2024 Topps 206 Yount Checklist

Robin has a card and all 13 parallels and an autograph to chase.  I'll add images when cards start popping up.

2024 Topps 206 NNO

2024 Topps 206 NNO 1909 Ticket Stub PR15

2024 Topps 206 NNO American Beauty

2024 Topps 206 NNO Blank Back PR10

2024 Topps 206 NNO Broadleaf

2024 Topps 206 NNO Canvas Stock PR25

2024 Topps 206 NNO El Principal De Galles

2024 Topps 206 NNO Lenox

2024 Topps 206 NNO Old Mill

2024 Topps 206 NNO Piedmont

2024 Topps 206 NNO Polar Bear

2024 Topps 206 NNO Sweet Caporal

2024 Topps 206 NNO Ty Cobb #/1

2024 Topps 206 NNO Wood Stock PR20

2025 Topps 206 Autographs NNO

On the Radar - 2022 Topps 206 Yount Checklist

 Robin once again graces the online exclusive Topps 206 set.  Featured in the Wave 2 checklist I'm not sure if these are actually numbered, but I assume like year's past they won't be.  But we'll have to wait and see.  Also the Topps website checklist is kind of a mess.  Robin's card is W2-91 in the checklist.  And it's possible he's also part of the image variation checklist, but Topps doesn't list that either.  I'll add images when cards start showing up.

2022 Topps 206 - NNO
2022 Topps 206 - NNO American Beauty Back #/10

2022 Topps 206 - NNO All-Star Background PR100

2022 Topps 206 - NNO Carolina Brights (1:18)

2022 Topps 206 - NNO El Principe de Gales (1:6)

2022 Topps 206 - NNO Old Mill (1:3)

2022 Topps 206 - NNO Piedmont

2022 Topps 206 - NNO Polar Bear (1:30)

2022 Topps 206 - NNO Tolstoi #/25

2022 Topps 206 - NNO Ty Cobb #/1

2022 Topps 206 - NNO Wood

2022 Topps 206 - Autographs - NNO

On the Radar - Topps Online 206 Wave 2 Yount Checklist

 Robin is featured in Wave 2 of the second year of this online exclusive product.  The packs are available for purchase from May 18th till June 8  and cost $14.99 for a 10 card pack.  Robin is listed as #32 in this wave of 50, but last year cards were unnumbered and since Wave 1 just closed today we still haven't seen if this year's cards are numbered.  Regardless, robin has a base card and all the parallels.

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - #32?
2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Piedmont Back

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Sweet Caporal Back

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - American Beauty Back 

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Sovereign Back

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Carolina Bright Back

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Cycle Back PR25

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Lenox Back PR10

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Ty Cobb Back #/1

2002 Topps 206 Piedmont Black Back Pinstripes

Year: 2002

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: 206

Card Number: 289

Card Type: Mini Parallel 

Mini Parallel Set: Piedmont Black

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I've written about my love of the 2002 Topps 206 set.  Well mainly series 2, and mainly the fact that Robin was featured in the set and had two base card variations.  At the time I was pretty enamored with the set because it was the first time I could remember Robin being featured in a base set of new cards, although that's probably incorrect, it was the first time I remembered seeing it.  And as a guy who collected Robin Yount cards I was super excited.  Plus it was Topps first attempt at the vintage tribute set and I liked it.  It also marked the beginning, yes I know Pacific had done it years before, but really this set marked the returned tobacco sized mini inserts.  Over the year's I've been slowly picking up the different backs and image variations featuring Robin.  As a matter of fact with this card I have only one mini card left to find to finish the quest.  Series 2 featured 4 different backs all with some differing rate of difficulty finding.  The most common being the Polar Bear backs and the rarest being the Carolina Brights.  Mixed in the middle were the Red and Black Piedmont backs.  And I'm glad I was able to find this pinstripe Piedmont Black variation to help get me one step closer to completion.  Now all I need is to find a Piedmond Red Blue Jersey mini and I'm done. 

2002 Topps 206 Mini Carolina Brights Back Pinstripe

Year: 2002

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Topps 206

Card Type: Mini Pinstripe Back Variation

Card Number: 289

Back: Carolina Brights

I featured this cards twin or rather other image variation back in November of 2015.  If any card or cards were my white whales these were probably it.  I absolutely love the 2002 Topps 206 set.  I loved the hits, the design, the inclusion of the tobacco sized minis, the variations to chase.  I loved it all and I opened quite a bit of this back in the day.  I especially loved that Robin was included in the checklist.  

In my mind it's this set that helped set up what we have today.  From all of Topps' vintage sets like Allen and Ginter and Gypsy Queen to Upper Decks Goodwin Champions and Goudey releases.  And while this is was not the first set to feature tobacco sized mini's it was the first one to make them popular and having multiple back variations to chase added to the fun or frustration.