What's your biggest "unexpected" pull?

Ty Hope · Oct 19, 2012

I pulled two full Alex Gordons from 1 box of Topps a few years back. Had no idea about the card at the time and ALMOST threw them away with the rest of the commons at the shop. For some reason though, I brought all my commons home and found out about its rarity that night. Sold each one for around $900 apiece!

CatdaddysCards · Oct 19, 2012

Everytime time (not exaggeration) I opened a pack of Topps product, in 2004, I pulled a Felix fernandez auto. Once pulled three from a single box of bowman best. The unexpected part was he was the best player to pull that year and my luck was awesome. I made a lot of money prospecting Felix that year, but pretty sure I used up ALL of my "Mojo" that year. Haven't had a good box break since 2004 and finally gave up in 2010.

BowmanChromeAddict · Oct 19, 2012

I'm not sure if this qualifies as unexpected (I do break in bulk and expect to hit nice stuff), but when I broke 2011 BC I hit the Atomic 1/1 Ichiro...that was probably the best hit I've ever had out of a product.

Krom · Oct 19, 2012

Back in late 99 early 2000 i had just started to get back into collecting. One problem i had was the complete lack of hobby shops near me. One night i needed a quick fix and drove 40 mins. to Toys r Us and bought 10 packs of 2000 UD retail. (sad i know) When i got home the first card i saw in one of the $3 packs was a Piece of History 500 HR Club Hank Aaron Bat card. I was quite shocked to say the least.

TBTwinsFan · Oct 19, 2012

As I don't search, but open a lot of retail, I have a couple. I know I use the word "Book" a couple times but that's before I used eBay to determine a card's value.

I was given a few packs of 2012 Topps. Nothing special, just straight out of the box on the shelf. Pulled an Edgar Martinez auto.

I also hit Prestige hard in 09/10 (I believe, it was Blake Griffin's rookie year). I pulled a Prestigious Picks Tyler Hansbrough auto. It booked $60 at the time.

I got a blaster of 2009 Topps series 1 and pulled a Babe Ruth SP. At one point, it booked $50. I know it's nothing special, but at the time it was cool.

This one is hobby. Bought 2 packs of GQ, 1 of Draft back in April. Pulled a Fielder mini/99 so I was happy. The Draft (that one pack) held a Matt Kemp Topps 60th auto. Card was selling for over $100 at the time, now it's around $40. I didn't sell mine though.

jbmm161 · Oct 19, 2012

In 2010, I purchased 6 Bowman Jumbos and 12 Hobby boxes hoping to pull a Strasburg Bowman Prospect Auto.
Pulled some very nice cards but never got the Strasburg. I ended up buying a couple of White Border Autos and a Blue Border Auto on ebay.

I was buying so many boxes that I left the base/commons in the wrappers and stuck them in my closet. Well i got bored one day
and started to go thru the Jumbo boxes and pulling out prospects and base rookies and low and behold there was a Strasburg Auto sitting in one of the packs. At that time it was still selling for $300-400 so that was a nice suprise.

I have since traded 2 of the white boarder autos and kept the one I pulled and the Blue.

DeliciousBacon · Oct 19, 2012

I bought a discounted blaster of 2008 UD Heroes at a KMart last year, pulled a Troy Glaus Purple /25. The odds of pulling the exact player I wanted, in the scarcest non-auto/GU parallel, from a blaster, those odds are beyond astronomical.

WaxPax · Oct 19, 2012

Ty, I'm going with the same story from the other thread and go with the (2) 1/1's pulled back to back in the same PACK in 2006 Bowman!!!! Unfortunately one was damaged (See damaged pulls thread)...

gracecollector · Oct 19, 2012

One loose pack of 2008 Allen & Ginter from a Meijers store - yielded 1/1 wood Andruw Jones.

Also bought 2 boxes of 2007 Allen & Ginter from 2 different local card stores within a week of release. Both boxes had a Mickey Mantle bat card (short print to 200). Still have 1 of them.

Ty Hope · Oct 19, 2012

I also once, no joke, pulled a Topps BASKETBALL print plate from a bowman baseball product...lol

clarkzac · Oct 19, 2012

My first ever hobby box was 2009 Ginter for Christmas that year. I pulled more than 3 hits. I had 7 hits in one box of Ginter. I couldn't believe it. I pulled a Sigmund Freud printing plate (psychologist), Johnny Cueto auto, Evan Longoria relic, CC Sabathia relic, Scott Rolen relic, Lashawn Merritt relic SP (sprinter), and then a Bazooka back of the Donkey Kong champion. I was just getting into the hobby really then so I had no idea what I had

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