50 Assorted San Francisco Giants cards

I bought this last month when I was down in Bay Area for family reunion at Fanzz store. It's 50 random cards of San Francisco Giants. Madison Bumgarner on top. Let's see who's the remaing 49 cards. Will split by year and set.

1987 O-Pee-Chee - 358 - Atlee Hammaker

1988 Score - Dave Dravecky, Joel Youngblood, Mike LaCoss

1990 - Jeff Brantley

1990 Fleer - Candy Maldonado, Dave Anderson (update series)

1990 Upper Deck - Jose Uribe, Jeff Brantley

1992 Score - Scott Garrelts, Kevin Bass, Jeff Brantley

1992 Donruss - Chris James

1993 Leaf - Royce Clayon, Trevor Wilson

1994 Topps Stadium Club - Royce Clayton

1996 Score - Deion Sanders - Prime Time is his baseball digs

1997 Topps Stadium Club - first Bonds card so far

1999 Just Minors - Nate Bump - never played a game for Giants. Spent three years with Florida Marlins including the improbable World Series victory.

2000 Fleer Ultra - Robb Nen - Gold Medallion card

2000 Topps Chrome - Rich Aurilia

2003 Upper Deck 40 Man - Ruben Rivera - his final year in the majors before spending his career playing Mexican Leagues

2005 Topps Total - Brett Tomko, Michael Tucker, Omar Vizquel, Edgardo Alfonso

 

2005 Topps Update and Highlights - Jonathan Sanchez - threw a no-hitter for Giants in 2009

2006 Topps Update and Highlights - Jason Schmidt, Kevin Frandsen

2007 Fleer - Fred Lewis

2008 Topps Heritage - Ray Durham, Nate Schierholtz - Schierholtz was another prospect that never cracked it with the Giants

2008 Topps - Dave Roberts, Randy Winn

2008 Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects - Angel Villalona - still stuck in the minors and haven't played a game for the Giants.

2008 Upper Deck First Edition - Bengie Molina, Dave Roberts

2008 Upper Deck - Brian Wilson, Brian Bocock, Steve Holm, Barry Zito - Wilson was World Series hero but battled injuries. Bocock had another cup of coffee the following season as a Phillie, but still trying get back. Holm out of baseball. Zito, in his final season now member of the A's, dueled with former teammate Tim Hudson and had his last start few days ago.

2009 Topps - Jesus Guzman - AAAA player at best

2008 O-Pee-Chee - Emmanuel Burriss - another former Giants prospect that hasn't produced much. Haven't been back in the majors since 2012

2011 Bowman - Jonathan Sanchez

2010 Upper Deck Biography - Jonathan Sanchez, Tim Lincecum - insert set featuring highlights of 2009 season. These featured Sanchez no-hitter and Lincecum shutting out the A's

2011 Topps Update - Orlando Cabrera, Bill Hall - Cabrera was pick up in a trade that sent Sanchez to Royals. Royals got screwed when Sanchez flamed out while Cabrera sizzled. Turns out his performance was enhanced getting popped for PED ending his career. Hall lasted 16 games with the team.

 

2011 Topps Lineage - Miguel Tejada -  spent a year with Giants

2013 Bowman - Madison Bumgarner - the ace who guided Giants to World Series victory last year with ridiculous video game like stats.

I expected "junk wax" era cards but 3/5 of cards from 2000. At least got a Bonds and Bumgarner along with Prime Time stint as Giants even after signing with 49ers then rivals Dallas Cowboys. That was fun pack.

2015 Topps Football Retail

I haven't seen a pack of Topps Football up here yet so why not.  This is a retail pack picked at random from a blaster box.

I'll assume since this is the last year, for the foreseeable future, that Topps is going to be producing football cards they decided to go a little outside the box.  The design looks more like something you'd see out of the Bowman brand.  I'm guessing Topps was going for a futuristic look.  It just seems really busy to me and out of place for Topps flagship, but I don't hate it.  I also don't really love it. Maybe it'll work better in Chrome.

I like the card number being up and center on the back, this will make box collating easier, overall the backs are pretty typical Topps with stats, facts, and a blurb.  Here are the rest of the cards in the pack.

Topps increased the size of the set from 440 cards to 500 this year.  Did they add more players?  Nope they brought back the art of the subset.  There are plenty in this years set like Matt Forte's Fantasy Studs card and Marshawn Lynch's Topps 60.

Team cards gotta love them team cards.

The pack promises one rookie per pack.  I ended up with two.

Every pack comes with an insert as well.  I ended up with this Megatron 1000 Yard Club insert.

2015 Panini Prestige Football Hobby

I picked up a few packs on my last visit to Don's Sportcards here in Anchorage.  I've always liked the Prestige brand and this year is another great looking set.  Panini has this obsession with cropping players out and putting them on foilboard, but this set is more reminiscent of an Upper Deck set than Panini.  I'm not sure what's up with the misty borders, but at least you get a borderless photo with some background.  The backs are kind of blah, with a few stats and a black and white version of the front photo.

I think you get one Rookie card per pack, I got an undrafted rookie, DeAndrew White.

I did get another Rookie card in the pack and it was autographed.  This is one of the base sticker autos.  I had to look Jay up, I was not familiar with him.  He is currently on the IR for Miami.

2015 Topps Star Wars Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Retail)

I don't know about you, but I can't wait till Episode 7 comes out.  Of course I'm going to reserve the right to go back on that after I see the movie, but I really think JJ Abrams will bring the franchise back to it's full glory.  The movie card set is set to drop right around the time the movie comes out, but Topps has put out this set leading up to the movie.  If you love inserts and parallels you are going to love this set.

The base set has 110 cards.  And mimic the original set from 1977.  The base cards have the blue starfield background.  Out of my 6 card retail pack I only got 2 base cards.  To be honest after opening the pack and looking though it it reminded me of opening the original UD Goodwin Champions cards.  Lots of things other than base cards in the pack, the only thing missing was a tobacco size card or other mini insert....mmmm there's something to think about Topps.

The first parallel card I pulled was this Black Starfield.  These are seeded 1:2 or every other pack.

Next we have what I believe to be the Jabba Slime Green Starfield.  These aren't listed on the pack, but the set list over at Cardboard Connection lists these as one per pack.

I also got 2 other inserts, Power of the First Order.

And a Heroes of the Resistance.

What a Wookie!

There are all sorts of other inserts and autographs you can pull from the set.  Overall I really like the look of the set.  I think we could have done with a few less parallels and inserts, but the classic card stock is nice and the cards look good.