2012 Card Review - Part 1 The Base Cards

I'm not sure how many parts this is gonna be, at least 2. In Part 1, I'm going to attempt to pick my favorite card of each main set. Since they are my favorite cards, the criteria will obviously be purely subjective. As I was putting this together I found it was hard to pick just one favorite from each set and then trying to describe why I picked each card was even harder. So no explanations.

Bowman #184 Chase Utley

Quantity: 42
Price paid: $0.31

Bowman Platinum Jarrod Parker

Quantity:25
Price paid: $0.68

Panini Cooperstown #82 Tommy Lasorda

Quantity:25
Price paid: $0.66

Topps #540 Dustin Pedroia

Quantity:334
Price paid: $0.28

Topps Update #207 Greg Dobbs

Quantity:116
Price paid: $0.14

Topps Archives #45 Carlos Ruiz

Quantity:109
Price paid: $0.64

Topps Allen & Ginter #212 Ken Griffey Jr.

Quantity:117
Price paid: $0.46

Topps Heritage #132 Cole Hamels

Quantity: 230
Price paid: Acquired in trade

Topps Opening Day #4 Jacoby Ellsbury

Quantity:101
Price paid: $0.15

Topps Gypsy Queen #123 Geovany Soto

Quantity:183
Price paid: $0.43

Topps Stickers #309 Billy Butler

Quantity: 54
Price paid: $0.12

Triple Play #84 Yu Darvish

Quantity: 28
Price paid: $0.15

Upper Deck Goodwin Champions #82 Wendel Clark

Quantity: 78
Price paid: $0.45