Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (hanger)

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The box: 2024 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (hanger)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (hobby & jumbo)

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

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 59
Base set completion: 
48 of 350 (14 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Bo Bichette, Freddie Freeman, Ozzie Albies, Mookie Betts, Rafael Devers, Clayton Kershaw, Adley Rutschman, Gunnar Henderson

RC logo cards (7) – Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Jordyn Adams, J.P. Martinez, Parker Meadows, Oselvis Basabe, Bryce Jarvis, Jonathan Ornelas

Insert/short-print cards: 11 (all in gallery below with some base)
Gold parallel (1) – Trea Turner (/2,024)
Yellow parallel (2) – Sawyer Gipson-Long, Mark Canha
Blue parallel (1) – Liam Hendriks
1989 Topps (1) – Joe Musgrove
City To City Blue (1) – Luis Robert Jr.
Covering The Field (1) – Adley Rutschman
Stars Of MLB (4) – Shohei Ohtani, Spencer Strider, Trea Turner, Sonny Gray

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: My second look at this format was a bit stronger than what was basically an average pack last time. This time? Two more inserts -- that always helps -- a top rookie and some better hobby names in there, too. Now, is this an A-level box? Statistically maybe -- that forgettable Blue City To City card is one in 215 packs -- but this still didn't wow me, though it was a bit better than some releases at this price. ...  As I noted before, the neon is back and this one already has captured attention -- rightfully so -- with Jackson Holliday SP variation cards that are an homage to the 1989 Fleer Billy Ripken "Face" card that's replayed here as "Fun Face." All that, I dig ... but what happens when you land none of that? Well ... not that. The foilboard-like neon approach is back but it's also perhaps not as clean as Series 1 with corners -- especially corners on parallel cards and foil inserts (see Ohtani above) on the outsides of packs -- and some top/bottom denting issues that I also spotted in Heritage. (It's somewhat common ... but I would prefer it not be there at all as I'd like to grade good finds here.) ... The highlight here is the simplicity of touches in the base set, which is printed with a foil effect that makes the neon highlights here pop -- it's like it's on foilboard but not for the whole image like those parallels -- and the printing here is crisp and sharp for the most part but I did again see a few kind of washed-out cards among the base here and there that made me wonder how they might age. So far, the bigger formats at retail have looked to be the best ones for this release.

Product Grade: A- (probably only thanks to Fun Face, which is an A+ homage inclusion)
Box Grade: B+
Fun Grade: B

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