2017 Panini National Treasures Yount Checklist and Gallery

Robin has some cards to chase in this year's set.  I suspect card numbering is incorrect as Panini generally does not put correct card designations on all of the cards, so I will update that as cards start showing up.

2017 Panini National Treasures All Century #AC-RY, #/99
2017 Panini National Treasures All Century #AC-RY Gold, #/10
2017 Panini National Treasures All Century #AC-RY Silver, #/5
2017 Panini National Treasures All Century #AC-RY Platinum, #/1
2017 Panini National Treasures Bat Knobs #46, #/1
2017 Panini National Treasures Legends Booklet Materials Duals #LBMD-RY, #/99
2017 Panini National Treasures Legends Booklet Materials Duals  Stats #LBMD-RY, #/99
2017 Panini National Treasures Pastime Signatures #PS-RY, #/15
2017 Panini National Treasures Pastime Signatures #PS-RY Holo Gold, #/10
2017 Panini National Treasures Pastime Signatures #PS-RY Holo Silver, #/5
2017 Panini National Treasures Pastime Signatures #PS-RY Platinum, #/1
2017 Panini National Treasures Retro Signatures #23, #/10
2017 Panini National Treasures Retro Signatures #23 Platinum, #/1
2017 Panini National Treasures Treasure Signature Materials #28, #/49
2017 Panini National Treasures Treasure Signature Materials #28 Brand Logo, #/1
2017 Panini National Treasures Treasure Signature Materials #28 Laundry Tags, #/1
2017 Panini National Treasures Treasure Signature Materials #28 Prime, #/10

1991 Score

Year: 1991

Manufacturer: Score

Set: Flagship Baseball

Card Number: 525

Man I opened a lot of 91 Score.  And when I mean a lot I mean I put together 2 or 3 sets and still have a 8000 count monster box full of dupes.  Yeah that's alot. Of course the big card in the set is Chipper Jones rookie card.  But when you want to talk about an overproduced this is a great set to bring to the table.  This would be Score's 4th year putting out a baseball set.  Overall the design is simple, but I do like cards with full career stats.  And of course you get a nice back photo as well.  91 Score was a monster set, beating Topps by over 100 cards!  And while the base cards are kind of meh.  There are couple sub-sets sprinkled in that are pretty cool like the K-Man, Rifleman, Master Blasters, No-Hit Club, the American Flag (Armed Forces Tribute) Card, the Bo Breaker, the Awards cards and my favorite the Dream Team cards.  There's also a nice Father/Son Griffey card in the set.  All of those sub-sets could easily have just been inserts if such an ideal had been widely accepted at the time.  

1983 Fleer

Year: 1983

Manufacturer: Fleer

Set: Flagship Baseball

Card Type: Base

Card Number: 51

Back to simpler times.  Fans were still getting use to having choices again.  I was never a fan of Fleer.  Aside from their 1981 set the 80's were all so bland to me.  The early 90's were even worse.  It wouldn't be until 1996 when one of the graphic designers who apparently was on acid put out a set that was so crazy it was good, well that subjective.  

And while most of the 80s Fleer sets aren't flashy and are pretty forgettable they have nice simplistic streamline look that works and the 1983 set is no different.  It's funny the write up on the back talks more about Robin's brother Larry than him, but at least there was some effort put into it.  The photo looks to be from the 1982 All-Star Game in Montreal.  The Man of Steal is in the background and it looks like that might be George Brett's arm.  The Brewers sent quite a few players to that game the same year they went all the way to the World Series.  Rollie Fingers, Cecil Cooper, and Ben Oglivie also made the trip.  And from the photo it looks like Robin was having a good time.

1984 Topps Ralston Purina Collector's Edition

Year: 1984

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Ralston Purina 1st Annual Collector's Edition

Card Number: 21

Card Type: Food Issue

Man I miss the days of food issue cards.  I know we got a taste last year with Topps / Wal-mart's Marketside Pizza cards, but really there hasn't been many food issue cards in a long long time.  I've thought it's a waste for companies not to put something like this in or on their products.  Even if it's not sports related a couple cards to cut out on a package would encourage at least some impulse buying.  I think Hostess is really missing out with their packaging not coming up with a Hostess set. Even if it was "Cakes of the World", I would probably buy a box just to cut the cards out.  Ahem.  

Here we have an example of a great food issue card from the food issue era.  Found in select Ralston Purina cereals. The set has 33 cards chocked full of stars.  And not only that we get a fully authorized card meaning logos!!!  Plus this is only a couple of years past Robin's World Series appearance so we get all kinds of WS tidbits.  I love how brusk the personal information is.  So Hemingway. 

But the placement of the apostrophe in Collectors' bother's me. I get it. It's the possessive of the plural of collector, but I think had they moved the apostrophe to Collector's it just makes the card more personable.  Calling directly to you the collector, not some faceless group of collectors.  But hey that's just me.

On the Radar - 2017 Topps Update Checklist and Gallery

So Robin has a couple cards to chase in this year's update series.  I'm a little miffed that he didn't get a card in the base MVP Award insert, but he does have a manurelic to chase and that manurelic has different parallel levels.

2017 Topps Update MVP Award Commemorative Medallions MVPR-RY
2017 Topps Update MVP Award Commemorative Medallions MVPR-RY Gold #/99
2017 Topps Update MVP Award Commemorative Medallions MVPR-RY Black #/50
2017 Topps Update MVP Award Commemorative Medallions MVPR-RY Platinum #/1

1990 Miller High Life SGA

Year: 1990

Card Manufacturer: Miller Brewing

Card Set: Miller High Life Brewers Stadium Giveaway Set

Card Number: NNO (31 in a set of 32)

Card Type: Stadium Giveaway

The Standard Catalog states that this card was part of a 32 card set and collector album given away at an August Brewers game in 1990.  Interestingly enough I had read somewhere that the High Life name was actually a brand of cigars and that Miller bought the name to use for the beer. That was a long time ago and High Life is Miller's oldest brand still being produced today, it was also one of the first beers to be packaged and sold in individual bottles.  To be honest I've lost track of who owns Miller now.  I think MolsonCoors does, but that could have changed by now.

 In hand these are great looking cards for a SGA.  Simple design, but full stats on the back.  Gotta love that.  Plus it's beer themed!  

2005 Fleer Cooperstown Tribute Jersey Relic card

Year: 2005

Manufacturer: Fleer

Card Set: Tradition

Card Type: Insert Relic

Insert Set: Cooperstown Tribute Jersey

Card Number: CT/RY

Card Attributes: Relic

Relic Type: Jersey

Nothing like a plain gray swatch to celebrate the end of the regular baseball season.  The Brew Crew came so close to making it to the playoffs.  2005 would start the end of Fleer and in a couple years the company as collectors knew it would be gone.  But this was back when relics were labeled as Game-worn.  Not player touched, not player-worn, but used in an actual game.  Back when we had competition in the trading card market and companies had to try and give a damn.  (Get off my lawn you kids!!)

This set also has a patch parallel numbered to 10, the base card numbered to 1999 and a gold version of the base card unnumbered.