Panini Cooperstown Auto

Just got my second Rollie auto in the mail this week.  I found this one for an insanely good price right after I found that Golden Age auto.  Sure it's a sticker auto, but the card is numbered to just 19.  As a matter of fact it's 19/19.  Which would have been an awesome card had this been a Robin Yount auto.  It's still awesome as a Rollie card, but I could give a crap of the serial number the seller was so proud of.

Welcome to the collection.  Now who wants a mushtache ride?

The Golden Age

So if you haven't heard Topps extended their exclusive deal till the next decade, but the MLBPA gave Upper Deck a new license and I'm sure Panini will hold onto there's as well.  Last year and part of this year Panini put out three Hall of Fame sets more or less.  There first one was Cooperstown and there second was Golden Age.

Both sets and National Treasures have no logos and Panini got away from having that old food issue look by  cropping out logos and using black and white photos and not airbrushing out stuff.   In Golden Age they also put out Tobacco size minis most of which I still need to pick up for Rollie here.

Rollie has a base card which I featured, but he also has a nice auto in the set.

So here we have Rollie Fingers' Panini Golden Age Historic Signatures card.  The best part about this card other than I got it for a steal is that it's signed on card.  

I also like that Panini went retro with the backs.

2012 Panini National Treasures Patch card

Rollie has a ton of cool card in National Treasures this year.  Some autos and some great relics.  I ended up getting this great patch card serial numbered to just 25 for well under the price of a blaster deliveried.

Mission Accomplished - 2012 Panini Cooperstown Rollie Fingers Auto

Last post, which I admit was a while ago, I stated I was trying to get Rollie's 2012 Panini Cooperstown auto card and get it for under $10.  And while I would have loved to picked this card up for under $10 delivered I still managed to meet my objective and the card had reasonable shipping.

Panini Cooperstown is kind of hit or miss.  While I like the base design, Panini doing what they can with what they have, I really like the look of this Signatures.  Robin Yount also has a card in this set, but only numbered to 100 and I haven't been able to get a hold of one of those yet.  But another great Rollie Fingers autograph gets added to the collection.

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.