Review of 2006 Topps Finest Baseball Cards

By Shane Carney, published Jul 29, 2006
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Rating: 3.6 of 5
2006 Topps Finest Baseball Cards are certain to be one of the most popular baseball card sets among collectors again. Every hobby box of 2006 Topps Finest Baseball Cards will consist of 3 mini boxes. Each mini box will hold 6 packs. On average, each hobby box will contain 3 Autographs, 3 Mickey Mantle Cards, and 12 Numbered Parallel Cards.

The base set of 2006 Topps Finest Baseball Cards will consist of 155 total cards. The first 131 cards will be of current MLB players such as Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, and Alex Rodriguez. The next 9 cards will be of rookies for the 2006 season. The last 15 cards in the set will be Autographed Rookie cards of some of the top rookies for 2006.

The 12 parallel cards that are inserted in every hobby box on average will come from the following sets:
1 of1 Die-Cut SuperFractor – sequentially numbered to 1
1of 1 White-Framed Refractor - sequentially numbered to 1
Gold Refractor - sequentially numbered to 49
Black Refractor - sequentially numbered to 99
Green Refractor - sequentially numbered to 199
Blue Refractor - sequentially numbered to 299
Refractor - sequentially numbered to 399
1 of 1 White-Framed X-Fractor - sequentially numbered to 1
Gold X-Fractor - sequentially numbered to10
Black X-Fractor - sequentially numbered to 25
Green X-Fractor - sequentially numbered to 50
Blue X-Fractor - sequentially numbered to 150
X-Fractor - sequentially numbered to 250

The 2 Mickey Mantle cards inserted per box come from the set Mantle Finest Moments. It is a 20 card set. Every card from the set is sequentially numbered to 599. The cards from this set also have the parallels listed above.

The 3 Autograph cards that are inserted in every hobby box on average have the following parallels:
1 of 1 SuperFractor Autographs - sequentially numbered to 1
X-Fractor Autographs - sequentially numbered to 25
Refractor Autographs

Inserted randomly into boxes of 2006 Topps Finest Baseball Cards are the following framed printing plates, which are all 1 of 1s:
Framed Printing Plates
Framed Autographed Rookie Printing Plates
Framed Finest Autographed Printing Plates

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I used to collect soo many cards growing up. I remember Topps being the classic and most popular to purchase. Back then however they produced soo many that the value barley if every went up. Is that still the case or have i been out of the game too long?

Posted on 02/27/2007 at 12:02:00 AM

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