Release Date: August 3, 2011
Price Point: $80 per box at Blowout Cards.
Product Loadout: 5 cards per box, 12 boxes per inner case, 48 boxes per master case.
Hit Ratios: Each box will contain five ‘hits’ (autographs, relics, or a combination).
Product Information (all Autos, Relics or Parallels):
- Full Body Autograph Silver (29 cards, limited to 390 copies)
- Full Body Autograph Gold (limited to 10 copies)
- Close Up Autograph Silver (29 cards, limited to 190 copies)
- Close Up Autograph Gold (limited to 10 copies)
- Country of Origin Silver (29 cards, limited to 40 copies)
- Country of Origin Gold (limited to 10 copies)
- Reflections Silver (29 cards, limited to 5 copies)
- Reflections Gold (1/1)
- Draft Year Silver (24 cards, limited to 39 copies)
- Draft Year Gold (1/1)
- Lumbergraphs (29 cards, limited to 100 copies)
- Father and Son Silver (1 card, limited to 49 copies)
- Father and Son Gold (1/1)
- Affiliation Silver (20 cards, limited to 19 copies)
- Affiliation Gold (1/1)
- Between the Seams Red (29 cards, limited to 30 copies)
- Between the Seams Gold (limited to 19 copies)
- Between the Seams White (1/1)
- Hard Cuts Silver (29 cards, limited to 24 copies)
- Hard Cuts Gold (1/1)
- First Round Picks Silver (17 cards, limited to 14 copies)
- First Round Picks Gold (1/1)
- Grand Slam (29 cards, 1/1)
- Prospect Game-Used Jersey Silver (6 cards, limited to 49 copies)
- Prospect Game-Used Jersey Gold (1/1)
- Prospect Jumbo Game-Used Jersey Autograph Silver (6 cards, limited to 4 copies)
- Prospect Jumbo Game-Used Jersey Autograph Gold (1/1)
- Prospect Jumbo Patch Autograph Silver (6 cards, limited to 4 copies)
- Prospect Jumbo Patch Autograph Gold (1/1)
- Prospect Hat Autograph Silver (15 cards, 1/1)
- Prospect Hat Autograph Gold (1/1)
- Prospect Game-Used Glove Autograph Silver (4 cards, 1/1)
- Prospect Glove Autograph Gold (1/1)
- Heroes Cut Signatures (16 cards, 1/1)
- Father and Son Dual Autograph Silver (1 card, limited to 49 copies)
- Father and Son Dual Autograph Gold (1/1)
- Heroes and Prospects Dual Autographs Silver (8 cards, limited to 9 copies)
- Heroes and Prospects Dual Autographs Gold (1/1)
- Heroes and Prospects Dual Jersey Silver (8 cards, limited to 60 copies)
- Heroes and Prospects Dual Jersey Gold (1/1)
- Heroes Between the Seams (15 cards, 1/1)
- Heroes Jersey Autograph Silver (8 cards, limited to 9 copies)
- Heroes Jersey Autograph Gold (1/1)
- Heroes Number Autograph Silver (10 cards, limited to 4 copies)
- Heroes Number Autograph Gold (1/1)
- Heroes Patch Autograph Silver (10 cards, limited to 4 copies)
- Heroes Patch Autograph Gold (1/1)
- Hero Autograph (8 cards, limited to 60 copies)
- Grandslam Memorabilia (14 cards, 1/1)
- Batting Tips (6 cards, 1/1)
- On the Barrel Head (6 cards, 1/1)
- Hero Hard Cuts (6 cards, 1/1)
- First Pitch (4 cards, 1/1)
Box Contents (two boxes):
- 5 total cards
- 2 Full Body Autograph Silver (Tony Wolters and Trayvon Robinson /390)
- 1 Close-Up Autograph Silver (Kaleb Cowart /190)
- 1 Lumbergraphs (Philippe Valiquette /100)
- 1 Between the Seams Red (Kolten Wong /30)
Card Design:
The notes I made on series one are below. To be honest, as this is the same set redone, with most of the ‘low numbers’ being in the ‘Hero’ section this still very much applies. If there’s one change I would suggest to ITG is that I would change up the base auto. They look the same from year to year, product to product. The various designs still look good, and I like Between the Seams, but it’s starting to run together in my mind.
(From Series One’s Review) The strength of the design on this set is primarily going to be hitting one of the rather rare patches, numbers, bats or gloves, which all show what can be done when the licensing costs are out of the way and a company is allowed to actually try different things. However, most boxes are going to consist primarily of the single autograph cards. While they’re sticker autos, the use of clear stickers on white card stock makes it look very nice nonetheless. Once you’re beyond the two primary autograph sets, though, the product really looks nice. Between the Seams evokes memories of Sweet Spot and some of the memorabilia in the set are far beyond what any other manufacturer is able to do (again, because of licensing issues). It’s a solid set with the strengths and weaknesses generally balancing each other out.
Score: 3/5
Pizazz:
To be honest, this feels like more of a letdown from series one. When it was promoted as ‘Low Numbers’, one would think that there’d be less of the product available. However, this really isn’t the case, given that most of that ‘low numbering’ is in the Heroes section, which by its very nature is going to be harder to pull than the horde of prospects. Also, the prospects listed in the set don’t hold up to what was offered in Series One. While Series Two does have Michael Choice, Julio Teheran and a few players already on MLB rosters as we speak, it just feels like a weaker prospect pool than with the previous set. Given that the prospect autos have the same numbering as Series One, it just doesn’t feel like as strong of a product. The only real saving grace is that you’re going to get five autos or memorabilia for your $80, which beats many products.
Score: 3/5
Overall Score: 3/5
