2016 Panini Diamond Kings Variations Gallery, Checklist
2016 Panini Diamond Kings variations follow the themes of the rest of the base set. A few veterans here, a handful of legends there and some standout rookies for good measure.
In total, there are 15 players on the variation checklist. They range from Ty Cobb to Lou Gehrig to Kirby Puckett to Mike Trout and Kyle Schwarber.
Not the toughest on the hobby’s variation spectrum, there’s two in every hobby box. That works out to 1:6 packs. As a result, they’re not much harder to find than their regular base counterparts. 2016 Panini Diamond Kings variations also have the same seven parallels as the base set.
No common thread exists between the variants other than offering different images. Some of these stand out immediately. Others require a bit of a closer look. The pictures are still different but the player might be posed in a similar manner with much of the difference coming from the jersey color or background.
Here’s a full list of all the variations in 2016 Panini Diamond Kings Baseball and how to spot them.
2016 Panini Diamond Kings Variations Gallery
7 Honus Wagner, Pittsburgh Pirates
Variation – with glove
Base – with bat
9 Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees
Variation – empty stands
Base – crowd in background
13 Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees
Variation – green background
Base – black background
17 Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates
Variation – green background
Base – crowd in background
21 Ted Williams,Boston Red Sox
Variation – black sleeves
Base – crowd in background
23 Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers
Variation – bats on shoulder
Base – black cap
46 Kirby Puckett, Minnesota Twins
Variation – tongue out
Base – bat visible
59 Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals
Variation – throwing
Base – batting
91 Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
Variation – swinging
Base – batting stance
109 Kris Bryant, Chicago Cubs
Variation – white jersey
Base – pinstripe jersey
141 Kyle Schwarber, Chicago Cubs
Variation – batting
Base – catcher’s gear
142 Corey Seager, Los Angeles Dodgers
Variation – batting
Base – fielding
143 Miguel Sano, Minnesota Twins
Variation – dark jersey
Base – white jersey
144 Michael Conforto, New York Mets
Variation – grey jersey
Base – pinstripe jersey
145 Stephen Piscotty, St. Louis Cardinals
Variation – swinging
Base – batting stance
Comments? Questions? Contact Ryan Cracknell on Twitter @tradercracks.
Are ANY of these variations actually necessary? Every single set does not need this. When you start seeing stuff like the Bryant and the Conforto where the variations are minors at best, I think we really need to reevaluate our collecting priorities.
That being said, thank you for providing a gallery to at least be able to pick these things out.
I completely agree with JDonovan. Card companies are producing products that make it very difficult to complete a collection, whether for a full set or a particular set of players. I have 2016 Bowman coming at the end of this month and I am worried that I will get hooked on the few color parallels inside and spend time and money trying to complete a set of them!
I got so tired of seeing framed cards in so many colors that I just tossed them aside as minor annoyances. Then after seeing the huge checklist I revisited one of the boxes I bought, and discovered that my Joe DiMaggio was not only a Black Frame Parallel but also the photo variation, and an unnumbered 1/1. Hard to tell the wheat from the chaff in all this nonsense.
To Chris with the black framed Joe DiMaggio “1 of 1″… I also have the Black Framed Joe Dimaggio Variation that is supposed to be a 1 of 1… And I saw one on eBay listed as 1 of 1… Email me at mrwillrose1981@gmail.com
@Brian – Are they all the same version of the card, though?
I have a Corey Seager 142b Artist’s Proof with no serial number on it, which I can’t find on the Beckett site.
Ideas?
Here’s what’s in the Beckett database for the 2016 Seager: https://www.beckett.com/search/?term=diamond+kings+seager+142