The most beautiful card of 2013

That's my opinion anyway. This was the best card I pulled in the last blaster of Archives from my MIL.

Isn't it amazing.

It's as if Cooperstown had a little chapel with stained glass windows all around. You go in there to offer up a little prayer and there is Jackie staring down at you as if to say everything will be ok.

It will Jackie. Everything is going to be just fine.

The hit could have been worse

We are on to the final Archives blaster from the great haul of goodies from my mother-in-law. This blaster had two notable cards and this Bryce Harper is the first of them.

Seeing as how Harper has already broken every MLB hitting record and is already in the Hall of Fame (wait, that's not right) I'll hold on to this one because its probably worth about a gazillion bucks.

Besides, I've always wanted a piece of curtain from the Hyatt at Dulles International Airport in DC.

MIL Archives Blaster #1: Not all Yankee cards make me sick

If you had told me I'd be happy to pull a Yankees hit, I would have called you crazy.

Or worse.

I pulled this Mickey Rivers auto out of the first MIL blaster and I must say, I think I actually like it. Only because Mickey was such a favorite of mine during the early days of my Ranger fandom. Of course I wish it was on a Rangers card, but I suppose I should just be happy I pulled an auto I like instead of one to trade.

One more blaster to go and it has two pics. That means two posts and the final one has what I think is the most beautiful card of 2013.

Yea, I said beautiful.

MIL Archives Blaster #1: What's worse than pulling a Yankee insert?

How about pulling one with four Yankees on it? Ok, I've got nothing against Ruth or Mattingly and Jackson is ok. That just leaves Jeter.

I think I'm going to stick these on some firecrackers and blow them up. The first blaster from my MIL had another Yankee that I think I'm going to keep.

Stay tuned.

6 Hanger Boxes, 1 SP

I didn't expect any hits out of my 6 hanger boxes and I wasn't "disappointed". I was hoping to get a couple of SPs and ended up with one.

Gimmicks are a way of life for Topps collectors these days. That doesn't mean we have to like it.

That's the end of the hanger boxes. I didn't bother to show all the inserts. I didn't get any Rangers inserts other than the the two Darvish's I showed in the last post.

The two Archives blasters were better.

Collation confusion

I think we all know when you see a run of base cards repeat itself in pack after pack it's because of the way the cards appear on the uncut sheets. I don't recall seeing a whole series of inserts do the same thing.

Two of the hanger boxes had the same four gold Chasing History inserts. I'm not complaining since I got dupe Darvish cards.

Still...

Die cut duplicity

Out of six hanger boxes the dear MIL bought for me, I only pulled two die cuts. Unfortunately for me, one was AFraud and one was Chris Sale who I already pulled.