Year: 2013
Manufacture: Panini
Set: Cooperstown
Card Number: 97
Card Type: Base Parallel
Parallel Set: Gold Crystal
Card Attributes: Serial Numbered
Serial Number: 265/299
COMC Black Friday Haul #19
For me it seems Cooperstown was a set that always had one more parallel to find. Well I can say that with this Gold Crystal parallel I finally have all the parallels, except the Black Crystal 1 of 1.
I was just reminiscing the other day that it's been quite a while since we've had a HOF dedicated set. Not that I'm pining for another Panini effort, but it would be nice to see a very decent effort by Topps for such a set. Maybe now that Topps' golden cow will be entering the hall we'll see one.
The 2013 Coopertown set wasn't bad. Panini using black and white photos eliminated them having to skew the colors of player uniforms and the close cropped faces meant they didn't need to airbrush out logos. Panini probably could have found a worse picture of Robin to use for his card, but they also could have found one a little better. A nice touch on the back of the card having the box score from the 1992 game against Cleveland where Robin hit his 3000th hit. And a great piece of trivia is that Cleveland was the team that Robin got his 1000th and 2000th hits as well.
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