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April 6, 2015

Yay for Opening Day

I love this time of year! After an extremely long winter, it's finally time to play baseball once again. In honor of MLB Opening Day, I've got to post some favorites from my newly acquired 2015 New York Yankees team set. The set consists of 17 cards, with most of the ones not shown being essentially carbon copies of the series one cards. There are two differences: the Topps logo on the front of these is not done in foil, and as in previous years, the card numbers on the back are NYY-1 through NYY-17. 


Across the top, we have a great rookie cup of Betances, my long awaited Jose Pirela RC(I hoped it would have been in series one), and A-Rod. Across the bottom, a horribly photoshopped Eovaldi, Drew(only shown since he wasn't in series one), and a horribly photoshopped Gregorius. Here's hoping that the first official flagship cards of those two guys sport different photos of them where they are actually wearing a Yankees uni. Overall, the set was well worth the $4.99 plus tax. 

Too bad my Yankees lost their 4th straight Opening Day game, at least I had the excitement of breaking this team set today. Good thing there are 160+ more games to go this season!
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 7, 2015 at 6:32 AM

    Thanks for sharing these... I always enjoy seeing the different cards within these retail teams sets.

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    1. Tim B.April 7, 2015 at 7:27 AM

      Absolutely! I'm in the same boat, love seeing which cards are included and how they may be different.

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  2. acrackedbatApril 7, 2015 at 8:09 AM

    Whoa, you aren't kidding about Eovaldi! I'm on the fence regarding Arod cards in 2015 product.

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    1. Tim B.April 7, 2015 at 10:16 AM

      Yeah Julie, the Eovaldi is pretty horrific. I'm personally going to cheer on A-Rod. I loved him in his Seattle years and was happy(at first) when the Yankees got him. I'm also a sucker for redemption stories.

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  3. The Lost CollectorApril 7, 2015 at 9:18 AM

    Ahh, I have to go find these. I usually pick them up when I see them.

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    1. Tim B.April 7, 2015 at 10:14 AM

      I was at my local Target yesterday(in NC) and had no intention of buying cards(I swear) until I saw this set. They also had the BoSox and AL/NL All Star sets.

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