1995 Donruss Series 1 & 2 Box Break with 2 Rare Hot Packs Containing Full Insert Sets Each

Welcome back to Cards and Commerce, guys. Today I have another 90s box break and uh today we're doing 95 Donner and we're going to do both series one and series two. And uh I usually don't do that, but I found a good deal on both series and uh got them in the mail and decided let's just do one video and we'll do it. I might uh do, you know, one row at a time, you know, crack all of them and that way we can get through a little faster. But it'll be a fun video. Um I haven't done a box break in a while. Now, what's in $95? Um well, you got press proofs to 2,000. Um, not really serial number. I think they just say out of 2000. You've got Diamond Kings, not numbered. Um, one and 10 packs. We've got, because these are all hobby boxes, 36 count. I was hoping to find a magazine or jumbo box, but unfortunately I could not uh find on the open market. They're just harder to find. Uh, Diamond Kings again, 1 and 10. Uh, we've got Elite Series in series 1, one, and 210. And then long ball leaders one and 24 pack. So we should get a couple diamond kings, a press proof, and a long ball leader. In series two, uh we've got again press proofs to 2000. We've got diamond kings one and 10. We've got the elite series. A little easier to get one pack. So they probably printed less of series 2 than series 1. And then instead of long leaders, we got dominators. So let's step back, guys, and grab a little bit of drink. We're going to sit down and open up some fun '90s products. Just got back from my trip to um to San Diego um to take part in a food safety conference at which I was in on the committee for food safety. Uh this is a retail organization. So working with the major retailers on uh sending some agendas on how to improve food safety uh for retail grocery stores and suppliers. So very interesting uh conversation with big retailers like Walmart, Target, and the like. Um there we go. So we'll do a whole roll. Uh this is what the packs look like. Series one. Uh they are Let's do the crack test. Oh, we don't hear any cracking. So, that's a good sign. Uh 12 cards a pack. Um this is Barry Bonds. And you can see uh that the pack color matches the box color. So, it was designed to look like that. Sometimes in in the ' 90s you see like a whole uh you know where the the whole pack has gotten uh discolored or they lost the color because of just time. And uh we'll go one row at a time and uh we'll do all the packs at once. So um we'll make this try to go a little faster. We'll set it aside. Now, did I open this product in 95? I sure did. Um this would have been one of the transition products for me going to college. So for people who uh haven't been on the channel as much, I have kind of a gap in my collecting period when I was in college. Uh so around 1994 is when I um went to college. So you know I graduated in 97. So you know 93 94 is when I went to college. So 95 sets would have been at a time when I really had no money to buy cards and not something I was really um you know I wasn't like you know as interested I guess collecting at the time at that time really I was I got into Magic the Gathering. I was uh playing with friends socially so I I was really not into collecting cards as much. Um, well, that graduated. Uh, I got back into it. So, um, but there was like a lot of products from that 94 through 97 time period where I didn't really um, collect. So, they were kind of a bit, you know, like there were they, you know, I didn't open those products. And then, and when I first got out of college, I didn't collect a lot of modern cards either. So there's even post97 sets where I never really got to um uh open a lot of products. So um I don't have a lot of experience with those sets. 1999 was when I really got back into it hardcore with collecting actual sets. So we'll go through some cards here. Base design right here. 95. Pretty basic. You've got very hard to read name plate here in silver. Uh you've got um an inset photo. You've got the position here and the back you got you know pretty nice back pretty common for the time only three years of stats and uh you know just some basic information about how they were acquired and so it's just like a very basic set. This is like you know even in 95 this set was still you know a base set. So they try to upgrade it um honestly but you know donors is donors right? It's never going to be uh it was never going to be designed to be a high-end set. I think they tried I think all the manufacturers tried to make all their base products more high-end because again they're competing with um it's funny to see Jamie Moyer because how credit had um you know he even looked old back in 95 but uh yeah everyone was competing with Upper Deck. Upper Deck had really changed the game around base products. they made their base product look so good that a lot of people just said, "Look, we're going to have to um up our game here or we're not going to be able to compete even on the base sets." And that's the best thing about it. I'm working on a video to show kind of like how many more, you know, like the trajectory of like inserts uh and what years, you know, we started to see like proliferation of like game use and and autos and things like that. um like you the inflection point and you would think after um uh you know the first you know inserts you know cuz around 93 you got refractors you got autographs so it's like you know you had inserts you know uh upper deck I believe in ' 91 you had the Reggie Jackson auto so it's like they there was things there um where people were um you there was sort of like the the the um the blueprints were there. Uh however uh you know it wasn't until a little later than than you expected like you know that 96 97 time period when things really got crazy. So it took a it took a little bit of years like it wasn't like overnight. It wasn't like people were like oh like inserts you know in terms of like inserts that people value today. Uh just like this product here, you'll see a lot of inserts, but they're going to be inserts of um you know, like a lot of them are just, you know, not numbered. They're just not what we end up later getting. Uh better design, better looking, everything. Um just people, you know, really up the game around 96 97 time period. This is still sort of like uh pre- peak. Um, and I think, you know, cards got a lot better designed, just a lot cooler cards came out after uh this year, but 95, I mean, and all years, you know, because you go back to 93, you know, 92, 91, there's always cool cards every year to collect, you know, it's just how often we saw those cool cards became much more prevalent around 96, 97 time period. Um, and that's just how it is. Um and then they kind of killed it. They just went way overboard. Uh it's done manually. Kind of cool. Uh you know, and and then you know when they go overboard then things became overproduced, too many sets, too many inserts, things became less cool because there was just so much of it. So yeah. Um and that's sort of what happened. and and even like I I am looking at also um into the first you know five or six years in the 2000s you know how did it trend because I do think that you know that we switched from being a uh insert card commodity um hobby to just being game and autos at some point and rookie card. So it was like, you know, we we had an idea where if you just inserted some cool cards that was enough. Then it came really about rookies and 2001 with Bowman Chrome became about rookies and then um rookie chrome autos than RPA. RPA really aren't a baseball thing. It's more of a football basketball thing, but you definitely had bow and chrome autos became huge. 2001 pooh holes. Um so it's just like you know the hobby really did change and then it was either game use autos or you know rookies um drove the hobby and uh still to this day I would say um big part of the hobby and so Albert Bell this guy haunts me because he's in so many insert sets I still need like I need him in uh my crusades. I need him in my uh 1999 uh domed hollow uh from Stars and Steel. So, I mean, it's just it's like every time I need a player in a set, it's always Albert Bell. So, there's either a guy out there hoarding all the Arab Bells like Calman Jr. Uh or like, you know, no one liked him at the time and no one kept her collecting them. I don't think that's true. I just think it's like there's there's always this weirdness about collecting where there's a guy who super collects to the point where like you can't find any of the players available for that guy. Um, and then it's like, you know, some random player and you need him in a set. It's like, oh, this guy's got every copy. Like, what what what's going on? So, I don't know if that's true, but I'm just saying like that I've seen that in other sets where some guy has every copy of of a card and and you can't get any of them. Cal Ripken. And I don't enjoy like a a Ripken where he's just like, you know, stealing or on base. It's just nah. Pedro. I think it's Pedro because he has Yeah, that's Pedro. You got Pedro and you got Raone. This is Jerry Curl. Pedro. And then this A-Rod card. I I probably had 30 of these in my binder at one point, you know, like u when A-Rod blew up. I was just like, "Oh, it's not as rookie, but it says rated rookie." And I came from a time period like 84 donorous where rated rookie was just a huge card like you know you rated rookies were like you know the pre- bow and chrome and Mike Piaza those some good cards uh but it's like before Bowman Chrome rookies and stuff or you know Topps debut and all this other stuff where we we recognize as rookie cards ready rookie was a big deal. Whoa. Here we go. Our first insert Ruben Sierra. Uh, okay. One in 10 packs, Diamond Kings. So, we should see at least three of these. Um, yeah, Ribbon Sierra with the A's. Very weird, uh, honestly to see that combination. And then right behind him is a press proof. So, who's this guy? It's hard to read. Uh, one of 2000 printed. And we've got, who is this guy? So, instead of the name, they they like the regular ones, they have they replaced it. Uh, so we've got I think it's Billy Service. Uh, man, it's so hard to read the names. So, it's Billy Spires. Oh, sorry. So, Billy Spires and uh nice looking cards, you know, one and uh the good thing about these is like uh they've never really spiked, you know, obviously not really being serial numbered. Even the Griffies, you know, and stuff have never really gotten that expensive, but PSA 10, anything is expensive right now for Griffy. So, obviously, you know, that card is probably pretty hard to get. Uh, these cards are condition sensitive. They're full bleed, easy to chip. So, yeah, the backtoback insert, I do remember that sort of in the 90s. Uh, in this set was you would get backtoback inserts sometimes. Um, Al Martin, but yeah, so another rated rookie. So, as a kid, I would pull all the rated rookies and keep them. That was just how you did things back in the day. So, that's 1/4 of the box. So, we'll get the next part of the box out. So, we'll we'll get this stack right here upper right. And uh we'll do it again. Get all the cards into one little pile. So, we have a lot of cards. Um it's one thing back in the day, you got a lot of cards. I mean, you're getting like 438 cards or something in the box. It's a lot of cards. um you know nowadays like where you get cards where you get a box of cards with one card in it compared to you know 438. There is a happy medium somewhere in there I think. Um yeah, I mean card count was a big deal when I was a kid uh with my dad, you know, opening things like 88 tops, you know, like you thought such a good value, you know, you got so many cards like getting getting base cards was, you know, a big deal because you were trying to put the set together, you know. I think by 95 uh honestly like I remember as a kid like the last sets I really wanted to put together was like uh 91 Stadium Club, you know, that set was so cool. so revolutionary. But, you know, after that, you know, 90 leaf, 91 stadium club, 89 upper deck, it just was like, you know, 91 upper deck really destroyed set collection to me because I think that's like a huge like 800 card set or something. And and then even the tops, you know, you had, you know, the proliferation of, you know, of of of um you know, um you just buy the full sets and it just, you know, like I it really, you know, the last time I really had this urge to put a full set together was around 91 stadium club. So 95 rolled around. I'm I'm for sure not trying to build this set. I'm like, you know, I remember you opening these packs and just getting the cards and, you know, just keeping the cool, you know, the ones I thought were cool. And, you know, I'm pretty sure that a lot of these cards just ended up in the trash. And a lot of collectors, that's what they did. You know, there wasn't a lot of people in 95 building this set. uh you know and I hate to say it but like you know it was it was you know a lot of older collectors you know loved uh Mike Msina uh loved you know the set collecting aspect and I think you know my generation was the one that really you know didn't care about building sets after a certain point because when the only thing that was valuable you know because you could just go out and buy a complete set if you you know just from the the manufacturer. Uh the only thing that was valuable was the insert cards and you couldn't get those in the complete set. So Aussie Smith. Always love seeing the late year Aussie cards. Um hey, there's my first uh card I'll keep base. There's Frank Thomas. Um, so yeah, I think we were the generation that broke it and which is kind of funny because we're the generation that's going back and trying to, you know, super collect players and and getting uh, you know, um, I'm putting, you know, 90s insert sets together, not base sets, but insert sets. And so like we're going to be more likely to set collect in any modern like anybody from this new generation. But it's still like we were the one that really probably broke base set collecting, you know, just didn't care about it. Didn't, you know, want to sit down and coate 4,000 cards to build a set, you I mean, it was not very fun to open a full box of cards and still, you know, because of terrible coalition and still be missing like, you know, like in a 600 card set, you get like five boxes in and you're still missing 20 cards, you know, and you know, you open up 2,000 cards and you're still missing 20, you know, it's just and that's what it was like. I mean, anyone who remembers that time period knows that, you know, building base sets was, you know, it was a lot of work. And in reality, you could just buy the whole thing for a lot of these sets, you know, now there's a lot of sets you couldn't buy, but you know, still no one, you know, like crown, I remember the crown collection, you know, the crown uh royal set with the die cuts. That thing was crazy fun. It looks like, you know, every card looked like an insert. So, I remember like, you know, I'd open packs and keep every, you know, every card because it just looked like a, you know, they looked like some of the coolest inserts ever. Here we go. Jeff Conine, another one of uh these Diamond Kings. And let's look at the Diamond King design. Uh, look like there's a little ding on the corner here, which is not fun. Um, it's very 90s. Um, it's painted by Dick Perez. You know, he's using a lot of purples and oranges. Uh, even on the first one, you know, it's very, you know, purple orange. Um, you know, it's it's a it's a bold design, but it doesn't look like classic Dick Brez. So, it's like, uh, it's okay. And again, you know, it's these are not the big inserts. You know, these aren't like the the elites, which I don't think I've ever pulled elite out of a pack like the traditional elites, you know, like yeah, you can open up the elite set itself and just like I' I've always had this thing of like I've never pulled a crusade card out of anything in 98. Um I've opened a few boxes in 98 and never pulled anything um any any uh crusade. So now I pulled, you know, a lot of different inserts. You know, I've pulled atomics, atomic refractors out 98 Bowman, and I I pulled multiple Atomics on 98 Bowman, you know, I pulled game jerseys out of 99 upper deck, you know, or 98 upper deck, second year game jersey. So, it's like I've I've opened up a lot of product and I've opened and I got a lot of the cool inserts, but man, it's it's not uh as uh you know, easy to pull wheat. Leaves have always been tough for me. And I know guys who open cases of the stuff looking for the leads. And that was the thing like, you know, I I remember a few sets like that. You know, you got the uh what is it? 94 product with the the manel autos. You've got uh oh, there's something cool in this pack. I'll have to be careful with it on the way out because it's looks like there's something cool in here. So, that's a cool bag. But yeah, like there is just uh you know like something you know about opening like I remember the um the mano autos that came out and scores. It's just like, you know, I knew people who open up case after case after case trying to get those cards. And you know, I I remember that the same way for the first couple years of Elites, especially, you know, that what 91, 92, 93, those first couple years there was, you know, a lot of people who really tried to get those cards like they were hellbent that they were going to pull uh those cards. And I I you know if you think about it like there was not much competition in those time periods for cool cars. So that Ripken auto, Brian Samberg auto. I mean you just had some really cool cars honestly to to to try to pull. Uh cuz you know compared to everything else that was out at the time. Um it just there was just so much cool stuff. Um, you know, you you know, that was super difficult to pull, but you know, it was at the time it seemed like it was worth the risk of opening 10 cases to get maybe one or two of those kind of cards. All right, so we know we got some insert here. We don't know what it is. So, we'll keep going through here. Uh, so we're This is like three4 of the way to the box. I think we got another Nope, it's Tim. I think it's Tim Reigns. Yeah, it's Tim Reigns. So, I really look at the rated rookies because I don't think there is a single rookie in this set worth anything. Um, if I go to my trusty baseball cardedia, uh, it says about rookies. Uh, they talked about super packs. You could get all only in jumbo. So, I was trying to find jumbo. So you get a chance at a super pack where you get all inserts uh where you could pull a full and elite set out of a out of one pack which have been amazing. Um yeah, it doesn't really show that there's any rookies in here. So yeah, so it's really just a insert or bust type product, but yeah. Um it's yeah, it's a lot of cards in the set. It's 600 or sorry 550 cards. So, all right. I think we're going to pull something here. It's long ball leader. Uh, it's Jeff Bagwell. These are pretty. Uh, so long ball leaders were one in 24 pack. So, this is a pretty much one in every uh box and you got a chance 5050 chance of pulling a second one. So, every box and a half you get one of these cards. I remember these as a kid. They were really nice. I think you know there is a griffy here. Uh if I go down and you would think that there's a griffy in almost every one of these sets. Sometimes there's not. That's one thing I always found u really interesting was you know there'll be sets where you're just like oh there's got to be a griffy and then there's not. Uh so um hold on looking but yeah like this is a definitely a cool looking card and I do feel like um this is showing some of the you know changes in how these cards look and how they've uh evolved over time. So longbow leaders uh yeah card three is Griffy. So there we go. So we have card eight, Jeff Bagwell. So I again, nice card. Love, you know, very shiny. So we hit something. So that's good. You know, you never want to get skunked on uh a box. And yeah, and we've all been there. The 90s were rough on on getting skunked. That was something you could do very easily. uh these kind of products. So there is a Barry Bonds. So it's a base bonds. Very cool. So we've hit the but the base bonds and the base Thomas. The Griffy. I haven't looked at the number, but I'm assuming he's going to be in series two. If Frank Thomas is in series one, again, that's the the common way they would do things. So you couldn't just buy one series and get both the big superstars. she had to buy both series. Um, again, this is pre Derek Jeter. Uh, he even though he had rookie cards before this, um, I don't think he was in any sets until 96 and Donners, but could be wrong. I don't think there's a cheater in this product because we just saw A-Rod. Um, so there we go. Um, yeah, a lot of Oh, there's something else shiny in here. So, two shiny cards. We'll see what the second one is. There are some stickiness on this side of the box. Um, so we'll see what we got here. It looks like another long ball leader, which is kind of cool. We'll see. It is. It's a long ball leader. And it is. Whoa. Whoa. We got some. We got Do we got Did we get a hot pack? I think we may have hit a hot pack, guys. Look. I got Jeff Bagwell. Barry Bonds. Holy crap. Jose Cano. We're going to get the Griffy. Uh, here is Mike Piaza. Oh, wait, man. Matt Williams. Oh. Oh, there it is. There's the We got the full set. We got all eight. Wow. That is crazy. Um, that is that's crazy, guys. There's Fred McGriff. And then on the back here upside down is the Frank Thomas. Look at that. Got the full set. Pretty sure that's all eight. So we got two bag wells. But one, two, two bag wells. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. So there's like Yeah, that's insane, guys. I I would never Yeah, that's not one of them. So, the full set. The full set. I Yeah, that supposedly. Yeah. Like, so let's go up and uh just see what what Card Ped says about this. Says for the first time ever, you could get super packs that contain full insert sets and hot packs exclusive to all series two packs. Two pack uh that contain a full set of elites. Both were the reserve of insert mania blah blah blah but wow I never thought I would get a full set of inserts in one. Yeah, that is that is really cool. So yeah, got the Jose Conco. I'll just put these in in little and yeah, because we got the full set. So I could review this set now because it's part of my uh I own it. So that's really cool. Yeah, I know they're not worth, you know, I mean, obviously we said before, you know, if the Griffy graded a 10, you know, you could have, you know, something there. But yeah, that's that is wild that Yeah, cuz as a kid, I mean, think about as a kid opening that and getting that full set, you would have been just like freaking ecstatic. He'd have been over the moon getting that full set. Now, yes, we all want the elite set, but you know, I would have been greedy. I'd have this would have been very happy as a kid. So, I mean, there is no idea how, you know, it doesn't give you any odds or super packs and uh so, but the fact that I got the Griffy just is pretty awesome. because I'm pretty sure this is not a Griffy I own. A lot of these mid9s kind of like uh less than one per box Griffy inserts. I I'm still missing quite a bit of them because there's just so many. Um you know, he's in like I said before, he's almost in every set. So, you know, I have a ton of I have like four boxes of Griffy cards and there's still many many cards I don't own, you know, and it it bums me out, too, because sometimes a card will pop like 97 Thunderclap just popped, you know, it got really popular and started to really go up in price and I don't own it for whatever reason. That's one of the few ones I don't own. I I have the 99. And I've got the 99 or the 98 uh the 99. Um so it's like why don't I have the one that everyone loves? I don't know. But I just don't. So it's cool to get, you know, this card. Um now I have um and this is and they're very nice. And the one thing about these that's really cool is you've got both shininess and gold full stamping. So they were definitely trying to make the cards look nice. So you can't really complain about, you know, this design. You know, they were definitely making an effort here. Whether or not um you know, it it causes these, you know, this kind of car to be worth a lot of money. Eh, they're not numbered. They're still pretty easy to get in 90s terms. one one you know one every uh box or you get two every box and a half. So common enough that you know you could have you know they're they're easy to get but um still a nice looking card in um but yeah we'll go through the full set. We'll put them in order. So Bagwell is actually number eight so that's easy. Thomas is one. Griffy is three. Bond or uh who is that? Fred McGriff is two, Griffy's three, uh Matt Williams is four, Piana's five, Ko six, and Bond is seven. So here's the full set. We start with Frank Thomas. Go to Fred McGriff, K Griffy Jr., Matt Williams, Mike Piaza, Jose Conco, Barry Bonds, Jeff Bagwell, and Jeff Bagwell. So, no matter how this box or the next box goes, this is a this was great. You know, this is like something you don't expect to happen when you open a proc like this is to get a full insert set out of a box. Um, so you know, no matter what happens the rest of the way, this was a really, really good box break. You know, you got to be happy with getting your player uh the full set. Again, I can do that now. I can do this as a review. I don't have to buy it. Um, because I usually buy full sets and then I'll do my insert set reviews on full sets. So now I got the full set because I just like showing off the cards. Um part of the the the set videos I do are to showcase the cards, not just to be like, oh, you know, here's a set that I like. That's part of it, but most of it's like here's the set I like and here is a bunch of cards or here's the full set. So you can see all the cards and then if you wanted to collect it, you would know what all the cards look like and you can make a good informed choice. A lot of people do kind of insert set reviews or do reviews in general and they don't own they don't own any of the cards. They just show photos or they own like one card. They don't, you know, they have the big card from the set and they go, "Oh, here is you know I've got the Griffy um but you know I don't own any of the you know the other cards." And I just think it's cooler, you know, maybe it's just me to do the to do a review if you actually own the full set. Um, so here is the last back. So that came So just so from a quadrant perspective, anyone who wanted to, you know, look at like, oh, where did that super pack come from? It came from the lower right. So the lower right quadrant is where that pack was. So, here is the bottom left. The last uh packs here. So, we'll open them up and we'll go through them. Yeah, it's a lot of fun um to go through '90s box breaks. And as I post a video, I might break it up into two videos. Um, we'll see how it goes. Or just keep it one long video. It's hard to do these, you know, super duper fast. All right, last last section of the box. Here we go. Um, now I've had people like complain on my videos like, "Oh, I'm not showing me busting out the cards or you know, whatever." I'm like, you know, these these this this is this is not I do these breaks not for other people, but they're for me. Uh and if I really wanted to, you know, I don't think I'm going to uh sorry, Diamond King, Kenny Loftton. So, that's our third Diamond King, which is a little bit above average. But if I really want to show off uh or brag about hitting something, I don't think pulling a full, you know, like the entire insert set of of um long ball leaders would be the way I would do it, honestly. I mean, I just So, I've had people like, "Hey, you know, like you're not opening the packs on camera and you know, and they're they're they're kind of holding me to like the breaker standards." And I get that a little bit, but it's just a personal break. Uh, some of the stuff it's just, you know, it's very um honestly like um, you know, like this kind of product doesn't have a lot of hits in it. So, I I don't want to go through and, you know, take a lot of time to show me opening every pack and, you know, because again, no one else is getting these cards but me. So, I don't know who I'm trying to, you know, prove I'm not scamming someone. Uh, because it's just just me. And, uh, yeah, this last quadrant definitely is a lot quieter. So, we'll see if the if that, you know, it'd be cool to do a whole case, even though I would never want to do a whole case. Uh, but just to see like if the hits are like in the same quadrant, if they could be mapped. I've always heard stories that, you know, products like this were mapped by dealers and they could, you know, basically open a box, put on the shelf, and then go and pull the hits. Um, and you were just left with nothing. I've heard that with 89 epigraphies, you know, like you can map where they are in the box or the case, which is kind of a bummer because that just means like there's, you know, so many boxes out there where someone's you messed with um you know, and messed with it in the 90s, you know, like a Yeah, nothing except for a diamond king and that whole stack. So, that's kind of disappointing. But there it is. That is box series one. So pretty awesome series one box. I mean I don't think uh you're going to you know I mean besides getting the elites that you're you know hitting something more rare than than the full insert set u was pretty awesome. I never even expected to do that. So feel pretty cool. uh pulled uh two base cards uh bonds and Frank and then Bill Spire is my gold uh my press proof. Three Diamond Kings, Loftton, Conite, and Ribbon Sierra. I did not pull an elite. Um but I did get the full insert set of Longbow leaders including the Thomas, the Griffy, the Bonds, and uh yeah, just out of one pack. So, I pulled the entire set. That was a hot pack back in the day. Um, that was something you could do was pull a hot pack and I did. So, pretty awesome. So, we'll move on to series two and we'll see get the series one out of the way. So, series two next. So, we'll see if we can duplicate some series one success. And uh here we go. Oh, all right. There we go. This film sometimes is really weird. It's so thin, but then it's like it's hard to even get a hold of. It's It's almost like it's gotten so paper thin. It just wants to fall apart versus rip in your hand. So, it's like a really weird sensory experience. Sometimes it's just stuck to the box, too. I've had some that were just like almost melted to the box. So, it wants to stick to everything. So, there we go. So, move the cards out of the way from series one. So, here's series two again. Going from blue to red. So, we'll do it again. We'll get the whole quarter. Open a pack and see what we got. One, these are ripping a little differently. So, whereas the other ones were just opening kind of like just opening like a clam, these are ripping down the middle. I see that this one did a little bit like pack one. So, we'll see. Will we get the full there? See how that one ripped down the middle? Interesting. That's the Griffy right there. Just so right there. There's the Griffy. Yeah. So, we know we're going to get the Griffy base card. So, we hit all three major base cards. I love that. If I want to open a box, I like to get all the cool base cards. Um, and multiples of of Griffy base cards cuz um, you'd be surprised how many people like at card shows will pay four or five bucks just for a Griffy 90s base card. Even it's from a set like this where, you know, it's theoretically not that rare. So, yeah. Again, during the editing, I might edit out some of the pack opening here because this is another fun part of the video. It takes a little bit of time to open everything up and look at it. And I don't think anyone enjoys looking at somebody opening packs ready to sort. But here we go. Top left row. Here we go. What do we got? They're not stuck together. There's Doug Drebeck, uh, Jim Abbott. It's weird. You see the these guys and you're like, and the 90s guys, I just know by face. And I feel sad today because a modern baseball card or modern baseball players, I don't know like I did when I was a kid in the 90s, you know, who each of these guys were just by, you know, facial recognition. like Eckersley. I mean, you could just see him like, "Oh, that's Eersley." So, Ivan Rodriguez and I PC Ivan Ardriguez a little bit. I have probably like 20 or 30 of his cards that are really good. Oh, here we go. Says Kirby Pocket. That's a good one. Like that. Yeah, Pucket's one of those really Oh, Bob Walk or Zayn Smith. Sorry. Get the two ugly pitchers from from Pittsburgh mixed up a little bit there. Uh, three pirates in a row. Look at that. Is that Dan Melli? Oh my gosh. Kevin Young. All right. But yeah, like uh this is definitely like the last uh row we just opened on box one. Pretty bare. Only one insert so far. We'll see. We didn't get much in box one till we hit that full hot pack and got the entire long ball leader set. which, you know, pretty cool. The one thing I'm trying to make sure I don't miss is the artist proof card because they are pretty easy to miss. There's the Griffy we saw earlier. We knew it was in there. Just waiting for someone to come back to it and unear it. Um, Maddox. So, yeah, interesting interesting product. I think there might be an insert right here. There might be an insert coming up. Here we go. Remove protective peel. So, here is Dominators. It's Robin Ventura, Fryman, and um Matt Williams. So I'm assuming third baseman. So wow, we had a protector to remove. So that's kind of cool. So two inserts and that um the dominators I believe was like the long ball leaders like a one per pack. Yeah, one per box, sorry. Or one in no box. U every box and a half. So one and 24. So that's the the the kind of insert we got the full set of in our hot pack last time. So will it happen again? Will we get the elite? I I want to pull an elite. That's that's that is my number one goal. It's just to pull an elite just to say I did it from uh a still pretty tough pull. Elites got easier and easier to pull over the years. Um I just think that is like insert proliferation 101. They were just like, "Well, that's the card they want. We'll just make it a little easier every year, you know, or print more and more." Either one. So, would still like the oldfashioned way. I don't think it was saving us a lot more time. Wagner wires. So, yeah, it's like you can definitely tell these products where you're going to get an insert. It's uh it really it's like um that card difference really pops out when you're kind of opening the pack. You can be like, "Oh, there's something definitely something definitely in this one." Just kind of sticks out there. Pretty pretty simple. Uh let's see. I'm trying not to miss a card because you never know like which one's going to be the artist proof which are going to be very similar looking to the base. Um, so it's you can't just like blow by everything and be like, "Oh, you never know which one is." Oh, another Griffy. Here we go. Two Griffy base. Should be getting some more Diamond Kings as well. At least two more. All right. Pack was nothing. Yeah, it's uh I see a lot of dupes as well. Um it was a shorter set, 220 cards versus 330. So that probably seems like like an like a sheet or something like they cut back a sheet u when they printed it. You know, the wildest thing would be is to get a Griffy um artist proof. That'd be wild. Could you imagine getting a full artist proof set of a box? You know, like they said like, "Oh, you get a full insert set." It was like the artist proofs. So, every pack had like a full uh was just full of artist proofs. So the So the checklist always fool me because they look a little different. So we're almost halfway through the box and we've hit uh like two inserts total. So here's hoping there's something in the remainder. Maybe we'll go back to the old way of doing it. Oh. Oh. Oh. Diamond King checklist. That's a big boo. Uh, there's Dick Perez. Look at that guy. Wow. All right. That kind of bummer. And then, oh, my artist proof is Doug Drebeck. Former Pirate Sai Young Award winner. Uh, then left. Made a bunch of money and never really had another amazing year. I think he had was had a couple of decent years, but I think he was out of baseball within five years. uh Sion award. I think he uh never really yeah had a had a season like that again. So, it's very interesting um how that happens where you just go from because I mean before the SI Young was he was good like you know Drebeck had a lot of good years then he kind of went off and had the big year and then okay here's the lower right this is where we found the the big the big hit last time but yeah Dick like you know he just you know got them Lonnie went to Houston and never really did much after that. You know, was never like I don't think he was an all-star. Maybe once he was an all-star. Well, two. Wow. Two pressers. And this was a good one. I mean, he'll never make the Hall of Fame because it's just, you know, what's happening. But Manny Ramirez, that's pretty sweet. I like that one a lot. That's really cool. That makes up a little bit for Drebeck. Even though like I'm not overly mad I got Drebeck. I mean he he did pitch you know all the best pirates team in my memory. Uh so and won the S Young. So that's cool. But yeah, I was in a card shop in San Diego um downtown San Diego and it was so so messy. so hard to get around. But the guy had an autographed Doug Drebeck jersey there. He was trying to sell me because he asked me who I liked. I'm like, "I'm a Pirates fan." He's like, "Oh, I got a Drebeck jersey." I'm like, "Yeah, he's he's not my dude anymore." Like, you know, like maybe as a kid, you know? I definitely was a big Drebeck fan until he left the Pirates. But so anyway, but it was just interesting that that card store in San Diego was crazy busy or crowded. Not busy. Not many people were there, but it was just so packed full of stuff. All right, here's something weird. This pack is super big. So, I just want to show you comparatively right there. See that? This pack is really big compared to this pack. So uh should we wait this pack at the end guys? That pack is bigly. It's a big one. So is there a full set in there? Is there a full set of elites? Could you imagine a full set of elites coming out of there? Or is it going to be the um dominator set? The full dominator set that I my money is on. Even though I would love it to be elite. So, my money's on it being the Dominer set, which if I that was true, then that would be um both one and 24 insert sets in two straight boxes, which seems really bizarre because I bought, you know, both these boxes from the same seller and for them both to have a pack like that in there seems to be very low odds. Here is a Diamond King that you would get both um complete insert sets, you know, one and 24 insert sets and two two street boxes. So, here is Tony Gwen. It's a really nice card. Looks like series 2 don't have the purples and a little bit of a different color pattern to the Diamond King. So, that's cool. No press proof after the Diamond King, unlike a lot of our other packs where we saw the Diamond King and the press proof stuck together. Um, yeah. So, it does specifically say on Baseball Arpedia that you could get full insert Donner's Elite sets in series 2. Um, which I would love, but I just don't think my luck is that good to get a full a full set. And it could just be a bunch of cards. You know, I've had that happen, too, where I just like, oh, I got a fat pack, blah, blah, blah, and then it's like set 12 cards, it's 30 cards, and it's all base cards, and you just like got your hopes up for no real reason. The 90s were tough. They they got your hopes up and then they crushed them. They've definitely um you know, just like my 95 finest box I'll never get over with nothing in it. Went through the whole box got nothing. You're just like, "Oh, there's going to be a couple refractors." Nope. You get nothing. You're going to like it. All right. All right. So, we've hit the one and 24. So we we have hit that. We have not hit and we've hit two press proof. So that was above average. Uh still one diamond king to to hit our ratio. So no matter what we're, you know, if there are inserts in that pack, we're going to be way above the ratios uh for what we thought we're going to get because we're already above it on the press proofs. And then um we already hit the one uh dominators that we're supposed to get. So it's a lot of fun. like I mean at least his product is um delivering above expectations and that's sort of like all you can really hope for because you know you can't always guarantee the player you're going to hit but when you don't get the ratios that you you know that were promised then it always feels very disappointing even if you don't hit wow another grippy base card that's the third one of those that's really Crazy. So, we got a nice big stack of nice big stack of cards here. See, it's some of these packs do feel a little full. Like I think that there's if I were to count every time I open these, like is there 12 cards, 13 cards? There might be some fluctuation in the amount of cards per pack. It just kind of feels that way. I don't know. If you get used to opening cards after a while, you kind of go, "Oh, this one feels like a like a heavy pack or it might be an extra card." Now, we, you know, again, I think we need one more Diamond King and we'll be good on that. All right. Yeah. Um, pretty excited to see what's in there because we'll know right away like if it's amazing the full elite set or maybe just an elite or is it just a bunch of base cards and I've got my hopes up for no reason. I'm have a hard time with some of these packs. I don't know if it's just me being tired. I just got back from San Diego. Another Diamond King's checklist. Just uh boo, which I don't hopefully that doesn't count as a Diamond King cuz that would be lame to have the checklist count. Just throwing cards around now. All right, nothing there. Couple more packs and then we'll get to the fat guy. The fatty fat large Marge coming at you. The Peewee's uh play or Peewee's Big Adventure, which I haven't seen that in so long. I want to go back and watch it. because I'm going back. I'm I do I'm on a big nostalgia fest with movies because my kids haven't seen a lot of the 90s stuff. So now when we have time on the weekends to just sit around and watch something together, I'm always trying to get them to watch something from the 90s. And so we just watched Tron, the original one. Uh as cheesy as it is, it's still one a still fun movie to watch. So um you know, trying to get Back to the Future. Um, and uh, my youngest said u, it was a lame movie. She saw it with a friend. I'm like, "Wow, that hurts my heart." But we watched Jaws. I mean, we've we uh, we started watching a lot of the 90s stuff, Blues Brothers, so I'm trying to trying to indoctrinate him a little bit into the 70s, 80s, and 90s culture, you know, movies and stuff that I think were cool. Well, the last card in the box was Griffy, so maybe that's good luck. So, here we go. The fatty fat. Definitely something's going on this pack. We'll see what's going on here. Is it just a bunch of base? Am I just being overly optimistic? Something's going on. That's not normal looking cards. All right, it is the Dominator set, guy. Yeah, it's a dominator set. It's the full dominator set. It's I guarantee it's the full dominator set. It's There is nine cards in that set and they all have that protective film. So, here we go. We got the full set. That's crazy. So, we got Pucket, Paul O'Neal, and Tony Gwen. So, that's the back. Here's the front with the protective film. Um, here is and see they're even a little sticky where I think they've been next to that protector for so long. So, a little sticky. Uh, next one's Cone, Msina, and Maddox. There you go. Uh, so I guess it's by position. So, nine positions. So, here's catcher. So, we got Ivan Rodriguez, Darren Dalton, and Mike Piaza. Here is first baseman. So, we got Fred McGriff, Frank Thomas, and Jeff Bagwell. It's always one player you can't see because of the big sticker. All right, here is second baseman. So, it's Alamar Bierga and Bio. Should have thought I should have predicted that one. Here is uh yeah so Matt Williams, Ventura and Fryman. So this is third base. Here is shortstops Cal Ripken, Barry Larkin, and I'm assuming Will Cordderero. Here is outfield. So this is Albert Bell, Barry Bonds, and Moses Aloo. And here's the last one. I got our boy on it. King Griffy Jr., Kenny Loftton, and Maris Gryom. So there it is. The full insert set there. Um, I don't know where they put two extra cards in there. I guess to get 12, we needed the two extra cards. Um, very thick. And, uh, yeah, the full set, which is crazy. Um, we hit backtoback full sets. I don't think we're supposed to do that. Um, I don't think that's normal for you to do that. Now, the question here, cuz here's the Griffy, is peeling these. You know, I'm not going to try to do I' I've had a lot of problems peeling 90s cards. Um, you know, I've had them split in half trying to peel them uh because the peel is stuck so hard to the card now it just, you know, it won't come off. So, uh, yeah, and it's very interesting how, um, this set was made. I don't know how shiny it is. So, I'd love to get the peel off at least one of the cards to to see if it's real foily and shiny underneath. Um, but you know, I don't see where it's it's like some of some cards from the '90s you can really tell like they meant for the peel to come off. Like you can really see, you know, like this would be a good one to try cuz it's not got a lot of big hall of famers on it, but like they kind of made it where, you know, you had a place to get purchase, you know, and get the film to come up, you know. This does not feel like that. This feels like you're going to have to really work at it to find a spot to get that peel to come up on because you got to get it going somewhere and you kind of got to um work a spot and and get that peel to, you know, without damaging the card or the corner, which I said, I've had a lot of bad experiences with this. Um so yeah, I'm not sure I'm going to waste time trying to get it out. You know, if these were like numbered and really low, you really, you know, you know, like like 97 finest gold or something, you know, or 99 finest gold like, you know, I could see that being worth the effort to really get that card out and to peel off, you know, to get a good grade. But man, they are definitely uh heavier and they're made like the metallic. I mean, we see in the back, they're like metallicized. They're like they're a heavier card. Uh you can see from the side profile, they're almost like plastic, like metalized plastic, if that makes sense. So, the only thing they didn't do is like if these if they had made these shiny, you know, like p, you know, refractor shine to them, it would have been a really cool set. Um, yeah, as it is, it's a lot of it's a lot different than other cards from the set. Um, you know, and they definitely were going for something grander than just a normal card, but it, you know, I think shiny is always better. We'll just put it that way. And these kind of have a dull appearance to them. Like and the other thing too is like they're not stamped probably because the type of material. Uh whereas the longbow leaders were shiny and had gold stamping. So and that really helps you know with that card shining, you know, showing off. Um so I think the idea of this kind of composite card where you've got a metallized plastic u you know kind of a card going on. I think they thought that was cool and revolutionary, you know, enough that we don't need it to be, you know, shiny or whatever. So, there it is. That's all nine of the dominator set plus, you know, we got the one in the actual box. Got a lot of Griffy base cards, which is great. So, we got a Tony Gwen, Diamond King, Manny Ramirez, uh, press proof, Doug Drebeck, press proof, another Griffy. Here is the one we got earlier. So, again, this could be our guinea pig. This is Ventura, Fryman, and Matt Williams. And then another Griffy, and then Kirby Pucket. So overall, like if you look at diamond kings, in theory, we got two, but I think these count as one, honestly. Um cuz it's DK29, so it's listed as a Diamond King. It's just lame to not only get two uh so we hit actually three or sorry four diamond kings which would have been above ratio but two of them were checklist so that's kind of a bummer but it kind of we kind of made up for it honestly with the full set. So, this is just, you know, like, so the two boxes really definitely delivered on um the insert experience where you got a lot of cool inserts. In fact, we got two full sets. And if you go back to the um yeah, to this um set, here's the long ball leaders again, that stamping there looks really cool, very shiny. Then you've got this set. So, two full insert sets out of two boxes. Pretty crazy, guys. Two hot packs, two boxes. What can you do? But there it is, guys. That's the box break. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Let me know in the comments. I'll see you next time at Cards of Comics. Bye. >> All right.

1990's Box Break #95 and #96. Each box contained one hot pack each with a full set of inserts.