When our group was walking around the National, we stopped by one vendor who had a bunch of mystery packs for $5 each that promised vintage hits like a Bowman Joe DiMaggio, a 1939 Boston Red Sox signed baseball, and stuff like that. We all thought it would be fun to give the mystery packs a shot, so we all bought in (Me, Andrew, Max, Frankie and Max's dad). The first mystery pack I bought yielded a 1970 Hoyt Wilhelm and a 1966 Don Schwall. Not too bad. It was fun enough, so I figured I would try again, as did my friends, and my second mystery pack was much better.
I pulled this 1982 Topps Cal Ripken RC out of a $5 mystery pack. Now my fourth '82 Topps Ripken, this was a really cool hit. Frankie ended up with an early 50s Bowman card, which carried some value, but none of the stuff the guys pulled equaled the excitement I got out of pulling this Cal.
Yeah, I know I have others, but it still was a lot of fun to get a PC item (a rookie, at that). Maybe I'll take the plunge sometime and get one of them graded. I don't know.
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