This set faced a big delay due to the pandemic shut downs. Normally, this set would be released in July, but this year it finally hit stores in mid September. The great card rush is still going on, but it remains to be seen how that will affect this release. While this is a heavy hit product, with three per hobby box, there is a mix of baseball players past and present, and many other pop culture subjects. It’s not a set for everyone.

It can have wide spread appeal, because you can find some subjects that would normally not get cardboard treatment. That same feature can turn off baseball purists, though. It doesn’t get the same sort of attention as other releases, despite the large number of hits, because you primarily see a lot of lower end relics. The biggest current rookie prize is Luis Robert, and he has autographs in this product, but it doesn’t seem to be driving the treasure hunters like in other products.

The base set contains 300 cards, with an additional 50 short prints running 301-350. There are a few regular parallels, with most of the parallels in mini card form. We see a few baseball related inserts sets, but then also some random inserts such as “Where Monsters Live” and “Citadels & Strongholds”. Overall, it’s a fun set as a throwback to a late 1800s set.

A box contains 24 packs of 8 cards, and advertises 3 hits per box.

This box contained:

126 Base (42% of 300 card set)
12 Base SP (24% of 50 card SP set)
11 Base Mini
5 Base Mini A&G Parallels
3 Base Mini Black Border Parallels
1 Base Mini Wood Hank Aaron 1/1
1 Booming Cities
1 Citadels & Safeholds
4 Digging Deep
4 Down on the Farm
4 A Debut to Remember
4 Field Generals
4 Long Ball Lore
4 Reach for the Sky
2 Where Monsters Live
1 Full Sized Relics B Andrew McCutchen
1 Mini Framed Relics Pedro Martinez
1 Mini Autographs Bobby Bradley RC
1 Cabinet Box Loader Ronald Acuna Jr.