It's hard to believe that we now have a seventh year of the Panini version of Donruss. Seven years of logoless stuff is seven year too many in my opinion, but what do I know. If if didn't make Panini money, they would have cut it.
The base set consist of 262 cards. It features several subsets: Diamond King, Rated Rookies, Veterans, and Retro 1986. THere are also photo variation cards and parallels. I've limited myself to the regulars and variations, skipping the parallels.
Javier Baez is the Diamond King for the Cubs.
Alzolay's cards are in the Retro 1989 subset and he has a photo variation too.
Nico Hoerner is the lone Cub among the Rated Rookies.
The fronts of the Rizzo cards are the same. The variation is on the back, where instead of saying Chicago, it says Chi-Town.
Ugh. I've never understood logo-less cards. The designs have been nice sure, but to not have your team's name or logo on it? I won't buy it.
ReplyDeleteChi-Town back variation? Oh man... Panini (and Topps) sure love their variations. I guess if they're all super cheap it's no harm, no foul.
ReplyDeleteJosh Bell has a Steel City variant, but I have no interest in it since its only on the back.
ReplyDeleteYes, how is there still a market for this logoless nonsense?
ReplyDeleteNo doubt because there are people who will but this sub-standard stuff "because it's there".
ReplyDeleteSo Panini wins. If most will say "no, I'm not spending money on half-(baked) cards", they will stop.
Instead, we are telling the companies we will buy any old crap they put out there.
Two photos of Alzolay mid-windup and then calling it a photo veriations is so lazy. At least have one be pitching and the other doing non-pitching baseball things.
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