2015 Leaf 25th Baseball Yount checklist and gallery

I already chronicled his pre-production cards Leaf sold on ebay in October. I'll be tweeking the checklist if more information becomes available, but I think the publish checklist looks pretty good.
Robin is the only player not to have a Purple Clear auto in the set.  From the looks of it Acetate or clear cards are foil stamped on the front, the Pure or glass cards are hand numbered on the front, and Metal cards are foil numbered on the back.


1990 Leaf 25th Clear Auto Base Gray RY1 #/51 (Not serial numbered)
1990 Leaf 25th Clear Auto Blue RY1 #/25
1990 Leaf 25th Clear Auto Green RY1 #/10
1990 Leaf 25th Clear Auto Red RY1  #/5
1990 Leaf 25th Clear Auto Black Printing Plate RY1 #/1
1990 Leaf 25th Clear Auto Cyan Printing Plate RY1 #/1
1990 Leaf 25th Clear Auto Magenta Printing Plate RY1 #/1
1990 Leaf 25th Clear Auto Yellow Printing Plate RY1  #/1
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Base Silver #/57 (Not serial numbered)
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Blue #/25
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Green #/10
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Red #/5
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Gold #/1
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Black Printing Plate #/1
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Cyan Printing Plate #/1
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Magenta Printing Plate #/1
1990 Leaf 25th Metal Auto BA-RY1 Yellow Printing Plate #/1
Leaf 25th PURE Auto RY1 Base Charcoal #/49 (Not serial numbered)
Leaf 25th PURE Auto RY1 Blue #/25
Leaf 25th PURE Auto RY1 Purple #/10
Leaf 25th PURE Auto RY1 Green #/5
Leaf 25th PURE Auto RY1 Red #/1
1990 Leaf Buyback Auto Base #/40
1990 Leaf Buyback Auto Gold #/1

Metal Silver base, note no serial numbering on front or back

Green Metal

Purple metal

Green Pure (glass) hand numbered to 10, on the front

Clear Acetate Base Charcoal (no stamped serial number)

Clear (Acetate) Red #/5

Black Printing plate

Base buyback auto hand numbered to 40 on the front.

1994 Score Gold Rush

Card Manufacturer: Score

Card Set: Score Baseball

Year:  1994

Card Number: 13

Card Type: Base Parallel

Parallel Set: Gold Rush

I figured I'd throw another 1994 parallel card out here. These were all the rage too. As collector's we were craving anything different from the over produced base cards of the late 80's and 90's and the card companies delivered with their parallels.  Topps had it's gold foil, which turned into the monster that Topps parallels are to day, Donruss had it's Special Edition, Upper Deck had silver scripts, and Score had Gold Rush.  According to the Standard Catalog these were inserted one per pack. 

Score eventually became an imprint of Donruss and so did Pacific which all eventually became Panini, which keeps the foil board cards alive today.  These are pretty nice card and the scan doesn't do it justice.  

Robin retired at the end of the 1993 season, but was featured in all the major 1994 early releases, so while Robin missed the circus that the insert and parallel revolution would become we do get a few nice examples for the collection.

Yount: The Rookies

It's surprising that in 1975 there would actually be more than one rookie card for a player. Topps pretty much had the monopoly on baseball cards. Here is the Topps regualr issue #223, the O-Pee-Chee is the exact same front but I posted a scan of the back so you could see the difference the French and a little better card stock. Also the Team card for the Brewers features Yount in it as well as Hank Aaron.

Then there are the mini versions of the 1975 Topps Issue. I didn't post the pictures because they are the same as the regular size issues only smaller. Use your imagination.

The next rookie is the SSPC set that some actually put at a 1976 issue but is copyright 1975.

I like to count it as a rookie just because I can.

And last but not least are the hostess issue cards. There are actually two. There's the one on the back of the King Don's box and the Twinkee issue.

You can see that the one I have had a twinkee on it. The card is larger and has the black bar on the back. I read somewhere that there are examples of these cards that were never inserted with product and are actually clean. But I've never seen one up for auction or other wise. Most look like the one I got. A little off the subject but there are also 1976, 1977 twinkee's cards too.

The only card I'm missing right now unless I find out about other mysterious rookies is the O Pee Chee team card. But i'm not worried about finding it.

Well here you go. Robin Younts 1975 Rookies.

Until Next time keep collecting.

The first "Kid" of baseball

Long before Ken Griffey Jr. showed up and was labeled the "the Kid" a scappy 18 year old broke into the majors with the Milwaukee Brewers and stayed there his entire career. Of course I'm talking about #19, the immortal Robin Yount. As the title of the blog implies this is a site about him. I've been a Yount collector since 1987 when I first started collecting cards at the age of 14. I was a little young to remember their trip to the World Series in 1982 but being from northern Wisconsin it's hard not to be at least a closet fan of the Brewers.

So when I started collecting cards way back in 1987 there wasn't all that much to choose from. Not like now, where there's almost too much to choose from. And back then you where pretty much set building too. Ah 1987, right around the time all the companies started super producing there product to make it super cheap and at the same time super boring.

Well I'm getting off topic. My point was there wasn't much to pick from. Topps was the cheap choice with the crappy backs, while donruss and fleer had better card stock. I still think that the 1987 topps set was the best though. That wood grain finish. Like all the cards were from your dad's den.


The best a player collector back then could hope for was maybe 3 or 4 cards of your favorite player year. Maybe a few inserts, special releases, if they made the all-star team the year before you got an extra card, maybe some food issues or what have you.

And the holy grail when I started collecting "Rockin Robin", as he was later nicknamed, was his 1975 Topps rookie. Now the card ungraded in nrmt shape is about $50 bucks, but back in 1987 it was over $200. Way out of my measly allowance range. I could drool all I wanted at the card in the glass case at the local card store.

Not to get off topic again, but to set up, my father was in the army until I was 18 so the card shop I frequented was call the Comic Book Store in El Paso, Texas, I'm not even sure if it's still around but the owner Brad was my Idol for a while and I really wanted to work in the store. I thought that would be the coolest thing ever. But alas then my dad got stationed overseas to Berlin, Germany. Here in Berlin at a card show on base  I was able to find my holy grail of cards. At this point I was working on base at Burger King and had saved quite a bit of money up. The card pictured is not the one I finally got. No the first yount rookie was what you might call a filler. It had one really soft corner and couple other not so soft but definately not razor sharp corners. I think I paid 50 bucks for it and at the time it was awesome.

Now a days there are tons of Yount cards out there. Being a HOF inductee is good for that. So now it's kinda fun to pick up new stuff. Now it's mostly off of Ebay and that takes some of the fun out of going to shows to try and find some obsura, but 22 years later I've got a nice little collection going on.

I plan on posting other trivial bits of knowledge as well as images from my collection. I would love to hear from any other Yount collectors out there. I know there are a bunch, because I keep getting out bid on ebay by a lot of you.

So one last picture to end the column. Last year Topps put out it Topps Sterling with a price tag of something like $250 to $300 buck for a box. which consisted of 3 sequentially numbered cards to 250 or less, an auto relic numbered to 10 or less, and a mystery card. I never bought a box. Way to pricey and you'll never get the initial investment back but the cards are absolutely gorgeous. Here is the first one I picked up a few months back.

Until next time keep collecting. I'm cynicalbuddha.