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2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball Goes To Bat For Wood

By Mike D
on June 26th, 2024
in Releases

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Few things in sports are as poetic, nor as explosive, as the sounds, site, and smells* of a baseball bat hitting a ball. The bat deserves to be celebrated, and given the focus of a new product.

That product is 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball, which returns after a one-year hiatus as a premium unlicensed product that’s all about the bats.

But what will collectors find inside a box of 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball? What is the release format? What are the hits? And are they worth a break?

*- Ted Williams used to talk about being able to smell the bat burning when fouling a high fastball straight back.

2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball release date & release format

The 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball release date is June 28, 2024 (subject to change).

Hobby boxes of 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball contain one pack per box. Each pack contains four cards per pack.

Hobby boxes of 2024 Leaf Lumber baseball contain four hits per box, with each card containing a piece of bat memorabilia, an autograph, or both. That’s right, there is no base set. No jersey cards. Not even any leather. It’s all about the bats!

Hobby boxes of 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball have been pre-selling for $200-$210 per box.

2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball parallels

Many of the relic and autograph cards in the 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball product also are available in parallel forms.

These include:

Bronze
Purple
Platinum
Pewter
Navy Blue
Red
Silver
Gold
Emerald

Production runs of the parallels differ slightly from subset to subset, but it looks like the highest print run is 40 and most are 25 or under, with many parallels being produced only in the single digits. This of course includes 1/1s and 2/2s.

Not every card in the set has parallel offerings, although many of those cards are 1/1s themselves.

2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball hits

2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball is an unlicensed product, so no team logos or team names here. The checklist consists of a handful of current superstars and greats from the past. From Aaron Judge to Richie Zisk, there’s a lot of variety here and the players included represent over 100 years of baseball history.

Cards range from large bat relics, to bat knobs, nameplates and more. There are some truly amazing multi-player cards with up to eight players per card.

Some of the hits included in 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball include:

Bat Barrel (113 cards)
Bat Knobs (114 cards)
Off the End of the Bat (114 cards)
Dynamic Duos (18 cards)
Bat Rack 4 (7 cards)
All-Time Lumber Draft (14 cards)
Game-Used Vintage Lumber (14 cards)
Hitters Ink (13 cards)
Lumber Marks (9 cards)
Mount Crushmore (24 cards)
Baseball’s Greatest Hits (11 cards)
MVP Votes (14 cards)
Signature Sticks (52 cards)
Signature Sticks 2 (13 cards)
Signature Sticks 3 (8 cards)
Bat Rack 3 (19 cards)
Passing the Bat On (6 cards)
Signature Sticks 3 (4 cards)
Sluggers (15 cards)
Stealing Signs (17 cards)
Team Legends (6 cards)
The Lumber Club (22 cards)
Game-Used Lumber (100 cards)
Game-Used Lumber Prime (100 cards)
Game-Used Vintage Lumber Prime (14 cards)
The Home Run 100 (76 cards)
Trade Deadline Bat Barrel (5 cards)
Trade Deadline Knob (5 cards)
Grain Assault (42 cards)
Grain Assault 2 (6 cards)

Not counting parallels, the checklist for the product approaches 1,000 total cards!

2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball value

2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball is a high-end product with only four cards per box. But are they a good candidate to buy and hold unopened? Let’s see what recent comp prices for boxes from the last few years can tell us.

Year	Recent Comp Price
2024	$200-210
2023	NA
2022	$310-320
2021	$180-400

Typically, I wouldn’t expect a hit-driven, small-sized, unlicensed box to be a good candidate to buy-and-hold unopened, but despite a 1-year hiatus in 2023, boxes from 2022 and 2021 appear to sell strongly for higher than the release price, although there was one low sale on a 2021 box.

So, these may not be the worst cards to buy-and-hold unopened, although they do feel like a box designed to break.

But what about singles? What can a look at recent comp prices for 2022 Leaf Lumber Baseball (the last year produced) singles tell us about the potential for profit here?

The high water mark was a Giancarlo Stanton 1/1 Game-Used Bat Barrel card that sold for $750. 1/1 Bat Knobs of Stanton and Tony Gwynn approached $475. 1/1 cards of Steve Sax and Curt Flood sold for around $400.

So, the chance to get some solid value exists, for sure. It is far from guaranteed, however. A good number of cards from the set sold for less than $5 shipped.

2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball pros & cons

Every product has pros and cons when deciding whether to purchase and break them. What are some of the pros and cons with 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball?

Pros

These are undoubtedly very cool cards. While relics aren’t nearly as popular as autographs, some multi-player relics here are really impressive. The ones with ink and relics? Even cooler.
At $200, this is a relatively affordable luxury, and a fast, fun break to boot.
It’s nice to see the humble baseball bat get some love, and to see so many different parts of the bat leveraged on cards.

Cons

The unlicensed nature of these cards will keep the prices on the secondary market in check somewhat.
With only four cards per box, the chances of a disappointing break are certainly there.

Final thoughts on 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball

2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball brings only hits and celebrates the humble baseball bat. Yet the unlicensed nature of the product and the small box size keep this a reasonably priced break.

There’s the chance for some real value here with some great hits, but also a lot of cards that aren’t worth the price of admission.

What’s your take on 2024 Leaf Lumber Baseball? Planning to break a box? Buying into a break? Or avoiding these unlicensed cards? Tell us all about it at card_lines on Twitter.

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Mike D

Mike D. has collected cards for over 35 years, since he bought his first pack of Topps at the corner store in 1987. His fandom, collecting interests, and contributions to Cardlines center around baseball in general and the Baseball Hall of Fame specifically.

Mike's collecting focus is centered on graded cards, mostly rookie cards, of Hall of Famers and future Hall of Famers. Lately, he's been enjoying dabbling in graded minor league cards. A collector/investor with a "buy and hold" approach, Mike takes the long-term view with his collection.