{"id":6075,"date":"2019-05-26T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/2019\/05\/26\/inside-the-pack-2019-topps-big-league-review\/"},"modified":"2019-05-26T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T10:31:09","slug":"inside-the-pack-2019-topps-big-league-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/inside-the-pack-2019-topps-big-league-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Pack: 2019 Topps Big League Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3253 \" style=\"color: #555555; font-size: 14.4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bigleaguebreaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_0174-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hot take: Topps Big League is the most fun you\u2019ll have opening cards this year. Topps sent me a box of the 2019 edition, now in its second year after replacing Topps Bunt as the low-end, entry-level baseball product geared toward younger collectors. While you\u2019re unlikely to get any huge hits, it will transport you to a time when you were a kid, collecting for the enjoyment of reading statistics, looking at photos, and admiring simple, if goofy, insert sets.<\/p>\n<p>Big League comes with 24 packs per box, and each pack has a gold parallel in it. Because of the yellowish wood grain on the base cards, it\u2019s actually sometimes difficult to tell the golds apart. It wasn\u2019t until I realized that I had gotten so many that I checked the odds on the pack and saw they were seeded one per pack; I had to go back through my stack of commons to pull them out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3255 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/bigleaguebreaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_0176-533x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the gold parallels, each pack contains a card from one of four insert sets: Nicknames, Caricatures, Blast Off!, and Wall Climbers. The last two were my favorite; they reminded me of some of the goofy insert sets from 1998 Skybox Dugout Axcess, another low-end set geared toward children that I loved when I was younger.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3254 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bigleaguebreaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_0175-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also got three low-numbered parallels, which beat the stated odds a bit. My rainbow parallels were of reigning AL Cy Young winner Blake Snell and former AL MVP Mookie Betts; both cards were numbered to 100. I also got a black and white parallel of Jay Bruce numbered to 50.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3257 \" src=\"https:\/\/bigleaguebreaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_0168-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know this until after ripping the box, but there are three shortprints in the product. Topps inserted rookie cards of Eloy Jimenez, Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., and Pete Alonso as parallels to other card numbers in the set, similar to their inclusion of Bryce Harper as card #3 in 2019 Bowman. After looking through my stack, I found that I\u2019d pulled a Jimenez card.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3256 \" style=\"color: #555555; font-size: 14.4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bigleaguebreaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_0167-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most surprising was receiving an autograph of Brewers closer Josh Hader, numbered to 99. Autographs are present in this product, but they aren\u2019t very common.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, Big League is a crazy fun product to rip open. If you don\u2019t care about chasing big hits, you\u2019ll enjoy the little ones that are peppered throughout the packs. If you want to collect like a kid again, grab yourself some Topps Big League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot take: Topps Big League is the most fun you\u2019ll have opening cards this year. Topps sent me a box of the 2019 edition, now in its second year after replacing Topps Bunt as the low-end, entry-level baseball product geared toward younger collectors. While you\u2019re unlikely to get any huge hits, it will transport you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}