2005 Donruss Diamond Kings

[mdljhu]

I just stumbled across this forum and figured I'd post this up. I found Blowout Cards a little over 2 years ago on Ebay and bought a bunch of '05 DK boxes. Aside from all of the memorabilia and autograph cards, these five inserts all came out of one box:

Edgar Renteria Framed Red Platinum Parallel - #1/1
Jeff Bagwell Framed Blue Platinum Parallel - #1/1
Alex Rodriguez Framed Green Platinum Parallel - #1/1
Shea Hillenbrand Framed Red Platinum Parallel - #1/1
Bob Gibson HOF Heroes Framed Black Platinum Parallel - #1/1

(Not 100% sure of the Blue/Green/Black Framed colors)



It's a shame that Donruss lost its license, they were always one of my favorites. I just recently got an itch again to pick up some more boxes, maybe I'll have to see if I can finish this set. Considering this was the last year for Donruss, how well are some of these inserts selling...I have lots of '04 and '05 DK's sitting around.

[mdljhu]

Upon further review, these were from an Update box, not the regular set. I also got:

Travis Hafner Signature Materials Silver - #10/25
Cal Ripken Framed Red Materials B&W - #25/50
Vernon Wells Framed Blue Materials - #66/100
Hideki Matsui Framed Red Materials - #104/200
Garret Anderson Gallery of Stars Jerseys - #38/50
Dwight Gooden Gallery of Stars Signatures - #100/100

Regular Parallels:

Gary Sheffield Framed Green - #13/50
Jack Wilson Framed Blue B&W - #20/100
Vinny Castilla Framed Blue - #5/100
Eddie Murray HOF Heroes Framed Blue - #22/100
Willie Stargell HOF Heroes Framed Blue - #26/100

I can't remember if I opened 2 or 3 update boxes total. I also opened multiple boxes from the regular set, game used/auto cards that I still have are:

Randy Wolf Framed Blue Signatures - #7/10
Gary Carter HOF Heroes Framed Red Signature Materials - #16/50
Richard Hidalgo Materials Gold - #18/50
Scott Rolen Framed Red Materials - #15/100
Nick Green Framed Red Materials - #48/100
Rickey Henderson Materials Bronze - #72/100
Lyle Overbay/Robin Yount Team Timeline Materials Bats - #17/100
Chone Figgins Materials Bronze - #107/200
Carlos Beltran Materials Bronze - #85/200
Jeremy Affeldt Materials Bronze - #5/200
Bill Hall Materials Bronze - #129/200

Regular Parallels include:

Roy Halladay Gold - #8/25
Brian Roberts Silver - #49/50
Rene Rivera Silver - #48/50
Brian Giles Framed Green - #48/50
Harmon Killebrew HOF Heroes Silver - #6/50
Brad Wilkerson Bronze - #15/100
Rene Rivera Framed Blue - #25/100
Gary Carter HOF Heroes Bronze - #8/100

Seems like the Update boxes are pretty scarce, I do remember them being more fun to break than the regular ones. Wish I could get my hands on a few more...

[derekfan2]

Nice cards. i cant believe you got 5 1/1s in one box.

[pete4sure]

Any of those for sale?