red and some other select cards

i noticed a lot of red in my scanned folder so figured i would create a corresponding post.

sometime last year, i completed my red parallel dodger team set of 2009 topps unique

thanks to chad billingsley, andre ethier, manny ramirez, and jim thome. those four fellows join matt kemp, clayton kershaw, and russell martin in my team binder. as an aside, this may be the most upper decky set topps has ever produced. i don't know why, but i always want to call it upper deck unique.

here's a 2013 topps mark ellis parallel

that was exclusive to target

2020 topps opening day justin turner red foil

i don't think that the red foil cards were exclusive to a retailer, but they might have been.

2025 topps heritage gavin stone

and the alcs/nlcs card

i think these are target exclusives?

panini does red, too. here's a 2022 panini mosaic mookie betts red mosaic parallel

and a 2022 panini donruss red parallel of kenley jansen

that one is numbered to 2022, and this 2023 panini donruss brooks lee red holo parallel

is numbered to 2023. i guess the red parallel (one of them, anyway) is/are panini's topps gold equivalent.

now here's a 2023 panini prizm jim gilliam ruby wave parallel

it's sort of red.

and this 2022 panini prizm walker buehler parallel

is one-third red, as it's a red white & blue parallel. more like red white & buehler!

finally, here's a red prizm parallel of steve garvey's 2024 panini select card.

it's numbered to 149 on the back

it was a nice surprise to see garvey included in that release, and i joined a couple of player breaks back when the cards first came out.  i wound up with mostly base

but did also get a holo prizm

i wound up buying some parallels on the secondary marker, like this orange flash prizm

this red white & blue prizm

and this tricolor prizm

this light blue prizm

numbered to 199 

arrived via one of my break entries.

back to the secondary market for this black and blue prizm

numbered to 49

and it's the bookend!

one of the breaks i joined really paid off when the seller pulled this tie dye prizm

that is numbered to just 25

very nice.

there are (of course) many more parallels out there, and i had one (white prizm) go missing in the mail. i don't have any others queued up for purchase, but never say never.