TOPPS HERITAGE AT TARGET!

This week is like Christmas for baseball-loving card collectors. Spring training games kick off on Wednesday and 2009 Topps Heritage is scheduled to be hitting hobby shelves the same day. I had to do the grocery shopping today though (gotta have milk and bread) so I went to the local Target and just possibly may have poked around the card aisle for a bit. Still no Upper Deck at all. The double wide Topps feeder was getting low but still had plenty of packs in it. There was my first confirmed sighting of a 2009 Topps blaster, but I didn't really want the patch card that badly. That stuff will be sitting on shelves till June anyway so no hurry at all. Topps Mayo, nah. Black Diamond Hockey, nah. iCarly cards... maaaaaybe... Then I saw it. Just sitting right there in the box. I never expected to see this at all in there. Topps Heritage!

No not that Topps Heritage, I just told you it's arriving in hobby shops on Wednesday. This Topps Heritage:

$1.59 cheapo packs, baby!

Ok, so that was a dirty trick to get you all to click on this post. It was a fun dirty trick and I regret nothing.

Nothing!

So here's some '08 Heritage packs to tide you over 'till tomorrow when the case breakers will likely start getting busy.

Pack 1:
269 H. Ramirez
152 B. Bannister
400 Man Ram
20 J. Kent
419 Braves
140 B. Sardinha
339 I. Snell
C54 Tim Lincecum Chrome Refractor #195/559

I was all set to mail this card out but can you believe Bailey has the refractor already but not the regular Chrome? Oh well, I wanted to keep this card anyway.

Pack 2:
376 R. Johnson
289 B. Myers
208 B. Butler
313 K. Igawa
399 T. Lilly
267 X. Nady
BF2 Luis Aparicio Flashbacks
370 Verlander No Hitter black back

Woohoo! I actually needed the Nady card for my set. the rest are all doubles though including the insert and parallel. If anyone needs this stuff send me a wantlist, I've got a few hundred doubles.

Pack 3:
410 M. Buehrle
68 D. Jeter
258 BJ Upton
420 N. Lowry
361 J. Borowski
71 T. Hoffman
174 M. Cameron
436 Ryan Freel SP

I pretty much bought these for a shot at a short print so the Freel is a welcome sight.

Pack 4:
148 H. Pence
70 C. Guillen
123 S. Fuld
416 A. Cabrera
41 K. Escobar
12 C. Schilling
482 Justin Morneau All Star SP
57 Brad Lidge black back

The Morneau SP is sweet, but I've got it already. Escobar is another pesky base card I needed though.

Pack 5:
182 M. Cain
390 R. Braun
237 Run Preventers
345 C. Carpenter
387 J. Bonderman
369 Buchholz No Hitter
3 Eric Byrnes
324 R. Ankiel black back

At least I am pulling exactly one card per pack that I actually need. This was a fool's errand to begin with, but that one Eric Byrnes card that I didn't already have makes me feel better about this pack.

Pack 6:
271 A. Phillips
375 Manny HR
110 H. Bailey
277 M. Teahan
413 E. Jackson
311 J. Suppan
226 R. Harden
NAP6 J. Peavy New Age Performer

And the streak dies. A solid pack of dupes, including the Peavy. More cards for the doubles box. If anyone needs some for a set just let me know. That box is getting pretty full and I need to start clearing it out for the '09 stuff.