While we’ll have to wait until the official MLB opening day of March 25th, when the A’s play the Red Sox in Tokyo (and until March 31st for the real opening day for most of our teams, although the Braves play the Nats at the new Nationals park on the night of March 30th,) we won’t have to wait quite as long for Topps Opening Day 2008. The Opening Day baseball card set will be released this coming Wednesday.
So whady’a need to know about this year’s Opening Day baseball card set? Well, for one, a standard retail pack will have an MSRP of 99 cents for six cards. So if you’re not a hard core collector, you won’t have to break the bank to be able to afford some baseball cards. Also, within the complete set here, you’ll be getting a preview of 65 base cards from the Topps Series II 2008 set. That’s a pretty cool bonus.
It looks like the base set will have a red border which should be memorable for collectors. Topps Opening Day usually has a color variation of the regular Topps set, however, you don’t see too many red borders in base sets out there.
You’ll have 220 base cards, as well as parallel cards sequentially numbered to 2008. There will be the requisite autographs too. One per hobby case. That’s one per case, not one per box here.
Topps is also putting something they call “flapper” cards into this card set. They state that they “transform” into multiple cards. Maybe they should have called them Transformers? I guess that name is already taken.
Hobby boxes of 2008 Opening Day are going for about $35 right now.
I’m getting back into baseball card collecting recently and have been learning a lot of stuff I didn’t take time to learn about years ago. So here’s my question; Is the Opening Day set considered it’s own set as opposed to a parallel of the base set Topps already has out?
Hey Kevin. Yes, the Opening Day set is it’s own set, separate from the regular issued Topps set. The border design has the same look and feel in Opening Day as the regular series I and II Topps sets, with one major difference: the color of the borders are different. The pictures of the players are different also. There are some cool inserts in the Opening Day sets also. For example, last year’s set had cards of all the mascots. Thanks for stopping by, and best of luck with your renewed collecting!
I have a Topps Opening Day 2008 numbered card of Derek Jeter . The number is 328/2199.
How much is it worth ? Thanks a lot.
Philip age 42.
how come the cards are rookies even if there good cards And i’m trying to sell my cards somewhere but no one has it?
Philip, that is a 2008 Opening Day Gold Card, serial numbered to 2199. It’s currently going for about $1.00. Sorry it’s not more, but it’s still a collector’s item, and with Jeter recently passing Mantle for third on the all-time Yankee hit list, it might be a card to hold on to.
A little late on on this set but I opened a box- 36 packs, 6 cards each.
I got 196 of the 220 cards in the base set, 11 puzzle cards, 3 tatoo cards, and 4 Flappers.
Interestingly enough I got ZERO duplicate cards and ZERO of the parrallel inserts.
It’s always nice to pull no dupes from your boxes, but no parallels is kind of a bummer. Sounds like you got most of the base set collected though, that’s cool.