parrallelapalooza

well it's the end of the year and i've made some progress in clearing out my scanned folder through the "almost daily dodger" series of posts and other random ramblings throughout the year. several months ago, i started dumping scans of parallels into this draft, and i figure new year's eve is as good a time as any to hit publish.

enjoy a year end celebration of a variety of parallels!

steve finley's 2005 fleer ultra card is one of my favorite dodger cards of all time. about a year ago i picked up the gold medallion parallel

and the platinum medallion parallel

viva fernando!

these next two are parallels of an insert from 2000 pacific revolution

holo silver and holo gold parallels, to be exact.

the gold borders from 2002 topps aren't the most obvious when they are scanned

but you can tell in hand.

refractor parallels of cards from 2010 topps 206

are a bit strange because of the old-timey design, but they are still shiny.

here are a bunch of random parallels from 2011 through 2018

sluggo sent me a bunch of alex wood cards a year or so ago in one of our trades. and, i suppose technically the allen & ginter x card isn't a parallel since it's a base card of that set, but that set is a parallel of the regular allen & ginter set, so...

in 2015, topps issued three versions of these 1st home run inserts, and this is yasiel puig's gold version

and then in series 2 there was a white version, too. but not one of the series 1 versions. weird.

blackless cards used to be a mistake, but in 2018 topps gypsy queen

they were done on purpose

here's a more recent gold parallel

that parallel seems basic compared to some of the ones that panini came up with in recent years. this is a 2020 panini prizm cosmic haze parallel

and it's just one of literally dozens of parallels available of that card.

in 2020, topps introduced royal blue parallels. this one is from 2021 topps

and in 2022 they introduced ray wave refractors.

that cody bellinger card is from the 2022 topps chrome sonic set which thankfully was a one and done. now topps puts these refractors in regular chrome releases.

yellow parallels used to be a retail exclusive thing, but i don't think this 2024 topps card

was part of any walgreens exclusive

the aqua parallels from 2024, like this freddie freeman card,

were exclusive to fanatics packs.

finally, topps has continued with "holiday" themed parallels since debuting them in 2023 update. i suppose this is a way to support the huge print runs of base cards. here's a 2024 topps series 1 "base" holiday parallel

and a series 2 "base" holiday parallel

as well. 

i am sure 2025 will bring more of the same, but bring it on. happy new year!