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.

2008 Donruss Threads - Silver Century Proof

Year: 2008

Manufacturer: Donruss

Set: Threads

Card Number: 29

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Silver Century Proof

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 037/100

As I've stated before this last year's haul from COMC's Black Friday sale concentrated more on filling in holes and picking up fairly common cards, but I did manage to snag a couple low numbered parallels for the collection.  Next up we have one of Donruss' last issues before being bought by Panini.  This was also before Topps got exclusivity on the hobby, but Donruss made this set without a MLB license or an MLBPA license.  And still got away with using true team colors and partial logos.  This was before Upper Deck pretty much made sure that wouldn't happen again.  For an unlicensed set it's not bad,  the overall design is nice I like the baseball rounds in the corner, but for the most part the card is pretty simple and they sure didn't waste any money putting too much information on the back of the card.

2002 Topps Tribute

Year: 2002

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Tribute

Card Number: 40

Card Type: Base

We are on the downhill run of my Black Friday COMC pick-posts, I promise.  But we still have a few more cards to get through.  Like I've stated before this year was more about filling in holes than picking up cool parallels or inserts, but I still managed a few of both.  The next card up is probably from the highest end set in the bunch.  Tribute was one of Topps' first real premium high end brands and still is, even if it's been eclipsed by even more expensive sets.  The set features some great autographs, relics, and auto relic cards, some of which Robin has in the set, there are also two very low numbered parallel sets called, First Impressions and Lasting Impressions.  

This is another card that should have probably already been in the collection, but was somehow missed.  The cards is very shiny. I like the overall look of the card, the set is themed around Milestones and celebrates Robin's 3000th hit. I even like that Topps used it's copyright notice as a border on the back of the card.