All About the Base - 1983 Topps Team Leaders / Checklist

Year: 1983

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship

Card Number: 321

Card Type: Base, Subset

Subset: Team Leaders / Team Checklist

We end our time in 1983 with the third card featuring Robin in the 1983 Topps set.  Robin shares the card Pete Vuckovich.  The early 1980's were a great time in team facial hair.  You had Rollie Fingers' handlebar, Gorman Thomas' crumbduster, Vuck's Fu Manchu.  And while Robin was leading the team is just about every stat he wasn't winning the facial hair battle, but he was giving it his best shot.  It's too bad the 1983 set didn't have a World Series sub-set that would have been nice for us Brewers fans, well except for the loss.  Instead we got sub-sets like the Super Veterens, All-Stars, Record Breakers and of course these team leader / team checklist cards.  Still nice to have multiple Robin Yount cards in the set.

1990 Upper Deck Brewers Checklist

Year: 1990

Manufacturer: Upper Deck

Set: Flagship Baseball

Card Number: 91

Card Type: Base, Checklist

It's hard to believe it's already been 6 years since Upper Deck put out a baseball set.  Let's time warp back and visit the second set Upper Deck put out.  In the 1990 set beside the main checklist cards found every at all the 100's each team got a team checklist card featuring a star player from the team.  The cards were illustrated by famed sports artist Vernon Wells.  He also did a lot if not all of the insert illustrations.  It was Upper Deck's answer to Donruss' Dick Perez stuff.

2016 Topps Series 1 Robin Yount Checklist and Gallery

I've already posted this checklist and added it to the new 2016 checklist tab, but this will serve as the image gallery page as well.  Robin has 6 cards in Series 1, some are pretty common inserts.  Others are a little rarer.


Topps Series 1 Back 2 Back #B2B-8 Paul Molitor - Robin Yount
Topps Series 1 Berger's Best #BB-26
Topps Series 1 Berger's Best Autographs #BBA-RY  #/25
Topps Series 1 Berger's Best Autograph Relics #BBAR-RY #/10
Topps Series 1 Scouting Report Autographs #SRA-RY
Topps Series 1 Team Logo Pin Relic #TLP-RY

Baseball Cards Magazine - Sept. 1990

Year: 1990

What? Baseball Cards Magazine with Robin on the Cover

Date: Sept 1990

One of my goals this year is to add more Yount reading material to the collection.  As it is I have a few magazines and programs, but it's an area I have a ton of room to add to.  This gem comes from 1990 and I can remember buying this right off the rack.  I've mentioned this before, but my father was in the Army right up until I graduated High School and his last post was in Berlin, Germany.  I worked on the compound that housed the commissary, PX, Burger King, and bookstore.  So on my way home from work, I worked at Burger King in high school, I would stop by the base bookstore, which was close to where I picked up the bus to my housing area and peruse the comic books and magazines.  Baseball Cards was one of my favorite magazines to pick up and I was pretty religious about picking up the newest issue.  I still have most of them squirreled away somewhere. The bookstore didn't get Beckett, so this was my price guide and it had great articles.  Plus the magazine was the thickness of a small towns telephone book.  It was full of mail order advertisments.  This issue was great for a couple of reasons.  First of course it features Robin on the cover and secondly there is a great checklist for Robin that's not too shabby for 1990 and a great article.  Baseball Cards also had baseball cards!  In every issue there were 6 cards, two 3 panel sheets inserted into the magazine and this issue featured rookie cards of Sammy Sosa and Robin Ventura. (Sorry I didn't scan them)

I really do love those old mail order ads and looking at what stuff was going for back then.  Crazy what some of the prices were.

Here's the obligatory look what Robin's rookie card was going for in the price guide.

Beating George Brett in 1990!

2015 Leaf 25th Anniversary Pre-Production Proof Checklist

I try to be on top of stuff, but every now and then stuff falls though the cracks. This is especially true with the smaller non-licensed card makers like Leaf and Hits.  But recently Leaf sold a bunch of it's pre-production proofs for it's upcoming 25th Anniversary? product.  I guess it's just called 25th, but I'll assume it celebrates the 25th anniversary of 1990 Leaf, the first full fledged Leaf set not a Canadian version of Donruss.  And the design pays homage to the 1990 set.  Other than a tweet and finished eBay listing I can't find anymore information on the set.  Not even Leaf's website has it listed and neither Blowoutcards.com and DAcardworld.com have anything listed about the set.  The tweet from Leaf says this is due out in December so I guess we'll just have wait and see.  But I was able to find all the old listings on eBay and piece together a checklist of what was offered and save the images for posterity.  These cards were offered as a buy it now and the Metal cards were priced at $29.99, the Acetate proofs were priced at $24.99 and the Metal Prismatic Gold card was priced at $79.99.  Not bad prices for 1/1 cards.  A couple of these cards are already back on the market.  

Here is the checklist, which will be added to my 2015 checklist and images follow.  All cards are 1 of 1's and I'm not sure if they have anything on the backs or a card number associated with them.  I have asked a current seller and I'm waiting on an answer.  If I find anything out I'll update this post.

Update:  Well I heard back from the eBay seller that has a couple of these up right now and they are indeed blank backed.  The other news is that Leaf has finally released information on the 2015 Leaf 25th set.  Looks like that set will be all autos.  4 cards per pack, 1 pack per box deal.  No checklist yet, but I guess we can assume since Robin has pre-production cards he will also be featured in the set, so that means more autos to chase.  And from what I can tell all autos will be on card!

2015 Leaf 25th 

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof Prismatic  #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof Clear #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof Prismatic Blue #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof Prismatic Green #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof Prismatic Gold  #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof Prismatic Purple #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof  Prismatic Red #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof  Prismatic Opaque Blue #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof  Prismatic Opaque Green #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof  Prismatic Opaque Purple #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Metal Pre-Production Proof  Prismatic Opaque Red #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Acetate Pre-Production Proof  Blue #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Acetate Pre-Production Proof  Green #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Acetate Pre-Production Proof  Purple #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Acetate Pre-Production Proof  Red #/1

2015 Leaf 25th Acetate Pre-Production Proof  Silver #/1

The Robin Yount Magazine and other periodical Checklist

While most of my Robin Yount collection is his baseball cards I decided long ago that I wouldn't limit myself to just those.  In my collection I have baseball cards, drinkware, bobbleheads, coins, and of course magazines.  As long as it features Robin I'll add it to my collection.

So this post is all about the magazines he's been featured on over the years.  This is really a reference for me.  I by no means have all of these, but I thought I'd put to together a checklist and gallery of periodicals that Robin has graced the cover on, at least in part.  This includes, magazine, books, newspapers, media guides, programs, whatever. I realize this is not complete so feel free to chime in if you know of something I've missed and I'll add it to the checklist.

I'll start adding some images when I have time.

The Sporting News July 26, 1975

1977 Official Brewers Program


1981 Brewers Media Guide

The Sporting News April 11, 1981

Baseball Digest October 1982
Sports Illustrated Oct 11, 1982
Sports Illustrated Oct 25, 1982
The Sporting News August 9, 1982

The Sporting News Oct, 11 1982


1983 American League Red Book Media Guide (have)

Baseball '83 Cover R
1983 Baseball Illustrated Vol 19

Game Plan's Baseball Today 1983 Annual Preview

Major League Baseball Yearbook 1983

Milwaukee Brewers Official 1983 Yearbook

Milwaukee Journal Insight April 10, 1983

Pro Sports May 1983
Smith and Street 1983 Yearbook
Superstar Baseball Yearbook 1983
The Sporting News Official Baseball Guide 1983
The Sporting News Baseball Yearbook 1983

What's Brewing February 1983

Who's Who in Baseball 1983

Baseball Cards Magazine June 1984

1985 American League Red Book (have)

The Sporting News June 2, 1986

Brewers 1987 Yearbook (rookie card)

Baseball America November 10-24, 1989

Milwaukee Brewers Yearbook 1989

What's Brewing August 1989

Athlon's Baseball 1990 Annual
Baseball Cards Magazine Sept 1990 (have)
Beckett Baseball Card Monthly #60 March 1990
Sports Collectors Digest Baseball Card Price Guide March 1990 (Yount rookie card on cover w/ Todd Zeile)
Sports Collectors Digest Baseball Card Price Guide  May 1990

Baseball Digest Sept 1991 (have)

Baseball Weekly Nov. 18, 1992
Beckett Baseball Card Monthly #90 Sept 1992  (have)

Milwaukee Journal Sept 10, 1992 (3000 hit)

Milwaukee Sentinal Sept 10, 1992

1992 Robin Yount: The Legend Lives On 3000th Hit comm book.

The Sporting News July 27, 1992

Athlon's Baseball 1993 Annual
Legends Sports Magazine March/April 1993
Legends Sports Magazine March/April 1993 (Yellow news stand variation)

Spring Training Program 1994

Spring Training Program 1999

2014 Topps Throwback Thursday 1980's Online Exclusive Postcard

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Thowback Thursday 1980's Postcard

Year: 2014

Card Number: NNO

Card Type: Online Exclusive box set

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial number: 33/49

What better way to celebrate Thurday then with a throwback?  A Topps throwback.  These cards were part of a larger 15 card set you could only find on Topps.com.  Topps did a 2014 version and these 1980's versions.  I for the life of me couldn't  find a full checklist for the sets.  Topps website isn't very helpful.  But I've pieced together the 15 card set from the internet.

Wade Boggs 

George Brett

Gary Carter

Dwight Gooden

Tony Gwynn

Orel Hershiser

Paul Molitor

Jack Morris

Dale Murphy

Eddie Murray

Cal Ripken, Jr

Ryne Sandberg

Mike Schmidt

Ozzie Smith

Robin Yount

The cards measure 5x7 inches and are hand numbered to only 49!  I think I was pretty lucky to be able to pick this guy up for about 5 bucks.

The card has a very 1980's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air look to it. But a great oddball and I'm a lover of all things oddball.