The father of the 11-year-old boy from Los Angeles who pulled the Paul Skenes MLB Debut Patch autographed card thought it was either a checklist or a Topps promotional card. The kind of inserts typically thrown away.
The mother asked, “Who’s Paul Skenes?”
The boy knew.
He knew even through sleepy, crusty eyes around 6 a.m. on Christmas morning. And he knew the redemption card he pulled from the fifth pack of the one hobby box of 2024 Topps Chrome Update Series he received as his primary present was genuine.
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The young collector described his emotions in a journal entry his mother encouraged him to write after finding one of the most sought-after
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