Like every other blogger I picked up some 2011 Topps Lineage. It was a new product, there ain’t much going out there in hobby world and I was curious. Well, like pretty much everyone else it was a big fat let down. I did plan on posting the let down and I scanned the whole pack a couple weeks ago, but I was worried that I missed the boat on posting Lineage in a timely fashion, but today I noticed several posts, including this ONE regarding ’11 TL, so I figured the window was still open, plus I really don’t want any of these cards and I can’t trade ‘em if no one knows I have ‘em.
Anyway, my simple review is that these look like a 90’s bargain retail set, like something from Score/Pinnacle family that should be 99 cents a pack. If this product had that price level, I would probably be way into it, but it doesn’t work as a “premium product”. Before I start I need to apologize for the really bad scans. I am still getting used to my new scanner and this was one of my first scanning jobs - anyway, I cropped the hell out of everything, chopped off tops and bottoms and...
Okay, enough yakking, here is my pack. The cards fell into 3 easy categories… First category is the stoopid Yankees.
Got four of them. 1 is pretty cool. How could you not like a card of Lou Gehrig? 
Conversely, it is pretty darn easy to not like cards of Derek Jeter. Also in the lot o’ Yanks is Robby Cano and Andruw Jones. I didn’t even realize AJ was a Yankee. Heck, I didn't realize that he was still in the Big Leagues. Huh…
The next grouping was the Cardinals. I was thinking about sending these directly to Madding from Cards on Cards because it has been far too long since I have sent him a care package, but I started thinking that maybe he had these already, so I thought I would just post them and see what happened. 
Among the Cards, like the lot of Yankees, there was one card (Card) I was particularly pleased about pulling. 
Getting a card of Hoot, aka Bob Gibson is always awesome… Joining him in this pack is Chris Carpenter, Lance Berkman and a sparkly card of Matt Holliday.
The third grouping in this pack wasn’t of a specific team, rather a position. Yep, these are all speedy young middle infielders… 
Starting with Twinkies rookie Tsuyoshi Nishioka on card #24. Joining him are Cubs phenom, All Star Starlin Castro on card #136. Castro is leading the NL in hits and looks like the real deal. Unfortunately I forgot to scan his card, oops, bad troll. 
The final card in the shortstop section of my rack pack is card #12 of Texas’ shortstop Elvis Andrus, who is 5th in the AL with 32 steals.
I did have a couple more cards in my 14-card jumbo pack that failed to fall into specific categories… This first one is pretty awesome. Card #192 of the 1959 Rookie of the Year Willie McCovey complete with with a big ol’ Topps All Star rookie trophy. 
Nice. Next up is card #183 of Brian McCann. 
I’ve been told that McCann Can Triple, he can and he has. Twice in 7 seasons, but not since 2009. He has been an All Star for 6 consecutive seasons and he looks like he is looking for something, but what, I don’t know… The last card in the pack is a 2011 Rookies Commemorative Set card of Padres pitcher Corey Luebke. 
Luebke is 5-6 so far this year, but has a nice low ERA of 2.99 in 99 innings of work. Honestly I was shocked that San Diego didn't deal him at the deadline. This card is number 19 of 20. I thought this insert set was a nice touch, especially getting it in a rack pack, it took me back.
As a kid I always started trying to chase these glossy inserts, but never got far and always gave up.
Anyway, this is my 14-card foray into 2011 Topps Lineage. Had I read the Waxaholic review before I plunked down the 5 bucks for this pack I probably would have spent my money on something else, but then again, I probably still would have given it a spin. I do know that I have no interest in hanging onto ANY of these cards, so if you have any interest in any of them, claim them in the comments and drop a Troll a line… Oh, before I sign off, I know it has been a long time between posts, I am still back and I have a world of stories to share and a number of reasons why I haven’t been a posting fool and I have a number of posts that are sitting in the queue have finished. Look forward to seeing a bunch of ‘em in the week upcoming… Go Rays! Troll out.
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I pulled a mess of Cardinals (and Yanks) in my foray into Lineage, too. And they're also in madding's stack. I guess it's a race to see who sends them to him first!
ReplyDeleteHalf the price for a box and I;d be interested. But that;s the case with most sets recently unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteI would love the McCovey and Gehrig (and maybe even Berkman and McCann if you're desperate to rid yourself of them). (Gibson too, although I may have that coming from someone else. Not sure at this moment.)
ReplyDeleteI'll shoot you an e-mail offer today.