When I first returned to the modern card world in 2006, I knew a "hit" as a card autographed by a player or a card containing some bit of baseball residue, usually a piece of a player's uniform. As the years moved along, that definition of "hit" expanded to items that didn't seem all that special to me, such as "manufactured" relics, which came from the same source of all of other cards, the card manufacturer. Then I started watching people go ape over buybacks, like pulling a 1977 Topps card with a stamp on it was a reason to buy a hobby box. "Hit" means a wide variety of things now. And you can be congratulated for pulling something that you didn't even know was worth congratulations. The above card contains one of those very congratulation messages on the back. It comes from last year's Topps Big League set. This is considered a "reproduction" because there are 1/1 versions of each of these, which I assu...
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