2023 Topps oversized box toppers pickups

I was watching a YouTuber go through some of newest hauls and he showed off one of these cards - I didn't know what they were, but they are apparently bonus cards in 2021 Topps Series 1 jumbo boxes.

I ended up doing some browsing on eBay and ended up putting a bid and winning an Ichiro card from the set - regardless of the other players on the checklist, I can't go wrong with this all-time fan favorite.

The fronts are very generic and make me think these cards are MLB team issued cards from the 1970s or 1980s perhaps - though that is how the originals might have looked.

I'm not that collector who nitpicks at how faithful the details are replicated - when it comes to modern cards mimicking past designs.

I do like how Topps made good use of the colors on the back of the cards - where it's not as sleepy as the fronts.

Besides a copy of the Ichiro, it was kind of a no brainer to look for the Angels on the checklist - which ends up being Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout obviously.

In-hand, the cards end up being smaller [3.5 x 5 inch] than I assumed, but larger than a regular sized card - for the most part I want regular sized cards, though I may have to make exceptions for odd-sized stuff like these box toppers.

2016 Bowman Draft jumbo pack recap

I'm sure it makes sense for those who bust this stuff heavily, but the $3-$4 single pack of Bowman Draft are no more - there are these 32-card jumbo packs [$13 at my LCS] and there is a super jumbo pack [$45 at my LCS] containing 120 cards with an autograph.

During an LCS trip, I wasn't really tempted by the $45 super jumbo pack because there was some sticker shock - but maybe I take a shot if I'm feeling a little adventurous, during my the next card shop trip.

#BD-35 Joey Wentz
#BD-130 Bradley Zimmer
#BD-117 Joe Rizzo
#BD-184 Brent Honeywell
#BD-101 Bren Rortvedt
#BD-192 Jack Flaherty
#BD-37 Drew Harrington 
#BD-171 Nick Neidert
#BD-89 Corbin Burnes
#BD-127 Dylan Cease

#BD-169 Marcos Diplan - Green border parallel serial #’d 52/99
#BDC-126 Christian Arroyo - Chrome
#BDC-54 Nick Hanson - Chrome
#BDC-65 Kyle Muller - Chrome
#BDC-175 Brett Phillips - Chrome
#BDC-6 Dakota Hudson - Chrome
#BDC-13 Taylor Trammell - Chrome

#BSI-ZC Zack Collins - Chrome Bowman Scouts’ Fantasy Impact

#BDC-57 Eric Lauer - Chrome refractor

#BDC-192 Jack Flaherty - Chrome refractor
#BD-11 Anfernee Grier
#BD-121 Austin Meadows
#BD-107 Connor Jones
#BD-168 Anfernee Seymour
#BD-2 Thomas Jones
#BD-186 Rhys Hoskins
#BD-6 Dakota Hudson
#BD-174 Chase De Jong

#BD-110 Matt Thaiss
#BD-94 Daniel Johnson

#BD-20 Cal Quantrill
#BD-21 Javon Shelby

Mail day - 2014 Topps Update Jorge Posada Strata auto serial #'d 14/25

I thought I'd have to wait for six months or more for this redemption to be fulfilled - but it must have only taken a couple of weeks after I entered the redemption code on the Topps Redemption Web site, when I realized I had a card coming from Topps since I'd missed a Fed-Ex delivery at home.

I checked eBay to see if any Posada Strata autographs were live [there was at least a couple of them] and checked the Topps Web site - sure enough, my redemption was marked as shipped.

I'd missed the Fed-Ex truck once more though and was waiting around impatiently, intent on making the third time the charm - my father, who came home to grab his wallet he'd forgotten, ended up meeting the Fed-Ex guy at the door to sign for my package.

It's a fairly neat card and Posada was the Core Four guy whose autograph I never had a chance to get - so it's actually a nice addition to my PC.

The card was really thick where the layers of other cards used to build up this one thick card was visible - the autograph was signed with a Staedtler Lumocolor pen [as the case for most certified autographs] and while it's not as bold as a Sharpie autograph, it's clean.

I thought there surface area where the autograph / player images would be would be sort of die-cut, serving as a window to the relic swatch - but the area of the swatch is solid and I can't actually feel the relic material.