Cal Ripken Jr.
1987 Topps Cal Ripken Jr. All-Star
- Set
- Topps
- Year
- 1987
- Number
- 609
- Grade
- PSA 10
- Cert number
- 145162528
- Variant
- All-Star
- Parallel
- All-Star
- Manufacturer
- Topps
- Sport
- baseball
- Owner
- CatchBack Vaults
- Pack pool
- Available in packs
Goes with this
No honest pairing for Cal Ripken Jr.: nothing we hold shares a set run, an evolution line, a grade ladder or a player with it inside $12.20-$152. Better to buy it on its own than to bolt on an unrelated slab.
Buy it outright. Cal Ripken Jr. is $61 on the marketplace. Its best pack route is the Pro Pack at $50, where it sits in the $50.01-$100 band — that band hits 37.80% of the time and we count 30 cards in it, so this one slab is at most a 1.260% pull. That works out to 79 packs, or about $3,968, to land this specific card — and that is the optimistic end, because the real pool is larger than the 30 cards we can see. Packs are the wrong tool for a named card.
| Tier | Ticket | Band | Band odds | Expected spend for this card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rookie Pack | $25 | the $50.01-$100 band | 4.00% | $18,750+ |
| Pro Pack | $50 | the $50.01-$100 band | 37.80% | $3,968+ |
| Elite Pack | $100 | the $50-$75 band | 50.00% | $6,000+ |
Per-card chance = band probability / cards counted in that band's pool. Our pool data is a sample, so the per-card chance is an upper bound and the expected spend is a lower bound.
