August 2012 Affordable Group Break - 1996 Stadium Club Series 1

We've finally reached the last year of this massive Stadium Club break with the first of two 1996 boxes.  Of note here each pack contains a double foil stamped Team TSC card that is essentially an SP.  These will not be counted as an insert and part of the base card count.  Extreme Players was some sort of contest where if you pulled an EP card it could be mailed in to Topps as a contest entry of some sorts.  These Extreme Players cards came in 3 varieties:  Bronze (1:12), Silver (1:24) and Gold (1:48).  Even though these cards are essentially parallels, they'll be counted as inserts.

Other inserts include Power Streak (1:24), Prime Cuts (1:36), Midsummer Matchup (1:48), Mega Heroes (1:48), and Mickey Mantle Retrospective (1:24).

Team TSC short prints

 Extreme Players - I was surprised to see that we got one of each level in the same box!

 Topps made good use of their Mickey Mantle deal in the mid 90's.

 It's not Tim Salmon, but I'm thinking Angels, In Order will be happy w/ this Jim Edmonds.

This was a fun box to open.  Most of the teams got a good amount of cards and the inserts were a nice touch - even though we didn't get some of the higher odds inserts.  One more box to go before this break is in the books.

Updated card count through 9 boxes:

 

BASE CARD - PARALLEL - INSERT

NL

Braves - 126 - 4 - 0

Mets - 84 - 3 - 2

Dodgers - 85 - 5 - 3

Reds - 88 - 5 - 0

Giants - 85 - 6 - 4

Phillies - 78 - 2 - 4

Expos - 88 - 5 - 0

Brewers - 96 - 5 - 2

Cardinals - 83 - 3 - 0

Astros - 89 - 5 - 1

Pirates - 72 - 4 - 0

Padres - 99 - 2 - 1

AL

Yankees - 98 - 4 - 5

Mariners - 84 - 6 - 2

Indians - 85 - 7 - 0

Rangers - 110 - 3 - 0

Royals - 106 - 5 - 0

White Sox - 100 - 1 - 7

Angels - 77 - 3 - 3

Blue Jays - 83 - 4 - 1