Affordable Group Break: 2005 Topps Pack Wars (Hobby)

** UPDATE 06/16/21 - Prices lowered for remaining teams **

This break will feature 2005 Topps Pack Wars (Hobby). 7 packs / 7 cards per pack. According to Baseballcardpedia, each pack should contain an auto or relic and mentions that Topps randomly included $100 bills into packs?! Prices listed beside each team. All cards ship. Stacking applies so the price does not include shipping. We'll break this box Live on my YouTube channel on Friday, 06/18/21 at 10 PM eastern.

To claim your team(s) please comment with your request and submit your payment at that time. If you haven't participated in one of my breaks, please email me (flywheels@yahoo.com) your name & mailing address. Please send your payment as Friends & Family: paypal.me/flywheels86

Arizona Diamondbacks $3 - Adam McKenzie

Atlanta Braves - Colbey PAID
Baltimore Orioles $4 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Boston Red Sox $7 - Shane Salmonson PAID
Chicago Cubs $7 - Ben Martin PAID
Chicago White Sox $5 - Chad Pacey PAID
Cincinnati Reds $4
Cleveland Indians $5
Colorado Rockies $6 - Chad Pacey PAID
Detroit Tigers $6 - Ben Morris PAID
Florida Marlins $6 - Ben Morris PAID
Houston Astros $5 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Kansas City Royals $3 - cardcollector65jw PAID

Los Angeles Angels $6 - Rick Mantz PAID

Los Angeles Dodgers $4 - Rick Mantz PAID
Milwaukee Brewers $3
Minnesota Twins $3 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID

New York Mets $5 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
New York Yankees $8 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
Oakland Athletics $6 - Jennifer Peebles PAID
Philadelphia Phillies $6 - Dave Peterson PAID
Pittsburgh Pirates $3 - Zachary Chakan PAID
San Diego Padres $3 - Fred Pike PAID

San Francisco Giants $6 - Fred Pike PAID
Seattle Mariners $5 - Joseph Inzirillo PAID
St. Louis Cardinals $7 - Kerry Biggs PAID

Tampa Bay Rays $3

Texas Rangers $4
Toronto Blue Jays $4

Washington Nationals / Montreal Expos $4 - Jennifer Peebles PAID

Group Break Results - 2020 Topps Chrome Sapphire, 2005 Topps Pack Wars & 2019-20 Panini NBA Stickers & Cards

Last week was a busy week! We kicked off the week with a special mini break that featured a (expensive) box of 2020 Topps Chrome Sapphire. Then in our normal Friday night slot we had a box of 2005 Topps Pack Wars and a box of 2019-20 Panini NBA Stickers & Cards. If you just want to watch the videos of these breaks skip on down to the bottom of the post, otherwise keep reading and I'll share some of the highlights.

The first card out of the first pack was a Kyle Lewis RC! Earlier in the week once I opened trading the owner of the Mariners was trying to trade for his Dodgers. I encouraged him to keep the Mariners just in case this very card was pulled. Needless to say shortly after the break Monday night I was messaged asking for his stack to be shipped! I think the sold auctions search he did for this Kyle Lewis card is what must have prompted his decision to not sit on his stack of cards anymore!

Not to be out done however, we also pulled this RC of Randy Arozarena. At the time I don't think I paid too much attention to this card, but what a mistake that was! 

Another highlight of this box was this beautiful red parallel of Carlos Santana. I wasn't expecting to see that it was serially numbered 4/5 when I flipped the card over.

As the host and Braves fan, I was excited to pull 3 base cards...especially the soon to be announced NL MVP Freddie Freeman.

The Astros got the guaranteed RC auto hit the box promised with this nice on card signature of Urquidy. Also pulled the base card as an added "bonus".

This was a fun box to rip. I was worried about the high price tag and the low number of packs/cards however. While sorting the teams I did my best to include a few cards from my own collection for those who got shut out. I know that's the risk of buying into breaks, but I want everyone to be as happy as possible.

I was really looking forward to this box of 2005 Topps Pack Wars. In another effort to create a baseball trading card game (TCG) Topps upped the ante with Pack Wars. Each box contained just 7 packs, but inside each pack had 3 packs...two 3 card "game cards" (the base cards above) and 1 prize pack. Each prize pack had either an auto, relic, auto relic or cut signature. The checklist across the possible hits was pretty nice.

The base cards are busy, but cool looking. Red was used for offensive players while green was used for pitchers. I have never taken the time to learn how to play any TCG games (though I have plenty of cards from various TCGs), included in each pack was a card w/ instructions on how to play the game.

Also included in each box was a Collector Chip pack. We ended up with the Reds' Frank Robinson.

The very first prize pack we opened contained this 2003 Topps Archives Fan Favorite auto of Boog Powell. Wasn't expecting this, but it was a nice bonus for whomever was randomly awarded the Orioles.

The next 6 prize packs contained bat relics, but if you're going to receive something like this at least the cards look sharp. Printed on holofoil with an overall nice design, I hope the recipients of these will enjoy them.

This was a fun box to rip and I'd love to do another. The vendor I grabbed this box from has one box left (although the price did increase by $10) so I may grab it soon so we can try our luck again...sound good to everyone? Let me know in the comments.

In an effort to try and mix in more current product, I grabbed a box of 50 sticker packets of 2019-20 Panini NBA Stickers & Cards. I'm glad that Panini is now including a card in each sticker pack as it just adds another level of fun to the product. All of the teams for this box were randomly assigned, thanks for the hot rookie crop. As you can see above the owners of the Pelicans and Grizzlies did at least get a base sticker of some of the top rookies.

The cards included in each pack made up their own 100 card set. With 50 packs we stood a good chance of pulling some good RCs and above is a selection of some pulled. Sadly no Zion or Morant.

Foil parallels of the cards could be found, but I'm not sure of the odds. We ended up w/ 4 silver parallels, the first pulled was Kevin Durant. These are not numbered, but not that easy to pull either.

These teal/blue parallels are numbered to just /75. I was hoping we'd pull something like these so I'm glad we got two. 

I had fun opening the sticker packs myself and I hope others will be happy w/ their team's results. I may try this again, though next time with a box of 2020 football. Hopefully if the participants don't already have a sticker album they'll pick one up...something therapeutic about putting stickers in albums...unless you have OCD like me and have to place every sticker perfectly!

As always, thank you to everyone who participated in these three breaks. This next week will feature just one box (baseball) as I'll be traveling for work again and headed to the beach Friday. That said we'll be breaking Thursday night, 10/15/20 to accomodate my schedule. Thanks again everyone!

Affordable Group Break - 2005 Topps Pack Wars (Hobby)

This break will feature 2005 Topps Pack Wars (Hobby). 7 packs / 7 cards per pack. According to Baseballcardpedia, each pack should contain an auto or relic. The site also mentions that Topps randomly included $100 bills into packs! Be sure to check out all the checklists for possible pulls from this product. Prices listed beside each team. All cards ship. Stacking applies so the price does not include shipping. If you have questions on how this works please let me know. We'll break this box Live on my YouTube channel on Friday, 10/09/20 at 10 PM eastern. 

For this break it'll be a two team slot, pick one team & the second will be randomly assigned. 15 total slots, $8 per slot. To claim your team(s) please comment with your request and submit your payment at that time. If you haven't participated in one of my breaks, please email me (flywheels@yahoo.com) your name & mailing address. Please send your payment as Friends & Family: http://paypal.me/flywheels86

01) Yankees - Hal Sauceman PAID - Twins

02) Rockies - John Donovan PAID - Pirates

03) Astros - Denny Wagner PAID - Rangers

04) Tigers - Ben Morris PAID - Orioles

05) Indians - John Donovan PAID - Athletics

06) Cardinals - Kerry Biggs PAID - Dodgers

07) Reds - Chris Reed PAID - Mariners

08) Cubs - Jennifer Peebles PAID - Brewers

09) Phillies - Dan Horton PAID - Blue Jays

10) Red Sox - Boston Red Sox Collector PAID - Diamondbacks

11) Royals - Jason McQuitty PAID - Padres

12) Marlins - Joey Nigro PAID - Angels

13) Mets - Ben Martin PAID - Nationals

14) Giants - Denny Wagner PAID - Rays

15) Braves - Colbey PAID - White Sox

Thanks for the reminder from John Donovan, the unclaimed teams have been assigned to all participants via Random.org and randomizing the list by a dice roll of 6. I'm so sorry for the last minute assignments.