A pair of redundant repack hanger boxes

A place I sometimes get my food from has a Walgreens in the same strip mall, so while the restaurant was closing and I had to a neighboring joint to get my grub for the night - I walked over to Walgreens to see if there were any 2021 Topps with whatever store exclusive parallels they come with.

Just as I figured, there were no Topps on the shelves and I ended up grabbing these repacks - with all the cards out in the world, these are the last things I want to be opening, but there are no unopened products on the shelves.

Ironically, I'd spent the same afternoon updating my A-Z archive of commons, slaving away at some tedious sorting - I wonder how I get to the point where there are these loose pockets of cards I’ve got to sort out in ABC order and funnel in boxes that maybe impacted. 

Even though I’m in the middle of being overwhelmed in the here and now - I still knowingly add more junk to the mix. 

Going through the second pack, what was peculiar was similar sequence that repeated from the first - I assumed the cards are sorted into the hanger boxes by machine, but can Fairfield really add just about the same brand / year for different random players, multiple times over.   

 

I thought I’d get a different mix of cards but between the boxes I bought but ended up with 28 pairs of dupes - that fascinates me, but makes me think twice about ever picking up another Fairfield repack hanger.

Pack one

80 cards plus 1 1991 Score Series 2 pack with 16 cards

1991 Score Series 2

#538 Andy Benes

#542 Dave Clark

#447 Mike Aldrete

#453 Mike Bielecki

#780 Terry Steinbach

#875 Rickey Henderson - MVP subset

#870 Benito Santiago - The Franchise subset

#855 Kirby Puckett - The Franchise subset

#737 USA flag 

#743 Ray Stephens

#757 Ed Vosberg

#763 Rodney McCray

#4 Roberto [Clemente] Romps - Magic Motion World Series trivia card

#598 Bill Krueger

#595 Kelly Gruber

#600 Kevin Maas

#592 Wes Gardner

1989 Score Rick Cerone #396

1989 Score Manny Lee #326

1992 Score Pat Kelly #185

1992 Score Scott Terry #219

1992 Score Kevin Elster #103

1992 Score Jeff Brantley #157