Starling Marte - 1986 Topps 

#T52-19 Luis Robert - 1952 Topps Redux insert

#83 Gavin Lux

#174 Raisel Iglesias

#4 David Bote

#278 Jon Lester