What’s better than opening packs with friends!?! How about — your friends opening packs and sending you the free baseball cards!?!
If you like sports card giveaways, then you’ll love the 2nd Annual Opening Packs For Opening Day! I teamed up with other great sports card YouTube channels — SIX of them this time, to give away some awesome baseball cards from the early and mid-1980s!
Here’s the schedule of who’s doing what and what’s being ripped!
Thursday, March 21: Ryan at @thewaxpackdad2598
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI0tMycWTcNVEvq3xLdb4Nw is ripping: a 1984 Fleer Cello Pack and two 1987 Topps Wax Packs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLACE7t7zwA
Friday, March 21: @thefootballguyusa7941 opened rack packs from 1986 Topps, 1987 Topps, and 1987 Donruss and a 2023 Topps Update Hanger pack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2Z_aTzj3A
Saturday, March 23: @ilovebaseballcards9334 ripped a 1984 Topps rack pack, a 1989 Fleer rack pack and some 2023 and 2024 Topps packs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpCHYCQs5-A
Sunday, March 24: @jajasvintagesportscards8669 opened two 1986 Rack Packs and two 1983 Donruss Wax Packs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bWjE682m0E
Monday, March 25: @thepinstripedtrailbeaver ripped three jumbo packs of 1992 Bowman Baseball! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw7bt9p5BfY&t=7s
Tuesday, March 26: @DavidGonos opened cello packs from 1984 and 1985, as well as two wax packs from 1990! https://youtu.be/mimWYUeo6nw
Then, on Friday, March 29, The Football Guy USA will do a video that announces all the prize winners from all these previous videos!
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O PF O D I don’t know if I pointed it opening packs for opening day 2024 Happy Hobby I’m David GIS and today we are busting at some giveaway cards packs we’re gonna open and giveaway to actually the packs I’m opening today are going to go to two of you two different winners from this video alone we’ve been doing opening packs for
Opening day this is the second year we’ve done it second in augural second annual and we’ve already done this is the sixth day of the giveaway we’ve already done five other giveaways with the wax Pack dad start us off and we also had uh I love baseball cards and
The football guy USA he’s going to be doing the prize giveaway video on the 26th on this Friday we also had uh JJ’s vintage cards and the pinstriped Trail Beaver they’ve all done giveaway videos I’m the last one I’m the last one we got two people that are going to get some
Cards uh out of this video now here’s what we’re giving away first I’ve already mentioned we’re giving away the contents of one C 1984 Topps pack and one cell 1985 Topps pack so each of the these are going one to this guy one to this guy or
Gal they’re also going to get the contents of a 1990 Topps pack so this a Ken Griffey Jr rookie or uh to not the update but the 1990 tops Ken Griffey Jr rookie card in there also in the 84 Don madingley and Daryl strawberry we looking for and the 85 man this one’s
Chock full of great rookies Roger Clemens mark uire the Team USA Kirby Pucket then you have some great veteran uh Hall of Famers like Nolan Ryan oral hery a rookie card in this one also but Cal Ripken I think it’s his third year card um second year for madting L and
Strawberry third year for Rhino so I guess it’d be fourth year for Ripken at any rate really great set 85 is one of my all-time favorite certainly of the 1980s that’s my favorite so we’re going to open up that but we’re also going to open up some other stuff so first uh I’m
Mentioning we’re also going to give away now these were not opening we’re giving these away pinstrip Trail Beaver sent this to us to give us giveaway so one guy is going to get let’s see let’s say it’s the 1985 guy is getting a 1987
Pack a 1988 pack and a 1989 wax pack of tops and then the 1984 guy is going to get a 1991 pack a 1990 pack a 1989 pack and a 1988 pack so it’s a little bit of each for both these guys okay then finally it’s actually first it’s not
Really final but it’s the final thing I’m saying tops heard of them the company Topps heard about this giveaway we’re doing opening packs for opening day how’ they hear about it well I told them about it but they were kind enough to donate a 2024 Topps Hobby box for us
To open up in our video I’m going to give half of it to one person and half of it to the other person so the two winners in this video should get some pretty awesome stuff decent rookies from this year hopefully maybe a good autograph maybe a nice Relic but maybe
Some awesome old vintage rookie cards as well for the 84 85 and all those other packs we have mixed in so let’s get into it and make sure you come back on Friday the 26th for the football gu USA’s prize giveaway video it’s going to be good op
Fod all right so let’s get into this box over here 84 over here 85 I’m going to uh separate the packs right off the bat the two sides on the right we’ll go to the 84 the two sides on the left we’ll go to 85 let get the cellophan off all
Right uh and we’ll split this pack I’ll just do the first two cards go to the left and the second two cards will go to the right how’s that all right and again you got to be around for the uh giveaway cuz remember you have to
Subscribe you have to like you have to watch each of the six videos to be eligible to win all right so let me put these over here these right here uh to you got to watch all six videos to be eligible so watch subscribe like share all that good
Stuff you want to do all that all right I’ll open this at last put this right here all right so let’s go with this St oh let’s go with this stack first cuz it’s in my way so these will be I’m going to open up the 2024 stuff first and then get to
The older stuff all right right off the bat we got a pretty good rookie Henry Davis that’s fantastic very nice Justin steel this is also his tops Flagship rookie card but they don’t show the rookie card logo but that’s a good one two two good rookies off the bat William contras Kyle finnean
Pander baroa Garrett Cole uh ER leaders Mariners and then we have Bobby Whit Junior walk-off Grand Slam 2023 G Greatest Hits Logan Allen and Taylor Rogers I’m stack these over here comments comments p uh yeah that Justin steel one so I do a every year I or every yeah every
Series actually I do a best of rookies addition to my website and Justin steel while I was looking that up for the I have a 20 the top 100 players the rookie cards for the top 100 players and 2024 I have that video going and I
Had to find the Justin steel one because he’s a top 100 player Quinn prer and Alex bregman all right there was nothing really fancy in that one no inserts or nothing unless I missed it but I did not see an insert in that one a new 2024 I’d have gone on records is
Saying 2024 nice Christopher Morell Future Stars 2024 uh 24 series one is going to go down as one of the best in my opinion nice Corbin Carrol rookie cup it’s going to going as one of the best series in a while last year’s series one I think ranks number
One nice Clayton Kershaw 80 uh 89 throwback Paul gold Schmid and then Coco Montes hey Coco all right I that’s what I imagine whenever he comes into the clubhouse for the game that’s that’s what they always yell hey Coco that’s what I Envision that’s what I would
Do Chris Taylor and Nathaniel low former rays of course we have to always mention that blue jays unite Andre HZ way Dunning D Dunning Spencer Strider sa young candidate Cal bradish and Joe Ryan also think Joe Ryan uh kind of a mixed season last year but his rookie season was
Excellent and um I think he’s somebody who we may be talking about in though in that same kind of Spencer Strider kind of way hey Marco Luciano that’s a good one another a good rookie who hey watch the camera here Ryan Jeffers Andrew Abbott rookie cup JP
Sears Astros no no students of the game Jake freeley caben Hayes Corbin Carol look at that’s a but that is a but Clark now I’m GNA be saying that that’s a be Clark from emac that’s his contribution to our uh to our Happy Hobby terminology I like that that’s a good
One some I think uh I think it’s Scott C or Scott H I’m sorry Scott Hedrick often says that that’s a be Clark so that’s a good uh that’s a good phrase to add to our lexicon if you will DNE Meers rookie card Ryan Mount Castle now we’re looking
For you know boy uh La DEA Cruz no chenuel a lot of people fan the him um yeah la DEA Cruz we’re looking for Evan Carter of course looking for Jason ading the Martian we are also looking for Colton cower with the Orioles uh Curtis me of course with my Tampa Bay
Rays Yuri Perez Future Stars Yuri Perez somebody got to watch out for don’t sleep on them Riley green oh we got a backwards one here oh you’re aess I was just talking about that guy all right let’s see Johnny DeLuca now with my Ray and Oscar Cola
Let’s put these over here all right so you got the silver foil Future Stars yie Perez out the way a little bit it’s always funny when you do these rips you underestimate how much room the rappers take and I’m never smart enough to get the trash bin together beforehand
Have it prepped Max Mony deg gr Brandon Rogers let get the whole P cold card hey Ronald Jr that’s nice one pirates Jason De what there we go that’s a nice one him in the rookie pile Spencer Tolson then we got the grand Gamers Willie ma JT R mudo and the October specialist
All right so the grand Gamers I’ll put that out also uh hobby box uh I believe a hobby box special insert two more packs for this side of the box once again thank you top hooking us up with a hobby box for the OPF OD Chris Bryant Al Marsh
Joey vad Zack Wheeler Kristen Javier arado Greg kessinger Jake Burger Christian carian strand he’s another good rookie let’s keep this guy out Dean Kramer will Brenan and Joe Musgrove all right last pack for the 1984 side of this giveaway of course obviously the hits I’m going to sleeve up and all that
Stuff but I’ll be shipping this stuff to you to the winners all right we got a white card in there something good hopefully uh h Cam Jordan Westberg Eduardo Rodriguez Mar Kelly L Ares em shean Michael copc 89 throwback my boy Curtis me that’s a nice one I like that
I gotta get that my boy emac got a Mojo 89 throwback of Junior konero that he’s uh he sent me it’s beautiful I’m getting that baby graded and I sent him a bunch of his Mets Francisco Alvarez and suchu all right so let’s do this let’s keep it
All together I’m going to go ahead and open up the 1990 and then we’ll open up 8 the 84 pack just so that all I keep all these cards together all right there you see that gums already creeped around the corner hopefully we don’t have any Gummy
All stars as you’ve seen in some of my past rips I put that gum up there all right uh we’ll start off with Don Paul Stan Belinda again we’re looking for that uh Ken griffy Jr Chuck Cary I believe there’s a Bernie oh I was going to say I believe there’s a Bernie
Williams rookie card in here too this might be Dion Sanders I don’t think this is his Rook I think he’s a 89 but we’re GNA keep that guy out anyways we’ll put him in with the 889 Throwbacks makes sense 1990 89 throwback that makes sense I’m sure hey look a company store
Card Steve Rosenberg Rick Cerrone Carlton Fitz callif Famer Franklin stubs Mike Deo saw him play in person but whatever it’s cool it’s cool it’s cool no big deal NBD Jack Armstrong Ron hassie and BJ surhoff once was a big deal BJ surhoff all right so let’s get into this now the
1984 one of our highlight packs all right let’s go here Hall of Famer anybody noticed Hall of Famer R the B he gets a he gets a honk all right put in the Hall of Famer with uh Dion Rick Rhoden Lou Whitaker sweet Lou rod with
Jack Morris sweet L should be a Hall of Famer oh look at that little coloring that’s weird Mike Morgan Lance Parish tigers in this one Tim Lawler Red Sox here Ralph H so here’s the cool thing about 84 we’re looking for Daryl strawberry and and Don madingley
Obviously so the cool thing with 84 for Breakers is you get to read the team here on the side before you get to them so let’s go the batting leaders Bill madlock Dave Parker Pete Rose Pete Rose Hall of Fame oh not so much and then we
Got Tom Humes so let’s see who we got here Phillies we got Steve no no Astros uh uh Denny Walling let’s see what else 83 batting leaders batting leaders Wade bogs right there that’s pretty cool second year Chris Spire Julio Cruz then we got a game card
Here with the gum stuck to it of course Jeff Rearden excellent oh oh oh that have been cool if it was Ricky Mets Jesse rasco he’s almost Daryl strawberry they’re like brothers Brew we got the Cubbies as Rhino Fergie Jenkins Hall of Famer expose Tim Reigns Hall of Famer Pirates
Li mailli Jerry Augustine Tigers Glenn Wilson Red Sox Jeff Newman come on now Joel Beckwith Dusty Baker Hall of Fame manager and then we got Yankees Dave Winfield Hall of Famer not the guy we’re looking for we’re looking for the non Hall of Famer strangely enough all right
So I’m going to wrap all these guys up and don’t forget this guy also gets whoever wins this also gets these packs that uh pin ta Trail Beaver sent me to send to you guys so that’s good so thank you sir all right give me a second
Let’s wrap these up all right so let’s get into these now I move these over here these are the 1984 packs headlined by the Jason Dominguez rookie card we’ll put the top again I’ll sleeve these up and uh get them prepared for shipping oh here we got 885 the 1990 P yeah we’re
Going to do those first or second what do we say I think we’re going to do these first all right let’s talky more Rippy um this feels a little F yeah I think we got a The Relic right off the bat so we got Daniel Bard Reed deur Brad
Keller har Ramirez from Marise got the Yankees team cardan CE Esther Ru jiren Duran Sterling Marte and then the The Relic is Major League material Brandon Crawford that was a napkin he once used at a Denny’s in San Francisco so there you go you sir are the proud winner of
That so I’m going set this out so everybody’s fully aware uh but that’s pretty cool who doesn’t like Brandon Crawford I like Brandon Crawford all right second pack see if we find something else good in these packs Yen Cano uh Willie Castro Patrick Bailey sedi Raphael another good that’s a good
Rookie card right there don’t you sleep on them Taylor Ward Dan vok Andy Rodriguez another another good Ro tell you what our in-house Pirates fan Patrick mhof loves the Andy Rodriguez he’s hurt right now but for uh next year that’s going to be a nice card so Bryce
Elder Joey weamer let’s flip this guy around Johan Oedo in the silver foil all right pack number three John India Bryson stock Grayson Rodriguez Josh Naylor Justin Verlander heno Suarez Josh Low David Hamilton Mike Trout caught me a trout right I guess I caught you a trout
Caught the winner a trout put him down here of course 89 throwback Riley green we’ll put him over the foil McKenzie Gore and Jared folo all right Fernando tatis Jr Marco Lucian another rookie card Marco Luciano like him mat Manning Ryan Jeffers Chris Murphy Nick senzel yky Mike Tyler O’Neal Carl Carmen
Malinski pero BR braon Garrett this Andrew abot Tyler Anderson Reagan’s own white rafhael Des Royce Lewis gu’s a monster jez Chisum John Gray oh I love these the uh tops all the all tops team we got a little Tongue Tied there tops all all team I like that love the Zach gallof
Rookie card to he gets one of those he gets one he gets one Ryan oarn a lot of people loving some Zack golf I had a guy comment on my I did a video top five tops rookies to track down and uh I got yelled at in the comments because they
Didn’t have Zack gallof among the top five are we considering up top five that’s an awesome I love this photo of Bobby Wood Jr such a great card love the pose from Randy Ros Arena beautiful card Conor Joe oh hey what very nice we’ll put this guy right there
Ellie De La Cruz gota love El DC all right we got a flipped round card here y hand we got a oh this is a this is a special one this is the logo Yan yand Duran which is interesting because we got the silver foil one before now
This isn’t numbered but man that’s pretty cool looking card I’m going to I’m going to have to look up what they call that uh parallel Danny Johnson and the Dodgers with the bo bashet blueprint I’ll look that up let me look up right now what if I do that oh it’s
Not in the back okay that’s why let’s go and it’s not in the Box okay I’ll look up it some other time you guys look it up put in the comments cuz everybody knows but me I find that’s usually the answer wait say pick up some of these
Okay Christian Benton Court I’m trying to keep it quick boys I’m sorry Brendan White Alec Thomas Max Muny Luke rley Astros Jorge Mato Daniel Palencia Paul sewald Jesus lazardo estada Smith all right three packs left and then we get into the Vintage who are your favorite five rookies and the
2024 can you believe these are 40 years apart these 2024’s and that 1984 pack we just opened up it’s pretty crazy JD Davis George Springer Justin Martinez Felix Bautista Ellie come on now this is definitely this is definitely the hot side of this box oh what oh who easy careful Cal
Rally uh and that’s really nicely centered that look looks like a sweet sweet sweet card very cool it is funny how people look down on inserts you know it’s Flag Flagship parallels or bus but man I tell you what I’ll take a I’ll take an insert from
2018 with some of those Superstars like move these cards out the way uh Chris Bryant Kim Jordan Westberg Evan this pack I’m telling you right now this Pack’s a heater with some good Rook cards in there manual Mar go Red Sox the celebration of the kid
Wow just fantastic side of the box it’s got a little bit everything I’ll put this guy over here I wish this logo one was someone else cuz yeah but still it’s a pretty cool card I have not seen one of those parallels and any of the top product
I’ve opened yet so that’s cool I like that team logo look all right this the last pack of this uh box so let’s get something let’s get one more something good in here Zack rard he wasn’t the guy I was thinking of Alex Verdugo Brandon Nemo
The guy I’m thinking of let’s see he’s got we already got C who else am I thinking of who am I missing Royce Lewis with the Grand Slam that’s cool uh clay Holmes resilient Reds rookies well that’s pretty good right there there some good rookies right
There m mlan and ELC all right so uh you know I’ll pull both these guys out so now let’s get into these packs first I’ll do the 1989 or I’m sorry 1990 let me stop this real quick sorry sometimes I have to restart the video or else it’s murder getting it transferred over to my computer it’s a whole thing it’s a whole thing all right the gun didn’t seem to stick to anything so that’s good upside down so that’s bad claudell
Washington Tony Fernandez Mike Dyer Alo Espinosa Lee Gman Charlie Huff he was the very first starting pitcher for the Marlins Charlie Huff 1992 so whatever let’s go let’s go no big deal not trying to name drop or nothing Chuck come on now let’s get where’s we got double Dions each guy is
Going to get a Dion rookie card card that’s pretty cool uh let’s see I’m going put him around top of that Kevin Mitchell come on now give me some give us some Mariners oh that was a mariner I called it and then it didn’t come with
The griffy I should have said let me give it griffy Delino the Shields and Nelson coven all right so the 1990 packs were a bust let’s see what we can get out of this uh last pack oh we still have that to open I forgot I got to do that still all
Right do that we do that the very now you know what let’s do that now so the first two cards all right I don’t remember what I said before but the way we’re going to do this is let’s see cuz I’m not sure if there’s an order
To the hits so I’m going to go the first two cards go to 84 and the second two cards go to the 85 pack all right let’s do this all right man that’s pretty that’s pretty nice first card Julio Rodriguez he gets a that is a really nice
Mojo all right so that’s goes to 84 the second 84 one is Evan Carter rookie card that’s pretty awesome all right so that’s for 84 I’m G put these guys up here man that was nice Spencer Strider can you barely see oh sorry AJ Smith sh that’s why I couldn’t read SMI
Cuz it wasn’t him all right look at this we got a purple so if those were awesome 84s let’s hoping this is an awesome one for 85 Manny Machado with a purple and then that’s just a uh promo card so the Manny Machado is this numbered yes is numbered can you
See that 67 out of 75 on the Manny Machado purple and the AJ Smith Sher so uh you got the numbered card so that’s good now let’s you also got the best rookie cards of the pack the EV Carter Mojo’s pretty dope so I feel like both
Of you kind of won now not us now that we’re taking a step back all right we got Dave Winfield on the front gum in the middle let me get that gum out first all right get this thing there hey whoa careful easy settle down settle down all right Dave Winfield Lou Rod
Whitaker should be in the hall love that card Mike Squires Frank Tanana John Shelby Oscar gamble Steve Kemp Jerry Martin Bill lasi all right this is the last pack of the of the whole giveaway now come on give us something good we got some good 85 guys to get let’s do it
Where’s some Hall of Famers Jim AER Greg Booker okay those are the we just got past the gummy guys so we didn’t want them to be the Hall of Famers um let me stick this right there Bill madlock Azie Smith a Hall of Famer alar he’s may be
Six years in but still mnam Dave enen or genus Salazar I’m going guess that’s how I pronounce it so his parents could say that’s our little our genus Roy Smith Frank Pastor sweet checklist Ralph H coming down to the bottom here boys Tim Corran last couple cards Terry Forester
We got checklist on the back all right so we have one card left in this entire break be something good who was hoping for alen bister I I don’t think anybody was all right so the 85 and 84 those were kind of busts the ’90s at least we got a couple Dions in reality it was the is the 2024 that really came through for us so op fod how do you think the uh the whole giveaway went did you guys enjoy this make sure you like subscribe comment you
Got to do it all to make sure you’re eligible to be winning winers I got news for you there’s not a ton of people that you’re going to be competing with so get in on this going to win all these cards or half half of these cards anyways let
Me know in the comments what you think whatever you do have a happy Hobby
31 Comments
This is epic. Yeah boy
Can't wait
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Let's go!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
Looking Forward To The Rip & Seeing Who All The Winners Are Come Friday.
Nice video great giveaway
Awesome stuff! Thanks for the opportunity. 🎉
Fun times. Thanks for the chance. Don't forget that big helmet upgrade.
Great video!! Awesome cards!!
Great looking parallels may be the highlight of the week…Elly, Julio, Evan, man,…. Enjoyed the show!
Really fun vid! Too bad the 84 and 85 were busts, but a great group of cards overall
Awesome cards and video Mr. David Gonos. You and the other YouTube Channels are amazing. Doing this for the card community. Have a good one and Peace Mr. David Gonos. #HappyHobby and #OPFOD
Awesome
Cool stuff David, great way to open the baseball season!
Doesn’t Griffey have like 12 “official “ rookie cards?
Whoever wins packs will have fun ripping for sure.
Also that was soooo coool of topps to kick in the hobby box.
They must be a subscriber of yours and that’s how they found out
Only real hobbyist ( and smart ones at that) are subs of yours!!
everyone did a great job, thank you all
Maybe they classed the relic up a bit and it’s a handkerchief instead of a napkin? Be funnier if there was ketchup on it
It’s the Team Logo Parallel if I’m not mistaken for that Twins card!! All and all great video!!! Been loving this giveaway!!
That was a great 2024 box. Thanks again for doing the contest.
Love that deion sanders elly de la Cruz rookies and that Ozzie smith 1985 topps all star card
This was a fun week, for sure. (Wax Pack Dad sent me — wooo!). Nice Deion Sanders and George Brett cards.
Great video D what great giveaway packages Nice work
Enjoyed following along every day with the different videos from great channels! Wow that’s so cool they donated a hobby box! Thanks for the awesome opportunity and have a great day!
Team border variation interesting. Nice to see a relic in the pack.
Friday March 26th? 🤔 lol. Coming through with the connections! Thanks friend!
Some solid rookie pulls.
Lets go! We are so excited for Opening Day!!!! Lots of fun!!! #HappyHobby #OPOFD
Great giveaway!!
Wow! Great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Great rip. Something for everyone in there.
Awesome rip my friend! So many great cards. 👍👊💪