Boomo Delivers a Super Rare Auto

2019 Inception just came out about two weeks ago and I joined a couple of player breaks and team breaks.  Boomo99 has provided me with entertaining group breaks in the past.

He delivered for me again, hitting an on card autograph numbered to only 20 copies.  He pulled this from the first case of a 4 case player break which was 11 minutes into the break.

I joined a few other group breaks held by other breakers for the Pirates because I wanted to get some Nick Burdi autographs.  Unfortunately I didn't get any huge hits, netting just a pair of Kevin Newman green parallels and a single each for Newman, Kramer, and Burdi base.

5 Cases of Cards for $2.49? I Struck Gold!!!

So I joined another player break because I have been having good luck with them so far.  While many people are going after the guys who have autographs, inserts, and are hot rookies I am scooping up multi case breaks of Andrew McCutchen.

For the low price of a $2.49 winning bid I bought into 5 cases of Topps Chrome cards that netted me 25 base cards, 4 refractors, and a really nice Gold Wave Refractor numbered to only 50 copies.

Not a bad deal, I must say.

The back of the card features the same writeup as Series 1 flagship.

Here is the base next to the refractor

Getting close to 2,000 unique Cutch cards

I joined a player case break that netted me three new Cutch cards and a handful of base doubles.

2017 Panini Chronicles is a combination of Prizm, Contenders, Spectra, among others that we have grown to like for their football and basketball releases.

Prizm Baseball despite the lack of logos was always one of my favorite products because the color parallels popped better than anything Topps produced.

Unfortunately I didn't hit the Prizm hits.

Nothing fancy.  I got 8 base cards (front and back pictured side by side).

I like that Chronicles features a newspaper theme card about a specific event that occurred in the player's career.  I feel like the base cards are very boring and could have been a bit more inspiring if done correctly.  Include a box score instead of all that player information.  Get an image from the game.  Make it look more like a newspaper.  It's just a very blah design.

No big autographs or patches or even low numbered parallels.  Although I did secure the Gold /999 and Blue /399 as you can see below.  My scanner hates to scan these foil parallels evidently as you can't tell the difference between gold and blue (number, the Chronicles logo, and foil numbering).

I have purchased the green online in addition to some of the hits from this set.  One of them I am really looking forward to getting in hand as it looks amazing from the photo.