eBay time

After 2 wax boxes, and 2 cello boxes, we are 2 cards short at 99.71%, Marvell Wynne and Jeff Treadaway.

Surprising after 4 boxes, I only pulled 1 Griffey, but several Curt Shilling rookies.

Final Rated Rookie Pulled!

Only 14 cards to go! 97.96% complete

Box 3 (cello box) complete

93.59% complete
44 cards remaining
Need:
1 rated rookie
3 All Stars
A bunch of cards in the 200s

Box 2 Complete

Some stats ahead of our next box arriving this weekend:

Wax Packs Opened: 72
Percent Complete: 77.84% (87 Topps was 83.21% complete after 2 boxes)
Cards Logged: 534
Cards to go: 152

Pack 59: Introducing….

Ken Griffey Jr.!
And two other guys you may have heard of

Studs

From the plate and the mound, love the Gibson card

Spahn!

Not a fan of the fuzzy top edge. Also pulled this guy in pack 42, still need one more puzzle card to complete the puzzle.

Pack 39….

Look at the studs all in this one pack! Doubling up on Mike Scott is a bit suspect.

Box 2

First card, what a great looking card!

Box 1 Complete

And finally, we get card number 1, Mike Greenwell Diamond King in pack 36.

Still no Ken Griffey Jr though!

Some stats through 1 Box:
36 Packs opened.
56.27% complete (for comparison my 1987 Topps we were at 58.46% complete after 1 box)
Exactly 300 cards to go
I am missing 1 puzzle piece out of 21 to complete the Warren Spahn puzzle.
We have 1 page where I have yet to pull a card.
We have 8 fully complete pages.

Page 59 complete

Page 62 Complete

31.63% complete through 18 packs!!!

Pack 17, the HoFer

Tony Gwynn!!!

Pack 16!!!

With two absolute studs!

Pack 14 with the Hall of Famer!!!

Love this card!

Through 12 packs….

Including this beauty, we are 21.57% complete!

Page 60 is Complete

Ken Hill completing the first page for this set.

Pack Number 9

The Hall of Famer!

3 packs in

And I already have duplicates ☹️. Different experience with the Donruss, card quality feels off, more lightweight and a few badly miscut cards. Love seeing the first couple Diamond Kings (Fisk and Davis pk 3) and Rated Rookies (Jeffries and Harnish pk 2)

Set Complete

With card no. 262 Jim Winn completes the set. It took:
1 Wax box: 36 packs
2 Cello boxes: 48 packs
1 Rack box: 12 packs
That's 2676 cards opened. Plus a handful of commons (14) I purchased on eBay to round it out.

I loved seeing all the rookies (McGwire, Canseco, Bo) as well as the old guys like Mike Schmidt and Nolan Ryan. And of course my old favorite Marty Barrett. I will definitely move onto a new set and try this again.

I think maybe one without wax packs with gum!

98.2% Complete

Just finished my 2nd cello box, with this amazing group to get me close to the goal! 14 cards to go!!! Will need to do an audit soon to make sure that's accurate! I have completed the 600 and 700s at this point.

Barry!!!

Finally! Only took 36 wax, 24 cello and 7 rack packs to pull him!

Rolling through some Rack Packs

Found these duplicates in the same sleeve! Studs!