Vlad Jr 2 The ReVladdening

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As the post title suggests, I'm going to show the rest of the Vlad Jr cards I got. I'll then start showing the Vlad Sr cards in the next post. 

Heritage cards are always interesting. Since they've stopped producing Archives, I may need to do Heritage for the years without Archives. 

Donruss cards from the Panini Era are interesting. You know they're unlicensed. There's going to be some sort of gimmick to make them interesting. And the parallels generally look better than the base. 

A DK from the DK.. 

The one thing that's kind of confusing for me is the Chronicles set. I guess they use different names and designs from past sets they no longer produce like Aficianado. I'm glad there was a little sticker on the penny sleeve telling me the set name and the card number. 

A Manu-relic. They're interesting but I don't get it really.. lol You can't really display it anywhere. 

Some more Panini stuff.. I like the SR/Jr card here. 

Having a version of the Jays logo is an interesting but cool design choice here. 

Another Heritage card. I can just imagine the temptation they would have had to make endless border parallels of this set. 

Big League.. I so wish Topps didn't screw the product up as badly as they did.. This and Total 

Those Finest cards are unique. The Cosmic card was just confusing. 

Cards where Christmas threw up on the cards!

Finally a Topps Chrome card from this year. 

Thank you again Diamond King!

Vladimir Guerrero Jr

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The next few posts will be about a box I got from the Diamond King. 

He emailed me to ask for my address, saying he had some cards he wanted to send my way. What I received has been glorious!

A stack of Vlad Jr, a stack of Vlad Sr, and some other Jays and Expos mixed in. 

The Vlads will likely each be two posts because of the number. 

I'm glad there aren't many Bowman cards in here. I hate trying to differentiate the Bowmans.. Almost as much as finding the dot variations in the copyright lines of Wax Era Donruss.. 

A Diamond King from The Diamond King

Despite the lack of logos, I do like the DKs that are stylized like this. 

From what I could tell, this was one of the incentive cards from National Baseball Card Day a few years ago 

Is it me or do the eyes look a little wonky here?

Sparkly!!! Topps 2030. Interesting.

I was happy to see two copies of this card. I think I may have one or two that are uncatalogued already, but that'll be figured out once I can get back in my back room

I got one regular and one Artists Proof. Very cool looking cards

Finally some Panini cards to end this post. It's a large addition to my Jays/Vlad Jr collections. 

Next post will be part 2, then two posts about the stack of Vlad Sr.. 

Then the rest.. lol

I'm not sure if I'll post before or not, but if this is the last post, Merry Christmas! Hope it's a good one and if you know anyone who may be alone or going through a tough time, please try to set aside a few minutes to call or visit them.. I know it's a hectic time of year where time gets away from all of us, but that small gesture could be what keeps that person going.