2013 Panini Cooperstown Gold Crystal Parallel

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

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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.

2013 Panini Cooperstown - Red Pennant box topper

Year: 2013

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Cooperstown

Card Number: 16

Card Type: Box Topper

Insert  Set: Red Pennants

I just got in my Black Friday order from COMC.  Included in the box was 26 new Yount items.  Some I've had sitting in my portfolio for over a year and others I picked up during the Black Friday sale on the site.  One of those items is this 2013 Panini Cooperstown Red Pennant box topper.  This was by far the most expensive item I picked up during the sale, but I still got it for a really good price.  This and it's sister blue pennant have been incredibly ellusive.  I've only seen a couple of these pop up on eBay and most of the time they either go for way more than I want to spend or the price tag is way too high.  So when one of these popped up on COMC for less than $9 I couldn't resist finally adding it to the collection.  I'm not sure how rare either pennant is but from just from the sheer lack of seeing them very often I'd say they are pretty scarce.  2013 Cooperstown had a couple different box topper possibilities.  Besides the pennants there was also a die-cut Cooperstown Lumberjacks topper you could pull.  These are about 5-6 inches long and about 4 inches wide at the top and surprisingly stiff.  The pennants are a homage to the 1916 Ferguson Bakery pennants.  I'm still on the look out for its blue counterpart.

2013 Panini Cooperstown Colgan's Disc

Card Manufacturer: Panini

Card Set: Cooperstown

Year: 2013

Card Number: NNO

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Colgan's Discs

One of the cool inserts in this year's Panini Cooperstown set is the Colgan's discs. A nod to the original Colgan's Chips discs that were produced from 1909 - 1913.  These are found one per pack and Panini has produced a huge 165 disc set.  

2013 Panini Cooperstown

Panini's second year of putting out the Coopertown themed set and the second year that Mr. Yount gets a base card. He also as at least one insert in the set and I do believe he might have an auto in the set as well.  

Here we have the base and the green crystal shard parallel (unnumbered)

There are also blue, red, gold, matrix (all numbered), and the 1/1 black crystal shard parallels

I like the design this year. I'm not incredibly fond of the head shot, but it's a nice looking card even without the logos and the crystal shard parallels are pretty in hand.