2012 Panini Playoff Prime Cuts Hats Off Relic card

Year: 2012

Manufacturer: Panini

Card Set: Playoff Prime Cuts

Card Number: 8

Card Type: Insert Relic

Card Attributes: Relic, Serial Numbered

Relic Set: Hats Off

Relic Type: Hat (I think)

Serial Number: 09/99

Been a on a bit of break.  I was recently down in Wisconsin for my brothers wedding and then as soon as I got back I had some field work.  And I was suppose to have another 2 weeks of field work, but I ended up pulling a muscle in my lower back, which sucks by the way.

Anyways I'm back and feeling better, somewhat. 

Here's one of my latest pickups. Robin has a few different cards in this set, but this relic is by far the least rare of the bunch and hence affordable.  I like the look of the cards in the set other than the fact that Robin looks like a North Korean factory worker.  I also have a soft spot for odd ball relics.  We get a ton of jersey/pants and bat relics, but rarely do you see hat relics. At least I think this is a hat relic, why else would you call the insert Hats Off?  Although no where on the card does it state what kind of relic it is.  

2015 Panini Immaculate has a few Younts

And I mean just a few, 3 to be exact.

Robin has a card in the Immaculate Heroes Materials set.  It'll look similar to  Killer's below.

According to the checklist put out by Panini Robin's base card with be numbered to just 25, with a blue parallel numbered to 15 and a prime patch parallel numbered to 5.

2014 Topps High Tek Gold Diffractor

Year: 2014

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Set: High Tek

Card Number: HT-RY

Card Type: Base Parallel 

Parallel Set: Gold Diffractor

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 89/99

Another deal I got from COMC.  I was really glad I had a little credit sitting in my account when the seller put this up with a ridiculously low price.  The least rare of the diffractors the card looks great in hand and even scans pretty decent.

2012 Panini Cooperstown Credentials

Year: 2012

Manufacturer: Panini

Card Set: Cooperstown

Card Number: 7

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Credentials

You gotta love cards that don't feature a picture of their subject.  No really you don't.  This is one of the 4 insert cards Robin had in the set.  He also had a base card with parallels and an autograph.  And oddly enough it's one of two inserts that doesn't feature his likeness.  

There's a lot going on in the front of the card, which is pretty much a summary of his Hall of Fame prowess.  It seems odd that there's no mention of 3142 hits on the front. Since belonging to the 3000 hits club, along with his two MVP awards, was why he was a first ballot selection.

1995 Upper Deck Electric Diamond

Year: 1995

Manufacturer: Upper Deck

Card Set: Upper Deck Baseball

Card Number:446

Card Type: Base Parallel

Parallel Set: Electric Diamond

I had thought about trying to insert some Youtube video of Electric Avenue or the Electric Slide, but alas I'm just not up for that.  

Instead we'll just feature one of Upper Deck's answers to the Topps Gold craze.  Not nearly as cool and other Electric Diamond sets, this parallel pretty much just a silver point baseball diamond around the Upper Deck logo.  This would be one of Robin's last cards till his induction in the Hall of Fame in 1999.  Robin had a handful of card in 1995 and Robin being included in the Upper Deck set was a tribute to his career.

2014 Panini Hall of Fame 75th Anniversary Blue Shield Red Parallel

Year: 2014

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Hall of Fame 75th Anniversary

Card Number: 83

Card Type: Base Variation Parallel

Variation Type: Blue Shield

Parallel: Red Foil

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 21/50

In the past Topps has put out some pretty interesting set configurations.  So I'll assume this is Panini's attempt not to be outdone.  I'll do my best to break down the set for you before we get to Robin's card.  The base set consisted of 100 players, each of those players had 3 base card variations all numbered to just 75.  So right there the base cards are super rare.  On top of that each of those 3 base cards had 5 color parallels (red, blue, green, gold, and black) all very low numbered.  Robin had a bunch of other insert cards in the set also very low numbered.  I have a complete checklist and some images here.

This is my first card of Robin's from the set I've been able to acquire.  This is another deal I found on COMC.   This might be the priciest of the cards I had in my last shipment, but it was still under $5.

What I have here is Robin's Blue Shield variation Red foil parallel.  The other two variations are a green shield and a red shield and they use different photos for all three cards.

Not a bad first card to add to the collection.  Overall it is what it is.  The backs look very similar to Panini's other Cooperstown offerings.  Back in October of last year I had stated that I'd like to at least get a set of the base cards.  That's proving to be a little harder than I thought.  Both from the price point and just the general availability, but that's all part of the fun of the chase.

2015 Panini Donruss All Time Diamond Kings Silver Press Proof

Year: 2015

Card Manufactuer: Panini

Card Set: Donruss

Card Number: 8

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Insert Set: All Time Diamond Kings

Parallel Set: Silver Press Proof

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 40/49

Another card I picked up using my free store credit over at COMC.  When I acquired Robin's base card from this set I didn't really think I'd be able to pick up either of the two parallels, because they were so low numbered and I am so cheap.  As a matter of fact, I picked this card up right after I bitched about how it's so hard to find good deals at COMC anymore.  

I won't rehash my evaluation on the card I think I did that well enough when I posted the base card.  I still can't get over the fact that it looks like Robin is in a Cubs uniform though.  

I am glad to be able to add this card to the collection and I did it fairly cheap.  I make no illusions I'd doubt I'll see the Gold parallel version.  Those are numbered to just 10 and I've only seen one come to auction.