2020 Topps Living - Rollie Alert

Rollie is featured in this weeks Topps Living offering.  Featured as an Athletic with signature mustache.

https://www.topps.com/topps-mlbr-living-settm-card-281-rollie-fingers.html

2005 Upper Deck Past Time Pennants Gold

I'm still digging through the collection, since the looks like 2013 will not be a very good Rollie year for new sports cards.  By my count there are only 3 new cards. Two autos in Panini's Cooperstown Collection and a Colgan's disc insert.  I'm not counting the Tristar cut auto cards.  

So lets take a trip back in time to 2005.  There were lots of products coming out in 2005. And there were lots of Rollie Fingers cards to be had.

I remember when this came out. You got a little Mitchel and Ness mini pennant as a top loader. I bought a box of this way back then. My pennant was one commemorating the 1932 World Series with the Yankees vs the Cubs. Can you guess who won?  I don't remember what else I pulled. I know you got a couple autos and I think a relic too.  I'm also pretty sure I did not pull this Rollie out of that box.  No, I'm fairly certain I got him off of ebay.

Rollie has a couple autos in the set as well, but this card is his Gold Parallel card numbered to just 50.

I also just realized looking at the back of the card here, that Rollie is 5 days older than my father.  But he's also almost 6 inches taller.

2012 Panini Cooperstown Collection

Been a while since I picked up a new Rollie.  Rollie has a base card and parallel and a other inserts in this year Panini Cooperstown Collection and Golden Age.  I just picked his base card up with a bunch of other cards from justcommons.com  I'm still looking for the Crystal parallel and other inserts and been trying to pick a copy of this autographed card for under $10 bucks.  It'll happen, I'm patient.

I actually really like this set.  It's simple and Panini did a lot of close cropping and used black and white photos to get around not having an MLB license, but the over all look of the cards isn't all that bad.  Plus you've got all HOFers.

I've been waiting for his Golden Age stuff to really start clogging the market.  Golden Age has mini tobacco size cards with various backs and parallels, so I've got those to look forward too.