1993 TOPPS FINEST BOX OPENING! (Throwback Thursday) 

Jabs @7:30 you mentioned Duryea.........it's in my back yard......... it's up near a city called Pittston........close to the bigger city of Wilkes-Barre..... I'll take ya on a tour :D

I remember how big the buzz was when i was younger as to pulling a Refractor. Great memories!!!

The packs containing a refractor had a printing variation on the wrapper. And sure enough at 15:08, you can see that variation on the player’s shirt; there are no black wrinkle shadows on it. Look for that, and you’ll have your refractor. Typically only one per box.

These sold for about $23 a pack back then

Love these boxes. Do not love incorrect info babble between cards

Remember the Hot boxes i know the basketball had jumbo Hot packs and Boxes

I collected this complete set and all the best stars graded psa10s. Also had 93 sp set with duplicates of all the rookies. I sold both sets for $1000 a few years ago when I needed money. I miss them&their probably worth alot more now if I wanted to buy them back..

Really good eye appeal

The lip is there because there are 18 card packs in the box (not divisible by 4). So in order to keep the top 2 packs from shifting around when moving the box, they put in the lip.

Awsome, so much fun to watch you open these!

"Hitting a weak grounder back to the mound"...that's the kind of sarcasm I can get behind. Well done sir!

Good vid

I have no watched yet but I've been asking for this since your first TBT. So excited. This and 94 are my favorite sets ever. Shame I'll never afford 93 :(

Very very cool Erik. Great TBT. Love those cards. Thanks for doing this for us.

I loved those cards!!!! Bought and opened two boxes.

4:10 Chad Curtis. First pack and I'm already playing Count The Jailbirds.

I was 7 I think and our card shop picked this up. I think it was $20 a pack so it was out of my range but my brother got one pack.

The second box refractor, once again the minor printing variation on the wrapper. The player’s shirt has less pronounced black wrinkle shadows on it. A dead giveway!

Those refractors are so awesome! Great to see this set again!

I worked in a card shop in 93 as a kid, played pack wars with customers, so many refractors pulled, so much fun, I was 13 at the time

Nostalgia in a box! Fun video, thanks

I bought a collection back when I was big into cards and it had two sealed boxes of this product. This brings back bad memories of the fire because losing boxes of this was a big hit. I hated losing these. Thanks for sharing Erik even though I lost them it was nice seeing some opened.

Nice job Erik! Those Refractors were in HIGH DEMAND in 1993! I bought pack after pack trying to find the Limited Edition John Wathan Parallel Refractor Game Used Patch Autographed Relic Double Sided Reverse Negative!!!

Loved finest

Congrats on getting 2 clean boxes. These were easily searchable back in the day.

Lip on bottom is because there are 18 packs. 2 more packs on bottom have then the top

Thanks so much for the Blast from the Past!! This was a hugh release back in 1993. I bought 2 boxes online at $150 each in 94. I opened one and no refractor. Sold the second box years later. Your lucky those boxes were not searched. If I remembered corrected, 1993 Finest Baseball boxes were not wrapped in plastic or cellophaned. Thanks again!!!

I have never seen these cards. Very nice looking. Great break!

Back in the day when I owned my own card business I actually had to buy cases of this from topps to remain a customer of theirs. And they did have hot boxes back then where every pack did have a refractor. And one my cases actually had one of those. Not every case had HotBox I believe it was one in five or ten back in the day that had hot box. The refractor would always replace the All-Star card unless the All-Star card was the refractor.

So those recent auctions for several finest refractors were me! We had several walk into the shop and we had no idea what they were worth. We sold about 1100 in refractors including barry Larkin, Key, Deion Sanders and more. We had a local sell a Ken griffey Refractor ungraded for $2400!!!! This was great to watch. Didnt know they were so rare.

Neat looking packs.

I had three sealed 93 Finest boxes for YEARS. Finally caved because I always wanted to know if I had a Nolan Ryan promo retractor which is 10x as rare as the normal NR refractor (only 50 were made). Turns out my refractors were Darren Daulton, Bip Roberts, and Chuck Knoblach. Makes me sick I gave up $2200-2400 not selling the boxes for three common refractors.

so cool, thanks for sharing i enjoy these breaks.

For 1993, these cards were for sure high end. They are still nice today! Great break!

Love this break

This was a cool break to watch.

Nigel Wilson is from my hometown of Ajax Ontario CANADA. He owned AAA, but whenever he was called up he was never healthy and could not perform then I think he went to Japan...

YES!! Thanks JABS!!!

Sure like Finest. This is a nice break! Loaded, as always, with info.

Wow I remember buying these who they came out. Top premium cards at the time!

Beautiful cards

Beautiful Carlton Fisk in that first box. I've always been more of a basketball card collector than a baseball guy but I can very much relate to this product. I loved NBA Topps Finest from the same era. Finest was always a great product.

I have always enjoyed this set. Enough that I collected the 199 base cards. I opened maybe 5 to 10 packs total and traded for the rest. Was a lot of fun doing that. The only refractor I ever got is a Robin Yount - lucky to have gotten this one given that I am a Brewers fan. Loved seeing the pulls here - Congrats to the owner that got the Fisk refractor.

Love your vids brother getting us through this quarantine 👏 thank you

Great video!! Extremely tough set to get in my area back in the day. Loved these cards! Only got hooked up with a couple packs. Thanks for sharing!! God Bless!!

The irony of getting a Jose Canseco and a Ruben sierra in the same pack....😳

Very cool to see u open these!

I remember seeing these for the first time in a local card shop for $10 per pack. Didn’t buy any but then went to another shop across town who didn’t have them and found out how scarce they were. The second shop owner told me he would buy any card from the set for 50% Beckett. I went back to the first shop and bought two packs. Don’t remember who I pulled but sold them all to the second shop to get money to buy more from the first. I went back and forth between the two all day doing this until my I ran out of money from my original two pack purchase. In the middle of this I learned about refractors and found I had pulled a Terry Pendleton refractor. I was in Georgia and the Braves were the hottest team around so I sold that for bigger bucks and kept my streak going. I finally ran out of resale money and stopped buying and selling when I decided to keep a Griffey, Nolan Ryan and Piazza that I had pulled. Still have the Griffey and Ryan. One of the most fun collecting days I remember back from my pack buying days. Spent a total of $20 of my money and ended up with those two cards in my pc and and full day of fun. I wonder how much of the complete set I could have put together with the cards I pulled that day.

I had pack 17 in box 1. I was getting really excited when we got to pack 16 without a refractor...oh well : ). Congrats on the Fisk.

Nice break on the 93 Topps Finest very nice cards👍

Nice cards. Sweet Fisk refractor. Thanks for sharing!

Robin Ventura is the only man to get 6 hits off of Nolan Ryan in the same game, same inning!!!

Dale Murphy needs to get into the Hall of Fame!

All reds cards would find nice home with me

These also were always out of my price range. The first one I ever owned is a Dante bichette that came out of a Fairfield box I bought last year lol

One of the best And one of my personal favorites

My ultimate PC want is right in this set: Frank Thomas finest refractor. I need this card badly.

Imagine how much a Jeter RC refractor from this set would go for.

Love the Fisk. The spacer was because there was 18 packs. 5 packs in a stack on the bottom and 4 pack on the top. That lip helped make the stacks even then.

Luv ur story telling style, Fans from Taiwan !

Never bought any packs of 93 Finest they were either going for $16 or $18 a pack when they first came out at my local card shop

Refractor pulls at 16:50 & 21:50

Anyone know a good FREE website for checking card values?????

I believe that there were only 241 of each refractor.

The Fisk is mine!!!

Love 1993 topps finest

Orestes Is now a Rays pre and post game commentator

The early Finest sets were some of my favorites. Great box break. Go Mets.... 👍

18:20 The lip is intended to account for the two extra packs - 18 packs = 2 stacks of 5 and 2 stacks of 4.

Nice break Jabs! Really enjoyed seeing that juiced Canseco card in box 2. Always wanted one of those.

Al Martin...whah, whah, whah. How depressing

Could never afford a pack when I was a kid. Cool break

Finest! Good info.

This was at a time when collecting was fun and the high end product was affordable unlike today the price of cards have gotten ridiculous and if it continues like this card collecting will be a forgotten hobby thank god for card shows where you can find real deals and have fun doing it those boxes of assorted cards at shows can be a gold mine 👍👍👍

Psa10 Jefferson sold for $370 back in June.

You keep saying only notable rookie is JT Snow. Tim Salmon and Piazza came in the same year as JT Snow. I know because Salmon is my cousin. So if the JT Snow is considered a RC then so is Piazza and Salmon. Piazza and Salmon both won ROY in 1993. Piazza only played 20 games in 1992 and Karros won ROY that year. So obviously its their RC too.

crazy stuff

The Fisk PSA 9 on EBay is 338 and the PSA 10 Fisk is 2500 (asking prices)

The card store isn't around and the address is now a Bank of America.

Carlton Fisk & Harold Baines.. 2 White Sox Hall Of Famers in the same pack. Nice!

You know it serious when Jab pulls out the one touch.

Me and Jabs were born in 1981

Why mention some HOF'ers and not others? Cool Green Maddux! Baines? Hardly...

Refractor psa9 sold for $190 a day ago

I know you are all shocked but that card shop isnt around anymore here in the Portland area.

I was paying $20-$23 per pack in the day.

Yes come to Philly

I know Andy Benes and he said he doesn't give a rat's ass about you, one way or the other.

Dont think Alex Fernandez threw no Hitter..Had 1 Hitters but do t think He had nono?! I think it was Wilson Alvarez who had the 90_91 no Hitter

i got a bunch of these cards from a collection i bought in 2015 in mesa arizona!

Not a bad couple of boxes...the only thing I saw that I found worrisome were all the printing lines. I remember going into a card shop back In the early 90's and the guy refusing to deal with me because of a printing line issue.

Most recent eBay auctions have the Fisk card selling for near $200 graded, and $40 ungraded. Reggie Jefferson $25-30 ungraded. Not too bad.

I bought a few packs of these when they came out and I think they were going for at least $18 a pack. I lucked out and got a John Smoltz refractor.

they are about $699-$850 per box quite expensive.

Great video Erik, I sent you a package that should be at your PO Box by today, so look out for it, I prepared a little extra special something for this package, hope you enjoy it

That refractor is nice

How do u tell if it's a refractor? I got a collection gave to me with lots of the green all star cards.

Sweet and awesome baseball cards

Keeping Score Sports Cards moved to 475 NW Saltzman Rd, Portland, OR 97229 but appears they are permanently closed now

I was still collecting a bit back in 1993 and I don't think I ever bought a single pack of these, they were just to expensive