Buzz 8 in 8: Busting 1989 ProCards Las Vegas Stars (Hour 5)

Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is Hour 5.

The pack: 1989 ProCards Las Vegas Stars team set
The cost: $3 (click here for baseball boxes)

What's inside this one? Why is it here? Well, keep reading ...

Cards per pack: 29
Base set completion: 
29 of 29 (100 percent)
Duplicates: None

Notables on base cards – Keith Comstock, Carlos Baerga, Sandy Alomar Jr., Joey Cora, Shawn Abner

Inserts: None

Autographs/Memorabilia: Not an option

What's Buzz-worthy: For a couple days recently, thanks to an ESPN story about a memorable card here, this team set and one card inside were among the hottest standard baseball cards on the planet. Why? Because of the photo on Keith Comstock's card and the story of how it happened was finally told. Some eBay buyers spent hundreds on their copies of the card and the sealed team sets also blew up -- somewhere toward the $200 mark for the set and more than $350 for the card alone. I got my hands on a couple of team sets for $3 -- yep, just $3 -- from an off-the-radar dealer where I had landed them before the spotlight hit. I figured I'd show what was inside one here. It seems the mania has worn off -- the latest eBay sales numbers for these sets have fallen -- but the card itself still has hit as high as $75 in recent auctions. There's probably the perception that these cards are plentiful -- that's right, at least by today's standards -- but there's no doubt that these aren't as easy to find as standard Topps, Donruss, Fleer stuff of that time. MiLB cards like these were only in these team sets and in one type of wax box as part of a huge set that combined all team sets into one at this particular class -- not the easiest of pulls from packs. I know that from experience as I told my story about trying to find these to grade them (click and scroll down) before the ESPN piece dropped. The dust has settled here but it remains an iconically stupid-funny-classic card and I figured I'd break one of these sets for posterity -- something that defines a day or two of the card world in August 2019, despite it being a 30-year-old set. It wasn't a bad team with a couple of top prospects at that time and a few of these guys who ended up being everyday players. Ultimately, they're all closer to commons now -- except for the journeyman pitcher who got beaned. This is is best card by far.

Product Grade: A-
Pack Grade: A (delivered what it's supposed to)
Fun Grade: B (just a team set)

What's next? Be back in an hour ...

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