New Topps 2012 Series Out, But Jason Vargas is Misprinted!

Yesterday afternoon as I was running errands around town, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the brand-new Baseball 2012 Topps Series 1 has hit the store shelves!  Therefore I thought this would be a fitting opportunity for me to write a pack-review.


I decided that pack-reviews would be a good subject to write about in this blog, so that way my readers would be able to have an idea of what they might expect if they go buy a pack of cards at their local store, so they can decide if they want to try it or not.

PACK:  Topps Bseball 2012 Series One Jumbo Pack!

PURCHASED AT: K-Mart, Pocatello Idaho

CONTENTS (In Order Pulled):

TOP PART:

#311 John Danks, CWS
#290 Curtis Granderson, NYY

#37 Mike Napoli, TEX
#63 Nate Schierholtz SF
#76 Ian Kennedy, ARI
#GS-7 GOLD STANDARD, Frank Robinson, BAL (Insert)
#CW-6 CLASSIC WALK-OFFS, Mark Teixeira, NYY (Insert)
#TT-18 TIMELESS TALENTS, Albert Belle, CLE/ Mike Stanton, MIA (Insert)
#41 Devin Mesoraco, CIN
#79 Austin Romine, NYY
#104 Brett Anderson, OAK
#222 Chris Coghlan, MIA
#110 Mark Teixeira, NYY
#48 Wade Davis, TB
#318 Erik Bedard, BOS
#273 David Freese, STL
#45 Jhoulys Chacin, COL
#181 2011 NL Batting Average Leaders, Jose Reyes, NYM/Ryan Braun/MIL/Matt Kemp, LAD

BOTTOM PART:

#281 Mark Trumbo, LAA
#64 Michael Martinez, PHI
#310 Adrian Beltre, TEX
#112 Juan Nicasio, COL
#54 Jhonny Peralta, DET
#GM-5 GOLDEN MOMENTS Adrian Gonzalez, BOS (Insert)
#TM-36 Mariano Rivera, NYY (Insert, this card is roughly 75% the size of a standard-sized baseball card, and is done in the style of the Topps 1987 style)
#252 Dellin Betances, NYY
#219 Jordan Pacheco, COL
#221 Luke Gregerson, SD
#12 Wilson Ramos, WAS
#56 Geovany Soto, CHC
#143 George Kottaras, MIL
#124 NL Active Batting Average Leaders, Albert Pujols, STL/Vladimir Guerrero, MTL/Todd Helton, COL
#269 Jason Vargas, SEA (misprint)
#302 AL 2011 Home Run Leaders, Jose Bautista, TOR/Curtis Granderson, NYY/Mark Teixeira NYY
#272 Nyjer Morgan, MIL (2011 NLDS Brewers Game 5)

Overall, it seemed like a pretty solid pack of cards, and personally I like the look of this year's set, so I'm pretty excited about that (why they made a Mariano Rivera card in the style of those ugly 1987 Topps cards, I don't know).  I still haven't gotten an actual scanner, so I won't go to the trouble (for now, at least) of putting up pictures of all the cards just yet, but I did go to great lengths to take a couple pictures of the Jason Vargas #269 card.  The flaw was that the wrong statistics were printed on the back, so it should still give you a pretty good idea what the set looks like as a whole.

I made this extra-large so you could read the stats printed on the card yourself.

 If you're wondering, Jason Vargas has never played for the Indians.  If you want to see his correct statistics, you can click here to get to his stat page at mlb.com.


I'm interested in what you guys think about the new cards!  If you have bought a pack already yourself, please feel free to chime in!  I finally have the Internet at my home, so hopefully I'll be able to write on here more often.