LCS Trip, Part 2: Player collections

Here is some of the stuff I picked up last weekend that I am really excited about...player collection items.  Since I haven't bought as much retail as I used to this year, I have not been able to fill my collections this year like I have in past years.  Again, this is just a sampling of what I actually bought.

LCS Trip, Part 1: National Baseball Card Day

Since I've been watching the finances, I haven't visited my local LCS in quite a while.  I was looking forward to National Baseball Card Day to go down and take a look through their common boxes again.  Since joining The Trading Card Database, I finally (*I think*) have all my cards entered.  The database prints out these awesome want list pages, and I anticipated it would make searching the boxes easier on me, which it did.  I got so much good stuff, it's going to take 3 posts to show some of my goodies.  This first post will show the cards I got as part of National Baseball Card day, as well as some packs I bought.  

I bought a hobby pack of Topps Chrome.  Since I have not picked, nor attempted to put a set together by hand this year, I thought about Topps Chrome.  I have yet to put together a Topps Chrome set.  After I opened this pack, I have buyers remorse.

They also had their box of old packs.  $0.25 a pack, so I picked up 4 packs and see what I could do with $1.00.  Here are the best cards I got out of each pack.  I'm glad I only spent $1.00.

2017 Topps Chrome

Finally got my hands on a blaster box of 2017 Topps Chrome.  I hesitated to buy any as I am planning on hitting up my local LCS today for National Baseball Card day.  This blaster box kind of made up for those really bad Allen & Ginter packs.

The packs

Pack 1

Pack 2

Pack 3

Pack 4

Pack 5

Pack 6

Pack 7

Refractors

Prizm refractor

Sepia refractors

Player collection cards

Inserts

Steve Farr

Awesome return today from Steve Farr.  This is a nice addition to my Royals TTM page collection.

Steve Farr
Signed 3/3
Sent c/o Home address
8 days

2017 Allen & Ginter

I have been unsuccessful in trying to buy any Allen & Ginter since it's release.  My local Walmart has apparently not restocked in 2 weeks, as there is hardly any Topps flagship available, as well.  I had to go to Target, and all they had was value packs.  I bought two of them and I wish I would have waited for a blaster box.  Here's what I got:

Right off the bat in Pack 1...a relic card!  He's the Beer Mile world record holder.  You can read about his popularity here.  I was surprised a relic came out of a value pack, however, not exactly the relic I had in mind of pulling in a pack.

Pack 1

Pack 2

Pack 3

Pack 4

Pack 5

Pack 6

Mini's

The only card I got for any of my collections

Short Prints

Short Print Mini's

Black Mini

The value packs came with 3 gold mini's each

To top off the lackluster value packs, duplicates