The Good: 2009-10 Topps Basketball is every bit as good as the company's surprise hit of the year, 2009 Topps Baseball. Great think up and photography, along with a huge offering of parallels and inserts (most notably 2009-10 Topps Chrome Basketball) and a reasonable appraisal tag combine to make 2009-10 Topps Basketball a winner of all fronts.
The Bad: The assortment and quantity of autographs in 2009-10 Topps Basketball is subpar. While HTA humongous boxes promise an autograph and two game used cards per box, standard hobby boxes of 2009-10 Topps Basketball only carry an average of two game used cards and no autographs. I love the way that Topps Chrome was incorporated into the set, however I would have liked to see more of it.
The Bottom Line: I'm first and prime a baseball and football card collector who occasionally buys a basketball card product
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2009 Topps chrome baseball insert odds?
Aug 09, 2009 by Joe | Posted in Baseball
Does anyone have the outsert odds for 2009 chrome?
Pastime box (24 packs):
Rookie autos: 2 per box
WBC: 1:4 packs.
| Aug 09, 2009
Pastime box (24 packs):
Rookie autos: 2 per box
WBC: 1:4 packs.
Dane | Aug 09, 2009
Product Review: 2009 Topps Chrome Football
A substitute alternatively of doing a normal review as I usually do, Im going to discuss Chrome in relation to the box break I was able to do today. Three more breaks will be coming on Monday, but due to a need of time today due to meetings, I didnt have a lot of freedom to hang at the shop. I did my break as I planned, and I am as a matter of fact pretty happy with the result. Design/Creativity I love the look of these Chrome cards, especially the contrary refractors that are available this year. There are a few drawbacks this year, which I will get to, but overall the set looks amazing. Topps' design for their flagship was bespatter on, which means that the design for Chrome was also pretty awesome. For the cards I pulled, most of the photos were great as well, something that was a drawback for last year's merchandise. They experimented a little too, as some of the Rookies were photographed with their helmet off, or in weird poses. It actually works mignonne well, as the monotony of the same pose wears on the overall presentation of a set. My favorite of my pulls was probably the Hey Bey, as he looked moderately acrobatically posed on the shot. However, not everything was great. First were the Cheerleader cards, which Beckett has hailed as the best football handbill card ever made. That is like saying David Eckstein is the tallest player ever to play baseball. The Cheerleaders take up spaces that could be cool for actual players, and I cringed each time I pulled one. When there is 40 cards in a pack like in the flagship jumbos, its one inanimate object, but with 4 cards per pack, its ridiculous. Secondly were the Chicle cards, which transferred about as well as expected to Chrome. They looked...
For the cards I pulled, most of the photos were great as well, something that was a drawback for last year's merchandise. They experimented a little too, as some of the Rookies were photographed with their helmet off, or in weird poses. It actually works mignonne well, as the monotony of the same pose wears on the overall presentation of a set. My favorite of my pulls was probably the Hey Bey, as he looked moderately acrobatically posed on the shot. 
