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Barry Larkin
Year: 2001
Brand: Donruss
Insert set: 1999 Retrospective
Card number: 8
The 2001 Donruss baseball set is a veritable mess of set in so many different ways. For one thing, the set is terrible confusing - take today's card as a prime example. This is a 2001 Donruss card but it's actually an insert based on the 1999 Donruss set (that never existed). Confused yet? Even worse, there is also a 2000 Retrospective insert set based on, you guessed it, the 2000 Donruss set that also never existed. In theory, the two designs are based on Donruss' football designs from each year - but the players featured are accurate as of the "retro" year (as are the stats) which makes for a very confusing card to figure out what you have in hand a decade or two later!
Here's what makes 2001 Donruss even more infuriating as a player collector. By my count, Barry has the following cards in the set:
Base card #44
Base card #44 Season's Best Bronze parallel #/999
Base card #44 Season's Best Silver parallel #/499
Base card #44 Season's Best Gold parallel #/99
Base card #44 Season Stat Line parallel #/71
Base card #44 Career Stat Line parallel #/300
1999 Retroactive insert #8 (today's featured card)
1999 Retroactive insert Career Stat Line parallel #/305
1999 Retroactive insert Season Stat Line parallel #/166
2000 Retroactive insert #31
2000 Retroactive insert Career Stat Line parallel #/168
2000 Retroactive insert Season Stat Line parallel #/75
Rookie Reprints insert #RR19
Anniversary Originals slabbed buyback card
Good grief - and the worst part is that I'm not even sure that's the full list of Larkin cards in the set!
It's safe to say that 2001 Donruss isn't high on my "must collect" list, though as always, I wouldn't turn down any new Barry Larkin cards from the set (even if they are the pointless parallels)!
Year: 2001
Brand: Donruss
Insert set: 1999 Retrospective
Card number: 8
The 2001 Donruss baseball set is a veritable mess of set in so many different ways. For one thing, the set is terrible confusing - take today's card as a prime example. This is a 2001 Donruss card but it's actually an insert based on the 1999 Donruss set (that never existed). Confused yet? Even worse, there is also a 2000 Retrospective insert set based on, you guessed it, the 2000 Donruss set that also never existed. In theory, the two designs are based on Donruss' football designs from each year - but the players featured are accurate as of the "retro" year (as are the stats) which makes for a very confusing card to figure out what you have in hand a decade or two later!
Here's what makes 2001 Donruss even more infuriating as a player collector. By my count, Barry has the following cards in the set:
Base card #44
Base card #44 Season's Best Bronze parallel #/999
Base card #44 Season's Best Silver parallel #/499
Base card #44 Season's Best Gold parallel #/99
Base card #44 Season Stat Line parallel #/71
Base card #44 Career Stat Line parallel #/300
1999 Retroactive insert #8 (today's featured card)
1999 Retroactive insert Career Stat Line parallel #/305
1999 Retroactive insert Season Stat Line parallel #/166
2000 Retroactive insert #31
2000 Retroactive insert Career Stat Line parallel #/168
2000 Retroactive insert Season Stat Line parallel #/75
Rookie Reprints insert #RR19
Anniversary Originals slabbed buyback card
Good grief - and the worst part is that I'm not even sure that's the full list of Larkin cards in the set!
It's safe to say that 2001 Donruss isn't high on my "must collect" list, though as always, I wouldn't turn down any new Barry Larkin cards from the set (even if they are the pointless parallels)!
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