2009 Upper Deck Goudey 4 in 1 #35-29

Year: 2009

Manufacturer: Upper Deck

Set: Goudey

Card Number: 35-29

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: 1935 4 in 1

COMC Black Friday Haul #32

Still working my way through the new Yount cards I picked up last year and had delivered after COMC's Black Friday event.  Next up is Robin's 2009 Goudey 4 in 1 that he shares with Prince Fielder, Mike Schmidt and Ryan Howard.  Robin also appears on another card in this set.  I like the past and present theme of this card.  With Mike and Robin representing the past for their franchises and Price and Ryan the future (at least at that moment).  There are a few parallels to this set which pays homage to the 1935, hence the 35 prefix in the numbering, Goudey 4 in 1 cards.

2009 Upper Deck Goudey 4 in 1 35-29 Black

Year:2009

Manufacturer: Upper Deck

Set: Goudey

Card Number: 35-29

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Insert Set: Goudey 4 in 1

Parallel Set: Black Border

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 12/21

Today we have one of Upper Deck's forays into the vintage homage sets.  Fleer actually brought back Goudey as insert in 1997 baseball and did a full blown Goudey Football set the same year.  After Upper Deck bought the Fleer brand it was only a matter of time before they brought back Goudey as well.  The 4 in 1 insert was a nod to the 1935 Goudey 4 in 1's, or R321.  However where the original Goudey cards were 2 x 2's, or something like that, these cards are the standard 2 x 3.  Robin's actually featured on 2 4 in 1's, this card and #35-23 which features all Brewers.  The card also features Prince Fielder, Mike Schmidt and Ryan Howard, kind of like a past and present for each team.  The black bordered cards are the rarest of the 3 parallels for the set and the only one that is serial numbered.

2008 Upper Deck Ballpark Collection Quad Player relic

Card Manufacturer: Upper Deck

Card Set: Ballpark Collection

Year: 2008

Card Number: 204

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Quad Swatch Memorabilia

Card Attributes: Relic

Relic Type: Jersey

Note: Also featured on card, Prince Fielder, Rickie Weeks, J J Hardy

By 2008 relic cards had become filler fodder for products.  Sure they were hits, but relics were and are now more than ever a dime a dozen.  Seriously you can find tons of relic cards in the dollar bins.  And quad relics can be hit or miss.  Usually it's a jumble of players from different teams sometimes united by a common thread like position, but sometimes it seems the card manufacturers just looked who they had the most swatches for and put them together.

With that being said, I think this might be one of my favorite relic cards in my Brewers team  collection and in my Yount player collection.  

Upper Deck's Ballpark Collection offered a lot of relics. Each box had 2 sometimes 3.

While quad player relic cards can be hit or miss they tend to work out great when the unifying theme is the team.  And this card works well because the swatches are all so different, well mostly.  I mean you get a pinstripe from the Hardy section and a nice gray piece of pants from the Yount.  And with Prince's swatch slightly askew it doesn't look exactly like Rickie's piece.  

I think the only thing that would have balanced out this card and made it better is if there was another retired Brewer on the card like Paul Molitor, Cecil Cooper, or Rollie Fingers.  That way you have the balance of old and new.  But I'm not complaining.