1997 Leaf Group Break Results

This week's Affordable Group Break has come and gone, but like with every other break I've hosted it was still fun. This time around we broke a retail box of 1997 Leaf Series 1. The possibility of the Fractal Matrix parallels and the innovative inserts is what attracted me to selecting this box. Leaf has some really fun inserts in the late 90's and while the production run of some of these may have been serially numbered to 5000 (or less), they still can be a tuff pull. I thought by the pack odds of inserts falling 1:6 packs we'd get 4 "hits", however we only came in with 3. What we go however were still pretty cool.

First insert pulled was this nice Knothole Gang. These are printed on wood and mimics a hole in a fence a kid may have been peeking through to catch a ballgame. These are numbered to 5000. 

Several packs later we hit the retail exclusive insert, Dress for Success. These are printed on nylon and have the feel of cloth (kind of). The letters on the jersey are done in felt. These are serially numbered to 3500. 

We finally hit a Fractal Matrix parallel and it was the non-diecut Bronze variety of Reds player Chat Mottola. Not quite what we were expecting, but I guess you can't win them all. None the less these parallels looks much nicer in hand than when photographed.

Overall this was still a fun break and I hope those of you who participated had as much fun as I did. I'm not sure what product will be featured in the next Affordable Group Break, but keep your eyes here on the blog and across my social media channels for the next installment.