2014 Topps Museum Collection base card

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Museum Collection

Year:  2014

Card Number: 67

Card Type: Base

Sorry I've been gone so long. Went on a month long vacation with the family down to see the rest of the family. So really it wasn't much of a vacation.  But just because I was gone doesn't mean I wasn't picking up new Younts.

I finally got my hands on a base card for this year's Museum Collection.  I do like the art deco design and overall marquee feel of the card. I also like the very think card stock and bright crisp photo. I don't like the price tag on the product, so picking up singles is the way to go.   I've posted a whole gallery of cool cards from this set.  A lot of those cards I'm sure I'll never own, but I like putting the galleries together, because a lot of the rarer cards will eventually disappear into private collections never to be seen again.  

But I still plan on posting the individual cards I get for my collection. 

So here it is Mr. Yount's 2014 Topps Museum Collection base card #67.

2013 Panini America's Pastime

Card Manufacturer: Panini

Card Set: America's Pastime

Year:  2013

Card Number: 127

Card Type: Base

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 044/125

I just finally was able to get my hands on this one.  Panini's America's Pastime wasn't as high end as National Treasures, but it's still a pricey pack at about $225 and base cards are all numbered to 125.  Each box had one pack of 10 cards.  You got 1 book card, 3 autographs, 2 relics, 1 to 2 inserts, and 2 to 3 base cards numbered to 125 or less.  Each base card has 3 parallels.  The gold numbered to 25, the green foil numbered to 10 and the black 1 of 1 cards.

Robin's card in #127 in the set and while I give Panini some slack for not having the MLB license to use logos this picture is one of the worst I've seen used.  The overall design isn't bad, but this card looks more like something I would have pulled out of a food issue back in the late 80's instead of a $200+ pack of cards. And these are kind of hard to find. I'm guessing that not many people are rushing out to bust an expensive non-licenesed product.   But still a great addition to the collection.

2014 Topps Gypsy Queen Younts Gallery

This year's Topps' Gypsy Queen was released this Wednesday and Robin has a base card and all the parallels that go with that and an autographed card and those parallels as well.  Robin's base card is #3 in the set and he also made the framed parallel checklist. With blue framed parallels numbered to 499 and silver framed numbered to just one and there are retail white framed cards. I'll post images of cards when I find them.

Base card #3

Blue bordered parallel #d to 499

Sepia Mini #d to 50 front

Red bordered mini numbered to 99

graphite mini 1 of 1 front

graphite mini 1 of 1 back

Red Bordered Autograph #d to 49

Gold Autograph #d to 25 front

Gold Autograph card #d to 25 back

2007 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Classic Memorabilia

Card Manufacturer:  Upper Deck

Card Set: Sweet Spot Classic

Year:  2007

Card Number: CM-YO

Card Type: Insert Relic

Relic Type: Bat

Sweet Spot was a great offering from Upper Deck.  A higher end product that wasn't so higher end that you had to blow you rent money to buy a box or pack.  And included in the set were some pretty cool cards.  

Of course there are always your run of the mill relic cards inserted too.  I'll take a bat relic with some nice wood grain over a single color swatch relic any day. Nowadays it seems like the only Yount relics begin put out are bat relics and soon we'll probably only be left with his golf shirts.  I really miss the Upper Deck style of cards, with the borderless full bleed photos and nice simple designs.  I always wonder why Topps doesn't use this style more or why Panini doesn't use this style at all.  Just a classically simple relic card.

2004 Topps World Series Highlights

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Topps Baseball

Year:  2004

Card Number: WS-RY

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: World Series Highlights

One of my favorite Yount post career cards.  Just a great looking card in hand. It's shiny with a great picture and commemorates Younts awesome performance in Game 5 of the 1982 World Series.  For any Brewer fan the 1982 season was the crowning moment so far in club history.  It's also the reason so many Brewers fans like myself dislike the Cardinals, especially now that both teams are in the same division.

There is also a certified autograph version of this card that is high on my most wanted list.

1989 Topps 42 card rack pack with Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield

Card Manufacturer:  Topps

Card Set: Topps Baseball

Year:  1989

Product: 3 Blister Rack pack

I have a small collection of cello in the Yount collection.  I have a few packs I'll feature eventually, but I just picked up this 1989 Topps rack pack.  Not only did I get this for only 50 cents, it features 3 Hall of Famers on the front.  Would have been nice if Yount was in the middle so you could see his pretty face, but still a nice line up for rack pack.  Not really anyone of note except for maybe Drabek on the back.

2003 Topps Retired Signature Series

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Retired Signature Series

Year:  2003

Card Number: 62

Card Type: Base

My favorite Topps design from the 2000's is the 2003 set. I just think it's a well done layout. I love the inset headshot inside a baseball diamond.   I also love the blue borders of the flagship set and I love the fact that Topps carried over the design to it's Retired Signature release.  It was an interesting product. Each box contained 5 packs. Each pack had 5 cards that included an encased uncirculated autograph card.  Plus there were Black bordered parallels numbered to 99, Chrome Autos, and Chrome Refractor Autos to be had.

Here we have Robin's base card from the set. The base cards look really nice in that titanium white border. There's no room on the back of the card for anything but Robin's 19 years of stats.  I also love the great action shot of Robin from when he was still playing shortstop.  It's also interesting to note that the inset photo is probably the most used photo by MSA for a lot of the food issue and other oddball cards from the 80's.  Nice to see it with the Brewers logo on it for a change. It's also a nice touch that the back of the card has the Brewers colors featured.