Sunday, May 15, 2022

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.

1 comment:

Brett Alan said...

That Cepeda auto is a great pull! I actually do have an auto-relic of him which I bought on eBay, probably for more than you paid for the box, and I'm very happy with it. He was a great player--when I played ESPN Fantasy Baseball my team was called the Orlando Cepedas in his honor.