Pack A Day #1

I picked up a retail box of Topps 2013 Baseball cards today!!! YAY!!!  And I thought I would do some sort of Pack A Day column on here.  Using my massive imagination, I decided to call it...Pack A Day!! (bet you didn't see that coming, did you.)

I'm not promising to do this every single day, because I know how well I do with stuff like that some times plus some times I just won't be able to for various reasons.  But I can at least try.

BTW, see that new box in the side bar?  That is a running tally of all the cards I have gotten since I started collecting (it's actually since December 2012, but I'm counting it.) Once I have all my original cards sorted, I will figure out how many cards I have gotten since then and post a grand total thing too, but for now, this will do.

ON TO THE CARDS!!!

I decided to open 3 packs from the retail box today.  Normally I will open 1 or 2, but I decided to celebrate the start of the column and getting my first 2013 retail box.

Pack 1

Jake Arrieta (Orioles)
Evan Longoria (Rays)
Avisail Garcia (Tigers) Rookie
Sean Marshall (Reds)
Darwin Barney (Cubs
          Inserts
1972 Mini--Lou Gehrig
          Blue Parallel
Jacoby Ellsbury (Red Sox)
Justin Upton (Diamondbacks)

Not a bad pack.  I like the look of the cards, especially the Blue Parallels   And I like that the first 1972 Mini I got was a legend like Lou Gehrig

Pack 2

Jason Heyward (Braves)
Daisuke Matsuzaka (Red Sox)
Edwin Encarnacion (Blue Jays)
Luke Hochevar (Royals)
          Inserts
Chasing The Dream----Casey Kelly
Calling Card----Brandon Philips
          Blue Parallels
Alex Gordon (Royals)
A.J. Burnett (Pirates)

Another nice pack.  I like the look of the Chasing The Dream and Calling Card cards

Pack 3

Jason Kipnis (Indians)
Detroit Tigers--Game 4 2012 ALCS
Trevor Rosenthal (Cardinals) Rookie
Eric Chavez (Yankees)
Brian Fuentes (Cardinals)
          Inserts
Chasing History----Hank Aaron
          Blue Parallels
Rafael Furcal (Cardinals)
Brett Lawrie (Blue Jays)

Another good pack, and YAY!! Hank Arron!

Over all, a good start.  No Twins though.  But it is still early in the year, and I am sure I will get plenty of them

I wanted to post some pics of my favorite cards, but my scanner is being stupid right now and this is the only one that was up on Trading Card Database so far.  I will post the other s later.  If nothing else, I will post them when I get a duplicate.