2009 UDX Box hits

Here are the two box hits from my first box of 2009 UDX. The Xponential cards I pulled that I like the most will be in a future posting.

September 29, 2009 - 2008 Razor Signature Series and 2009 American Heritage Heroes

2008 Razor Signature Series

65 Dusty Coleman
79 Brett Hunter
11 Justin Smoak
41 Kyle Lobstein
106 Kyle Skipworth auto - #'ed 17/699

I would have to say collation may be bad for this product. that is the third Coleman I've pulled in just my first two packs (and second base Coleman since the other Coleman was a parallel)


2009 American Heritage Heroes

3 John McCain - Military Heroes
84 John Adams - Diplomat
13 George Mason - Political Heroes
125 Flight 93
18 Abraham Lincoln - Political Heroes
68 Elizabeth Blackwell - Medicine
C97 - Chrome parallel of William Lloyd Garrison - Journalist
MOH-28 Medal of Honor Ira Clinton Welborn

September 28, 2009 - 2009 American Heritage Heroes and 2008 Razor Signature Series

I have decided to open my cheap box of 2008 Razor Signature Series since I finished my 2008 UD Series 2 box yesterday.

2008 Razir Signature - the first pack

65 Dusty Coleman - parallel #13/25 - called the blue border parallel because it's blue colored
instead of white colored?
65 Dusty Coleman (yes, the parallel and base card in the same pack right next to each other!)
19 Andrew Cashner
51 Ryan Westmoreland
Exclusive Signature ES-31 Brett Marshall


2009 American Heritage Heroes

79 Erin Brockovich - Humanitarian
99 Ralph Ellison - Novelist
102 Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
48 John Moran - Finest
44 John Flynn - Finest
2 Molly Pitcher - Military Heroes
HSF-19 Space mission printed patch card - Apollo 8
MOH-35 Medal of Honor - Julien Edmund Victor Gaujot

September 27, 2009 - 2008 UD Series 2 and 2009 American Heritage Heroes

My last pack of 2008 UD Series 2 from the current box I"m working on. I think I have one more box left to try to complete my set before I have to buy singles to finish the set.

636 Rich Aurilia
683 David Eckstein
666 Jason Bartlett
511 Jorge Cantu
559 Jason Kendall
581 Joe Smith
644 Jarrod Washburn
598 Dan Johnson
502 Josh Johnson
533 Howie Kendrick
470 Juan Castro
478 Asdrubal Cabrera
415 John Smoltz
486 Brian Fuentes
741 Jake Peavy - Season Highlights
701 Randor Bierd
764 Erik Bedard - Mariners Checklist
797 Magglio Ordonez - Season Highlights
715 Blake DeWitt
USA-14 Logan Forsythe - USA National team base insert


2009 American Heritage Heroes

88 Woodrow Wilson - Diplomat
92 Upton Sinclair - Novelist
108 The Underground Railroad
10 Jimmy Stewart - Military Heroes
55 American Women's Suffrage Movement - Heroic Movement
50 Justin Garner - Finest
MOF-17 Medal of Freedom - Jack Nicklaus
HS-13 Heroes of Sport - Dan Marino

September 26, 2009 - 2009 American Heritage Heroes and 2008 UD Series 2

2009 American Heritage Heroes

97 William Lloyd Garrison - Journalist
120 Battle of the Bulge
111 Seneca Falls Convention
17 Charles Weltner - Political Heroes
81 Harry S. Truman - Diplomat
94 Nellie Bly - Investigative Reporter
C84 - John Adams - Diplomat - Chrome parallel #'ed 34/1776
MOH21 - Medal of Honor - Isaiah Mays


2008 UD Series 2

453 Scott Linebrink
564 Adam Everett
530 Torii Hunter
498 Edgar Renteria
592 Shelley Duncan
535 John Lackey
584 Ramon Castro
554 Tony Gwynn Jr.
525 Joey Gathright
622 Matt Capps
421 Jeremy Guthrie
445 Kerry Wood
475 Grady Sizemore
737 Grady Sizemore - Season Highlights
757 Troy Glaus - Cardinals Checklist
712 Elliot Johnson
761 Andruw Jones- Dodgers Checklist
738 Greg Maddux - Season Highlights
USA-1 Brett Hunter - USA National Team base insert

September 25, 2009 - 2009 American Heritage Heroes and 2008 UD Series 2

2009 American Heritage Heroes

47 J. Edgar Hoover - Finest
73 Clara Barton - Humanitarian
72 Normal Borlaug - Humanitarian
14 Claiborne Pell - Political Heroes
100 Carl Sagan - Author
105 "I only regret that I have but one life to give my country."
HS-14 Heroes of Sport - Lou Gehrig
MOF-9 Jimmy Doolittle - Medal of Freedom


2008 UD Series 2

569 Delmon Young
693 Paul LoDuca
403 Chris Burke
520 Michael Bourn
510 Andrew Miller
593 Hideki Matsui
684 Alex Rios
507 Dallas McPherson
549 Delwyn Young
573 Moises Alou
410 Kelly Johnson
419 Luke Scott
474 Paul Byrd
605 Jimmy Rollins
792 John Lackey - Season Highlights
760 Dan Haren - Diamondbacks Checklist
711 Fernando Hernandez
734 David Wright - Season Highlights
759 Carl Crawford - Rays Checklist
USA-23 Scott Gorgen - USA National Team base insert

September 24, 2009 - 2009 American Heritage Heroes and 2008 UD Series 2

Two more packs today.

2009 American Heritage Heroes

53 National Audubon Society - Heroic Group
70 Paul Zoll - Medicine
85 John Hay - Diplomat
30 Samuel Gompers - Civil Rights Hero
21 Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Civil Rights Hero
103 Battle of Lexington and Concord
MOH-15 Medal of Honor - William Harvey Carney
HSF-3 Mercury Friendship 7 printed patch insert card


2008 UD Series 2

624 Tadahito Iguchi
518 Reggie Abercrombie
678 Ben Broussard
506 Luis Gonzalez
401 Dan Haren
695 Odalis Perez
532 Francisco Rodriguez
513 Lance Berkman
642 Adrian Beltre
676 David Murphy
406 Eric Byrnes
479 David Dellucci
616 Tom Gorzelanny
460 Brian Anderson
748 Ryan Braun - Season Highlights
728 Wesley Wright
789 Jimmy Rollins - Season Highlights
777 Miguel Cabrera - Tigers Checklist
707 Johnny Cueto
USA-10 Jordy Mercer - USA National Team base insert

September 23, 2009 - 2009 American Heritage Heroes and 2008 UD Series 2

2009 American Heritage Heroes

91 Jacob Riis - Journalist/Photographer
33 Ed Pulaski - Bravest
75 Helen Keller - Humanitarian
101 Boston Tea Party
64 Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail - medicine
56 USO - Heroic Group
MOF-24 Fred Rogers - Medal of Freedom
HS-24 Magic Johnson - Heroes of Sport


2008 UD Series 2

580 Brian Schneider
612 Geoff Jenkins
661 Scott Kazmir
641 Brian Wilson
449 Jon Lieber
600 Justin Duchscherer
647 Raul Ibanez
700 Nick Johnson
682 B.J. Ryan
483 Matt Holliday
491 Kenny Rogers
429 Josh Beckett
607 Adam Eaton
456 Orlando Cabrera
716 Kyle McClellan
775 Troy Tulowitzki - Rockies Checklist
782 Brian Roberts - Season Highlights
705 Gregor Blanco
739 Ichiro - Season Highlights

September 22, 2009 - 2009 American Heritage Heroes and 2008 UD Series 2

I've acquired some boxes of 2009 American Heritage Heroes. Considering I"m also a space buff, I'm looking forward to seeing if I can pull some space relics and to collect the 28 card space insert card of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo mission printed patch cards. My sister is a history nut so I'm going to build a base set for her for Christmas.

First pack of 2009 American Heritage Heroes

58 Heroic Group - VFW
82 Diplomat - George Marshall
98 Author - Rachel Carson
87 Diplomat - Silas Deane
67 - Medicine - Charles Mayo
110 - Lewis and Clark Expedition
HSF-17 Apollo 1 printed patch card
MOH-32 - Medal of Honor George Shiels (Surgeon)

so far, so good. One down, 27 to go on the printed patch space cards.



2008 UD Series 2 as I continue with that box

440 Alex Cora
484 Garrett Atkins
625 Adrian Gonzalez
468 Ryan Freel
422 Nick Markakis
778 Joe Mauer
742 Jimmy Rollins - Season Highlight
784 Carl Crawford - Season Highlight
729 Yasuhiko Yabuta
771 Jason Bay - Pirates Checklist
655 Troy Glaus
697 Elijah Dukes
690 Marco Scutaro
662 Troy Percival
613 Tom Gordon
590 Alex Rodriguez
658 Adam Kennedy
575 Endy Chavez
509 Matt Treanor
Yankee Stadium Legacy 3142 - Yogi Berra - 09/02/1962

September 21, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 UD Series 2

Final pack of Box 1 of 2009 UDX was opened today.

2009 UDX

23 Jay Bruce
86 Evan Longoria
5 Brian McCann
94 Adam Dunn
91 Vernon Wells - die-cut parallel
X-SK - Xponential Scott Kazmir


Box hits and interesting cards I find worth scanning will be posted at some point when I can get them scanned.


2008 UD Series 2

621 Nyger Morgan
650 Brad Wilkerson
462 Carlos Quentin
555 Eric Gagne
632 Michael Barrett
588 Wilson Betemit
634 Tim Lincecum
674 Michael Young
574 Carlos Beltran
439 J.D. Drew
469 Scott Hatteberg
423 Jay Payton
494 Joel Zumaya
447 Mark DeRosa
750 Alex Rodriguez - Season Highlights
710 Steve Holm
747 Mike Lowell - Season Highlights
752 Miguel Tejada - Astros Checklist
703 Brian Bass
Yankee Stadium Legacy 3092 - Moose Skowron - 05/24/1962

September 20, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 UD Series 2

2008 UD Series 2

664 Carl Crawford
550 Mike Cameron
568 Carlos Gomez
633 Scott Hairston
620 Jose Bautista
596 Bobby Crosby
531 Ervin Santana
541 Jason Schmidt
577 Pedro Martinez
416 Tyler Yates
425 Melvin Mora
433 Jason Varitek
487 Ryan Spilborghs
441 Derrek Lee
735 Derrek Lee - Season Highlights
769 Jim Edmonds - Padres Checklist
791 Johan Santana - Season Highlights
721 Alex Romero
788 Jake Peavy - Season Highlight
Yankee Stadium Legacy 3067 - Roger Maris - 09/10/1961

2009 UDX

49 Prince Fielder
35 Hanley Ramirez
72 Nate McLouth
25 Brandon Phillips
30 Cliff Lee - die-cut parallel
X2-LB - Xponential Lance Berkman

September 19, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 UD Series 2

Two more packs opened today. Getting really close to finishing 2009 UDX box 1.

2009 UDX

17 Derrek Lee
9 Josh Beckett
28 Kerry Wood
56 Francisco Rodriguez
5 Brian McCann - die-cut parallel
X-TE Xponential Miguel Tejada


2008 UD Series 2

414 Mark Kotsay
686 Rod Barajas
637 Aaron Rowand
512 Kazuo Matsui
523 Miguel Olivo
551 Ryan Braun
597 Eric Chavez
579 Mike Pelfrey
542 James Loney
656 Anthony Reyes
463 Homer Bailey
417 Yunel Escobar
488 Ubaldo Jimenez
499 Curtis Granderson
617 Jason Bay
758 Carlos Zambrano - Cubs Checklist
708 Kosuke Fukudome
733 Carlos Beltran
770 Jimmy Rollins - Phillies Checklist
USJR-16 T.J. House - base Junior National Team card

September 18, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 UD Series 2

2008 UD Series 2

515 Miguel Tejada
630 Mark Prior - shown with Padres uniform
669 Edwin Jackson
606 Pedro Feliz
464 Francisco Cordero
545 Brad Penny
572 Jose Reyes
670 Vicente Padilla
504 Dan Uggla
552 Rickie Weeks
735 Derrek Lee
628 Khalil Greene
424 Brian Roberts
495 Ivan Rodriguez
754 Scott Rolen - Blue Jays checklist
796 Juan Pierre - Season Highlight
795 Josh Beckett - Season Highlight
719 Darren O'Day
USAH-4 USA Baseball Highlight - U.S. Defeats Russia
USJR-HI - Tyler Hibbs auto - #'ed 80/375

2009 UDX

81 Felix Hernandez
31 Garrett Atkins
75 Adrian Gonzalez
94 Adam Dunn die-cut parallel
X6-RJ - Xponential Randy Johnson
UD 20th Anniversary Retrospective - 1587 Tiger Woods wins all 4 majors in 2001

September 17, 2009 - 2008 UD Series 2 and 2009 UDX

2008 UD Series 2

694 Ryan Zimmerman
585 Kei Igawa
536 Gary Matthews
629 Trevor Hoffman
455 A.J. Pierzynski
482 Troy Tulowitzki
436 Julio Lugo
619 Freddy Sanchez
692 Johnny Estrada
461 Nick Swisher
602 Chris Denorfia
562 Francisco Liriano
654 Skip Schumaker
774 Aaron Harang - Reds Checklist
725 Matt Tupman
745 Kevin Youkilis - Season Highlights
753 Huston Street - Athletics Checklist
USJR-11 Mychal Givens base insert for Junior National Team
549 Delwyn Young gold parallel - #'ed 46/99

2009 UDX

6 Nick Markakis
35 Hanley Ramirez die-cut parallel
X4-MR Xponential Manny Ramirez
UDXJ-BP - Brad Penny Game Used Jersey - gray Dodgers uniform swatch

September 16, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 UD Series 2

Two more packs today.

2008 UD Series 2

517 Geoff Blum
615 Matt Morris
567 Craig Monroe
505 Mark Hendrickson
652 Mark Mulder
594 Kyle Farnsworth
557 Chris Capuano
685 John McDonald
538 Kendry Morales
766 Johan Santana - Mets Checklist
747 Torii Hunter - Season Highlight
790 Joe Borowski - Season Highlight
477 Jhonny Peralta
431 Curt Schilling
610 Pat Burrell
627 Jake Peavy
404 Orlando Hudson
717 Evan Meek
USJR-15 Ryan Weber - USA Baseball Junior National Team standard insert


2009 UDX

3 Brandon Webb
77 Aaron Rowand
50 Corey Hart
7 Brian Roberts
48 Prince Fielder - die-cut parallel
X2-KG - Xponential Ken Griffey Jr.

September 15, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 UD Series 2

The pack gods were looking down on me today as you'll read about in a moment.

2008 UD Series 2

570 Mike Lamb
522 Brett Tomko
409 Tom Glavine
623 Paul Maholm
696 Wily Mo Pena
543 Andre Ethier
521 Gil Meche
579 C.J. Wilson
566 Justin Morneau
448 Ronny Cedeno
405 Justin Upton
432 Jonathan Papelbon
614 Zach Duke
459 Paul Konerko
768 Brian Roberts - Orioles Checklist
740 Ivan Rodriguez
726 Rico Washington
773 Josh Beckett - Red Sox Checklist
783 C.C. Sabathia - Seaon Highlight
PP11 - Presidential Predictors - Taxes - Obama and McCain


2009 UDX

87 Carl Crawford
53 Joe Mauer
71 Chase Utley
60 Andy Pettitte - die cut parallel
X-MA - Xpotential Nick Markakis

24 Edison Volquez - AUTO

Karma had to be on my side when I opened the pack. I had been thinking of getting a Volquez auto because when he is healthy and has his stuff working, I enjoy watching him pitch. Since I'm a budget collector, I thought I'd get the auto while he was on the DL. I never did get to pull the trigger to get an auto so the pack gods were with me this time and I pulled one out of the pack. It's not very often the gods are with me, but this time it worked out good.

September 14, 2009 - 2008 UD Series 2 and 2009 UDX

It's been a very hectic few days where I've had to conentrate on work and haven't had much time to play or open packs.

I opened up 2 packs on Monday.

2008 UD Series 2

680 Jason Jennings
603 Emil Brown
665 Cliff Floyd
635 Noah Lowry
672 Jason Botts
526 Mark Teahen
651 Chris Carpenter
546 Hong-Chih Kuo
556 Jeff Suppan
466 Alex Gonzalez
428 Steve Trachsel
413 Jeff Francoeur
490 Nate Robertson
444 Matt Murton
704 Brian Bocock
793 Jose Reyes
732 C.C. Sabathia - Season Highlight
767 Nationals Checklist - Dmitri Young
718 Denard Span
PP-13A The Economy - Presidential Predictor featuring McCain and Hillary Clinton

2009 UDX

29 Grady Sizemore
41 Alex Gordon
51 Joe Nathan
74 Jake Peavy
64 C.C. Sabathia die-cut parallel
X2-JP Xponential Jonathan Papelbon

September 8, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 UD Series 2

2008 UD Series 2:

608 Brad Lidge
576 Ryan Church
667 Rocco Baldelli
698 Aaron Boone
560 Livan Hernandez
677 Ramon Vazquez
519 Brandon Backe
501 Marcus Thames
563 Pat Neshek
589 Robinson Cano
758 Carlos Zambrano - Cubs Checklist
442 Carlos Zambrano
472 Josh Barfield
471 Norris Hopper
497 Carlos Guillen
450 Geovany Soto
714 Hiroki Kuroda
709 Scott Kazmir - Season Highlights
763 Victor Martinez - Indians Checklist
USA-SG Scott Gorgen National Team Jersey

I'd say a pretty good pack -- weird to get Carlos Zambrano back-to-back in the pack (even though one was a checklist). I like the Neshek - i'll have to get it 'graphed if I got that card in my first box for my set. I am concerned about the Gorgen Jersey as that makes it two packs I"ve opened and two packs with hits. that only leaves like one more pack out of the next 14 with a hit if I recall the number of hits per box correctly. It's going to be a lot of packs with just cards to help me build my set and no hits unless there is a hot box possibility that I don't know about.

2009 UDX

26 Victor Martinez
15 Rich Harden
21 Jermaine Dye
27 Travis Hafner
28 Kerry Wood die-cut parallel
X3-JR - Xpotential Jimmy Rollins

September 6, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 UD Series 2

I've decided to start a 2008 UD Series 2 hobby box - I believe it's the second of three boxes I purchased to work towards building a set of series 2 cards.

In the first pack:

724 Ramon Troncoso
663 Akinori Iwamura
691 Lastings Milledge
540 Andruw Jones
601 Kurt Suzuki
673 Milton Bradley
527 Alex Gordon
586 Mariano Rivera
638 Randy Winn
508 Cody Ross
547 Jonathan Broxton
708 Kosuke Fukudome
458 Josh Fields
485 Aaron Cook
411 Chipper Jones
437 Sean Casey
467 Brandon Phillips
780 Yankees Checklist - Derek Jeter
781 Season Highlights - Brandon Webb

USA-JM National Team Jordy Mercer white jersey swatch and auto #'ed 182/287


2009 UDX

34 Carlos Guillen
65 Alex Rodriguez
62 Derek Jeter
82 Ryan Ludwick
21 Jeremaine Dye die-cut parallel
X-VG - Xponential Vladimir Guerrero

2009 OPC Box Hit

Here is the hit from the 2009 OPC box I was in the middle of breaking when I started this blog.

September 5, 2009 - 2009 UDX

While deciding which box to start on next, it may be a pack a day for the next few days.

2009 UDX

58 Carlos Beltran
38 Lance Berkman
68 Jack Cust
77 Aaron Rowand die-cut parallel
X3-MR Xponential Manny Ramirez
1582 UD 20th Anniversary Retrospective - Bill Mazeroski

September 4, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 Tristar Prospects Plus

Today is the final pack for the current box of 2008 Tristar Prospects Plus.

24 Reese Havens green-foil parallel #ed 25/50
82 Derrik Gibson
62 James Darnell
45 Lance Lynn
119 Matt LaPorta
148 Red Sox Future Stars - Jonathan Hee, Bryan Peterson, Tyler Yockey

2009 UDX

13 David Ortiz
85 Scott Kazmir
78 Randy Johnson
1 Dan Haren
83 Rick Ankiel die-cut parallel
X3-JH Xpotential Josh Hamilton

September 3, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 Tristar Prospects Plus

the 2008 Tristar Prospects Plus pack I opened was not from the box I bought, but rather a pack I purchased at my local minor league ballpark. There is one pack of cards and one card of an organization prospect (Dodgers in my case since that is the affiliate of the home team).

132 Yankees Top Pick Pitchers - David Phelps and Matt Richardson
144 Cubs College/Pro Teammates - Luis Flores and Rebel Ridling
53 Wade Miley
34 Brett Hunter
33 Corban Joseph


The organization card is Chris Withrow - it appears to be from Tristar's 2008 Projections. I like this card a lot because I'm a sucker for rainbow foilboard and the card front prominantly features that.


2009 UDX

10 Jonathan Papelbon
90 Ian Kinsler
54 Jose Reyes
66 Matt Holliday
27 Travis Hafner die-cut parallel
X2-JR Xpotential Jimmy Rollins

September 2, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 Tristar Prospects Plus

continuing on with these two boxes...

2009 UDX

100 Derek Holland
22 Carlos Quentin
48 Ryan Braun
47 Manny Ramirez
2 Chris Young die-cut parallel
X4-MH Xponential level 4 Matt Holliday


2008 Tristar Prospects Plus

144 Cubs College/Pro Teammates - Luis Flores and Rebel Ridling
120 Austin Jackson
67 Jeremy Bleich
42 Robbie Grossman
97 Niko Vasquez
15 David Cooper

September 1, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 Tristar Prospects Plus

Two more packs today - I can see the end of the Tristar Prospects Plus box so it's almost done. UDX has a little ways to go.

2008 Tristar Prospects Plus

108 Justin Parker
122 College Teammates - Ryan Perry and Daniel Schlereth
31 Allan Dykstra
47 Jordan Lyles
45 Conor Gillaspie
50 Tyler Stovall


2009 UDX

44 Bobby Abreu
73 Ryan Doumit
39 Carlos Lee
57 David Wright
37 Miguel Tejada die-cut parallel
X-RH Xpotential Roy Halladay

A great pack for me since I"m a Roy Halladay fan. He's so underappreciated except for those that are hard core into the sport to notice stars in smaller marke

August 31, 2009 - 2009 UDX and 2008 Tristar Prospects Plus

2008 Tristar Prospects Plus

109 Mike Lee
64 Tim Fedroff
55 Jay Austin
85 Javier Rodriguez
1 Tim Beckham
FH-XA Farm Hands - Xavier Avery


2009 UDX

59 Mark Teixeira
8 Kevin Youkilis
76 Tim Lincecum
24 Edinson Volquez die-cut parallel
1592 UD 20th Anniversary - Joe Sakic
X5-JR Xponteial level 5 - Jose Reyes

I like the Teixeira card - his expression seems to ask why he is with the Yankees other than gobs and gobs of money.