Hobby Huntin'

The goodies from a 2006 Bowman Heritage box. 

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to make the rarest of purchases: the vaunted hobby box. This one was available for a pretty good price and is a set that I at least passively collect, and needed plenty of.

I won't go into the details of everything I pulled, but you can check out what I'm still missing here.

There were three "hits" in the box, which sounds like is pretty much expected. My first one was this nice Chipper Jones bat card. In such an old product that's littered with "prospects", this was much better than what I was expecting.

There's probably someone out there with a full body suit of Todd Helton jersey pieces by now, but he was a very good player for a long time, so I can't complain about this. The pinstripe is a bonus.

Well, here's where the "prospects" thing comes into play. Matt Maloney did appear in parts of 4 MLB seasons with a couple of teams (Reds, Twins). At least the autograph is actually on the card.

There were some really cool box toppers that I had no idea about going into this. There was a full fledged two-sided posted with a mini scouting report for each of the 100 players in the prospects portion of the set, plus a checklist (in addition to the randomly pack pulled checklists). There was also the handy little sticker you see at the top of the post, which is meant to be affixed to one of those cardboard storage boxes you might store your set in. And there's also this pack, which I'm not going to totally spoil (check APTBNL tomorrow for details.)

I did pull a Cardinal out of the pack, though. Hey, Adam Ottavino... we remember you.