2003 Topps Traded & Rookies HTA box break

I bought my 2003 Topps Traded box and opened it last month from Baseball Card Exchange for just under 90 bucks.  I just opened it, so this is one of the first boxes where I actually bought it right before I opened it.  I’ve purchases a lot of boxes in advance and just waited until I got to that point in the blog to open it.

There are 10 packs, 35 cards per pack.  The HTA box also has a box topper.  In every HTA box, you get one Chrome Uncirculated X-fractor.

These cards are numbered out of 25.  If you do the math, that means there are 6,875 boxes out there.

There is a little better rookie crop in this box, so it was pretty fun to open.  I got one base card of the most notable rookie.

I got 10 gold cards in the box – one card per pack.

I got 20 regular Chrome cards, which is the 2 per pack you’re supposed to get.  I got a Chrome version of the Cano card as well.  Here are the 3 most notable guys out of those 20 Chrome cards.

I also got 3 Chrome Refractors, which is slightly beating the 1:4 odds a little better than what the odds say (you should get 2 per box).  No Cano here – that would have helped defray the cost of the box!

You are supposed to get 1 relic or autograph per box – I got a relic in this case.  This is a pretty nice relic of Andres Galarraga

Damaged cards weren’t a big problem, but I did have 7-8 cards that had corners that were dinged pretty badly.  A couple of those were doubles, so I’m exactly 5 cards short of the set.  I’ll take that any day after the luck I’ve had with the rest of the boxes!

Stats for the box:

• 10 packs per box * 35 cards per pack +1 box topper = 351 cards
• 41 doubles

275 of the 275 card set. (100% set completion – though 5 singles were damaged)

• 10 Topps Gold
• 20 Chrome
• 3 Chrome Refractors
• 1 Chrome Uncirculated X-fractor
• 1 Transacton Relic