Buzz Break: 2014 Panini Golden Age sports cards (hobby box)

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The box: 2014 Panini Golden Age sports cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Keep reading for a breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 24 (plus one box-topper pack and box-bottom card panel)
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 150
Base set completion: 108 of 150 (72 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards: Frank Robinson, Ty Cobb, Cy Young, Joe Jackson, Christy Mathewson, Connie Mack, Eddie Gaedel, Pete Rose, Nolan Ryan, Bill Russell, George Gervin, Jerry West, Steve Yzerman, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Louis, Ronald Reagan, Joey Ramone, Jimi Hendrix, Butch Patrick, Richard Dreyfuss, William Randolph Hearst, Haystacks Calhoun, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Don Knotts, Jackie Gleason, Orson Welles, Bill Shoemaker, Catherine Bach, Tatum O'Neal, Pat Priest, Rita Hayworth, Loretta Swit, Jacqueline Kennedy, Farrah Fawcett, Jack Ruby

Inserts: 40 (all in gallery below with some base)
Newsmakers (2) – The Wright Brothers (2)
Star Stamps (2) – Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Tunney, Jim Thorpe & Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Claudette Colbert, Jacqueline Kennedy
Headlines (2) – Nolan Ryan, Hawaii
Fan Craze (2) – Tatum O'Neal, Joe Louis
1913 National Game (2) – Nolan Ryan, Frank Baker
Darby Chocolate three-card panel box-topper (3) – Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Swede Risberg
Box-bottom cards (red) (3) – Hack Wilson, Galiant Fox, Red Grange
Croft's Swiss Milk Cocoa Minis (1) – Phil Cavarretta
Hindu Minis (10) – Jim Thorpe, Jimi Hendrix, King Tut's Tomb, Chris McCarron, John Pemberton, Jack Ruby, Oscar Gamble, Lon Chaney Jr., Joe Louis, Tom Harmon
Hindu Red Minis (3) – Gaylord Perry, Artis Gilmore, Nap Lajoie
Mono Minis (6) – Jacqueline Kennedy, Bill Mumy, George Gervin, Sundance Kid, Rube Waddell, Jack Johnson
Mono Green Minis (4) – Frank Robinson, Great Sphinx of Giza, Ed Delahanty, Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra

Autographs/Memorabilia: 2
Historic Signatures (1) – Rocky Colavito
Museum Age memorabilia (1) – Mike Lookinland

What’s Buzz-worthy: Want a break that coughs up a ton of variety a la Allen & Ginter or Goodwin champions and delivers an autograph in every box, a mem card in every box and a mini in every pack? That's this one -- an it's a dirt-cheap option available right now with some decent up-side, too. Panini America did this one for three years and this is the final edition that is perhaps second of the three on my list. (Schedule-willing, I'll rip the other two years this week so you can see them all here.) This box included ink for a former MLB slugger -- a card that has sold for as much as $54 recently on some sites while the only one on eBay has a $49 asking price -- and memorabilia for one of The Brady Bunch kids. The base set is a who's who of historic newsmakers with nods of pop culture into the 1970s and 1980s. Athlete-wise, some athletes are even more recent than that. The gallery below offers a tiny sampling of what was in this one and a number of those (living) names can be found with autographs while others have memorabilia cards. It's not the best Golden Age lineup but it's a good one -- though the base card design is a little overwhelming. (The minis work better.) There are a number of potential inclusions here for box-toppers, including memorabilia cards that you can see here, and other things not found in this brand that include variations, rarer parallels of a couple types, buyback autographs and even some musical memorabilia cards (but those are only in retail boxes). I busted a ton of this one at retail since the blasters had a mem card in every box (and sometimes also included ink) but the hobby boxes are pretty safe if you rip a few. Other years have better big-hit potential among the autos but some of the signers here include Ernie Banks, Bo Derek, Jake LaMotta, Catherine Bach, Frank Robinson, Dick Van Dyke and D. Wayne Lukas to name a few. The price of this one makes it a low-end box these days but it can deliver pretty well -- I'd rip a case, myself, but they are 20-boxers and that makes them a little pricier than the typical lower-end release.

Product Grade: B
Box Grade: A- (helped by Colavito)
Fun Grade: A-

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