2022 Topps Heritage hanger box recaps

During a Target stop I didn't plan to make, I saw a couple of couple of 2022 Topps Heritage hanger boxes - maybe the only baseball unopened left along with scattered 2022 Topps Big League blasters and other non-baseball miscellany.

Sometimes it is relatively stocked, but most times my card section ends up being wiped out - I still believe unopened retail baseball won't be the No. 1 trading card type to hoard and flip from big box stores, but it doesn't mean I can count on coming back to blasters or loose packs of something, where hoarders take it all.

Who really knows if it is a recipe for success as far as actually getting new cards in-hand or simply an impulsive, on a whim directive to keep me buying retail in-person - but the past three years have taught me to grab anything remotely interesting when available, even when it seems like the stock maybe down to that last hanger or blasters on the shelves.

I was inspired to do some Wander Franco hunting here - where I might end up pulling a base or even a parallel.

Box one

#295 Luis Robert

#20 Triston McKenzie

#91 Alex Dickerson

#247 David Fletcher

#57 Jake Cronenworth

#22 Anthony Alford 

#355 Kolten Wong

#246 Tyler O'Neill

#210 World Series Game 6 Freddie Freeman

#392 Max Kranick RC

#42 Adam Wainwright

#46 Willson Contreras

#64 2021 Stolen Base Leaders Trea Turner / Whit Merrifield

#90 Vidal Brujan RC - the wrong card to pull of a young Tampa Bay Rays infielder

#174 Lorenzo Cain

#150 Shohei Ohtani

#142 Logan Gilbert 

#214 Tony Santillan RC

#133 Dallas Keuchel

#250 Jacob deGrom

#62 2021 Runs Batted in Leaders Adam Duval / Salvador Perez

#181 Gavin Sheets RC

#35 Dustin May

#166 Gerrit Cole

#159 Lane Thomas

#21 of 25 Freddie Freeman - Candy Lid insert

#NAP-4 Shohei Ohtani - New Age Performers insert

#191 Carlos Santana

#95 Brandon Crawford

#356 Ian Anderson

#302 Freddy Galvis

#348 Patrick Corbin

#339 Joey Gallo

#400 Yu chang

#243 Harrison Bader

Box two

#217 Ronnie Dawson RC

#17 Justin Upton

#242 Jose Ramirez

#121 Nick Pivetta

#304 Myles Straw

#312 Chris Taylor

#378 Ozzie Albies

#323 Jon Lester

#400 Yu Chang

#243 Harrison Bader

#195 Eric Haase

#11 Mike Yastrzemski

#278 Harold Ramirez

#152 Yusei Kikuchi

#288 Wil Myers

#399 Jose Berrios

#128 Kyle Tucker

#265 Matt Duffy

#373 Luis Gil RC

#109 Carson Kelly

#55 Randy Arozarena

#41 Yoshi Tsutsugo

#249 Connor Wong RC

#310 Tyler Glasnow

#402 Matt Carpenter - SP; facing backwards

#ROA-OC Orlando Cepeda - Real One Autograph

#NF-3 London Bridge Opens - News Flashbacks insert

#328 Seth Brown 

#84 Jose Abreu

#51 Cal Quantrill

#29 Raimel Tapia

#237 Luis Arraez

#286 Marcus Semien

#360 Cole Irvin

#370 Joe Ryan RC

It's just all so random I pull a certified autograph of Cepeda - he was literally all over my mind prior to this break, since I just got a TTM response from him, maybe I was looking up his cards online and even saw another copy of the very card I pulled, hours before making the Target run.

Maybe I'll try to conjure up thoughts about a Shohei Ohtani or Mike Trout pack pulled autograph - then see if something happens the next time I cave into bust random products where it's possible to pull their autographs.

TTM autographs received: Orlando Cepeda

The Hall of Famer signed my cards in about 3 weeks and wrote back a little note on my letter, responding briefly to what I'd written - I was worried about sending the thicker 2018 Topps Tribute, but it came back signed fairly nice and wasn't wrecked during transit.

Go figure Cepeda also signed the penny sleeve the card was placed in - when they were alive and signed TTM 20 years ago, I think the same thing happened with Tommy Heinrich and Hoyt Wilhelm.

Featured autograph - Orlando Cepeda

I don't think the Hall of Famer's autograph is rare, but he's old and you typically have to pay to get him to autograph something through a private signing perhaps - so while an outing to get someone's 'free autograph' at MLB All-Star Fan Fest isn't without its expenses, waiting time and other inconveniences, it's kind of a ritual to get something signed in-person as opposed to purchasing an autograph from a memorabilia dealer on eBay or something.

2010 Topps Series 1 blaster box break - Commemorative Patch Card

2010 Topps Series 1 blaster box [$19.99 each] - I needed to satisfy my 2010 baseball card fix and eagerly wanted to get to a local Target once I got back to the U.S., after I'd spent three weeks abroad in the island nation of Philippines for a sort of a homecoming / vacation.

Commemorative Patch Card
MCP 21 Orlando Cepeda - 1967 World Series Commemorative patch; two dinged corners, a pin-sized tear on the right hand side of the card. The card looks cheap because the area where the manufactured patch glued on is just grey stock cardboard.

A manufactured patch glued onto faux cloth material would look better than one left the way it is on these patch cards - the manufactured patch already looks shabby and now the rest of this year's cards looks homemade and produced to get a lot of the cards out into circulation.