2020 Donruss Baseball Ultimate Robin Yount Checklist

Robin is featured in the base sub-set Retro 86.  And has all the base parallels 23 by the Panini spreadsheet.  I'll add images as stuff starts popping up.

2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86)
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Artist Proof #/10
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Baby Shark
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Career Stat Line #/271
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Holo Blue
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Holo Orange
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Holo Pink
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Holo Purple
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Holo Red
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Independence Day
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Look At This #/25
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Milestone Stat Line #/89
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Number 1 #/1
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) One Fire #/75
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) One Hundred #/100
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Presidential Collection #/50
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Press Proof #/5
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Printing Plate Black #/1
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Printing Plate Cyan #/1
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Printing Plate Magenta #/1
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Printing Plate Yellow #/1
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Season Stat Line #/114
2020 Donruss Baseball #233 (Retro 86) Yellow

1986 Topps Tiffany

Year: 1986

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Collector's Edition "Tiffany"

Card Number: 780

Card Type: Base

My final tiffany pick up from this year's COMC Black Friday haul.  The 1985 and 1986 sets have the smallest print run of any of the Collector's Edition, or Tiffany, sets.  With only 5000 sets produced.

Man those backs are really red!

All about the Base - 1986 Topps

Year: 1986

Manufacturer: Topps 

Set: Flagship

Card Number: 780

Card Type: Base

1986 was the first year I remember actually buying baseball cards.  Up until then I was pretty much all into comics.  But even then I didn't bother to put the set together until much later.  Every so often Topps' experiments with black bordered cards.  The black borders have the effect to really magnify defects in the edges and corners.  In 1986 we get a split between a black border and a white border and you'd never guess that there are conditions issues with the set.  Centering, as always, is an issue as well, and miscentering also shows up incredibly well in these cards.   The set does feature a nice big player photos and this year we get what looks like Robin warming up catching a few balls.  While I'm neutral on the front I really do like the color scheme on the backs.  The black on red really pops and is easy to read.  Plus we get a nice sized cards number high on the left hand side for easy collation and the player name is very prominent.  

We also get a couple game winning RBI stats and there is still just enough room with Robin's career stats for one small factoid at the bottom.  No mention of brother Larry though.

2017 Rediscover Topps 1988 Gold Foil Stamped Buyback

Year: 2017 sort of

Manufacturer: Topps

Card Number: 165

Card Type: Buyback

Card Set: Rediscover Topps - Gold Foil

It's rare that I find a card of Robin's that I don't already own at my LCS.  I stopped in the other day having not set foot in Don's Sportcards in a couple months.  I really just wanted to say and hi and maybe pick up a few cheap cards if I found anything that piqued my interest.

While looking through the 50 cent boxes I came across this guy.  I'm not big on these buybacks.  And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay the crazy money some people want for these.  This exact card is up on COMC with a price of over $20!  But for a couple quarters I couldn't pass it up.  Plus it's the Gold Foil parallel of the buybacks.  There are 5 levels of rarity with Gold being the middle level.  

1986 Fleer

Year: 1986

Set Manufacturer: Fleer

Set: Basball (Flagship)

Card Number: 506

Card Type: Base

It probably doesn't get much simpler than this.  Honestly Fleer for me was always the blandest of card brands, but growing up it was also the most elusive. I could find Topps anywhere, the card shop  grocery store, convenience store, pharmacy, big box stores like K-Mart and Sears.  And Donruss usually wasn't that hard to find, but for me Fleer was this ghost in the distance.  And honestly I don't know what all the hubbub was about. Sure 1989 would bring the whole Billy Ripken bat thing into play, but for me Fleer always looked so bland.  It wouldn't be until the mid-90's that Fleer put out a couple sets that bucked their trend.  

Even so the 1986 set, while kind of bland and safe is a handsome set.  The bold blue borders help.  It works well with Robin's card as the card is decked out in Brewers colors.  A nice photo of Robin taken during batting practice before a game.  The backs are pretty typical Fleer with the multicolored stripes to divide the stats and make it easier to read.

1986 Jays Potato Chips Disc

Jays has a pretty interesting history.  I remember eating Jays chips growing up and you can still find them in the mid-west.  Once produced in a plant in Chicago the company went bankrupt in 2007 and Synder's of Hanover, the pretzel people, bought the name.  

If you were lucky in 1986 you got a bag of chips with a baseball disc in it.  Jay's was and still is a regional brand and since Jay's was based in Chicago it's not surprising that in the 20 disc set only 3 teams, The Chicago Cubs and White Sox, and the Brewers, are featured.

If you're a fan of the food issue cards of Robin's from the 80's you'll recognized the much used air-brushed photo of Robin checking out the ladies to the left.

Even though they're regional issues these aren't that hard to find.  A quick search on COMC shows 13 overpriced discs for sale and every Brewers is there too. There are also quite a few available on eBay.

One of my favorite oddball food issue discs from the 80's.

1986 Dorman's Cheese

Card Manufacturer: Dorman;s Cheese

Card Set: Dorman's Super Star Limited Edition

Year: 1986

Card Number: NNO

Card Type: Food Issue

If you've read any of my blogs you know I'm a huge fan of oddball food issue cards of all types.  Dorman's was the first cheese company to put pieces of paper between the slices of it's package cheese slices. 1986 marked the year that Dorman's was bought by Beatrice Foods. I'm not sure if these where issued before the company was bought or not. I do believe the Dorman's name now rests with the DCI Cheese Company in Richfield, Wisconsin.

According to the Standard Catalog these cards were available in specially marked packaged of cheese slices. Each panel had two players and are perferated down the middle.  There were 20 players featured on these unnumbered cards with 10 panels to collect.  The set also inlcuded Reggie Jackson, Don Mattingly, George Brett, and Ryan Sandberg to name a few.  Robin shares his card with Willie McGee.  The cards were produced by MSA and they used the same airbrushed photo for a lot of their food issues.

1986 Fleer League Leaders

Card Manufacturer: Fleer

Card Set: League Leaders

Set Type: Box

Year: 1986

Card Number: 44

Card Type: Base

Not everything I picked up on Black Friday was a serial numbered, color foil parallel card.  No some of the cards were just the blue collar working man's cards from the late eighties and early nineties.  

Here we have Mr. Yount's card from Fleer's 1986 League Leaders box set.  Fleer put out a ton of these sets from the late 80's to the early nineties. League Leaders, Award Winners, Baseball's Best, Heroes of Baseball, you get the idea.  And all these sets were always numbered to 44.  I always thought that was a bit odd.  I mean 45 is a much more solid number, at least in my mind, and 45 is 5 full 9 pocket pages. Of course the answer to why Fleer put out 44 card box sets is simple math.  A full size press sheet of baseball cards is 264 cards. 264 divided by 44 is 6.  So you can get 6 sets per sheet.  And Fleer pumped these out by the millions.  I can remember a local card shop I frequented in El Paso, where my dad was stationed in the 80's, had a display with all sorts of sets like this, and they were all a buck a pop.  And to be honest that wasn't a bad deal, these sets had all the stars of the day in them.

Of course the overall layout it is pretty simple, but Fleer wasn't know for it's complex designs, I'm not counting 1995 either where they went way over the top.  After staring at this card for a good long while I had to play card detective and try and figure out who that was in the background.  After some quick Googling that is either  former coach and Brewers catcher Andy Etchebarren, if this photo was taken from 1986. If it's older it would have to be pre 1984 as no one with number 8 played for the Brewers in 1985. If it's from 1984 it's catcher Jim Sundberg and if it's from 1983 or earlier its Rob Picciolo. I'm not sure how far back Fleer would go for photos. Plus it's hard to get a good look at that guy back there. At first I thought he was black or at least darker skinned, but that's probably just the effect from the flashbulb. And after thinking about it I think it's safe to say it's probably Andy Etchebaren