We have a sports store in downtown Lawrence called The Sports Dome that sells shirts, hats, posters,...and in one back counter, baseball cards. They have a few 2008 products but a lot of their stuff is dust covered packs that they never quite sold the whole box of. Today I bought one of these packs a jumbo hobby pack of 2003 Topps Series 1 for $5.
I've never opened a pack of this stuff and frankly I can't picture what the cards look like in my mind. Examining the price guide information on this set, there aren't any big important cards to emerge...yet, I guess I should say. Highlights include a Cole Hamels Draft Pick card, Kevin Youkilis Rookie, and Chris Duncan Rookie. Interestingly, Beckett says there is no card #7 to the set...this must be before Topps went into the tank for Mickey Mantle.
I get 35 cards in this pack and let's begin:
#266 Alex Gonzalez
#320 Gonzalo Lopez [1st Year Card]
#293 Franklin Gutierrez [1st Year Card]
#290 Jerry Narron
#297 Wayne Lydon [1st Year Card]
#308 Brendan Harris [1st Year Card]
#287 Lou Piniella
#299 Sean Pierce [1st Year Card]
#321 Walter Young [1st Year Card]
#320 Craig Brazell [1st Year Card]
#311 Kevin Youkilis [1st Year Card]
I really like this pre-facial hair Youkilis.
#264 Mike Hargrove
#294 Adam LaRoche [1st Year Card]
#303 Bernie Castro [1st Year Card]
#313 C.J. Wilson [1st Year Card]
#303 Bernie Castro [1st Year Card] Black Border 37/52
The Barry Bonds or Derek Jeter version of the black cards are listed at $50.00 cards.
Jeff Bagwell Fly Out Insert
#347 2002 NL ERA Leaders
#336 Season Highlights [Derek Lowe No-Hitter]
#362 Garret Anderson [Sporting News All-Stars]
#28 Edgardo Alfonzo
#112 Jacque Jones
#219 Kevin Milwood
#70 Austin Kearns [All-Star Rookie]
#92 Jeffrey Hammonds
#238 Denny Hocking
#110 Shawn Green
#251 Craig Biggio
#210 Roy Oswalt
#133 Corey Patterson
#90 Alfonso Soriano
This is the best photo in my opinion...I had sort of forgotten that Soriano was a Yankee to begin with.
#24 Odalis Perez
#151 Al Leiter
#200 Albert Pujols
Wow, both the Youkilis rookie and the Pujols base card in the same pack...
#42 Danny Bautista
This set seems to have the same problem that the 1971 set does...the blue border chips really easily and any bump or bruise shows up.
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