My 'under the radar' blog featuring my baseball card collecting endeavors and hopefully some of my autographs collected in-person / through-the-mail.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
2008 Upper Deck Timeline pull encore
We'll jump to pack eight again - which was actually the second pack from the top
#17 Ken Griffey Jr.
#72 Jonathan Van Every - rookie card subset
#124 Nick Swisher - 1992 Upper Deck Minors
BOOM - and there goes the land mine...with shrapnel hitting all around.
#181 Brandon Boggs - 1995 SP Top Prospects die-cut auto
#377 Eider Torres - 1995 SP Premier Prospects die-cut
#168 Daisuke Matsuzaka - 1994 Upper Deck All-Time Heroes
#195 Jesus Flores - 1995 SP Top Prospects die-cut
#212 Randy Johnson - 2004 Upper Deck Timeless Teams
I actually busted a box of Tristar Projections High # Series before starting on the last nine packs of Timeline - the Tristar Projections High # Series break was not as deliberate as the first nine packs of Timeline were. I don't know if it is worth it to showcase any other breaks beside these last two Timeline packs.
Friday, January 09, 2009
2008 Upper Deck Timeline pull
2008 Upper Deck Timeline - when my boxes arrived, I tore through the first nine packs from the bottom pack to the top on the left hand row.
We'll jump to pack eight - which was actually the second pack from the top
#23 Matt Kemp
#86 Jay Bruce - rookie card subset
#112 Emmanuel Burriss - 1992 Upper Deck Minors
#81 Matt Tolbert - base rookie gold parallel
Signs of History - some kind of a filler card with scratch off feature
#126 Reed Johnson - 1992 Upper Deck Minors auto; after dreading pulling a possible Brandon Boggs auto [I would step on that mine with this box], I end up pulling an auto of this veteran fourth outfielder? He is pretty good for what he is and he went to my alma mater, Cal State Fullerton, but I've gotten his autograph [in-person] several times and he isn't exactly the latest or the greatest.
#170 Ryan Howard - 1994 Upper Deck All-Time Heroes
#198 Josh Hamilton - 2005 SP Top Prospects die-cut
#237 Joey Votto - 2004 Upper Deck All-Time Heroes; like the image used which is of Votto wearing a camo jersey.
Edit: I registered on the Upper Deck Web site and redeemed the card on 1/12/09.