Buzz 8 in 8: Busting 2018 Pearl Jam Chicago cards (Hour 6)

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 6.

The packs: 2018 Pearl Jam Chicago trading cards (seven packs)
The cost: $35 (click here for non-sports boxes)

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

Packs in this lot: 7 
Cards per pack: 11 (10 cards, one sticker)
Cards in this lot: 77
Boston set completion: 
45 of 60 (75 percent)
Duplicates: 19
Duplicates: 6

Notables on base cards – Eddie Vedder (vocals), Stone Gossard (guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), Mike McCready (guitar), Matt Cameron (drums), Boom Gaspar (keyboards), Brendan O'Brien (producer)

Inserts: 7 (all non-dupes are in the gallery below)
Boston sticker (5) -- five packs mistakenly had a Boston ... no Chicago
Seattle sticker (2) -- two packs mistakenly had a Seattle ... no Chicago

Autographs/Memorabilia: None ... but that would be cool, right?

What's Buzz-worthy: I last ripped into some of these backs in the fall of 2019 and with some of my bases not covered for this marathon -- stuff I ordered turned out to not be available -- I fell back on some of these. Why? Well, because I could still find them and I need one card of Eddie Vedder from this set that I didn't land last time ... one showing him in a Chicago Cubs uniform. ... Sadly, I didn't get it this time, either. ("This is not for you!" is all I'm hearing right now.) ... For those who don't know, these are cards made for a Chicago concert series and it's one of three sets made -- the others being Seattle and Boston. Each shows the band members posing in baseball unis on a card and then the rest of each 60-card checklist includes cards of concert photography and then a card of the band's producer to show him and the complete image that the card's back photos create if you collect them all. This one is a 1990-91 NBA Hoops homage and it's a follow-up of a much-pricier 1991 Topps baseball homage -- one option for fans among their concert merchandise (posters, shirts, etc). Those cards were such a hit, they've done them again with these. I graded the two MLB Vedder cards -- that's how much I liked the novelty of them -- but I wanted to get the last one ... but it didn't happen. I'll try again at some point. The silver-edge design is one that will showcase flaws easily but these are smoothly cut and clean for the most part, save for centering. The packs are a glued paper variety -- no wax stains -- but there can be corner and surface issues quite easily as the stock isn't super-thick.

Product Grade: A-
Lot Grade: B+ (I didn't get the one card I specifically wanted ... so not an A this time)
Fun Grade: B+ (see above)

What's next? Be back in an hour ...

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