2008 Playoff Prime Cuts Icons MVP Triple Relic

Year: 2008

Manufacturer: Donruss

Set: Playoff Prime Cuts

Card Number: 22

Card Type: Insert Relic Parallel

Insert Set: Icons 

Parallel Set: Materials MVP

Card Attributes: Relic, Serial Numbered

Relic Type: Jersey

Serial Number: 13/15

Donruss put out a couple unlicensed sets in 2008.  The one I remember best was the Donruss Threads set, but they also put out a couple last gasp Playoff brand sets.  The Prime Cuts was a mix of active, rookie, veteran retired, and hall of famers.  The set itself was not licensed by the MLB or MLBPA, but rather Donruss contracted directly with the player to use their likeness for the set.  Donruss also skirted the legality of using partial logos and team colors and in doing so the set isn't half bad.  There are also a ton of inserts, parallels, relic and autograph parallels, and just lot of variations to sort through.  It's a homage to the crazy sets Playoff put out in the mid-2000s.  

The card featured to day is part of the Icons insert.  The set is called the Icons Material MVP relic set.  The MVP part comes from the die-cut MVP relic windows on the card.  For an unlicensed card it's a nice looker.  The plain gray swatches aren't much to look at, but it's a fairly rare card being numbered to just 15.

2017 Topps Gallery - Hall of Fame Gallery

Year: 2017

Manufactuer: Topps

Set: Gallery

Card Number: HOF-28

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Hall of Fame Gallery

We're here, we made it.  This is the last card I picked up from my 2018 COMC Black Friday haul.  I know not super exciting.  Featured is Robin's 2017 Gallery HOF insert card.  Illustrated by the talented Dan Bergren, it's a very handsome card.  The card has a multiple parallels of varying rarity, but this is just the plain old base card.  2017 Gallery was a Wal-mart exclusive release and marked the return of the brand after over a decade.  I'm not a big fan of the retail exclusive sets, especially a set like Gallery that would have been a big sell in the hobby market.  There is also sticker auto parallel for this set that Robin is also included in, but I have yet to see an example of the card hit the marketplace.

2017 Donruss - Retro Variations Magenta Back

Year: 2017

Manufacture: Panini

Set: Donruss

Card Number: RV-43

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Insert Set: Retro Variations 1983

Parallel Type: Magenta Back

Only a couple more cards and I've finished featuring my 2018 COMC Black Friday pick-ups.  Last time I featured Robin's Retro Variation Stat Line card this time it's his Magenta back parallel of the same card.  The magenta back is the only non-serial numbered parallel out of the 9 parallels, 13 if count the printing plates.  And as the name suggests the back is completely pink, er or magenta. 

2017 Donruss - Retro Variations Season Stat Line

Year: 2017

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Donruss

Card Number: RV-43

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Insert Set: Retro Variations

Parallel Type: Season Stat Line

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 112/210

We are on the final 3 cards from my 2018 COMC Black Friday haul.  Next up is another parallel hole filler.  I'm getting very close to having most of the 1983 Retro Variations parallels.  The stat line parallel cards are numbered to what ever stat Panini decided to feature about the player on the card.  In Robin's case that's his 210 hits in  his 1982 MVP season.  The Season Stat line parallel cards also have a foil board finish so they're nice and shiny.

2006 Upper Deck SP Legendary Cuts - Baseball Chronology Platinum

Year: 2006

Manufacture: Upper Deck

Set: SP Legendary Cuts

Card Number: BC-RY

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Insert Set: Baseball Chronology

Parallel: Platinum

Card Attrbutes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 49/99

Still working on my Black Friday COMC haul.  Next up is one of the few low numbered parallels I picked up in the haul.  Legendary Cuts was a great HOF and retired themed product.  And it's been a few years since we had a nice HOF dedicated set.  They were all the rage for awhile.  Robin is featured in the base set a couple of the inserts.  The Baseball Chronology set has a few serial numbered parallels and a relic parallel as well.  Robin's card here is part of the Platinum parallel numbered to 99.  The team logo, where the relic would go in the relic parallel, and serial numbering is that shimmery holo silver foil and looks very nice in hand.   

2018 Topps Archives - Topps Rookie History

Year: 2018

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Archives

Card Number: NNO (223)

Card Type: Insert

 Insert Set: Topps Rookie History

Still working through the last of my big COMC Black Friday haul.  Got a little sidetracked with a doosey of a cold, but I'm back.  Here's the most modern card I picked up from COMC.  It's Robin's Topps Rookie History reprint card from 2018 Archives.  No surprise Robin has another rookie reprint card in this year's Topps Series 1.  One of these days I'm going to take the time and figure out how many times Topps as issued a reprint of some sort for Robin's rookie card.  The cards are not numbered in the set, rather they have the original card numbering from whatever set they were originally issued in.  Other than the obvious foil stamp on the front, the Topps Reprint on the bottom of the back and the current copyright information, it's basically an exact replica.  These cards did come with color foil variations, some of them serial numbered.