2011 Topps Baseball "Sparkle" Variation

[otgoal]

Has anyone come across any 2011 Topps baseball sparkle variations?
I understand they are also available in retail packs.
Only a few players are confirmed, but by the looks of the list people are speculating there may be variations found of all players.
The difference is somewhere on the player is a sparkle highlight. Most likely for Topps 60 year diamond anniversary.
Usually on a pitcher the highlight is found on the arm or ball.
Curious if anyone found one.

 

[David K.]

Just about to open a jumbo box right now....I'll take me eyes open for the sparkle variations. Best regards, David

 

[Hoyt55]

I haven't even heard of those, hopefully the Diamond Anniversary ones I just traded aren't one of the "sparkles"!

 

[mindbinge]

I saw one over on blowout...guy pulled it and it was a pitcher..ball had a highlight "star" looking kinda thing on it...other than that it looked the same as the regular.

 

[Yanks21]

They are popping up on Ebay. A Jeter just got listed and is at the opening bid of $30.00 with 6 days to go.

 

[David K.]

Had 10 Sparkle cards in my jumbo box. However, the entire card was in sparkle. Best regards, David

 

[Jeffo65]

Had 10 Sparkle cards in my jumbo box. However, the entire card was in sparkle. Best regards, David

I thought the entire "sparkle" card was the diamond anniversary insert.

 

[bonzomoretti]

The "Diamond Anniversary" cards are parellels similar to the black and gold borders. I have not heard about the sparkle ball thingy!

 

[chief wahoo]

Here's a list of the Diamond Sparkle cards from baseballcardpedia.com:

Diamond Sparkle Gimmicks
5 Joey Votto (helmet)
15 David Wright (jersey)
40 Justin Upton
42 Mariano Rivera (glove)
60 Andrew McCutchen
70 Kyle Drabek (chest)
75 Jered Weaver (chest)
80 Desmond Jennings
92 Tommy Hunter
108 Zack Greinke (jersey)
110 Aroldis Chapman (jersey)
128 Manny Ramirez (wrist)
140 Brett Anderson
150 Miguel Cabrera (hat)
165 Jeremy Hellickson (jersey)
169 Chipper Jones (chest)
174 Roy Oswalt
177 Brian Matusz (jersey)
200 Ichiro (arm)
208 Clay Buchholz
214 Chase Utley (glove)
216 Jose Baustita (neck)
218 Victor Martinez
247 Starlin Castro (pocket)
250 Carlos Gonzalez
270 Ubaldo Jimenez
271 Adam Dunn (neck)
275 Clayton Kershaw
290 Ike Davis
293 Justin Morneau
294 Luke Scott
299 Chris Carpenter (hat)
300 Roy Halladay (ball)
307 Alex Rios (belt)
315 David Ortiz
322 Brent Morel (ear)
330 Derek Jeter (elbow)

 

[tdoran70]

sorry,

I goofed up

 

[travistrue]

Here is an article from Beckett.com about those cards:

http://beta.beckett.com/group/185223/?tab=tabArticles&p=1417752#ViewArticle

 

[Hoyt55]

I picked up 10 retail packs and got these sparkle variants in them:

256 T. Colvin
310 A. Gonzalez

I wonder if they did the whole set in the sparkle variant?!?!?

I think the ones you got are the regular Diamond Anniversary parallels. The "sparkle" ones have an odd sparkle on a specific part of the card, I guess.

WHY does Topps feel the need to keep coming up with these stupid and confusing gags in their set? The set is great, but I hate when they pull stuff like this.

 

[tdoran70]

I think the ones you got are the regular Diamond Anniversary parallels. The "sparkle" ones have an odd sparkle on a specific part of the card, I guess.

WHY does Topps feel the need to keep coming up with these stupid and confusing gags in their set? The set is great, but I hate when they pull stuff like this.

You are correct sir! Sorry for the confusion!!!

 

[otgoal]

Here's a picture from Ebay.
The top photo shows the variation with a "sparkle" (star) on Ichiro's right wrist band.

 

[seawolf17]

These don't bother me as much as full-on variations do. I'm not a hard-core set collector, so maybe it would if I was, but they're just a parallel to me. If you want to collect them, go for it; if not, just ignore them.

 

[worldwideed]

Are there people bothered by these? If so why? They are just baseball cards people, try to enjoy yourself.

 

[Hoyt55]

They don't really bother me too much, I just don't see why they feel the need to insert these variations. I just ignore them.

 

[worldwideed]

Same reason any company does anything, MONEY!

 

[katester44]

I think it depends on how you collect the set. I only collect the base set, so all the variations, etc. don't bother me. If I was trying for a master set, I could understand the frustration in trying to get all the different variations.

With that said, I think this is a pretty cool twist, especially since it is their diamond anniversary. Too bad they didn't have 1/1's with real diamond chips in them instead of computer graphic diamonds....

 

[worldwideed]

I believe there are card with diamonds in them.