Barry Larkin Collection 749: 2004 Donruss Diamond Kings - #138

Barry Larkin

Year:  2004

Brand:  Donruss Diamond Kings

Card number:  138

The 2004 Donruss Diamond Kings set reminds me an awful lot of the old "wanted posters" from the Wild West days of US history.  I don't know much about the 2004 DK set but a quick glance at Baseballcardpedia shows me that there are a ton of parallels of this particular Larkin card:

• Bronze (#/100)
• Silver (#/50)
• Platinum (#/1)
• Framed Bronze
• Framed Silver (#/100)
• Framed Gold (#/25)
• Framed Platinum White (#/1)
• Framed Platinum Grey (#/1)
• Framed Platinum Black (#/1)
• Platinum (#/1)

Woah!  That's an awful lot of cards to try and track down some day!  But that's not all!  Barry Larkin was also featured in the relic portion of the set which is essentially a partial parallel of the base set.  For that, you can find Larkin in the following cards:

• DK Materials Bronze 
• DK Materials Silver 
• DK Materials Gold 
• DK Materials Platinum (#/1)
• DK Materials Framed Bronze 
• DK Materials Framed Silver  
• DK Materials Framed Gold
• DK Materials Framed Platinum Black (#/1)
• DK Materials Framed Platinum Gray (#/1)
• DK Materials Framed Platinum White (#/1)

The various Larkin relic bits are serially numbered but I couldn't find specific information for how many of each type were produced (the numbers vary by player).

Amazingly, it could have been worse...Barry wasn't part of the similarly crazy autograph partial parallel set!

I don't plan on ever chasing after various 1/1 Larkin cards (that's a fool's errand if you ask me) but I would like to track down any of the parallels for which there are at least 25 copies in existence.  Obviously, I have a long, long ways to go on this particular set!