We've reached the end of the Topps Holiday Advent calendar. Here's door #24 (shoutout Kiefer Sutherland.)
What grand finale do the fine folks at Fanatics have in store for us? I've heard the last pack is an original from years past....
...and, yeh... that it is.
Oh great, it's my least favorite Topps set ever. This came out when I was nine years old, and as much as I loved baseball I never even bothered to finish the complete set. Four years ago, when my mom moved out of my childhood home, I found a stack of bent 9-pocket pages with 1989 Topps singles sporadically inside, as if I'd completed 25% of the set, realized it sucked, and then threw the pages in the closet without a binder to protect them.
I'm honestly amazed that I continued to collect baseball cards after this year.
Welp, let's get this over with.
Here are the highlights, and I only added Henke to fill in the six-pack since the rest of the cards were absolute no-names (Mark Grant? Jose Cecena?) There was a broken stick of gum in the pack, and it stained the back of the Galarraga card. I'd rather have another stamped buyback from 2024. What a lousy end to the Advent calendar.
I've got one more Topps Holiday product to open tomorrow. Hopefully that will wash the stink off this pack (no offense to Hawk, Ryno, and Sweet Lou)
Thanks for reading, and Merry Christmas!!
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Hope it’s at least a relic or something.
ReplyDeleteBtw, how close are you to North Brunswick? We’re here in North Brunswick for a few more days, and I have a ton of Holiday dupes if you are trying to finish the set that I could hook you up with.
Not that far actually, I'm about a half hour north of there.
DeleteBut I'll be in PA visiting family for the next couple days :/
'89 Topps is probably my least favorite version of that set made during my lifetime for a number of reasons too. Anyway, Merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy some time with your family!
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