2013 Topps Opening Day Baseball Box Break Recap And Review

As in past years, Opening Day essentially mimics Topps Series 1 & 2 for base card design, but then offers a lot of great inserts.  At its low price point, Opening Day is a bargain that always seems to hit its mark.  While it might skew towards younger collectors, there is still enough here for experienced collectors.  2013 Topps Opening Day Baseball is a lot of fun and perfect for set building.

Opening Day could easily fit into both our fun cards and trading cards categories, but for the purpose of this review, we will classify Opening Day as fun cards.  Opening Day can be found in many different retail configurations.  We opened a complete box that contained 36 packs with 7 cards per pack.  There are autographs to be found in Opening Day, but they are rare to find.

Here is a look at some of the cards we pulled.

Base Set 

 Yu Darvish, front and back

Mariano Rivera, Stephen Strasburg 

Ian Kinsler, Miguel Cabrera 

Mike Trout, Evan Longoria  

Jose Reyes, Justin Verlander 

David Freese, Clayton Kershaw 

David Wright, Jason Heyward, Jimmy Rollins 

 Josh Hamilton, Derek Jeter, Brandon Phillips

Joe Mauer, Dylan Bundy, Matt Kemp

 Manny Machado, David Ortiz, Yoenis Cespedes

Albert Pujols, Trevor Bauer, David Price 

Bryce Harper, Cliff Lee, Jose Bautista 

 Andrew McCutchen, R.A. Dickey, Starlin Castro

 Buster Posey, Jurickson Profar, Prince Fielder

 Blue Border Parallels #/2013

Jordan Zimmerman. Carlos Ruiz 

 Roy Halladay, Jon Lester

Coco Crisp 

Miguel Cabrera, Stephen Strasbrug

Inserts

Superstar Celebrations

 David Ortiz, Buster Posey

 Alfonso Soriano, Chase Headley

 Josh Willingham, Justin Morneau

 Prince Fielder, Billy Butler

 Mascots

 Swingin Friar, Bernie Brewer

 TC, Screech

 Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox

 Play Hard

 Starlin Castro

 Alex Gordon, Carlos Ruiz

Alex Rodriguez, Matt Kemp 

Bryce Harper, Dustin Pedroia 

Ballpark Fun

 Jurickson Profar, Aaron Hill

 David Price, Darwin Barney

 Elvis Andrus, Alfonso Soriano, Brandon Phillips

 Opening Day Stars 3D Cards.

 Bryce Harper, Matt Kemp

 R.A. Dickey, Evan Longoria

 Joe Mauer, Andrew McCutchen, Ryan Braun

Overall Look

This year's design is solid and the Opening Day logo is a nice comliment to the overall look. The inserts are fun and well designed.  Love the Mascot, Ballpark Fun and Opening Day Stars 3D Cards.

Quality and Variety of Players

The Opening Day base set is a third of the size of its big brother Series 1 & 2 at 220 cards, so you are getting the best of the best.

Are these cards fun?

They are lots of fun.  The Opening Day amps up the fun factor, which is great for kids but also reminds seasoned collectors that trading cards are supposed to be fun.

Will you want to collect them all?

At only 220 base cards, the set is easy enough to obtain making this a highly desirable product for budding set builders.  The inserts are compelling enough to want to obtain them all too.

Rating

5 out of 5

 2013 Topps Opening Day Baseball is great for young set builders and a lot of fun too.


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