Some people have asked for more info on the last post with the big hit from the case break. The latest trend in the hobby is called "Case Breaking". People buy a case of cards, which has several boxes inside. The cost is high but people sell off individual teams and you can pick or are done at random at a much lower price than buying a whole box. They open all the boxes and then whatever cards are pulled goes to whoever has each team. It's a cheaper solution for the collector than buying some of the higher end boxes that are out there these days (average cost is anywhere between $100-$500 per box) especially if you only collect a certain team or player.
As I said yesterday, I won a spot in this case break at the National Convention in Cleveland in early August. There are 30 teams in the NBA so each person who won a spot was randomly assigned a team. My team was the Detroit Pistons. I thought others who had some of the bigger name teams were the lucky ones but I would soon be pleasantly surprised. The product they were breaking is called Panini National Treasures. One of the cool parts was that this product wasn't even launched until August 20th so this would be the first time anyone had seen any of these cards. It is an extremely high end product with retail boxes going for over $500 each. Now remember, these boxes come with only 10 cards in a box! Obviously WAY out of my price range, but thankfully this was free. Inside this case were only 3 boxes for a total of 30 cards in the case.
Every card in this set is gorgeous. It's a high end set for a reason and Panini really does a great job of making the cards highly sought after. Panini doesn't have a license to produce MLB cards so this is one of my few interactions with their products. Two of the 3 cards I got were what I would call average or below average cards in the set as far as value goes, but hey I was getting free cards where they were plenty of people who walked away with nothing. The Grant Hill jersey swatch card is numbered 12/49. The Kelly Tripucka patch-auto card is numbered 53/65 and is one of the nicer cards to add to my collection as he has one of the better signatures you'll see on a card.
The big boom of the pulls and it was definitely one of the bigger cards in the case, was the Kentavious Caldwell-Pope Rookie Patch Auto numbered out of 10. I've seen several of these cards on the internet of KCP and others going anywhere from $500-$3000 so it was a pretty great score. Who knows if I'll get anywhere close to that much for it on eBay but it's worth a shot. It's a beautiful card but hopefully it can be turned into just as nice baseball cards instead.
Some awesome Lawrie, Stroman and Harper cards coming up in the next post
I'm reading your mail Rozie!
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