2013 Panini Cooperstown - Red Pennant box topper

Year: 2013

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Cooperstown

Card Number: 16

Card Type: Box Topper

Insert  Set: Red Pennants

I just got in my Black Friday order from COMC.  Included in the box was 26 new Yount items.  Some I've had sitting in my portfolio for over a year and others I picked up during the Black Friday sale on the site.  One of those items is this 2013 Panini Cooperstown Red Pennant box topper.  This was by far the most expensive item I picked up during the sale, but I still got it for a really good price.  This and it's sister blue pennant have been incredibly ellusive.  I've only seen a couple of these pop up on eBay and most of the time they either go for way more than I want to spend or the price tag is way too high.  So when one of these popped up on COMC for less than $9 I couldn't resist finally adding it to the collection.  I'm not sure how rare either pennant is but from just from the sheer lack of seeing them very often I'd say they are pretty scarce.  2013 Cooperstown had a couple different box topper possibilities.  Besides the pennants there was also a die-cut Cooperstown Lumberjacks topper you could pull.  These are about 5-6 inches long and about 4 inches wide at the top and surprisingly stiff.  The pennants are a homage to the 1916 Ferguson Bakery pennants.  I'm still on the look out for its blue counterpart.

1990 Bowman Art Card Variation

Year: 1990

Manufacture: Topps

Set: Bowman

Card Number: NNO

Card Type: Insert

Insert: Art Card contest

There recently was a thread going on over at the TCDB about single and double asterisk variations on the 1990 Bowman Art Card Contest Cards.  The overall discussion was iablout if this a parallel or just a variation?  I think in the end the cards were listed as a parallel and it's own separate set.  After doing a little research I've found out that this variations, err, or parallel was pretty prevalent through out a lot of Topps sets, especially their non-sport sets.  The asterisks has to do with printing and printing plate designations, of which I'm still not sure I fully understand.  I will say that as far as Robin goes the other card I know that this affects is his 1977 cloth sticker.

Regardless the difference is small and fairly minor, but for completists I'm pointing this out, because it's most likely you already have both versions in your collection, like I did.  

2018 Topps Dynasty Robin Yount Checklist and Gallery

Robin is featured in this year's Dynasty product.  Robin is listed on the autograph relic checklist.  In total he has 16 total cards to be found.  The base auto relic numbered to 10, a parallel numbered to 5 and a 1 of 1.  Topps checklist does not have card designations on them, but I'll add the "numbering" when and if cards start showing up.  The two parallels look to be blue #/5 and a gold #/1 from the mock ups.

Edit 12/7/18 - with the first Yount listed on ebay Robin as at least 2 cards in the set, as more come to the market I'll update the checklist if needed.

2018 Topps Dynasty Autograph Relic AP-RY1 #/10
2018 Topps Dynasty Autograph Relic AP-RY2 #/10
2018 Topps Dynasty Autograph Relic AP-RY1 Blue #/5
2018 Topps Dynasty Autograph Relic AP-RY2 Blue #/5
2018 Topps Dynasty Autograph Relic AP-RY1 Gold #/1
2018 Topps Dynasty Autograph Relic AP-RY1 Gold #/1

AP-RY2  #/10

2018 Panini National Treasures Base Bat Card

Year: 2018

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: National Treasures

Card Number: 125

Card Type: Base Relic

Relic Type: Bat

Card Attributes: Relic, Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 78/99

Lately I've been incredibly selective when it comes to what I'm spending my collecting money on.  I'll be honest I'm kind of done with eBay, both buying and selling.  But every now and then I do find a great deal or score a great card at a great price.  I ended up picking this card up back in early November and took it home for less than $6 delivered.  I have a hard time paying up for Panini products, but winning the card for less than the cost of shipping was pretty sweet.  And adding a low numbered relic from one of Panini's premium brands is always a boon for me.  It's not my favorite card. Maybe it's the airbrushed out logos and off color uniforms are starting to get to me.  But a Yount card is a Yount card and they'll always have a place in the collection.

1990 Topps Glossy Send In

Year: 1990

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Glossy All-Stars and Hot Prospects Send Ins

Card Number: 15

For many year's Topps offered a couple different special offer send in sets advertised on cards inserted into wax packs.  What always bothered me was that these cards were inserted in the middle of the packs instead of as the last card in the pack that would have eliminated the wax backs.  Ahem. 

Anyways as a collector of the Yount cards once you get to over 1000 different cards you get to the point where you have most of the base cards and most inserts and oddballs from his playing days. 

 I recently completed a huge 1000+ Brewer card trade with a fellow card collector named Mark off of Twitter.  He sent me a flat rate box full of Brewers cards and I sent him back a box full of Red Sox.  After a couple days of sorting and inventorying I ended up adding almost 200 new Brewers cards to the collection.  Included in the lot was over 200 Yount cards.  And as luck would have it I found one I needed.  This 1990 Glossy All Star Send In.  It's funny because as I've been slowly inventorying my Yount collection and adding it to the Trading Card Database I realized I didn't have a copy of this card.  That kind of surprised me and I added it to my want list and figured I'd pick up a copy off of COMC or somewhere else eventually, well looks like I don't need to.

2004 Donruss Leather and Lumber Gold Black and White parallel

Year: 2004

Manufacturer: Donruss

Set: Leather and Lumber

Card Number: 78

Card Type: Parallel

Parallel Set: Black and White

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 0428/1000

In the mid 2000's companies were competing to see who could come up with the craziest set.  While I wouldn't call the Leather and Lumber a crazy set, as a matter of fact it's pretty straight forward, it does keep with the formula of the time.  Tons of parallels, base parallels, relic parallels, relic auto parallels you get the idea.  The black and white parallel, in which the feature player photo is in black and white, not the card, isn't a true set parallel as only 25 lucky subjects from the base set are featured.  Of course while the base set comes with all sorts of base, relic, and auto parallels so does the smaller black and white parallel.  And like most base cards from sets like this from that era the base cards are designed more for the parallels, hence why Robin is placed on the left side of the card.

2005 Fleer Classic Clippings

Year: 2005

Manufacturer: Fleer

Set: Classic Clippings

Card Number: 2013

Card Type: Base (Legends subset)

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 078/999

I can remember lamenting to my LCS owner back in the era around 2003-2005 about just how many different products there were.  It was hard for a collector, and I'm sure equally hard for a shop owner, to decide what to buy and what to chase.  Of course now it's the exact opposite with store shelves looking downright anemic.  But that era, which I would start at the end of the 90's through about 2006-2007 really produced some great products, even if there was a ton.  There were flops of course, but with so many companies trying to outdo each other it made for some now classic sets.  

While I don't know if I'd call Fleer's Classic Clippings a classic set it does give us a few Younts to chase.  Robin is part of the Legends subset.  All the Legends cards were limited to just 999.  There area also two parallels to chase in this set, the First Edition numbered to 150 and the Final edition, which Baseballcardepdia says is numbered to 1, but I own a Final Edition version and it is not numbered at all.  He's not featured in any of the other insert sets.