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Review:
2006 Topps Turkey Red Baseball (Review
by Bill Kovacs A.K.A. chiliwilly)
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2006 Topps
Turkey Red Baseball
Each sealed box
contains 24 packs of 7 cards each in a 330 card base set.
>>> Each box contains TWO Memorabilia and/or Autograph
cards and ONE box loader card. Parallel sets: Red, White,
Black, Gold, and Suede (#`d to 1). Inserts: Memorabilia
cards (Red > #`d to 150, White > #`d to 99, Black > #`d
to 50, Gold > #`d to 25, and Suede > #`d to 1), Autograph
cards (Red > #`d to 475, White > #`d to 200, Black > #`d
to 99, Gold > #`d to 25, and Suede > #`d to 1), Box loader
1:box (Cabinet cards, Autograph Memorabilia Cabinet cards
> Single & Dual, B-18 Blankets, and Original repurchased
B-18 Blankets), and Framed Printing Plates (1320 total
> each is a 1-of-1). |
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Base Card Scans |
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The base cards
have a very nice old-time design to them, bringing back
memories of the 1911 Turkey Red Set Of tobacco cards.
The 2006 Topps Turkey Red set starts where last years
set left off. The first card in the set is number 316
and goes to 630. On the back is a short Bio of the player
either stating their major league or minor league information.
The back of the cards have that old look as did the
tobacco cards of 1911. The front of the cards has a
same grainy look and feel to them and it gives them
that classy appearance.
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Rookie Card Scans |
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We pulled (30) rookie
cards of one kind or another from this box. The new rookie
logo is located beneath the Topps Turkey Red logo. Here's
the breakdown of what we pulled;
- (26) regular rookie cards
- (3) parallel red rookie cards
- (1) parallel black rookie card
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Insert Card Scans |
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| Comments:
The base parallels
came at one per pack as indicated on the box. We pulled
(1) Black, (5) White, (17) Red and (1) GOLD of Vernon
Wells. The Gold were numbered to /50 last year, this
one isn't numbered.
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Box Topper Scan |
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Our box-topper
insert was a blanket of Manny Ramirez. B-18 Blankets:
5-1/4" square flannels originally issued in 1914 and
wrapped around several popular brands of tobacco. They
got the nickname of blankets because many of them were
sewn together to form bed covers. B-18 blankets are
among the most beautiful and original baseball collectibles
ever created.
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Game-Used Card Scans |
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We pulled (1)
game-used card in our box of Topps Turkey Red. Eric
Chavez of the Oakland Athletics.
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The
Final Verdict! |
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| A
nice continuation of a great product from Topps I give
this box a 4 of 5 HI Fives. This box was fun to open with
the rookie card pulls, parallels and game-used. This box
seems to be selling in about the $60 to $73 range on most
sites I have checked. A very nice quality product from
Topps for 2006 Baseball. The only problem I saw was that
we didn't meet the odds with only one game-used or auto
in the box. This is the first time since I have been reviewing
Topps product that we didn't meet or exceed the odds on
the box. |
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