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 Tuesday, March 03, 2009
2008 SP Authentic Football
Posted by Tuff stuff
Before baseball dominates the releases for the spring and summer, we'd busted open some football product. Tuff Stuff's Sports Collectors Monthly's Editor Scott Fragale and pricing analyst Joe Clemens did the honors of breaking open: 2008 SP Authentic Football- 5 cards/pack
- 24 packs/box ($120)
These cards offer good photography of the players, but in this design they are just "floating" out in space. The back are nice with full stats and bio information. We were supposed to get three autos in this box, but we nabbed just two: - Jacob Tamme (numbered to 999 in the Rookie Authentics Signatures line)
- Gosder Cherilus (numbered to 25 in the SP Authentics Gold line)
We also opened four Rookie Authentics base cards: - Jamey Richard (numbered to 1,399)
- Louis Rankin (numbered to 999)
- Lex Hilliard (numbered to 1,399)
- Pierre Garcon (numbered to 999)
For the rest of the break, please check out the video:
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 4:37:43 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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Monday, March 02, 2009
2008 Playoff Contenders Baseball
Posted by Tuff stuff
It's a long time coming, but we finally have some video box breaks back on the board. We did a trio of them one afternoon, complete with pricing analyst Joe Clemens and Tuff Stuff's Sports Collectors Monthly's Editor Scott Fragale. We kick it off with:
2008 Playoff Contenders Baseball- 5 cards/pack
- 24 packs/box ($110)
If you're unfamiliar with Donruss/Playoff baseball product, it's going to be a lot of players you've never heard of, but they could also be the stars of tomorrow. The players in this set are minor leaguers, some of which might get the call this year. Hence, the draw to the five autographed card (on average) advertised to be in each box. These "Rookie Tickets" in our box included: - Cord Phelps
- Clark Murphy
- Buster Posey
- Michel Inoa
- A redemption for card No. 113.
We also nabbed some inserts: - Legendary Rookies – Willie Mays (numbered to 1,500)
- Draft Class - Jon Jay and Lance Lynn (numbered to 1,500)
- Rookie Roll Call - Rafael Rodriguez (numbered to 1,500)
- Round Numbers - Allan Dykstra and Anthony Hewitt (numbered to 1,500)
For the rest of the box, please see the video below: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:57:36 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
2008-09 Skybox Basketball
Posted by Tuff stuff
With the NBA basketball All-Star game fast approaching, we thought it was a good time to break open: 2008-09 Skybox Basketball- 10 cards/pack
- 12 packs/box
The one thing I like about these cards is the design. there are some great action shots with the featured player in color and the background in black and white. It's like the colorized version of The Wizard of Oz. The other cool feature is the Close Ups insert, many featuring old school talent. We nabbed Jordan and Magic Johnson. No matter the context, it's always fun to pull one of those out of the bunch. Each box boasts three memorabilia cards and one autographed card. Our three memorabilia cards come in three different inserts: - Rookie Prevue: O.J. Mayo
- One On One: LeBron James and Gilbert Arenas
- Larger Than Life: Ray Allen
The autograph card: Paraph Signatures: Alando Tucker Nothing to blow your mind away here, but a decent basketball product all around.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:49:57 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, February 02, 2009
2008 Playoff Contenders Baseball
Posted by Tuff stuff
With spring training now just days away and not weeks away (most camps open by Feb. 14), it's a great time to look at some of the young ballplayers in the minor leagues by busting a box of: 2008 Playoff Contenders Baseball (Feb. 4 release)- 5 cards/pack
- 24 packs/box ($115)
The draw in this box is to get cards of "rookies" in one of their first years in the minors. The autographs are the big draw, as you never know who will be the next David Price or Cole Hamels in the years ahead. There are also parallels and limited inserts such as Roll Call, Round Numbers and Draft Class. There's also a Legendary Rookies insert made up of five players. Here is what we pulled:
Rookie Ticket Autos (5, the box average): Robbie Grossman (Pittsburgh) Brad Mills (Toronto) Brad Hand (Florida) Ike Davis (Mets) Angel Morales (Minnesota) Playoff Tickets (all numbered to 199)Byron Wiley Jared Bolden Brandon Crawford Roll CallIsaac Galloway (numbered to 1,500) Round NumbersBuster Posey and Gordon Beckham (numbered to 1,500) Draft ClassJon Jay and Lance Lynn (numbered to 1,500) Legendary RookiesCal Ripken Jr. (numbered to 1,500) All in all, not too bad - considering we'll have to see how these players progress.
Monday, February 02, 2009 9:15:57 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Fleer 2008-09 Basketball
Posted by Tuff stuff
We're hitting the hardwood in this edition of Bustin' Wax, taking a look back at the rookies of 2008-09. Get it? Well, let's explain in: 2008-09 Fleer Basketball- 16 packs per box ($70)
- 15 cards per pack
You see, this Fleer offering brings you the rookie class (30 in all) on 1986-87 retro cards. So you can see what O.J. Mayo would look like in that famous Jordan year. In addition to that, each box offers up four memorabilia or autograph cards per box. Here's what we got among those hits: - 1 Signature Approval auto: LeBron James
- 2 Throwback Classic dual patch cards: Jerryd Bayless and Jason Thompson
- 1 Genuine Coverage dual patch: Tim Duncan
The rest of the box are decent base cards, many in the throwback style.
Monday, January 26, 2009 5:57:03 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, January 19, 2009
UD Sweet Spot Baseball
Posted by Tuff stuff
We're staying with the high-end baseball products, breaking open a box of: 2008 Sweet Spot Baseball- 8 cards/pack
- 6 packs/box ($95)
One auto card or memorabilia card per pack, on average. That has my interest! And some of what we got was cool, others ho-hum. But first this little diddy. The last pack was thicker than the rest. When the cellophane was opened, it contained a tin box. I'm thinking, "Cool, must be something really good." Well, what was in it? Nothing. Nothing but base cards and an extra thick filler!! Wow, what a disappointment. Too bad it wasn't on video, because you'd all be groaning. So what did we get among the goodies? Here's the list: - Sweet Spot Signatures: Bobby Richardson (numbered to 250)
- Sweet Beginnings Auto: Brian Bixler (numbered to 699)
- Sweet Swatch Quad Memorabilia: Mike Schmidt, Ozzie Smith, Will Clark and Ryne Sandberg
- Sweat Swatch Memorabilia: Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter and David Ortiz.
The coolest part of the base cards in the "stitching" placed along the sides of the cards.
Monday, January 19, 2009 11:05:55 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Baseball
Posted by Tuff stuff
There are times when boxes bring out the joy of the hobby and sometimes you get the scorn. This might be the latter. And, yes, we'll have these on video again soon - so don't worry our reading-challenged friends. Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Baseball4 cards/pack/box ($99) This pack is supposed to offer a memorabilia or auto card among the contents, with the big draw being multiple-autographed versions. And, the "base" cards are all limited in number as well. But.... The auto/memorabilia card in this pack was Jeff Francoeur, who signed some game-used pants in a super swatch. It's numbered to 99. In the past, you might get excited over this former Braves top prospect. But his lousy 2008 season (including a demotion to the minors) doesn't bring a lot of excitement into this mix. The other base cards include: - Jake Peavy (numbered to 350)
- Brian Roberts (numbered to 350)
- Adrian Gonzalez (numbered to 350)
So, what do you think?
Monday, January 19, 2009 4:27:47 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Friday, January 02, 2009
Press Pass Legends Football: Bowl Edition
Posted by Tuff stuff
We're taking it old school with this round of Bustin' Wax, leaving the video recorder in its case and just breaking it down list-wise. So what do we have on this post-New Year's doldrums? Press Pass Legends: Bowl Edition- 5 cards/pack
- 5 packs/box ($160)
Every card in this product is sequentially numbered to 299 or less, which I guess is a drawing point. There is also one Legendary Autograph per pack - so that's five "legendary" autographs in this box. Who did we get? Well: - Pat Sullivan, MVP of the 1970 Gator Bowl (numbered to 25)
- Roger Craig, 1982 Orange bowl (numbered to 75)
- Tommy Frazier, Nebraska (numbered to 15)
- James Lofton, Stanford (numbered to 25)
- Steve Spurrier/Danny Wuerffel redemption
Base cards ranged from the numbered to 299 base set and one top 25 card of Billy Sims numbered to 250. From there we had a Most Valuable Player Warren Moon (numbered to 250, Washington) and a Tommy Frazier Bowl Busters card numbered to 250. An Institutional Icons card of Jimmy Johnson and Jim Kelly was also numbered to 250. From there, it was four red parallels each numbered to 150: Sonny Jurgenson, Bob Griese, Ken Stabler and Derrick Brooks. Blue parallels included Bill Cowher, Felix Jones and Matt Forte (each numbered to 99). 10-yard line parallels (I think they're black with green) included Billy Kilmer and Joe Montana (numbered to 75) The 5-yard line parallels (also black and green with gold lettering) consisted of Herschel Walker (numbered to 50). There you have it. The base cards and parallels are nice, but it's the autographs you're after, and some of these names are a treat to run across again.
Friday, January 02, 2009 8:07:48 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
2008-09 Artifacts Hockey
Posted by Tuff stuff
Baby it's cold outside, so we turned our attention to: 2008-09 Artifacts Hockey (Upper Deck)4 cards/pack
10 packs/box ($80)The product has some nice items inside, from a rookie redemption card, two rookie cards to and Autofacts signature card in each box. We found all of the above: - Drew Stafford Autofacts cards
- Rookie redemption acrds
- 1 Tundra Tandems dual jersey card: Jonathan Cheechoo and Michael Ryder (numbered to 75)
- 1 Treasured Swatches dual patch card: Brendan Morrison (numbered to 199)
- 1 Frozen Artifacts dual swatch card: Thomas Vanek (numbered to 100)
- 2 Rookies: Mattias Ritola and Peter Vandermeer (both numbered to 999)
- 1 Legends: Lanny McDonald (numbered to 999)
- 2 parallels: Josh Harding (gold, numbered to 75) and Saku Koivu (bronze, numbered to 999).
For the rest, check out the video:
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:48:47 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Monday, December 15, 2008
SP Rookie Edition Football
Posted by Tuff stuff
For some cards that feature good photography and some great rookie designs, be sure to check out: SP Rookie Edition Football- 8 cards/pack
- 14 packs/box ($60)
The idea behind the box is all about rookies, with four found per box. You can find rookie variations in the 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996 SP designs. There also two autographs per box, on average. Our two autographs were: The rest of the pack were base cards, parallels and some inserts, but nothing that will blow you away. For the complete box break, check out the video below:
Monday, December 15, 2008 7:58:49 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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