A Topps Redemption

About two weeks ago I was trying to clean off my desk and scanner of the piles of cards that have accumulated over the last semester, this is still going on and may go on forever. At any rate, I found a redemption card from the 2009 Topps Ticket to Stardom that I opened on Christmas. Yes, I forgot all about it until now.

Being that it isn't a player I collect it just got shoved into a pile of stuff that I was going ot figure out what to do with later. I thought about selling it on eBay, and then I figured I might as well see what kind of season he is having before bothering. I put the code in about 2 weeks ago and the card arrived today, which seemed awfully quick to me.

Want to know who it is? Click to satisfy your curiosity.

I'm willing to trade it for something fun. If no one cares.... off to the glue factory, I mean eBay.

2009 Ticket to Stardom Box Break

I've been meaning to post this for a while, I opened the box Christmas night after all the family left and I could open them without people wanting to touch them. I don't like people handling my cards unless it's really necessary or they collect cards and know how to handle them.

The first pack I opened had this card:


Clearly I will be sending this to Sooz because she needs it and I don't want it. The one and only useful card was in the first pack. No, really. Keep reading.

Here are the other hits:

Serial numbered blue parallels

Serial numbered gold parallels

Big Tickets

Ticket to Stardom, and a Seasoned Veteran

Daric Barton dual game used jersey card with ticket

Prince Fielder Big Ticket (didn't scan very well for some reason)

Matt Cain auto redemption (which I haven't redeemed yet)
This might sound terrible, but this box was more entertaining the the Unique. At least they were decent swatches and you got a ticket stub. Oh and the auto is of a guy who doesn't totally suck. That being said, if anyone wants to trade for any of the relics or autos other than Kouz let me know.

2009 Topps Ticket to Stardom

Overall opinion of this set: not great but would buy more.

Why would I buy more? Honestly the only reason is because for $2.99 you get 8 cards, or for the $4.99 rack pack you get 14 cards. I like getting a regular old pack of cards and getting more than 3 or 4 cards. Do I like the design? Not particularly but I like thumbing through a stack of cards. I know everyone has ripped this set to shreds but really other than Topps Series 1 & 2, there isn't much out right now that gives you 8 cards per pack. In total I opened 4 retail packs and 2 rack packs, all for research purposes to show the readers what is inside (at least that is what I'm telling myself now).

There is nothing great looking about these cards, nor are they all that exciting but cards are cards. I just like opening stuff.

I was highly optimistic about pulling a Pujols insert, and it was an epic failure as always. Here is what I did get:

These are the "die-cut" (if you can even call them that)

Just some regular cards to make this blog colorful.

I know Lonestarr pulled a sweet Pujols card with a ticket stub from a rack pack, but I don't have that kind of luck. He has dangled it in front of me, and I am trying to workout trade details with him but so far looks promising. What cracks me up are the people that are willing to pay big bucks for any of these ticket cards. It makes me laugh because the ticket stub has nothing to do with the player, it isn't like they held the ticket, signed it, sweat on it, wiped their ass with it or anything having anything to do with it. (For the record, I would NOT want a card that a player wiped their ass with.)

Anyone have any Pujols inserts from this set, please let me know.

P.S. Let's go Dodgers!