here's my 2020 topps stadium club blaster

i bought a blaster of 2020 topps stadium club online, and paid about what i would have paid at target or walmart if i were able to find a box. i previously skipped on a blaster of 2020 topps chrome due to price gouging, but this was priced reasonably - perhaps a robin hood approach by the seller.  at any rate, it showed up on friday and i opened it up while watching the dodgers beat the rockies. good times.  here's what i found.

each pack had 5 cards, with the 4th card in each being an insert or parallel.

first pack:

robinson cano

one for the double play collection!

tyler glasnow

jake rogers

ronald acuna jr - bash & burn

that was the bash, now here's the burn

topps has done this before - in fact, here's a raul mondesi card from 1996 that i had scanned and ready to go for this post

he bashes and he burns

keston hiura

not a bad pack to start

second pack:

miguel sano

target field is purty

will clark

giving me studio/1983 fleer steve garvey/rick rhoden vibes

kerry wood

lorenzo cain - black foil parallel

barry larkin

third pack:

bryan reynolds

felix hernandez

walker buehler

surprisingly, not a photo variation although buehler does have one in the set

shoehei ohtani - emporers of the zone

seth brown

fourth pack:

andrew mccutchen

sandy koufax

also surprisingly not a photo variation, although koufax does have one in the set. this was the dodger base card i most wanted, and it's a front runner for favorite dodger card of the year

josh rojas

noah syndergaard - red foil parallel

jorge soler

fifth pack:

eduardo escobar

gio urshela

mike trout

rafael devers - sepia parallel

ryne sandberg

ryno goes in the double play collection, too!

sixth pack:

tommy lastella

b2b double plays!

zac gallen

adalberto mondesi

sadly, he is not in the bash & burn insert set

cal ripken jr - red foil parallel

that was quite a night for baseball.

abraham toro

seventh pack:

david ortiz

matthew boyd

jesus luzardo - in the wings insert red foil parallel

topps goes off script with an insert parallel in the third slot!

rhys hoskins - power zone

kyle hendricks

eighth pack:

john means

aaron civale

jake fraley

brusdar graterol - red foil parallel

carl yastrzemski

when i first opened the pack, i saw the yaz surname and assumed it was mike. i temporarily forgot that it is possible to find new carl yastrzemski cards in modern packs.

widevision boxtopper pack:

kris bryant

so, 41 cards in all.  let's see how I did against the odds.

red foil base parallel 1:4 packs - 3 cards; beat the odds!
black foil base parallel 1:8 packs - 1 card; met the odds
sepia base parallel 1:8 packs - 1 card; met the odds
bash & burn insert 1:8 packs - 1 card; met the odds
emporers of the zone insert 1:8 packs - 1 card; met the odds
power zone insert 1:8 packs - 1 card; met the odds
in the wings insert red foil parallel 1:193 packs; beat the odds!

that luzardo was not a bad pull. 

as always, stadium club delivers on the photography front. i'll have another post of a different approach to a stadium club blaster in a week or so.

stay tuned.