Gint-A-Cuffs: Packs 13-16

I'm halfway home and still hopeful for some big cardboard mojo.  Here's the next four packs:

Pack #13 = A Mini Cub!

273 – Cole Hamels (favorite player) +2

180 – Scott Kazmir

035 – Paul Goldschmidt

034 – Buster Olney

WAS-5 What Once Was Believed – Alchemy +2

Mini 77 – Jason Hammel (Favorite Team, A&G back) +3

311 – Michael Brantley

156 – Brian Dozier

Pack Total = +7

Running Total = 66

Average Per Pack = 5.08

Comments: Jason Hammel to the rescue!  Heck yeah!  How is that only my second Cub in 13 packs?  And why does he have to be paired with the player who no-hit the Cubs for the first time in fifty years?  Sigh.

Pack #14 = More Cardinals Scoring Points?

140 – Jose Altuve

064 – Austin Jackson

163 – Zach Lowe

SP-81 Starting Points – Matt Adams +2

Mini 146 – Michael Morse (regular back)

317 – Hunter Strickland

007 – Eric Hosmer

063 – Edwin Escobar

Pack Total = +2

Running Total = 68

Average Per Pack = 4.86

Comment: No more players from the St. Louis ball club, please.

Pack #15 = First Buyback & 2 More Yanks

262 – Alex Cobb

187 – Miguel Cabrera

2012 Mark Teixeira Full Size Buyback +3, -1 (Stupid Yankee.)

MM-20 Menagerie of the Mind – Centaur +2

Mini FIRST-15 First Ladies – Mary Lincoln +2

350 – Masahiro Tanaka (Stupid Yankees, again.) -1

149 – Andrew Heaney

117 – Corey Kluber

Pack Total = +5

Running Total = 73

Average Per Pack = 4.87

Comments: These Yankees are going to be the end of me. I think I’ve pulled two of the eleven Cubs versus seven of the thirteen Yankees in the set at this point.

Pack #16 = I got some Cardinal Fan’s box.

20 – Leonys Martin

67 – Malcolm Gladwell

223 – Incredibeard +1 (for awesomeness)

SP-95 Starting Points – Ian Desmond +2

Mini 017 – Yadier Molina (black border, favorite player) +6

AGA-MA – Matt Adams Framed Mini Auto +7

235 – Michael Taylor

Pack Total = 16

Running Total =89

Average Per Pack = 5.56

Comments: Sigh.  Well, that was my last hit and my best scoring pack.  Naturally, it was carried by two Cardinals. In this box I've found two Yadier Molina minis as well as a Matt Adams Starting Points card and this "wonderful" mini autograph.  Cardinals hot box anyone?

I have eight packs to go, the whole left side of the box, but I think my big scoring cards are gone.  Time will tell, but this is not promising.