2005 Donruss Diamond Kings HOF Heroes #66

Year: 2005

Manufacture: Donruss

Set: Diamond Kings

Card Number: HH-66

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: HOF Heroes

Been awhile, as now seems to be my MO.  Anyways figured I finish writing up a few of the cards I had in my draft folder.  Rollie is featured in the 2005 Donruss Diamond Kings HOF Heroes insert set.  Like a lot of the stars in this insert he has two cards.  This card with a color photo and card number HH-91 with a sepia finish.  And like almost every set put out by Donruss in this time frame this insert set has a ton of parallels, from framed color parallels to relic and autograph parallels.  There was definetaly a lot to hunt in this set with a great checklist or stars, retired players, and HOFers.

2005 Donruss Diamond Kings HOF Heroes Red Border parallel

2005 Donruss Diamond Kings HOF Heroes Green Framed parallel

Year: 2005

Manufacturer: Donruss

Set: Diamond Kings

Card Number: HH-91

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Insert Set: HOF Heroes

Parallel Set: Green Framed

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 21/50

If I had a hankering to try and track down all of Rollies' parallels from this set it would be a lifetime goal.  There are just so many parallels to chase, color wise and relic and autograph wise. Plus Rollie has two cards in the set, double parallels!!

Hard for me to pass up a cheap low numbered card though.  Here we have the green framed and green foil version of Rollies HH-91 (the black and white or sepia or whatever portrait version, HH-66 features the color portrait).

2005 Donruss Diamond Kings HOF Heroes Blue Framed parallel

Card Manufacturer: Donruss

Card Set: Diamond Kings

Year: 2005

Card Number: HH-91

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Inserts Set: HOF Heroes

Parallel Type: Blue Framed

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 082/100

Yowza, I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted here.  I blame it on the lack of new Rollies, among other things.  Rollie only had one licensed card from Topps last year and a hand full of higher end autos and relics from Panini.  Since I've had so little to chase my collecting dollars and interests have kind of left my Mr. Fingers collection to gather dust.  But I do have a few scanned cards to share.

2005 Donruss Diamond Kings one of the most paralleled sets of all time.  So many parallels to chase I doubt even if you had unlimited funds you could put together a complete player rainbow. Not only does this insert have color parallels, but relic, autographed and relic autograph parallels and color parallels of those!  

2005 Donruss Diamond Kings HOF Heroes #91

How is the 2005 Donruss Diamond Kings set like an onion?  

It makes you cry?

It kind of stinks?

You can buy it in 5 pound bags?

No, it has layers.  Lots of layers.  Or in this case parallels.  If you were lucky enough to have a player in this set you collect and wanted to chase you had lots of cards to go after. Not only parallels, but relic versions, autograph versions, relic autograph versions,  and all of those versions have parallels as well.  I think you get the drift.  Also take into account Rollie has two cards in this insert set.  This one and #66 so there are literally hundreds of cards possible.  And it's hard to tell them apart.  I'm pretty sure this is the base card for the set, but there is a parallel called the non-canvas version that looks exactly like this.  I'd probably need to dig out the standard catalog and even then...  The point is there are lots of cards in this set for each player, lots.  My other big player collection featuring Mr. Robin Yount also has a ton of cards in this set.  But that was all the rage in 2005.  Upper Deck's Baseball Heroes also features a ton of parallels and variations.

Anyway, we have here a basic base card of some sort.  It's really set up for the relic and auto versions.  with the relics being placed to the right in that open area above the Diamond Kings logo and the sticker autos being placed on the lower part of the card.