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2016 Topps Stadium Club Hobby Box Break

I’m glad to see Stadium Club as a regular offering.  It really fills a niche that Topps otherwise doesn’t address.  You get top not photography on full bleed cards, with a glossy high quality stock.  There’s a lot to like about it.  Add in that you’re starting to see recurring insert sets, and you really start to get a feeling of continuity,  You get a nice mix of current stars, rookies, and stars from the past.

The full set is 300 cards, so it’s not a real easy set, but at least there are no SPs involved.  Each box contains 16 packs of 8 cards, including 2 on card autographs per box.

This box contained:

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2015 Topps Stadium Club Hobby Box Break

After last year’s returning Stadium Club release was met less than enthusiastically at the release price, Topps seems to have gone back to the drawing board for this release, and the results do not disappoint.

Last year, the cards were rather flimsy, but the first thing you notice opening a pack this year, is that the cards feel like Stadium Club.  They have the thicker glossy feel of the original Stadium Club releases in the 90s.  It’s still updated to include multiple parallels and insert sets, as well as two autographs per box.  It’s not a perfect release, though.  I don’t care for the black and white parallel of a set already containing some black and white photography, for instance, but the good seems to far outweigh the bad.

This box advertises 16 packs of 8 cards, with each pack containing one insert or parallel.  The box contains two on-card autographs.  This box contained:

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