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: 
49 of 350 (14 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Trea Turner, Xander Bogaerts, Mike Trout, Bobby Witt Jr., Clayton Kershaw, Adley Rutschman, Gunnar Henderson

RC logo cards (15) – Pete Crow-Armstrong, Jordan Lawlar, Darius Vines, Kody Funderburk, Noelvi Marte, Anthony Veneziano, Sawyer Gipson-Long, Weston Wilson, Orion Kerkering, Logan Porter, Kyren Paris, Parker Meadows, Jordan Wicks, Yoendrys Gomez, Brenan Hanifee

Insert/short-print cards: 10 (all in gallery below with some base)
Holofoil parallel (1) – Casey Mize
Yellow parallel (2) – Sean Manaea, Steven Cruz
Around The Horn (1) – Bryson Stott
1989 Topps (1) – Yoshinobu Yamamoto
City To City (1) – Freddie Freeman
Covering The Field (1) – Adley Rutschman
Stars Of MLB (4) – Clayton Kershaw, Manny Machado, Ceddanne Rafaela, Sal Frelich

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: My second look at this format this week didn't include as many inserts this tine and it didn't yield a much-rarer parallel of a insert like last time but this one was an oddity with more than double the volume of rookies -- seven last time, 15 this time. My favorite card in this one is the Yamamoto, while Freddie Freeman and other Dodgers continue to follow me left and right in recent rips. All in all, this one is probably average but I'll bump it up to a B with that 1989er since I like it. ...  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 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. I'll do one of those next time ... perhaps next week.

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

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