Simple math says a collector should be able to do certain things with certain products.
For instance: a 12-box case, with 36 packs per box and nine of a particular insert coming from each box should generate enough of those inserts to make at least one subset, right?
Not so and not so, again.
Two 50-card Topps Series 2 baseball subsets (Turkey Red and Peak Performance) wound up incomplete after an entire case break. One card short on each, but still how does that happen?
After breaking a case, the patterns begin to emerge on how collation occurs, so it's not human error so much as a fluke ... probably.
We haven't started sorting to see how many Series 2 sets will come from the case. Then again, it depends on what you consider a set with the late-arriving Stephen Strasburg card #661 changing the Series 2 dynamic shortly after its debut.
Maybe there's a marketing opportunity for one-card short master sets?
Checklist Chasing is written by Dan Campana, a media consultant, former newspaper reporter and longtime collector living in the Chicago suburbs with a sports-minded 5-year-old and an understanding wife.
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