2016 Heritage First Pack PLUS a Hanger

Got my hands on some 2016 Heritage cards on Monday, a Single Pack and a Hanger. Thanks to the Topps/Target Coupon that was part of our 2016T Blaster we opened last month the Hanger went for $6.99.

We start off with the loosey

2016 Heritage #120 Billy Hamilton

Fittingly he exciting Billy Hamilton leads off our first pack. Card #120 in the original is Floyd Robinson who reps the Reds as well, although it is on a cap-less card as he had been acquired from the White Sox following the 1966 Season.

#217 JP Howell
#9 Wil Myers
#136 John Danks
#157 Manny Machado

Nice set of cards at the top of the pack, Howell, Myers and Machado are all great examples of 1967T. The Danks card has some sort of Cactus League backdrop that adds a bit of variety to a set that is bound to be heavy on profile shots.

Wil Myers drew his former uni number (9) with the the Rays.

 #498 Odubel Herrera

First Heritage Insert is a High Number of a Phillies Player. Thats a W.  Good shot from Clearwater. Team Phungo was there roughly a year ago, perhaps this shot was taken while we were in town.

#71 Caleb Joseph
#313 Seth Smith
#66  Eddie Rosario

We can't get a Topps card of the Orioles Starting Catcher but we do have back up Caleb Joseph. The Rosario card looks like a dugout shot, which is a bit of a departure from the style from the original 1967 set, however it does maintain the spirit of the era.

Hanger Highlights

We will start out with the Hanger All-Star Team

Battery

Mark Buehrle
Hisashi Iwakuma
Santiago Casilla
Evan Gattis

The Buehrle card is a great one of a great player. Gattis is listed as a DH here but I snuck him into the Battery section for his Catching roots, and one cannot dismiss the hipster beard. 

Brandon Belt
Giovanny Urshela
Justin Bour
Starlin Castro

The Indian Urshela is one of those cards of players in the box that I didn't know. Actually had close to 300 PAs in 2016. Hell Justin Bour  is in the Phillies Division, Hit 23 Home Runs and got a rookie cup and I don't know him. Bour was not in Topps Series 1, Assuming his flagship card is in S2 he will be 28 prior to the release of his r-Cup card. I am assuming this is Starlin Castro's first card as a Yankee - We will return to this in the Inserts portion of our show.

Hunter Pence
Starling Marte
Coco Crisp
Jackie Bradley

Crisp once again displays a unique look - Still not as cool as his 2014T Card. Saw Starlin drop a can a corn in a game against the Phillies y-day, nice shot w/ the camo didn't see those in 1967.


Inserts Mojo Chasers

Chrome Aroldis Chapman (#d /567)

Ok a year ago this would have been a fine card to draw as the Serial Numbered bonus. Unfortunately in the last 12 months we found out Chapman is a jerk and now he is on a different team.

This is is my issue with the Starling Castro card above. Topps got him in a Yankees uniform, Chapman here got traded within in a month be he remains on a Reds card. 

#479 Lorenzo Cain (Hi Number)

Cool shot, Solid SP to pull. 

Standup #14 Mike Trout

Uhm this is disturbing. So far in 2016 I have picked up A Blaster, A Hanger and a couple of looseys and have scored 3 Trout inserts.

#TAN-YD Carl Yastrzemski & Chris Davis

The 1967 Font looks goofy on inserts. 

Mets Maulers: Lagares & Granderson
Atlanta Aces: Freeman & Markakis

I like using action shots on the Multi-Players, for a look back at our recent post on the originals click here.

Angels Team Card & Checklist

The team cards are goofy. 

Sources and links
1967 Topps / 2016 Heritage Index
Cardboard Connection
Baseball-ref

2011 Phungo Cards - Aroldis Chapman

 2011 Phungo #54 Aroldis Chapman

There are always a lot of Phils cards in the Phungo Set - They are my favorite team and my local team so I get to see a lot of their games.  

Getting snapshots of out of town players is a bit trickier.  

First off I get to maybe 15 games a year - while this is a fair amount, it likely means I will only get to see about a dozen of the 30 MLB teams.  I also have to know the players that I am taking pictures of, or else I may end up with a memory card full of batboy photos.  

I sort of model the Phungo Checklist off of the 100 card sets that mix upcoming prospects with Veterans.  I have always been a fan of the two UD Masterpieces Releases and like the mix of Superstars, Prospects, HOFs and Non-Baseball Icons.  This approach also fits into a manageable set size for team phungo. 

There are 21 Teams Represented in the 2011 Phungo Master Set.  I try to produce a card for each team, but inevitably teams get left out especially from the AL West who the Phils rarely see.  I also try and pick out cards that will interest the folks with whom I frequently trade, but there are always omissions.  Teams that got bypassed this year included the White Sox and Padres - sorry to both Steve and Rod, but I think I was able to create some  cards that will interest both of you.

The Reds were among the teams that I did get to see this year and it was a good thing.

Aroldis Chapman was one of the many big name rookies to debut in 2010 and I was extremely happy to get a nice photo of him prior to Game 1 of the NLDS.  This is one of my favorite cards in the 2011 Phungo Set, Unfortunately the final product didn't come out quite as good as this one.  There is always some degradation of the Photos when I sent them off to get printed, probably due to excessive MS-Paint work that goes into creating the cards - this year the fuzziness is worse than usual and the cards are really dark. 

Anytime I can get an action shot (even just warming up as with Chapman above) I am happy.  The presence of the Baseball in the Photo along with capturing Chapman facing the camera make this card a winner in my book. 

Note - I didn't notice the misspelling in Chapman's last name until I actually posted the card.  ugh.