1991 Star Stellar #31

Card Manufacturer: Star

Card Set: Stellar

Year: 1991

Card Number: 31

Card Type: Base

It's been awhile since I posted one of Robin's Star cards.  Part of the Stellar set card #31 commemorates Robin's 3 All-Star appearances.  And that is about all I have to say.

1991 Star Stellar #30

Year: 1991

Card Manufacturer: Star

Card Set: Stellar

Card Number: 30

Card Type: Base

I just realized as I look through my post queue that I really need to start scanning more pre 2000 cards to post about.

So I'll feature another one of Robin's cards from Star's Stellar issue.

Card 30 features Robin's World Series stats.  The Brewers went to the World Series in 1982 losing to the Cardinals in 7.  It's the closest the teams ever come to winning it all.  Of course the 1982 team was pretty awesome.

By even the standards of the day Star's card issues were pretty amateurish, but they did feature some of the best stars of the day and we get a bunch of cards that feature Robin. And if the back of the card is to be believe there are only 500 copies of this card.

1991 Star Stellar #33

Card Manufacturer: Star

Card Set: Stellar

Year: 1991

Card Number: 33

Card Type: Base

Time for another edition of Star Stellar.  Card #33 celebrates Robins 1989 MVP year.

The front of the cards shows a terribly cropped Robin warming up with a donut on his bat.

On the back we have the MVP voting and can see that Robin beat out Ruben Sierra by 28 points and the Iron Man by 40.

1991 Star Stellar #29

Card Manufacturer: Star

Card Set: Stellar

Year: 1991

Card Number: 29

Card Type: Base

 I think I've let enough time pass to post another one of these. I've been trying to space them out.

Another card from the Star Stellar set.  Each card in the set has a different themed back.  This one has Yount's Playoff and American League Championship stats on the back.

1991 Star Stellar #28

Card Manufacturer: Star

Card Set: Stellar

Year: 1991

Card Number: 28

Card Type: Base

Star cards.  So mysterious and colorful.  I'll be honest information on the Star company is pretty sparse.  Tony L over at Off Hiatus Baseball cards had some info and I think he left it here in a comment a while back.  Something about illegally printing Michael Jordan cards eventually got the company shut down.  

Anyway, Star had a bunch of different sets from the late 80's into the early nineties. Most sets were player specific and featured different astronomical names. Like Nova, Stellar, and Millennium.  They also put out a bunch of minor league team sets.  Set came in bags or, with some of the smaller numbered sets, in hinged crystal cases.

If I remember Stellar was a set the featured 9 cards from the same players and was one of the higher end sets being limited to only 500, or so it is printed. The set was numbered from 1 to what ever and the players filled those sets with their 9 cards.  Robin is featured on cards 28 to 36 in this set. Each card featured a different picture and the back featured different stats and facts.  

This is the first card of Robin's run in the set.  The back features his full stats up to 1990.  We can even date the photo on the card to 1986. We can tell by the Sully patch on the sleeve.  The patch memorialized Bob Sullivan. He had been the teams equipment manager since the team came into existence in Seattle and passed away prior to the 1986 season.

1991 Star Stellar Set and a Long over due thank you.

Well now.... First off let me apologize for the sparseness of posts here lately. Life seems to get in the way sometimes and while I've been trying to post fairly regularly over at my main blog Collector's Crack, my ancillary blogs like this one have kinda fallen to the wayside.  But with the summer field season now at a close and a long Alaskan winter in front of me it's time to get back to it.

You may remember, or not it's been so long,  that I posted about another Yount supercollector way back in Feburary.  And to call Matt a supercollector is putting it lightly, he puts my collection to shame.   He was genrerous enough to send me a huge selection of graded Younts that he wanted to get rid of.  They found a nice home in my collection and then Matt went and sent me another box a few weeks later.  And this is my long over due thank you.  I've been meaning to post something about this literally for over 6 months, 6 freaking months!.  I had this great box of stuff Matt sent me sitting there waiting to be scanned and inventoried and added and it kinda just sat there.  I blame getting married, but it's not that I didn't think about it.  Inside that box were more graded goodies but also lots of raw cards.  There were relics and numbered cards, old police issues and even a few Rollie Fingers.  So over the next few months I plan on posting quite a bit about that generous donation, long over due.  And I'll put the Rollies up over at the Rollie Finger Collector.

I started going though that box a few days ago and the first thing I grabbed was this set of 1991 Star Stellar cards.  This set has a print run of only about 500 I do believe and is one of the tougher sets to find.  The standard Catalog lists these cards for about $4.50 a piece so they aint' cheap.  Yount was featured on cards #28 to 36.   And here are all 9.

You'll notice the lettering is kinda fuzzy.  I thought that this was from ink bleeding, but I actually thing this was how it was printed.  To give the effect of glowing. 

Well there you have it the 1991 Star Stellar set.  Thanks again Matt.