It really is a shame that MLB has allowed Topps to have a monopoly on licensed baseball card for what feels like forever. Surely basic math explains that the more licenses you issue, the more revenue you can make. So the players and players association get nothing, perhaps, from cards issued by Panini or any of the others where the first skill on your resume must be "Wicked good at airbrushing".
Strawberry, so far as I can tell, last appeared in a Donruss set in 2020. If he had inserts or whatever I've missed them because I'm really not looking through 300 pages of cards for each player for each year. But when 2026 Donruss was released, I browsed the checklist and didn't have to go very far to see Strawberry listed at card number 35.
So off I went to eBay and I was flooded with Donruss and something called Optic which looks exactly like Donruss but instead of their being a lower case d and Donruss below it, there is an O with Optic below it. Effing genius. But there were inserts, too. Duh.
So I ordered this Bomb Squad card and the one below it from the Elite Series insert, too.
Yea!
The base card is actually attractive. It's overdone, but aren't they all? I may see what other inserts there are, but the parallels won't be part of my collection I don't think. I did go in for the parallels for 2020 but that was mostly because the cards were in the 1986 Donruss design. (For the record, thinking about 1980s Donruss, I prefer 1987 over 1986.)
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