2013 Panini Golden Age Baseball SP Variations offer a second take on 25 different athletes and pop culture personalities. Tough pulls, SP variations come with regular slightly tan borders as well as White Border parallels.
While the variations don't follow pattern on the fronts, they are easily to tell on the back. Short prints are noted with an "SP" notation next to the number. With this, some collectors who are apt to chase variations to go with their main sets may treat these as a separate insert set entirely.
Panini has given odds as to how rare the 2013 Panini Golden Age variations are, but early availability suggests that they are tough. This is doubly so when the white parallels are accounted for.
Below is a detailed look at the SP variations, including side-by-side comparisons of what to look for on the card fronts.
2013 Panini Golden Age Baseball SP Variations
2 Billy Sunday
Base: pictured
Variation: not available
6 Henry Ford
Base: pictured
Variation: not available
17 Grantland Rice
Base: pictured
Variation: not available
25 Harry Houdini
Base: wearing suit
Variation: in chains
28 Jim Bottomley
Base: with bat
Variation: wearing watch (White Border pictured)
31 War Admiral
Base: pictured
Variation: not available
32 Hack Wilson
Base: with bat
Variation: portrait (White Border pictured)
34 Jim Thorpe
Base: suit
Variation: dark shirt
36 George "Spanky" McFarland
Base: close-up
Variation: with camera
40 Walter Hagen
Base: blue sweater
Variation: green sweater (White Border pictured)
45 Bill Terry
Base: arms crossed
Variation: wearing hat
56 Henry Fonda
Base: suit
Variation: trench coat (White Border pictured)
63 Grace Kelly
Base: hair down
Variation: hair back (White Border pictured)
64 Yogi Berra
Base: trophies
Variation: in suit
65 Bobby Richardson
Base: three bats
Variation: one bat (White Border pictured)
66 Walter Cronkite
Base: dark suit jacket
Variation: brown suit jacket
68 Al Kaline
Base: with bat
Variation: no bat (White Border pictured)
76 Laffit Pincay Jr.
Base: red hat
Variation: yellow hat
92 Riva Ridge
Base: pictured
Variation: not available
106 Jim Kiick
Base: white jersey
Variation: teal jersey
114 Bigfoot
Base: headband
Variation: blurry photo
115 Earl Campbell
Base: Houston Oilers
Variation: New Orleans Saints
119 Bo Derek
Base: close-up
Variation: holding pool cue
128 Jan Stephenson
Base: red shirt
Variation: white shirt
136 Thomas Hearns
Base: arm out, turned sideways
Variation: close-up portrait
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