Wednesday, October 30, 2013

2013 Panini Cooperstown Colgan's Disc

Card Manufacturer: Panini
Card Set: Cooperstown
Year: 2013
Card Number: NNO
Card Type: Insert
Insert Set: Colgan's Discs

One of the cool inserts in this year's Panini Cooperstown set is the Colgan's discs. A nod to the original Colgan's Chips discs that were produced from 1909 - 1913.  These are found one per pack and Panini has produced a huge 165 disc set.  



Monday, October 28, 2013

2013 Panini Cooperstown



Panini's second year of putting out the Coopertown themed set and the second year that Mr. Yount gets a base card. He also as at least one insert in the set and I do believe he might have an auto in the set as well.  
Here we have the base and the green crystal shard parallel (unnumbered)
There are also blue, red, gold, matrix (all numbered), and the 1/1 black crystal shard parallels


I like the design this year. I'm not incredibly fond of the head shot, but it's a nice looking card even without the logos and the crystal shard parallels are pretty in hand.

Friday, October 25, 2013

2013 Gypsy Queen Mini Framed Relic

Card Manufacturer: Topps
Card Set: Gypsy Queen
Year: 2013
Card Number: GQMR-RY
Card Type: Insert Relic
Insert Set: Mini Framed Relics
Relic Type: Bat

I had to wait a long time before I got to pick up my 2012 Gypsy Queen Yount bat relic, but this year I snagged one early and for a decent price. 

I really like the black border this year on the cards and the fact that the image used is different then the ones used on his other cards in this set.  However this is another recycled image by Topps. With just a quick look through some of his issued cards over the last couple of years this is the same image used in his 2012 Golden Giveaway card and I sure it was used else where. But that's another blog post for another time.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

2013 Gypsy Queens

Catching up on some summer acquisitions.  This year Robin had another card in Gypsy Queen. From early checklists I thought he would also have framed parallels, but it looks like that didn't happen.

He did however have all the mini parallels and a mini variation.

Here's the parallel. These were found in the little mini boxes that came with each hobby box. This was actually the image they used for his framed mini relic last year.
The Green numbered to 99.

And the black numbered to 199.

The only other mini parallel I'm missing besides the printing plates is the sepia.

Friday, September 20, 2013

1992 Mr Turkey Panel

2013 is turning out to be a great year if your a Yount collector, but I'm going to turn back the clock on a neat oddball I picked up this summer.  I already have a Mr. Turkey card, but when I saw this full back panel I decided to add it to the collection as well.  Plus it was pretty cheap.




Monday, July 22, 2013

The newest Younts on the block.

I've been a bad blogger.  It's been over a month since I posted over at the main blog, Collector's Crack, but I've been busy and well that's life.  But I figure I'd throw together a crappy post over here at the Yount Collector with a few new Yount pick ups.  So far it's been a pretty good year for new Yount cards.  A couple relics, and a slew of parallels and inserts.

First up is the 2013 Archives base card.
I already posted about the foil numbered parallel I got.  I'm also still on the look out for the day glow parallel, but I have my eye on a few.

And second we have Robin's 2013 Topps 1972 mini insert from Series 2.  No parallels or relic or auto versions to chase here, but still nice to add to the collection.
So that's it.  Just like I promised. A crappy little post about some not so exciting new aquisitions.


Friday, June 28, 2013

1993 Duracell cello pack

I stopped in to Don's Sportcards here in Anchorage a few weeks ago, yeah I'm that behind, and  while I was just going to pick up a few cheap cards off his drop board I ended up spending a lot more than I planned on.  Don had just bought a huge collection and had some pretty awesome Brett Favres.  I ended up picking up the a bunch of the more unique and interesting cards, but this post isn't about those Favres this is about the awesome Yount pick up I found.  While Don was pricing out all those great Favre cards and giving them to me at 60% book value I walked around and found a few unopened packs of Duracell cards.  Now I already have Yount's Duracell card it looks like this...

But I had never seen the cello packs the cards came in.

So for a buck I also got the Durcell cards of Gooden, Baerga and Gwynn.

And Mr Yount was right there on the back.  Pretty neat.  These cards came with the Super Saver packs of Durcell way back in 1993.  

I also picked up another pack with Frank Thomas in it for my Thomas collection.