1991 Panini Stickers #166

Year: 1991

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Baseball Stickers

Card Number: 166

Card Type: Base Sticker

COMC Black Friday Haul #43

After the past few posts with those flashy parallels and serial numbers it's time to get back to basics.  Kids nowadays thing of Panini as this big time card company but a couple decades ago Panini was know primarily for their sticker sets.  I mean they still do stickers.  Anyway, last year I made an effort to try and fill a few holes in my collection by picking up as many Panini and Topps stickers as I could find for a decent price.  One of those missing was this 1991 #166.  Nothing flashy here, but a nice action shot, 1990 base stats and some good advice from Panini on the back.

1988 Panini Stickers #129

Year: 1988

Manufacture: Panini

Set: Album Stickers

Card Number: 129

Card Type: Base Sticker

COMC Black Friday Haul #12

Last year, sometime well before Black Friday, I had made a small push to find some of the 80's and 90's Panini Stickers I was missing.  Lucky for me COMC had quite a few for a good price and picked up a handful to add to the collection.  I'm not sure why, but I really like the overall look of these '88s.  Maybe it's the simplicity in the design, but we get a nice smiling head shot and sticker that has all the other requirements: player name, team name, and logo.  Bam.  Plus on the back Panini reminds us how to make collecting their stickers fun.

1991 Panini Top 15 Baseball Canadian Sticker

Year: 1991

Manufacture: Panini

Set: Top 15 Canadian Stickers

Card Number: 56

Card Type: Base Sticker

Next up from my recent shipment from COMC from their Black Friday sale a very large Panini Sticker.  This is another card I didn't actually buy during the Black Friday sale, but rather I picked up this sticker and a couple others back in August.  These are called a couple different things.  The TCDB calls this set the Panini Canadian Top 15, and that makes sense as there is both English and French on the card, I don't believe there was an American equivalent.  There's a lot I like about this sticker.  First is almost baseball card size, so it's big.  Second, Panini using a great full color action shot of Robin.  And third, I like that big colorful 4.  I'm not positive so if I'm wrong I hope someone will correct me but with some minimal research I believe the #4 refers to Robin being in 4th place for Runs in 1990, and the 98 is the total number of runs, I assume RBIs, that Robin had.  The backs are pretty plain, but this after all is a sticker and the backs were meant to be thrown away.  And it was cheap so it's even better.  I'm slowly building and chipping away at my old Panini and Topps Sticker needs.  Anyone have any favorite baseball stickers?

1989 Panini Stickers

Year: 1989

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Baseball Stickers

Card Number: 337

Card Type: Base Sticker

For Topps' National Baseball Card Day I visited both my LCS's in the Anchorage area.  While at Don's I picked up some cheap autos and relics off his drop boards and he had a super shoebox full of miscellaneous baseball cards for $10 bucks.  It was hard to resist especially since I noticed a stack of 89 Panini stickers in the mix.  When I got home and started sorting out the cards I found that about a third of the box was 2012 Panini Triple Play and another third was 1990 Topps.  But doing a little digging there was some gold to be found.  In the box I was not only able to find one Yount card I needed, but two.  I'll feature the other card a little later.  One of my goals before COMC's next Black Friday sale is to have my sticker needs, both Panini and Topps, and try to bust them out.

But I can scratch off Robin's 1989 Panini Sticker from my list.  I consider this my barn find.  I was also lucky enough to pick up about half the Brewers team for the set.  I like the look of the sticker, simple nice team colors on the border and banners.

Fear not I plan on giving out baseball cards, as well as candy, for Halloween this year, and these will make great filler.