Topps Opening Day

[jayjay0122]

I'm surprised Topps still makes this product, but I was even more surprised to see that BO is sold out of cases and boxes. I guess the product is more directed towards kids, but regular Topps is pretty cheap with a lot better hits. Is anybody opening this stuff?

[JAMmedia]

I always rip Opening Day, because it's a fun set to build –#@not for hits, not for money; no other reason except for the love of the game, so to speak.

[pac213up]

First time not busting a case in a couple of years. Always a real good $$ maker for me.

[mzimmerman81]

Yeah if you feel like spending the time and doing to work that's involved it's a money maker for sure. I also passed this year as I picked some other products instead.

[Zacky1053]

Plus the Sold Out part might have something to do with BO not buying as much of it to begin with. I could be wrong though.

[jubei777]

thought i read that BO said this was under-produced similar to Galaxy 6.

[Baseball Cards]

How can you not like Opening Day? I like the 08 Set the best.

[death2redemptions]

How could you possibly make money from these? Its cheap but still the insert sets are just 10 cards each (maybe a couple bucks each?) except for those damn ToppsTown.com cards in every pack that I toss. The autograph checklist is simply awful and its impossible just to find one. The parallel cards are at tough odds. I don't know how you could make your money back.

I wouldn't have fun busting these. I'd get so bored opening a case, ripping packs of all the same cards...like Topps without the possible surprises & goodies. Then when I make one of my two autographs out of the case it would make me want to toss it judging from the checklist. Saaaaaaame thing over and over again. I'd probably nod out and fall asleep on the box (which I have actually done with one of the Topps series boxes...I had been up all night though, don't get much sleep when I have a case). Only thing I'd be interested in would be the parallels. Its never bad to pull a serial #d Jeter or Pujols. Some of those insert sets would make me sick like the Mascots and Presidential First Pitches. I wonder how many democrats (yuck) would be in there and christ all the Barack Obamas I'd pull would be ripped in half. I'm sick of politics being mixed with baseball. Especially on collectibles like baseball cards.

So Opening Day is one of the couple products released that I, at the very least, wouldn't care to open a pack.

[98whitesteed]

How could you possibly make money from these? Its cheap but still the insert sets are just 10 cards each (maybe a couple bucks each?) except for those damn ToppsTown.com cards in every pack that I toss. The autograph checklist is simply awful and its impossible just to find one. The parallel cards are at tough odds. I don't know how you could make your money back.

I wouldn't have fun busting these. I'd get so bored opening a case, ripping packs of all the same cards...like Topps without the possible surprises & goodies. Then when I make one of my two autographs out of the case it would make me want to toss it judging from the checklist. Saaaaaaame thing over and over again. I'd probably nod out and fall asleep on the box (which I have actually done with one of the Topps series boxes...I had been up all night though, don't get much sleep when I have a case). Only thing I'd be interested in would be the parallels. Its never bad to pull a serial #d Jeter or Pujols. Some of those insert sets would make me sick like the Mascots and Presidential First Pitches. I wonder how many democrats (yuck) would be in there and christ all the Barack Obamas I'd pull would be ripped in half. I'm sick of politics being mixed with baseball. Especially on collectibles like baseball cards.

So Opening Day is one of the couple products released that I, at the very least, wouldn't care to open a pack.

Went into a little rant, but funny none the less. PM me next time you are in the Peoria area, we should meet up at Its All in the Game.

[Baseball Cards]

Yeah well, I like collecting them.
And I have an account on ToppsTown. :P

(Just because the inserts suck, doesn't mean the set sucks)
Most cards in that set are stars. Explain.

[stumpfreeman]

How could you possibly make money from these? Its cheap but still the insert sets are just 10 cards each (maybe a couple bucks each?) except for those damn ToppsTown.com cards in every pack that I toss. The autograph checklist is simply awful and its impossible just to find one. The parallel cards are at tough odds. I don't know how you could make your money back.

I wouldn't have fun busting these. I'd get so bored opening a case, ripping packs of all the same cards...like Topps without the possible surprises & goodies. Then when I make one of my two autographs out of the case it would make me want to toss it judging from the checklist. Saaaaaaame thing over and over again. I'd probably nod out and fall asleep on the box (which I have actually done with one of the Topps series boxes...I had been up all night though, don't get much sleep when I have a case). Only thing I'd be interested in would be the parallels. Its never bad to pull a serial #d Jeter or Pujols. Some of those insert sets would make me sick like the Mascots and Presidential First Pitches. I wonder how many democrats (yuck) would be in there and christ all the Barack Obamas I'd pull would be ripped in half. I'm sick of politics being mixed with baseball. Especially on collectibles like baseball cards.

So Opening Day is one of the couple products released that I, at the very least, wouldn't care to open a pack.


LOL, How do you really feel? I couldn't agree with you more, I hate that set with a passion. To each their own though.....

[pearljam_cubbies]

I cant stand this set either, I dont see how opening boxes and cases would be much fun when there is nothing to pull but boring base cards and crappy dime box inserts. At least in basketball and football on the 99 cents a pack stuff you could pull decent rookies, baseball not so much.

[cj52racers]

I personally don't open it, but I always pick up a bunch of packs for my young cousin. This set probably adds more kids to the hobby than anything.

[ohiomike]

Nobody ordered or opened it in 2007 either and those boxes ended up being gold. The A-Rod inserts are $75.00 book value cards and sell for $30-40 each and the serial numbered gold cards (2 per pack) sold well too. Not sure if there is anything this year that compares, but usually when they don't make much of an unpopular set, and boxes sell out early, it means the product ends up being good.

[enjoyale81]

If anybody does open this I'd be interested in a set of the Presidential cards. :D

[death2redemptions]

Nobody ordered or opened it in 2007 either and those boxes ended up being gold. The A-Rod inserts are $75.00 book value cards and sell for $30-40 each and the serial numbered gold cards (2 per pack) sold well too. Not sure if there is anything this year that compares, but usually when they don't make much of an unpopular set, and boxes sell out early, it means the product ends up being good.

There was no Alex Rodriguez card worth $75 book value. Not according to my Beckett and from what I remember. Most valuable A-Rod would be the serial #d parallel and there were not 2 per pack. There were two NON serial #d parallel cards per pack. Product would have to be very limited to contain 2 #d parallels per pack.

This year has 7 insert sets, 5 of them that contain only 10 cards, the other two is a Mascot subset and the other are those pesky ToppsTown. Other than that you've got like 4 parallels per box and 10 really lame autographs. I mean the players are terrible. Highlighted by Casey McGehee. With a 20 box case you'll just be left with like 12 cards of every player. No way to make money...there just isn't.

Topps Opening Day is good for kids, not for profit. Topps Series 1 is Opening Day's father.

[MMantle]

I love opening day products just because they are cheap and the non-foil editions of Series 1. That's about it, the inserts aren't really inserts, no big priced cards when they come out but whocares.. fun to open anyway. Heck a year after 2010 Opening Day the Blue Posey's are selling nicely, I have a lot of those in my PC.

[redantshurt]

Just busted one of two cases and pulled a Luis Aparicio Auto /60. Not Bad!!!

[pearljam_cubbies]

I think the Arods were the home run ones they did a few years back if I remember right like #s 1-20 were only in opening day and only fell like 1 or 2 per case.

[death2redemptions]

Just busted one of two cases and pulled a Luis Aparicio Auto /60. Not Bad!!!

What? No you didn't, that auto is not on the checklist.

[redantshurt]

1 in 13,500 packs - Topps 60th Anniversary Autograph Issue. The Aparicio "Happy Anniversary" is in Spanish.

[ohiomike]

There was no Alex Rodriguez card worth $75 book value. Not according to my Beckett and from what I remember. Most valuable A-Rod would be the serial #d parallel and there were not 2 per pack. There were two NON serial #d parallel cards per pack. Product would have to be very limited to contain 2 #d parallels per pack.

Ah, I see the A-Rod cards are down to $40 book value now... 2007 Topps Alex Rodriguez Road to 500, #76-100. Available exclusively from 2007 Topps Opening Day.

Here's one from the Opening Day series:

2007 Topps Alex Rodriguez Road to 500 #ARHR100 MINT - eBay (item 230589463772 end time Feb-24-11 06:31:42 PST) (http://cgi.ebay.com/2007-Topps-Alex-Rodriguez-Road-500-ARHR100-MINT-/230589463772?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b033fcdc)

Here's another from Opening Day, although it only went a little over half book:

2007 TOPPS ALEX RODRIGUEZ ROAD TO 500 HR# 81 - eBay (item 220744849695 end time Mar-03-11 14:17:48 PST) (http://cgi.ebay.com/2007-TOPPS-ALEX-RODRIGUEZ-ROAD-500-HR-81-/220744849695?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item33656b191f)

Also, the Gold cards from that year are indeed serial numbered to 2007 each and came 2 per pack. They were only advertised to be 1 per pack, but so little of the product got made that they inserted them 2 per pack just to get rid of all of them.

Here's what they looked like:
2007 Topps Opening Day Gold Baseball Cards - CheckOutMyCards.com (http://www.checkoutmycards.com/Cards/Baseball/2007/Topps_Opening_Day_Gold)


2008 through 2010 Topps Opening day did not repeat the success that 2007 had, but they also made a lot more of it. In 2007 I knew a dealer that tried to buy more boxes only 3 weeks after it came out and it was nowhere to be found. I would imagine if you found a sealed box today it would still pull $75+... but there are probably not many sealed boxes that still exist.

[redantshurt]

Just busted one of two cases and pulled a Luis Aparicio Auto /60. Not Bad!!!

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad48/sportstntcards/100_2722.jpg

[ohiomike]

1 in 13,500 packs - Topps 60th Anniversary Autograph Issue. The Aparicio "Happy Anniversary" is in Spanish.

Always nice to hit a $50+ sell value card out of a low end product! Congrats!