2010 Panini Century Collection Souvenir Stamps Relic

Card Manufacturer: Panini

Card Set: Century Collection

Year: 2010

Card Number: 27

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Souvenir Stamps

Card Attributes: Relic, Stamp, Serial numbered

Serial Number: 44/50

Note: Inserted stamp is an 1939 Baseball Centennial Commemorative

I just got my COMC Black Friday package in the mail.  I've been working on their challenges and saving up my store credit as I've been earning it.  Over all I ended up getting 26 new cards and 20 of those were new Yount cards for the collection.  Now the count on my master spreadsheet tells me I have 1006 unique items in the collection.  I'm really happy about that, as it was one of my collecting goals this year.  As I neared the mark I know that my annual Black Friday shopping spree on COMC was going to push me over the top.

So I'll be showcasing all 20 new cards in the coming months.  I got a nice smattering of new and old, parallels, base cards, inserts and even a few relics.

I figure I'd feature my favorite pick up.  I didn't even buy this on Black Friday.  I ended up seeing this on the site and it was such a good deal I had to pick it up. It was by far the most expensive of the cards I bought in my haul, but it only cost me about $6.  I've been looking for cards from this set since it came out, but I always kept getting outbid and eventually other sets and cards pulled me away.  Robin even has a base card in this set that I haven't found yet. 

I find it funny that Panini got around the use of logos by using Robin's high school photo.  Yeah that's an old photo of a very young Robin Yount.  The T on the hat stand for William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California.

I really like the overall look of the card.  I do find the placement of the relic right on Robin's chest a little disturbing, but over all not a bad looking card.  The 1939 Baseball Centennial Stamp is great too.  I have one other baseball card that has that stamp embedded in it and I think it works great.  The stamp itself isn't that rare with a printing of about 81 million stamps.  Even being 75 years old the stamp is only worth a couple bucks, but it is uncancelled and the card is numbered to just 50!

Robin also has a couple more cards in various inserts sets with memorabilia and autographs.

1989 Cap'n Crunch

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Cap'n Crunch

Set Type: Food Issue

Year: 1989

Card Number: 21

Card Type: Base

For a food issue card the 1989 Topps Cap'n Crunch is a gem.  It's just a clean no nonsense card.  I guess we have to assume that Quaker Oats didn't want to spring for the full MLB license and just went with Topps on the MLBPA one.  But the overall design and colors work well.  I like the bold logos on the top and the addition of the player number in the center.

The back also has a nice overall layout with full MLB Batting Record.  With 22 cards in the set Topps could print 6 full sets per sheet so these really aren't that rare, and I'm pretty sure there was an offer to order complete sets on the back.

I found this image over at Cereal Box Price Guide.  I don't have the Standard Catalog in front of me so this was great to find. But you got two cards per box and a piece of gum, all cello wrapped together.

2014 Topps Dynasty Yount checklist and gallery

Ha I fooled you. I haven't been able to find a definitive checklist yet.  I've found player lists, but as it turns out each player has more than one card in the set all numbered to 10, kind of like Topps Sterling was done.

I was able to find one card listed on ebay already, with it's card number RY6.  So we can assume Robin has at least 6 or 7 cards in the set, but I've found player cards numbered up to 8, so there might be as many as 10 cards per player numbered to 10, and each of those cards has a 1/1 gold ink auto as well.

So when I figure out exactly how many cards Robin has I'll be listing the checklist.

Update: Well I've found cards numbered up to 8 for Robin too so I've added those to the 2014 checklist.

#RY1 front

RY2 front

RY3

RY3 Back

RY3 Gold Ink

RY4 Front

RY4 Back

RY4 Gold Ink

#RY5 (This card sold for $799 on 12/3/14)

RY6 front

RY6 back

RY7

RY7 Back

RY7 Gold Ink

RY8 Front

RY8 Back

2014 Topps High Tek Ultimate Yount checklist and gallery

I am going to attempt to try and keep track of all 144 base cards and autos. It doesn't appear that there is a guide or checklist out yet for each of the 12 base design variations or whether there are more than 12 designs spread out in the issue. Say there are 100 different designs, but each player only has 12.

I'm also not sure if the auto cards have design variations or just the parallels.  And from the few backs I've seen there isn't a design numbering system like the older issues of Tek so Robin's card number is HT-RY, but it isn't labeled design 2 or B or whatever.  So for my own record keeping I'm going to be labeling the base cards 1 - 12 and I'll put a label with it too, like wavy design, cracked ice, or whatever and keep the same numbering through for the parallel variations as well.  Alright here we go.  And I'll be adding images below as I find them.  Pretty much my ordering will be as I find the design I'll add it.

Right now my total card count is 155, but if the autos have pattern variations as well that number will go way up.  It'll be fun to see what we start seeing here in the next couple of days.  And if you want to suggest names for the patterns feel free.  I'm only listing stuff as I find it for Robin and not other players as I'm unsure if there are only 12 patterns total in the set.  Good hunting!


UPDATE:
 OK seems like we were a little misled by Topps and the sell sheet, although they didn't say there would be 12 base designs per player.  Ryan over at Cardboard Connection seems to have a handle on the layout you can read about it over THERE.

So it looks like there are 12 patterns, but there are split up into American and National League, with each league getting 6 and that some patterns are much scarcer than others.  Robin was lumped into the American League, I guess it could have gone either way.

So Robin has 6 patterns I've seen 5 of the 6, but I'll assume that he has a Circuit Board pattern too and I've listed the variations in supposed order or rarity from most common to rarest.

Only the most common card, the Wave Patter has the numbered Diffractor parallels and also is the only card featured for the autographs.  That brings us down to a total of 29.  Much more manageable.



HT-RY-1 - Wave Pattern
HT-RY-2 - Spirals (Rings)
HT-RY-3 - Laser Ice
HT-RY-4 - Circuit Board?
HT-RY-5 - Cracked Ice (about 1 per case)
HT-RY-6 - Stripes


HT-RY-1 - Gold Diffractor #/99
HT-RY-1 -Ice Diffractor #/75
HT-RY-1 -Disco Diffractor #/50
HT-RY-1 -Clouds Diffractor #/25
HT-RY-1 -Black and White Image #/15
HT-RY-1 -Red Storm Diffractor #/10
HT-RY-1 -Blue Dots Diffractor #/5
HT-RY-1 -Charcoal Galactic Diffractor 1/1
HT-RY-1 -Black Printing Proof 1/1
HT-RY-1 -Cyan Printing Proof 1/1
HT-RY-1 -Magenta Printing Proof 1/1
HT-RY-1 -Yellow Printing Proof 1/1


Autographs
HT-RY - Base
HT-RY - Disco Diffractor #/50
HT-RY - Clouds Diffractor #/25
HT-RY - Black and White Image #/15
HT-RY - Red Storm Diffractor #/10
HT-RY - Blue Dots Diffractor #/5
HT-RY - Charcoal Galactic Diffractor 1/1
HT-RY - Black Printing Proof 1/1
HT-RY - Cyan Printing Proof 1/1
HT-RY - Magenta Printing Proof 1/1
HT-RY - Yellow Printing Proof 1/1


Gallery
Base

Base card Wave Pattern

Base Pattern Rings

Laser Ice Base Variation

Circuit board pattern

Cracked Ice Variation (saw it posted that these fall about 1 per case or so)

Stripes Base Variation

Cyan Printing Proof ft

Cyan Printing Proof bk

Here are all the base cards together in one nice grouping.

Parallels

Gold Diffractor Wave Patterin #/99

Ice Diffractor Wave Pattern #/75

Disco Diffractor Wave Pattern #/50

Cloudy Diffractor #/25 Wave pattern

Black and white parallel Wave pattern #/15

Red Storm #/10

Autographs

Wave Pattern Disco parallel auto front #/50

Disco parallel auto back

Clouds Diffractor Wave Pattern Auto #/25

Red Storm diffractor auto

Black and White Diffractor auto ft

Black and White Diffractor auto back

Blue Dots Auto #/5

1977 Pepsi Disc and Glove

Card Manufacturer: MSA

Card Set; Pepsi Disc

Set Type: Food Issue (Giveaway)

Year: 1977

Card Number: 1

Card Type: Base Disc

Note: Full Intact Glove

I know it seems like every time I put a post up I have a new favorite card.  But truly if you were to ask me what was my favorite oddball Yount card this would probably be it.

Robin has a bunch of 1977 MSA discs in various sets, but the Pepsi Disc/Glove just stands out.  Just a great all around oddball and I'm not sure, but I think this might have been the only baseball disc set that was featured and distributed this way.  Pepsi also released a football set like this.

Believe it or not but these full gloves aren't that hard to find still intact and that's nice to see.  Of course it's not hard to just find the disc either.  It's also great that each glove has the full checklist printed right on there.

This disc also stands out by having the Pepsi-Cola Collection printed across the top instead of the standard 4 stars that adorn a lot of sets.  

I ended up picking up a full set of these a while back for a decent price and they are a bitch to store and display. I should point out for the completists that Reggie Jackson and Mike Schmidt both have 4 color variations in the set.

2014 Topps High Tek - Holy crap that's going to be a lot of Younts

I was just perusing the checklist for Topps High Tek ,which is due out in a couple of days, and noticed that Mr. Yount again is being shown the love by being included in the base set and autograph set.

That's pretty significant as each base card has 12 variations and 8 parallels and 4 printing proofs.  That means if I did my math right there are at least 144 new Yount cards about to be released for this product just in the base cards and add to that 10 or 11 autograph cards. I'm not sure if the autos will have 12 variations as well or just be one card with parallels.

I'm waiting to add these to the 2014 Yount checklist, which will push the total close to 400 cards, until after I see how the checklist and cards are organized, because this is one issue that's going to be cluster to keep track of.

1981 Fleer

Card Manufacturer: Fleer

Card Set: Fleer Baseball

Year: 1981

Card Number: 511

Card Type: Base

If you had to ask me what was my favorite Fleer design and set from the years they produced a flagship baseball set I would have to say without a doubt 1981.  Fleer wasn't know for it's flashy designs. As a matter of fact up until about 1995 they were pretty plain and lame.  But Fleer's inaugural release was a pretty decent one if you overlook all the errors in the set, but the overall design is appealing and in 1981 the card stock was a big improvement from what Topps was using.  This would mark the first time in almost 30 years that Topps would have any serious competition.  Fleer would eventually be bought by the Marvel Comics Group and then sold  off when Marvel when bankrupt in the late 90's and eventually it was sold to Upper Deck, who still uses the brand from time to time.