2019 Topps Allen and Ginter X

Year: 2019 

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Allen and Ginter X

Card Number: 352

Card Type: Base

COMC Black Friday Card Haul #38

With a little down time due to the Coronavirus I'm trying to get  a bunch of these Black Friday posts set up as possible.  I also realize that there are going to be a ton of 2019 cards to post about.

Next up is Robin's 2019 Allen and Ginter X card.  Topps has been doing the online A and G X for a few year's now.  I'm not a huge fan of the set.  Oh I like the look of the cards.  If this had just been a black base parallel I would have liked it just as much, but paralleling a set and repackaging it has another whole product seems to me like a big lazy cop out.  But to each their own.  I was able to snag this base card and Robin's base mini parallel, which I've already featured, during this last Black Friday event.  Nice to see Topps didn't bother fixing their numbering screw up either in this set.

2019 Topps Faces of the Franchise Black Parallel

Year: 2019 

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship

Card Number: FOF-16

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Insert Set: Faces of the Franchise

Parallel Set: Black

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 168/299

COMC Black Friday Card Haul #37

I've featured the base card and the blue parallel so far.  I was able to snag this black serial numbered parallel during Black Friday to add to the rainbow.  It's a great card with a great premise.  The choice of Yeli, Yount, and Fingers highlights 3 of the 4 Brewers who have won an MVP title.  Ryan Braun being the other player.  With Christian's new contract it's possible he'll retire a Brewer as well.

2019 Topps 150th Anniversary of Professional Baseball #150-138

Year: 2019 

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship (Series 1)

Card Number: 150-138

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: 150 Years of Professional Baseball

COMC Black Friday Haul #36

The last post featured Robin's first card in this insert set and now it's time for the other.  The 150 Year's of Professional Baseball Series 1 insert was subdivided into 3 sub-sets, Greatest Players, Greatest Seasons, and Greatest Moments.  This card celebrates Robin's great 1982 season in which he took the Brewers to their only World Series appearance and he won his first MVP title.

2019 Topps 150th Anniversary of Professional Baseball #150-55

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship

Card Number: 150-55

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: 150 years of Professional Baseball (Greatest Players)

COMC Black Friday Haul #35

Last year Topps celebrated the 150th Anniversary of professional baseball with multiple insert sets highlighting all sorts of topics.  One of the continuing inserts was the 150 Years of Professional Baseball.  Series 1 had 150 cards, Series 2 had 100 more cards, but this time broken down into the 3 separate sets, Greatest Players, Greatest Moments, and Greatest Seasons, with their own card numbers, and Update had another 100 cards featured, back in a single set.  Topps sure didn't want to make it easy.  Anyway, Robin has two cards in the set both from Series 1.  One in the Greatest Players sub-set and the other which I will feature later in the Greatest Seasons.  This card highlights his two MVP awards, 3000+ hits, etc.  

2019 Topps Update Legends Variation

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Topps Update

Card Number: US168

Card Type: Variation

Variation Type: Legends SP

COMC Black Friday Haul #34

We got a double dip in 2019 with Robin getting a Legends Variation in Series 2 and again in the Update series.  Topps picked another great photo to use for Robin's card.  Personally I'm a big fan of these legends variations. First there's no doubt when you pull one of these that you have something special and it's a great way to get retired and HOF players into a new set.  

2019 Topps Historic Through-Lines

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship (Series 2)

Card Number: HTL-47

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Historic Through-Lines

COMC Black Friday Haul #33

Seems like a fitting card as Christian Yelich just signed a deal with the Brewers that will keep him in Blue and Gold through most of this decade.  Not only that with the emergence of Yelich's stardom he has supplanted Ryan Braun as the go to Brewers for the teams token representation in insert sets.  I'm not complaining, but I didn't want Braun to completely disappear as he pretty much has.  I find it unlikely that Braun will be a Brewer much longer, but he's still productive and an asset to the team so who knows?  

The card links the two Brewers with their MVP titles.  Christian was in the running again last year until he got injured, but Bellinger more than deserved the title.  

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.

2019 Panini Prizm Base

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Prizm

Card Number: 216

Card Type: Base

COMC Black Friday Haul #31

Nothing super exciting today.  Just a plain old base card.  I always thought the Prizm was Panini's answer to Topps Chrome, but in reality it's their answer to Finest.  Prizm has always felt clunky, and it still does.  I'm not sold on the over all design, but at least on this year's card the uniform colors aren't so terrible.  The one nice thing is there are a ton of parallel to chase (if you're into that) and I picked up a bunch during the Black Friday event.  Robin's card is number 216 which puts it in the Tier III category, but I'm not sure what that even means.  I would assume it has to do with rarity, but I've yet to see any good answer as to why there are three tiers in the base set and what that actually means.

2019 Topps Allen and Ginter Mini Framed Relic

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps 

Set: Allen and Ginter

Card Number: MFR-RY

Card Type: Insert, Relic

Insert Set: Mini Framed Relics

Relic Type: Jersey

Card Attributes: Piece of Authentic Jersey

COMC Black Friday Haul #30

I realize as I'm writing up these posts that I have a ton of 2019 cards to show off from this year's COMC Black Friday Haul.  I've been trying to mix it up going back and forth, but I realize eventually there are just going to have to me a lot of 2019 card posts.  Anyway....

I picked up a lot of inserts and parallels this year, but also managed to add a few relics.  One that I was happy to snag was Robin's relic from 2019 Allen and Ginter.  I'm a big fan of the set even though I've given up trying to put the base sets together I love the vintage designs and various mini card sets.  I also love when Robin gets included in the set and this year not only did he have a base card and all the parallels that come with that, but this very handsome relic card.  I was lucky enough to get a great deal on it during the Black Friday event and this one even has a hint of color so it's not so boring.  Reminds me of the height of relic cards and how much more cards with pinstripe or other detail went for.

2005 Donruss Diamond Kings - Team Timeline

Year: 2005

Manufacturer: Donruss

Set: Diamond Kings

Card Number: TT-22

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Team Timeline

COMC Black Friday Haul #29

For those who weren't collecting in 2003-2005 it was the height of sets produced for baseball products (and other sports).  While the late 80's and early 90's saw the height of the junk was era, the mid-2000's saw hundreds and hundreds of different sets being produced.  It should come as no surprise that 2005 was also the year that the most Robin Yount cards were produced, with over 1000 being produced.

While that may seem daunting to a player collector I've long since come to terms that I'll never own every Yount card.  But for me the chase is where the enjoyment comes in and 2005 has a lot to hunt.

Point in case is this card.  I already had the relic version of this card, but the base card has eluded me til now.  Actually it's probably elude me simply because I hadn't been bothered to chase after it, but it popped up for sale during the Black Friday event at COMC.  The card commemorates Lyle's achievement of surpassing Robin as the Brewers single season HR leader.