Wax Wednesday... late again

Yet another business trip interferes with my favorite thing to do in life: opening baseball cards….. I MEAN HANGING OUT WITH MY FAMILY!   Even a short overnight trip leaves me homesick for the Mrs. and the babies.   I think I’m done with travel for a short while now thankfully.     

Recently, before my stupid decision to give up buying cards for Lent, I opened two rack packs of 2011 Heritage, and 1 of the $10 special boxes of Topps 2011 from Wal-Mart.  I don’t know what they are called, but they have 72 cards and a special “Blue Sapphire” insert.  Here are the highlights:

No hits on the Heritage, but I’m happy with the Strasburg, Hellickson, Posey and Pujols.  I’m leaning toward not building this set and using these as trade bait.    Of course, by now I have about 1/3 of the set, so maybe I’ll trudge through it.  I’m sure everyone is dying to know what I’ll do.

Nice box on the 2011 Topps:   Matt Holiday bat card, Heyward Sapphire insert and Pujols, Stanton and Chapman base cards.    Plus a card of Cliff Lee (Razorbacks) in Rangers uniform.  

Wax Wednes...er Weekend

My travel schedule last week threw a wrench into my intended Wax Wednesday column, so I'll make it up here.  I was very excited to see the 2011 Heritage at my local Wal-Mart and picked up a blaster.  I like the design, and the cards are very nice quality.  I'm getting cold cards though lately, and didn't have the greatest results with this box either.  Here are some highlights:

The Santana hit was great, and I collect Michael Young so that was a plus.  The Millwood is the Chrome refractor, and in hand it is a pretty sharp card.  Jeter is always a good one to get.   The Brian Wilson pre-beard card is pretty cool too.   The insert sets don't do much for me.  Can't decide if this will go into my set builder spreadsheet, or if I will use these as trade bait once I get my want/have lists up.  Anyone else faring well with Heritage 2011?