I should know better than to evaluate a card product based on a couple of samples. Or evaluate it based on scans displayed online. Even though I called Topps' Big League Baseball a "perfectly pleasant card product" and as collectable as anything out on the market, I felt I was a little bit harsh in my initial review. After seeing two Big League Dodger cards sent to me from a fellow collector, I was unimpressed. I thought the cards seemed weirdly small, the photo images weren't doing it for me, and the backs were difficult to read. But this is a product that definitely benefits from evaluating it as a whole -- meaning buying some packs, you big dummy -- rather than reviewing one, solitary card. After snagging a pair of fat packs or hanger packs or whatever these are, I was struck most by the sheer joy of getting a fat stack of cards all at once. After growing accustomed to pulling just 14 cards out of an Allen and Ginter hanger pack and about the same for St...
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