We've already covered one of the baseball staples for the year, and Tuff Stuff's Joe Clemens and Scott Fragale have busted open another:

2009 Topps Baseball Series 1

• 10 cards/pack
• 36 packs/box ($75)

Topps advertises one auto/relic card per box, but that's not really the goal here. This is one of the sets the average collector goes after and set builders attempt to complete. the art is great, the team leader cards is what everyone recognizes from years ago and the inserts make for just a  great set all around.

But enough babbling, here is what we found:

• Chase Utley World Series patch card (numbered to 100)
• Justin Upton Magenta Printing Plate (numbered to 1)

Ring of Honor Inserts

• Lou Pinella
• Tony LaRussa
• Francisco Rodriguez
• Brad Lidge
• Kevin Mitchell

58 Years of Collecting Gold Parallels (all numbered to 2009)

• Akinori Iwamura
• Omar Vizquel
• Casey Kotchman
• 2008 AL Strikeout Leaders: Burnett, Santana, Halladay
• Jack Wilson
• Jose Bautista

Legends of the Game Inserts

• Lou Gehrig
• George Sisler
• Jackie Robinson
• Cy Young
• Carl Yastrzemski
• Mel Ott

(We got six of the 25 cards in this insert)

Turkey Red Inserts

• Ervin Santana
• Carlos Quentin
• George Sisler
• Ben Sheets
• Cristain Guzman
• Shane Victorino
• Brian Giles
• Babe Ruth
• David Wright

Whew, that's a lot to cover, and the video below covers a lot more. We ran a little long, but we captured all of the exciting parts.