I was thinking it would be cool to have a BOX breakdown thread. If anyone opens a box of cards and cares to break it down feel free to do it here. Please only post on this thread if you have a box to mention.

You might want to put:

-# of cards per pack and # of packs per box
-% of set completed or remaining cards to finish
-amount of doubles
-amount of inserts
-amount of rookies

or anything else you might find interesting. It should be a nice source of info for all other collectors here.

Thanks,


BGray

Yeah that sounds like a good idea. hehe. I guess I will start this off. I had picked up 4 boxes of 2000 Topps Gallery Football. I have opened 2 of them so far. I can't remember exactly what names on some of the cards that I got out of which box but I will state what I do know. This is what I got:

2000 Topps Gallery FB box 1:
6 Masters
6 Artisans
12 Rookie's
1 Player's Private Issue - Corey Dillon #25 021/250
1 Gallery of Heroes - Randy Moss #GH6
3 Heritage - T. Aikman #H2, R. Moss #H3, P. Manning #H7
1 Auto- Marshall Faulk #MF

2000 Topps Gallery FB box 2:
5 Masters
6 Artisans
13 Rookie's
2 Player's Private Issue - G. Crowell #29 181/250, R. Williams #120 136/250
2 Exhibitations - S. Davis #GE4, J. Smith #GE11
3 Heritage - M. Faulk #H1, T. Aikman #H2, K. Warner #H10

Now after sorting through both of the boxes I had come up with a full base set w/o SP's (1-125). I pulled 11 of the 12 Masters (126-137) for the set with 5 left over as dups. Pulled 12 of the 13 Artisans (138-150) with 7 left over as dups. And pulled 22 of the 25 with 14 left over as dups. Now with all of the packs there was 1 checklist per pack. There are 6 total checklists for the set in which I had pulled only 4 of them. They were #1, #3, #5, #6. Each of the checklists have a certain number of points that you were able to use in an auction they had. Welp that is pretty much it for those 2 boxes. If you have any questions about them just let me know. :)

Richie
mookigremlin
:p

Originally posted by IggyWH
Any of those pulls really worth much? I know old cards diminish some in value.

It would all depend on who it is really. The Rookie's weren't worth much since there were so many. The most expensive RC is Pennington at $8.00. And with like lets say the Masters Favre and remember it is part of the set and not numbered books for $4 while his base card is worth $2.50. Now with the Player's Private Issue the multipliers breaks down like this:

Stars 3x to 8x hi
Young Stars 2.5x to 6x hi
Subsets 2x to 5x hi
Rookies 2.5x to 6x hi

Now with the inserts they are nothing great but nice non the less. Since I used Favre above I will continue with him. His 2000 Topps Gallery Gallery of Heroes books for $10 while his 2000 Topps Gallery Heritage Proofs books at $12. Now I will assume that almost everyone knows how to use Beckett.com to look up prices so I will not go any futher with them. But one thing I am going to do is give you the odds that are on the packs for pulling inserts and such.

Player's Private Issue: 1 out of 16 packs
Gallery Exhibitions: 1 out of 32 packs
Topps Heritage: 1 out of 12 packs
Heritage Proofs: 1 out of 48 packs
Proof Positive: 1 out of 48 packs
Gallery of Heroes: 1 out of 24 packs
Auto card group A: 1 out of 236 packs
Auto card group B 1 out of 2,849 packs
Overall Auto: 1 out of 218 packs
Press Plates: 1 out of 952 packs

Now with the press plates you have to remember that there are 4 different colors per card.

Ohh yeah. The auto that I had pulled books at $50. I don't know if he came from group A or B though. hehe.

Welp I hope that helps everyone out some more. Any more questions just let me know. :)

Richie
mookigremlin
:p

Okay... I got my box of 02 Donruss Football today in the mail from the NAXCOM credits and here's what I got :

5 cards per pack - 24 packs per box

Base Set (1-200) - It seems like I've got most of the base set with little doubles but I really didn't go through and sort them because the base set is only worth $20... really not worth the effort.

Rated Rookies (201-300) - After starting the box off real slow in these, I ended up finishing with 12 so you get like 1 per every other pack. The ones I got were - Betts, Jammer, Jefferson, Garrard, Gordon, Lelie, Marquise Walker, Davenport, Freeney, Charles, Doman, and Fisher.

Inserts - I pulled a total of 4 inserts. They say that you get an insert every 2 packs and if that includes the rated rookies then I guess I did pretty decent.

All-Time Gridiron Kings - Jim Kelly 1563/2000
Gridiron Kings - 1163/2000
Executive Producer - Marshall Faulk 12/1000
Career Stat Line (parallel) William Green 244/343

All in all I guess I can't complain since the box was free and I got a few decent rookies. I didn't pull the 2 rookies I wanted though in Portis and Mungro but oh well, can't win them all!


...I swear, why can't I ever get lucky. After writing about this, I did a search on Yahoo for other 02 Donruss Football reviews and look what this box had : http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamCollectiblesReviewsFootball/fb_don02-can.html all the rookies I wanted and a GREAT insert!

Heyas Iggy and thanks for sharing your break on the box that you got. As you said you could not complain for what you got out of a free box. hehe. Could of been better but could of been worse.

Now on with the box I got from Naxcom with my freebie money. I had bought a box of 2002 Upper Deck MVP Hobby Football. First of all I would like to say that they are actually nice looking cards for the money. They have a basic and simple look on the front with most of the players in an action pose. As many know it is a 300 card set with 47 of that being the rookies and 3 check lists to finish of the set. The rookies were not seated in any particular order.

Now here is the basic break down of the box. There are 24 packs per box and 8 cards per pack. The first 250 cards are your base set, the next 47 are your rookies and the last 3 are your checklists.

HOB = Hobby RET = Retail

Rookies - (27) with 1 double. The best RC's were Carr, Harrington and Portis

MVP Gold #ed to only 25 copies HOB - (1) Jerry Rice 10/25

MVP Silver #ed to 100 copies HOB - (2) Travis Taylor 016/100, Kevin Kasper 029/100

MVP Prosign #ed to 127 copies HOB - (0)

MVP Souvenirs 1:48 HOB/RET - (0)

MVP Souvenirs Doubles 1:48 HOB - (1) W.Dunn/M.Alstott

Team MVP 1:6 HOB/RET - (4) Vick, R.Moss, R.Williams, S.Alexander

Top 10 Performers 1:12 HOB/RET - (2) Brady, M.Strahan

Welp over all I believe that I did very well with the box. I am not sure if I got a full base set out of it yet so sorry for not having that info here. I really would have liked to have pulled an auto BUT the Rice gold and the double jersey very much made up for it.

Now I had tried to find another review just as Iggy did but I was not able to come up with anything. So Iggy, if you would be able to find another box breat down of 2002 Upper Deck MVP FB it would be great if you could post it.

Welp that is it for me here so take care and keep those updates of your box breaks coming in. :)

Richie
mookigremlin
:p

2003 UD Game Face Box breakdown
$80 a box - 3 mini boxes per box - 8 packs per mini box.

Received 75% of Base set.
2 Dups
4 Faces of the Future odds 1:8
2 Game Face Game Gear (jersey) odds 1:8 Vidro and Preston Wilson
2 Face Off odds 1:16 Oswalt/Griffey Leiter/Chipper Jones
1 Game Face odds 1:16 Griffey
! Game Face Auto odds 1:576 Jason Giambi

The Giambi pays for the box.

Alright...I finally received my Naxcom freebie. It was a box of 2002 Fleer Triple Crown. Here's how it broke down.

Batting Average Parallel(#'d to player's avg.)
Ben Grieve 5/264
Troy Glaus 38/250
Diamond Immortality (1:12)
Chipper Jones
Ichiro Suzuki
Season Crowns (1:12)
Sosa/Helton/Ramirez
Walker/Garciaparra/Helton
Home Run Kings (1:24)
Ted Williams
RBI Kings Game Used (1:24)
Jason Giambi
RBI Kings (1:144)
Chipper Jones

Not too bad considering it was free. Plus I still have a 98 SP Top Prospects Kris Benson auto coming as well. Thanks again,Naxcom.

It was my birthday and i woke up to two nice boxes:

02-03 Honor Roll
Tons of base
these inserts:
Tremendous Talents Yao Ming
Superstar tributes Vince Carter
Popular acclaim Shane Battier
award performances Andre miller and also Shareef Abdur-rahim
Bostan Nachbar rc #xxx/1999
Pat Burke Rc #xxx/1999
Jiri Welsch #xxx/1999

and this 1:480
http://www.upperdeck.com/includes/image.aspx?d=1&y=2002&s=9533&f=9533F_AW_AJ.jpg
with out the auto its a walker auto/jersey

02-03 spx
winning materials Chandler/curry
Winning Combos Richard Hamiliton
bostan nachbar rc #xxx/2599
frank williams rc #xxx/1599
Spx rc auto/jersey John Salmons #324/1999(my 3rd one i can trade this)

and the best-
02-03 spx spectrum rc auto/jersey Marcus Haslip #1/25!!!!!!!!!

not a bad break at all

2003 Splendid Splinters box break

I think Fleer has some of the best looking card designs and the premiere of the Splendid Splinters product is going to be another big hit with collectors.

OK, enough talk... here's the goods:
Wood #'d card: #106 Chipper Jones #'d 300/499
Wood Splendid Splinter: #6 Alfonso Soriano!
Home Run Club: Sammy Sosa #3
Home Run Club GU: Jason Giambi #'d 524/599
Family Tree: #3 Sandy Alomar, Jr., - Roberto Alomar, #6 Bobby Bonds - Barry Bonds
Building Blocks: 128 Tim Olson, 129 Michel Hernandez (Yanks!), 130 Michael Hessman, 131 Clint Barmes.
Knothole Gang non-GU: Jason Giambi #4
Knothole Gang GU: Alfonso Soriano patch serial #'d 86/99!
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/RETORBA/03soriano.jpg
--Base set complete from one box.
This has been one of the best box breaks I've had in a long time! The Soriano patch card pull had my 12 year-old son jumping out of his chair. We pulled some super nice Yankees from this box.

The box break started out with the Chipper Jones #'d card and at first I thought.... "Oh, nooooo!.... not again! I'm plagued with the Chippee disease again." ....but then the box break went on to bigger and better (Yankees) things. Woo-hoo!

You can very easily detect which packs have GU'd in them. Fleer didn't put any "dummy" inserts in these packs. "Pack-feelers" will have a field day with these packs. That's the only negative thing I came across.

Bob

I figured since I just bought 3 different boxes at a show on Sat I would share some of my pulls with everyone.

2003 Finest Baseball:

Paul Blair Auto - Topps Team legens
Rich Gossage Auto - Finest Moments
Dale Murphy Bat
Alex Rodriguez Jersey Albert Pujols
Gold xRefractor Uncirculated Bartolo Colon
Carlos Pena Refractor
Darin Erstad Refractor

2002-2003 UD Foundations Hockey

Grant Fuhr Jersey #ered out of 95
Denis Savard Jersey #ered out of 150
Mike Bossy Auto
Bunch of serial #ered rookies and short prints(don't know who as i am typing this at work. LOL)

2002-2003 fleer platinum Basketball(Fun Break)
Casey Jacobson #ered Rookie out of 750
Dirk Nowitski Jersey
Name Plates(3 color patch) of Caron Butler #ered out of 280
Bunch of other inserts.

2002-03 UD Premier Collection Hockey

Pack 1
Markus Naslund #355/399
**** Tarntstrom Super Rookie #221/399
Peter Forsberg Bronze Jersey #67/299
Ray Bourque Gold Auto #23/50

Pack 2
Nicklas Lidstrom #298/399
Jim Vandermeer Gold Super Rookie #37/199
Ari Ahonen Bronze Jersey #114/299
Ilya Kovalchuk Bronze Auto

Pack 3
Evgeni Nabokov #143/399
Rickard Wallin Super Rookie #336/399 (4th one out of 5 boxes!!!) :(
Peter Forsberg/Milan Hejduk Bronze Dual Jersey #13/99
Justin Williams Bronze Auto

Pack 4
John LeClair #299/399
Vernon Fiddler Super Rookie #120/399
Ron Hainsey Silver Auto #60/125

and the MOJO

Steve Yzerman Gold Patch Card #25/25

MOJO (http://home.houston.rr.com/sbeeson1/sypatch.jpg)

2001 Pros & Prospects BB

24 packs/5 cards per pack
On average each box yields: 1 Then and Now Dual Jersey, 1 Specialty Jersey, and 1 game used dual bat

Key Pulls:

Ichiro Suzuki RC Jersey #405/500 - BV = $100
Barry Bonds Then and Now dual jersey - BV = $40
Cal Ripken Specialty jersey - BV = $40
Rafael Palmeiro/Jim Thome Gold game used dual bat #7/25 - not priced due to scarcity

This is one of the best boxes I've ever pulled as far as value goes.

2003 FLEER AUTHENTIX BASEBALL HOBBY:

24 PACKS WITH 5 CARDS EACH
MEM 1:8 PACKS

TICKET STUDS 1:8 PACKS:
VLADIMIR GUERRERO
AROD
GIAMBI
TORI HUNTER

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JOE BORCHARD FUTURE STARS BALCONY 238/250
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JERSEY RIPPED 1:10

MIKE PIAZZA
MANNY RAMIREZ
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GAME OF THE WEEK DUAL JERSEY:

CHIPPER/BURRELL W/STRIPE 1:240

if anyone is interested in this card without stripe i pullled same one last month

90% of set
3 dups

Accidently bought 3 boxes of 2003 UD Honor Roll Basketball 8 pack boxes (and not the regular 24 pack boxes). So wasn't expecting much, but here goes!

1. Kobe Bryant & Vince Carter Tremendous Talents foil inserts, plus other various foil inserts.

2. Nowitzki/Finley/Nash Triple Warm-up jersey card (1:120)!!!

3. Paul Pierce Principal Autographs/Jersey redemption card (1:480)!!!

Not bad for a total of 24 packs instead of 72 hehe. I've had really good luck w/ Honor Roll...they are cheaper cards, but I have gotten 3 other full 24 pack retail boxes and got lots of dual warm-up cards (including a dual Jordan/Kobe), and they are tons of inserts...the way cards are suppose to be made, fun for the collector with lots of variety.

Also opened 5 packs of the new 2003 Playoff Prestige FB cards:

1. Boss Bailey base RC
2. Kurt Warner Gridiron Heritage insert
3. Brian Griese Game Day Jerseys GU
4. Randy Moss Game Day Jerseys GU
5. Jerome Bettis/Kordells Stewart Back Field Tandems Dual Jerseys GU seq. #ed 113/400!!!

Not bad for only 5 packs...I wonder what else was in that box hehe.

Vic

Last year I bought a HTA box of Topps 2002 Series 2
I believe it was 12 packs of 35 cards per pack.
1 insert in each pack.
I don't really remember much about it except that I pulled a Duke Snider auto that is worth $120.
Also a vintage 1960 Whitey Ford.

Bought one of those $9.99 Variety Pack Football Boxes from Kmart and pulled these:

Vick 2001 Score Rc
Anthony Thomas 2002 Heads Up "Behind the Numbers" Insert
Andra Davis 2002 Prestige Rc
Bart Star 2001 Stadium Club "Highlight Reels" Insert

And last but not least:

John Elway 2001 Leaf Rookies & Stars #50 "Longevity" #'d 26/50 Bv $60.00

I really like these Variety boxes! I have had real good luck with them.

Got a blaster box of Fleer Authentix. 6 Packs 5 Cards

Pulled a GU jersey of Eric Hinske and Hideki Matsui Club Box Ticket to the Majors #100 (sales-$100 $135 $145) in the SAME PACK
Ticket Stub- Tori Hunter

Donruss Classics Blaster Box-
7 packs 4 cards

1 card worth mentioning. Rookie AU #500

I bought a box of All Time Fan Favorites Retail off of eBay for $50.
Got no doubles, one refractor (Darren Daulton), and two autographs (Stan Musial and Fergie Jenkins). I was very impressed with this box and would have had the complete set if there were enough in the box. There were 24 packs, 6 cards a pack.

03 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites

Box Topper Relic 1:1 box (George Foster Bat $10)

Sequentially #'d White Bordered Refractor 1:18 packs(Joe Pepitone #089/299 $5)

Fan Favorites Autographs:
Group A 1:218 packs (Phil Niekro $50)

Team Tops Legends Autographs:
Group N 1:265 packs (Johnny Sain $15)

Single Cards: 141/150 (94%)
Doubles: 0

Fun box to crack! I beat the odds on the autographs and pulled a Yankee legend too! The coalation is perfect and I got no doubles. I like this set better than the last two years because they used unseen pictures and classic topps designs from the last 50 years. It wasnt just reprints like the last couple years.

My wife picked up one $13.99 2003 UD Vintage box from Toys-R-Us yesterday... on sale for $9.99.

I pulled this:

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/RETORBA/hudson03vintage.jpg

The Hudson GU'd cap card has a piece of string showing and it appears the cap was autographed. You can see the silver writing on the cap piece.

and I pulled a nice Mike Piazza SP...
http://www.beckett.com/images/pgitems/23101650101.jpg

I'm currently working on this set:
2003 UD Vintage Wantlist (http://retorba.tripod.com/ud.html)

Bob

2003 SP Authentic Baseball

Box #1

Base Set 90/90, 100%
Doubles: 22
Future Watch Autograph: 1
Lew Ford #008/500
Future Watch:2
#176 Bernie Castro #0569/2003
#180 Chris Capuano #0851/2003
Rookie Archives:2
#114 Ben Diggins #0429/250
#118 Jon Rauch #0494/2500
Superstar Flashback:2
#SF41 Alfonso Soriano #1811/2003
#SF53 Ichiro #1041/2003
Simply Spendid:1
#TW30 Ted Williams #068/403

When I saw the Williams I thought I might have pulled a relic, but alas no. My favorite pulls are the two Superstar Flashback cards. Pulled a Twins rookie auto:P Twins autos are SO hard to get! /sarcasm

I like the set design this year, just enough foil and just enough gloss. The backs only show up to 3 years of player stats but all have a couple sentences about the star. I was mad about all the doubles I was seeing until I realized I had a complete set already.
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Box #2
Base Set : 90/90 100%
Doubles: 23
SP Chirography Autograph:1
A.J. Piezynski #102/245
Future Watch:1
#167 Josh Willingham #0834/2003
Rookie Archives:2
#95 Trot Nixon #0180/2500
#119 Ichiro #1603/2500
Superstar Flashback:3
#SF33 Vladimir Guerrero #0341/2003
#SF43 Eric Chavez $0294/2003
#SF46 Pat Burrel #1385/20033

ARG! It seems Twins fever has hit me and its worse than SARS :( Again pulled another autograph that I could have gotten with a 37 cent stamp, oh well. I live in North Dakota so maybe I can hop over to the next state and sell them at a card show lol. Favorite pulls are the Ichiro and Guerrero cards. I got 2 sets out of 2 boxes so the coallation is great, go Upper Deck! Now they need to apply the same techniques with Series 2 of the main set (I bought 3 boxes of Series 1 and still needed 8 cards for the set, and had around 600 doubles!).

Pickeed up a blaster box of 2003 Topps Draft Picks & Prospects today...

Pack 1:
Darrell Jackson
Laveranues Coles
Eric Moulds
Taylor Jacobs
Kyle Boller (Chrome) BV $12

Pack 2:
Isaac Bruce
Chad Hutchinson
Antwaan Randle El
Sam Aiken
Shaun Alexander (Chrome)

Pack 3:
Torry Holt
Joe Horn
Donovan McNabb
Marcus Trufant
Ricky Williams (Chrome Gold Refractor) BV $6

Pack 4:
Jonathan Wells
Reggie Wayne
Koren Robinson
Victor Hobson
Michael Vick (Chrome) BV $6

Pack 5:
Priest Holmes
Marty Booker
Tom Brady
Dave Ragone
Larry Johnson Jersey (Collegiate Cuts) 1:124 BV $20

Pack 6:
Michael Vick
Shaun Alexander
Joey Harrington
Dahrran Diedrick
Torry Holt (Chrome)

Pack 7:
Tommy Maddox
Edgerrin James
Ahman Green
Talman Gardner
Marcel Shipp (Chrome Gold Refractor)

Pack 8:
Julius Peppers
Michael Bennett
Steve Smith
Dewayne White
Justin Fargas (Chrome) $5

Not bad for a $20 box I guess...

01-02 Atomic Hockey Retail (got it on ebay, thought it was hobby, but only paid $20)

Rookies #ed to 500:
1-Ilya Kovalchuk (wooo)

Powerplay (1 a pack)
got a ton, if anyone needs any let me know

Red #ed to 290:
4- Adam Oates, Daymond Langkow, Steve Shields, and Milan Hlinchka

Team Nucleus (1:25):
1-Colorado Avalance (Sakic/Forsberg/Roy)

Core Players (1:25):
1-Saku Koivu

Statosphere (1:25):
1-Peter Forsberg

Overall-For the price I paid, Im happy. The Kovalchuk really satisfied me...even though its dropping for some reason. The base cards are very cool looking and I got very little doubles. If anyone is looking for singles, let me know.

Just bought a box of the new 2003 UD Inspirations Basketball. This is the outcome.

Draft redemptions of 19, 21 and 23
Sam Clancy Rookie Auto
Rookie Inspirations of Tito Maddox & Juaquin Hawkins
Dual Jersey rookie Lonny Baxter w/Joe Smith

Overall a dissappointing box. All will be going on ebay.

Stopped by Target, got 1 box 2003 Topps Series 1 for $8.99 (it was on sale)

11 packs, 6 cards per pack, 66 total

Got the following

--- Derek Jeter #OG17 (traded to Molina for a baseball Beckett)
--- Vlad Guerrero blue back (traded to Engima for toploaders)
--- 7-8 rookies (Cliff Lee, Il Kim, etc)
--- several Sporting news All Stars
--- the rest are either stars or commons but not worth much.

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Bought a 2002 Topps NFL box on impulse at Wal-mart
got the following

22 packs, 7 cards per pack, 154 in all
--- Jeremy Shockey RC
--- probably got 22-30 other RCs (average of 1 per pack)
--- 2 reprint of Terry Bradshaw cards
--- Peyton Manning Own The Game (it's a thick card)
--- the rest were stars and commons

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bought a 2002 Fleer NFL box
I think there was 7 cards, 8 per pack (not sure)

Got the following:

---Clinton Portiss rookie
---classic combos Rice/Brown
---other RCs
---stars and commons.

all in all, it wasn't what I was hoping for. But, I hadn't opened a box of cards in years, so I figured I'd get some boxes.

I was bored today at work so I went out for lunch and dropped $140 on a box of Finest basketball. Here's the outcome

Jersey cards:
Kevin Garnett
Richard Jefferson

Rookie refractor: Jay Williams /250
Rookie Auto: Lonny Baxter
Reg Refractor: Kenny Thomas /250
Draft Redemption Pick #2 Refractor D. Milicic /250

The Milicic saved my box from being a bust. Overall nice looking cards. Will probably pick up some more.

Here is what I got

Base set 100% complete, after a little help from the owner of the shop and he also helped me put them in order.
*I was like 7 or 8 cards short of a complete set

Hobby Box price $60
Base Set 100% complete bv=40

Box Topper
Greg Luzinski game-used bat phillies bv=10

Auto's
Bob Watson- Houston Astros from 1966-1979 bv=10
Al Oliver-Texas Rangers from 1978-1981 bv=15

chrome refractor
Carl Yastrzemski -Red Sox white bordered #'d 139/200 bv=20

*all these are listed on ebay

*about 50 or 60 dupes, if interested see my thread for dupes in baseball card trading.

Hobby Box (20 packs/5 cards)

Box states: Three embroidered Patch Cards Plus One All-Star Patch Box Topper Per Box On Average

Base Set Complete - 79% (95 of 120)
Dupes - 5

Subsets:
All-Star Selection (15 available) - Luis Gonzalez

Hall of Famers (15 available) - Pee Wee Reese

Rookie Innovations (11 available) - Shane Bazzell

Inserts:
MVPs (21 available) - Ken Griffey, Jr. and Barry Bonds

Signature Patches (19 available) - Curt Schilling

I beat the odds, which is cool. Also, I haven't opened the box topper yet. I'm debating on whether I should or not. The package says 2 of 73 All-Star Patch Cards Per Pack which sounds like there is actually 2 patch cards in it. Not sure if I should open it or not.

Too bad there no prices on these yet...:D

Ok, this was 1 gu'd per box and 1 box topper

Refractors
*Regular Refractors #'d to 699 (9)
Willis Roberts (2.50)
Russell Branyan (2.50)
Moises Alou (2.50)
Chris Woodward (2.50)
Tomas Perez (2.50)
Peter Bergeron (2.50)
John Lackey (2.50)
Doug Mientkiewicz (2.50)
Keith Foulke (2.50)


*Gold #'d to 449 (10)
Jose Contreras (20)
James Baldwin (3)
Paul Konerko (3)
John Lackey (3)
Mark Grace (8)
Vinny Castilla (3)
Jeff Weaver (3)
Joe Girardi (3)
Pedro Astacio (3)
J.D. Drew (3)

*Black Bordered #'d to 199 (2)
Moises Alou 198/199 (5)
Ben Davis 40/199 (5)

*X-Fractor #'d to 57 (1)
Tsuyoshi Shinjo 45/57 uncirculated case (15)

*Game-Used Relic (2)
Todd Helton Red Back Refractor Jersey 2 color w/purple stripe (10)
Pedro Martinez Red Back Refractor Jersey (white) (15)

*Prospects-(3)
Mets-Aaron Heilman/Jose Reyes (2.50)
Indians-Brandon Phillips/Victor Martinez (1.50)
Padres- Tagger Bozied/Xavier Nady (1.50)

*Draft Picks-(6)
2X-Bryan Bullington- pirates (8)
Joey Gomes -d rays (2.50)
2X-Evel Bastida-Martinez -mariners (1.50)
Darrell Rasner-expos 1.50)

****and a host of other stars and set fillers****
some of these will be on ebay very soon...

the box was $60 from my local hobby shop...Arena Sports

24 packs/5 per pack

Base set (1-90): Complete
Dupes: 24

Dual Jerseys (1):
Ronald Murray/Rashard Lewis #/1500

Dual Signatures (1):
John Salmons/Gerald Wallace #/1600

2003 Draft Future Inspirations Redemptions (3):
35th Selection - Szymon Schortsanitis (Bucks)
37th Selection - Travis Hansen (Hawks)
40th Selection - Derrick Zimmerman (Warriors)

A bit high at $115 at my card shop IMO, but for a chance to pull a LeBron redemption...it was worth a shot...

I think today is my lucky day
I bought a 02/03 UD authentics Basketball box
I got :
Jersey card :
Kevin Garnet (Uniform Greatness)
Terrel Brandon(Uniform Greatness)
Kobe Bryant(Uniform Greatness)

RC Card :
Drew Gooden #/499


Rainbow Parallel
Eddie Jones #/50

And best Of all Kevin Garnett heroes of basketball auto KG3 #/10

2002 upper deck series 2 -retail-

12 inserts
2 serial numbered
a bunch of commons
and a TINO MARTINEZ GU JERSEY!

2003 Score $9.99 Box


10 packs plus 1 free pack per box
7 cards per pack

330 card base set with 275 commons and 55 rookies
Scorecard Parallel with silver foil numbered to 500
Final Score Parallel with gold foil numbered to total number of wins per team in 2002

Fantasy Football Gamecard 1 per pack
Reflextions (20 cards) 1 per 35 packs
Monday Night Heroes (17 cards) 1 per 35 packs
The Franchise (32 cards) 1 per 35 packs
Numbers Game (31 cards) numbered to featured player's 2002 statistic
Franchise Fabrics (20 cards) numbered to 250
Changing Stripes 10 cards) 2 game jerseys per cards numbered to 250

Welp overall I was not sure what I was going to get so I had to get a box. I got a good number of rookies out of the box with one insert and one parallel of a rookie. The cards have a simple look to them. Nothing great. The players are all in action including the insert I pulled. Over all I feal that the 2002 set looked much better. Here is a list of the rookies and the insert.

The Franchise - Donovan McNabb #TF-24
Scorecard RC - Lee Suggs #284 265/500

Rookie's:
#278 - Kyle Boller
#287 - Willis McGahee
#290 - Artose Pinner
#297 - Bryant Johnson
#300 - Justin Cage
#305 - Talman Gardner
#306 - Jason Witten
#309 - Bennie Joppru
#314 - Andrew Williams
#318 - Ken Dorsey
#319 - William Joseph
#322 - Boss Bailey


Richie
mookigremlin
:p

I broke a 2002 Topps Traded box to try and get the Hot Willis rookie card.

Well the box bombed but it was only $49 which I thought was a steal.

24 packs/10 cards per pack

Just to let you know about 6 of the packs had cards that were basically all damaged. If I had spent more than $49 I would have been totally pissed at this break.

8 gold #D: NO ROOKIES but I did get a Scott Rolen and Juan Gonzalez

2 Buyback cards: Both were from 1998 Topps Traded and were of no name guys (would have been better if they were just regular cards)
1 Chrome Refractor: A RC on the Phillies forgot his name but he wasn't listed anyways

Regular cards: No Willis so I was kinda disappointed because I went through 240 cards and didn't get a single one.

I did get 2 Jesse Foppert, 1 Gavin Floyd, and 2 Chris Snelling but they were just the regular ones and not chrome.

Chrome: Basically sucked except for the Refractor guy. Didn't know that 1 Chrome per pack was going to be a sucky traded player which Beckett for some reason lists for about the same price.

Hopefully somebody that I guy in the box will become great later on but for now the box was a bomb even though I only paid $49 for 24 packs.

Here is a huge list of box and pack breaks that I got from the National today. Here it goes;

2003 Timeless Treasures:
Andre Dawson 689/900
Mike Piazza 454/900
Mike Schmidet 12/50 some sort of parallel
Stan Musial Bat card 063/100

Could have been better but i am happy with the schmidt and musial.

2002 Prospect Premieres:
Jeremy Hermida Auto
Mike Nixon Jersey
Bunch of prospects that is too long to list.

2002 Bowman/Chrome Draft Picks:
Dontrelle Willis - Regular Bowman-no chrome :(
Mark Schramek Auto
Nick Brierbrodt - Jersey
Dan Ortmeier Xfractor 068/150
Wes bankston Refractor 078/300
Mark Teahan REfractor 083/300
Other decent prospects:
Zack Greinke
Casey Kotchman
James Loney

2002-2003 ud foundations"
Dale Hawerchuk Sign of the times auto
Bryan Trottier Jersey 33/50
Ray Bourque jersey 46/95
Newest foundations:
Sebastian Charepentier 0910/1250
Stephen Weiss 0257/1250
Alexei Smirinov 0612/1250
Spectacular Efforts:
Patrick Roy 0289/1250
denis Savard 0084/1250

2003 Bowman Chrome:
Adrian Beltre Uncirculated Gold Ref
Auto RC: Bryan Bullington Redemption card
Refractors:
Paul LoDuca
Jason Perry RC
Tyler martin RC
Kyle Roat RC

Xfractors
Moises Alou
Mike Neu RC

Notable Rookies:
Andy Marte
Dan Haren

Not many other notables.

1975 Topps Minis:
Nothing spectacular. Got some nice gradeable commons and a few stars.
Yaz
Jim Hunter

1986 Topps Football Cellos:
Walter Payton
Tony Dorsett
Boomer Esiason RC
Not much else

1981 Topps Football Rack:
NOthing worth mentioning.

Over all i was quite happy even though I didn't hit any real big card. It was a lot of fun busting all that. Now I am coming down off my high. LOL

2003 SP Authentic Hockey
3 FW
4 FG
1 Numbered Jersey
1 Signed FW, Hemsky! Paid for the box.
Bunch of Base

2003 Signature Series Hockey
Bunch of Base
Bunch of Points
12 Golf Card Subsets
12 Regular Autos-4Gold 8 Silver
3 Buy Backs- 1 Gold 2 Silver

2003 Signature Series Hockey
Bunch of Base
Bunch of Points
12 Golf Card Subsets
12 Regular Autos-3 Gold 3 Silver
4 Buy Backs-2 Gold 2 Silver

2003 Bowman Chrome Baseball

4 cards per pack, 18 packs & a box topper pack.

I don't know who any of these guys are so I can't say "I pulled such and such". Here are the inserts I did get :

Refractors (1/4)
Kevin Millwood
Omar Vizquel
Josh Phelps

David DeJesus (KC)
Dustin Moseley (Reds)

X-Factor (1/9)
Richie Sexson

Aneudis Mateo (Boston)

First Year Auto (depends on different between Group A & Group B but I'll say 1/26)
Gary Schneidmiller (Oakland)

Box Topper
Willie Mays refractor (I know the Mays are 1 per box but I don't know if the refractor is special)
Uncirculated Gold Refractor Andy Van Hekken (127/170) ~ Just my luck to get a good card and have it be a bum Detroit pitcher.

Uncirculated First Year Redemption Card
Wayne Lydon (NY Mets I believe) currently trading on thePit for $3 :D

I busted a box a couple of weeks ago.
24 packs/box, 4cards/pack

I got several rookies (about 15) incl. Stoudemire but no Ming
1 Final Destination card - Steve Smith
1 White Border refractor - Jalen Rose (no black border in my box)
4 or 5 reg. refractors incl. Caron Butler (best card in the box)

The box was expensive as it is hard to find near me but I got several cards I needed for the base set. Only complaint is just 4 cards per pack.

2003 Bowman Chrome Baseball

4 cards per pack, 18 packs & a box topper pack.



Uncirculated Gold Refractor - Matt Hensley 161/170

Uncirculated Redemption - Bubba Nelson

Autographed 1st year card - JD Durbin

Xfractors

1st year Chris Duncan

1st year Branden Florence

Refractors

1st year Sean Smith

1st year Wilton Reynolds

1st year Chris Kroski

Hideo Nomo

Other stuff:
Pujols, ChienMing Wang rc, Franklin Gutierrez rc, Hudson, Zito, Pudge

2003 Bowman Chrome Baseball:


Uncirculated gold ref. Mark Prior

X-fractors:
Felix Pie
Miguel Tejada

Reg. refractors:
Oliver Perez
Paul Lo Duca
Carlos Pena
Jason Perry RC
Dustin Yount RC

First year autograph:
Bobby Basham gold ref.

I've attached a scan of the Felix.

I broke a box of SP Game Used football a week or so ago and got jersey cards of Peyton Manning, Tim Couch, Santana Moss, Deuce McCallister, Wayne Chrbet and the best part a Jerry Rice Auto #'d to 25 :) I may buy another box but who knows...seems like when you buy another box, you never seem to top a really good one.

That is some box!
Congratulations.

$19.99 for 2003 Donruss Studio - 8 packs, 5 cards per pack

ROOKIES/Prospects
Clint Barmes
Cliff Lee
Hideki Matsui
Freddy Sanchez

Masterstrokes
Pat Burrell - 876/1000

Studio Stars
Barry Bonds
Nomar Garciaparra

Big League Challenge
Shawn Green (home run derby worn pants)


$9.99 for 2003 Score football 11 packs, 7 cards per pack

ROOKIES
Kyle Boller/Boss Bailey/Larry Johnson/Lee Suggs/Chris Brown/Tyrone Calico/Taylor Jacobs/Mike Boss/Dennis Weathersby/Artose Pinner/Kevin Williams/Doug Gabriel/Bennie Joppru

Scorecard
Kevan Barlow - 267/500

Reflextions
Keyshawn Johnson/Rod Gardner

Monday Night Heroes
Tim Brown

Numbers Game
Michael Vick - 1499/2936

2003-04 Upper Deck SP Signature Basketball:

Kobe Bryant Black Tin

3 Cards Per Tin

Mike Miller Base Card

Dwyane Wade RC 283/499

Maciej Lampe "Scripts for Success" Auto 151/250

2001-02 BAP Memorabila Hockey
- 6 Cards Per Pack & 24 Packs Per Box
- Set 45% Complete
- 3 Doubles
- 4 Inserts
- 0 Rookies None In Set

Also There Is A Guarantee Of One Piece Of Memorabila Per Box

Great pulls on the ud sp box....I've been trying to get one but can't find any.

a couple of weeks ago i bought a box of 2003 fleer mystique baseball and i think i did real well
Rookies were: #/d Felix Sanchez Rookie #8/25 BV 12 Richard Fischer Rookie #94/200 Ryan Wagner Rookie #193/699 Carlos Mendez Rookie #694/699 Jeremy Griffiths Rookie #98/699 Brandon Webb Rookie #546/699 Jon Leicester Rookie # 642/699 Ramon Nivar Rookie # 233/699 Micheal Hessman Rookie # 562/699Hideki matsui rookie #/200
Got 3 numbered inserts, jones/jones, thome, giambi
GU cards were, anderson bat/glaus jersey #/100, Triple jersey kearns, dunn, larkin #50
And an Ink appeal Aubrey Huff auto #/50

I had a nice Leaf Limited Football break.. Please take a look...

http://img149.exs.cx/img149/4492/scan00042cw.jpg

I have some sports card for sale. Does any one know how I can go about selling them. I have probably over a 1000. Of all types and years.

Just got a box of Upper Deck Yankees classics for $71.

Got the complete set

phil linz auto
joe pepitone auto
ron bloomberge auto

Pennant
1947 World series yankees pennant

I also just bought a box of 2002 fleer fall classics for 31.99. Still waiting for it to come in!! Ill post when it does!

You could probably sell them on ebay.

What type of cards are they?

well...i got a few packs of fleer authentix....I got a j kidd club box card #'d 23/25, a Jackson Vroman ticket to the pros #'d 22/750, and my favorite: Peja Stojakovic redemption auto patch card #'d10!

All,

SPX 2004-2005 Bskbl

Out of the whole box I did not pull one repeat card. I got some decent base cards:

Lebron James
Iverson
C. Anthony

Luke Jackson Jsy/auto card

Shaq winning materials

Gary Payton/Marcus Banks Dual Warmups card
Lebron James/Michael Jordan Dual Warmups card

Also two rookie cards of no one special.

Also two rookie cards of no one special

When you get time, Who were they?

All,

SPX 2004-2005 Bskbl

Out of the whole box I did not pull one repeat card. I got some decent base cards:

Lebron James
Iverson
C. Anthony

Luke Jackson Jsy/auto card

Shaq winning materials

Gary Payton/Marcus Banks Dual Warmups card
Lebron James/Michael Jordan Dual Warmups card

Also two rookie cards of no one special.

very good box break, can't go wrong with a LeBron/Jordan dual GU

i will be breaking a box of 04-05 topps total tonight.

I broke open a box of Triology cards last night.

3 Autos: 2 of Signs of Stardom of Livingston (same Card)
1 redemption A. Varajos

4 Jersey cards: Iverson, D. West, Childress, D. Harris.

3 Rookie glass cards: Duhon, Sasha V., D. Wilkens all rookies.

Got some decent base cards like Jordan and James, but all in all I was expecting some better inserts, espicially for the price.

You know how if a card is serial numbered to the players number the card increases in value, how much does the card increase?

That's one of those stupid things that shouldn't happen, but does...

Big deal if a card is numbered at the players actual jersey number.

Just like first printed (1/xx), and last printed (10/10)...

I personally wouldn't pay extra for a certain numbered card. The card will have the same BV no matter what.

thanks seablazer

i like this forum. box threads are top

I opened a box of 2005 Legends football maybe 2 moths ago and got the greatest pack ever and I think a hot box:
I got :
Alex Smith rc #
Ronnie Brown rc #
Pat Haden auto
Herb Adderley redemption auto
and im like okay the top two rookies isnt bad and 2 autos even if there of guys ive never heard of is so so.....then
legendary dual sig. Peyton Manning /Otto Graham dual auto 1/3
legends of the hall Joe Montana auto 25/25
IN THE SAME PACK BACK TO BACK CARDS!!!!!!
I was so excited acout the dual auto that I didnt even notice the Montana until I sat back down and it was lying on the table.
I got $500 for the Manning/Graham dual auto and $150 for the Montana
not bad for a box I paid $108 for

I recieved a gift certificate to the card store and instead of buying a box I picked up some supplies and a few packs of cards. While I beat the odds, I certainly didn't pull anything that's life-altering.

one pack Press Pass Signature Edition 2005
auto (1:1) Stanley Wilson
Old School (1:1) Dan Orlovsky
Class Of 2005 (1:3) Aaron Rodgers

two packs Sage Autographed 2005
red auto (1:2) Anthony Davis #67/900
bronze auto (1:4) Brandon Jacobs #205/650

six packs Press Pass 2005
Big Numbers (1:1) Fred Gibson, Anthony Davis, J.R. Russell, Aaron Rodgers, Vernand Morency, Carnell Williams
Paydirt (1:6) Aaron Rodgers, Carnell Williams
Reflectors (no stated odds) Carnell Williams #373/500

eight packs Donruss Elite 2005
Face to Face Black (no odds) Sanders/Smith #416/500
Elite Teams Red (no odds) Bucs Clayton/Alstott/Johnson #24/500
Rookie Status Red (no odds) Demarcus Ware #74/94
College Ties (1:20) Boller/Rodgers
Career Best Red (no odds) Daunte Culpepper #761/1000
Elite Series (no odds) Julius Jones #873/1000
Career Best Black (no odds) Tom Brady #147/250

05/06 sp authentic (basketball)
brandon bass auto rc
josh powell limited rc

worst break ever. 1 auto and a set of commons for 90 bucks.


99/00 SP authentic

Allen Iverson (First Class)
Tim Hardaway (First Class)
Jumaine Jones (RF/X) 543/1500
Kobe Bryant (base)
Alonzo Mourning (Maximum Force)
Antawn Jamison (Maximum Force)
Kevin Garnett (Maximum Force)
Chris Webber (Maximum Force)
Keith Van Horn (Maximum Force)
Shareef Abdur-Rahim (Maximum Force)
Chucky Atkins (Sign of the Times) Auto
Kevin Garnett (SP Athletic)
Vince Carter (SP Athletic)
Jason Williams (Supremacy)

another weak break IMO. :|

^ SP Authentic is a hit or miss everytime, and IMO it's not worth the money. Your best bet is to just buy the rookies/inserts you want off the bay. I busted a box of it last week and got a rookie of someguy Ive never heard (denver), a sean may auto rookie, and a redemption card for andrea kirilenko auto jersey. Beh.

2006 Score Football
Hot Rookies (S.Holmes, D.Williams, L.Maroney, J.Cutler, V.young, R.Bush, L.White, M.Stovall)
Scorecard (M.Jenkins 111/750, J.Galloway 130/750, C.Russell, 680/750)
Serial# (B.Wade 324/600, A.Smith 448/600, E.Moulds 200/600, R.Bush Hot Rookies 268/600)
Red Border (J.Kitna 66/120)

2005 Bowman
Signs Of the Future (M.Barber, D.Pollack)
Draft Day Selections (R.Brown, teal jsy)

2006 Topps Draft Picks & Prospects
Silver Chrome Parallels (V.Davis, R.Williams, B.Gradkowski, E.Manning, G.Jennings, R.Brown, P.Manning, L.Tomlinson, J.Klopfenstein, C.Perry, J.Harrison, K.Colbert, S.Jackson, L.Fitzgerald, P.Pinegar, G.Riggs Jr)
Refractor (J.Bloom, A.Johnson, E.Sims, M.Harrison, C.Palmer)
Refractor Serial (D.Ryans 4/99)
Upperclassmen Jerseys (T.Brady Slvr, A.Toomer Blue)
Yellow Printing Plate 1 of 1 - R.Moss

Probably goin on the bay KJ Patch is #23/50. Addai is 05/25.

Not sure where this belongs but I just bought a pack of 06-07 UD Hardcourt

Danny Granger
Danny Fortson
Derek Fisher
Michael Jordan Game Used Floor GF10

:) My second pack of any cards since I originally stopped collecting a good 5-6 years ago. Feels good, I think it's an omen haha

Nice break for me, just had to share:

I post all of my box breaks (baseball only) on my website:

Box Breaks (http://www.baseballcardcollector.net/index.php/content/blogsection/2/25/)

It's not a shop and there are no affiliate links, I like web design as much as I do card collecting, so I've combined the two hobbies. If links aren't allowed, let me know and I'll cut and paste the content here.