2019 Topps 150th Anniversary of Professional Baseball #150-55

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship

Card Number: 150-55

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: 150 years of Professional Baseball (Greatest Players)

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Last year Topps celebrated the 150th Anniversary of professional baseball with multiple insert sets highlighting all sorts of topics.  One of the continuing inserts was the 150 Years of Professional Baseball.  Series 1 had 150 cards, Series 2 had 100 more cards, but this time broken down into the 3 separate sets, Greatest Players, Greatest Moments, and Greatest Seasons, with their own card numbers, and Update had another 100 cards featured, back in a single set.  Topps sure didn't want to make it easy.  Anyway, Robin has two cards in the set both from Series 1.  One in the Greatest Players sub-set and the other which I will feature later in the Greatest Seasons.  This card highlights his two MVP awards, 3000+ hits, etc.  

2018 Topps Series 2 Robin Yount Checklist and Gallery

Robin finally gets his first fully MLB licensed cards in Topps Series 2.  Here's the checklist and I'll add images as they start to pop up.

2018 Topps Series 2 MLB All-Star Game Logo Manufactured Patch Relics #ASP-RY
2018 Topps Series 2 MLB All-Star Game Logo Manufactured Patch Relics #ASP-RY Black #/99
2018 Topps Series 2 MLB All-Star Game Logo Manufactured Patch Relics #ASP-RY Gold #/50
2018 Topps Series 2 MLB All-Star Game Logo Manufactured Patch Relics #ASP-RY Red #/10
2018 Topps Series 2 MLB All-Star Game Logo Manufactured Patch Relics #ASP-RY Platinum #/1
2018 Topps Series 2 MLB All-Star Game Logo Manufactured Patch Autograph ASPA-RY Robin Yount #/10
2018 Topps Series 2 Topps Reverence Autograph Patch TRAP-RY #d?
2018 Topps Series 2 Topps Reverence Autograph Patch TRAP-RY Red #/5
2018 Topps Series 2 Topps Reverence Autograph Patch TRAP-RY Platinum #/1

All About the Base - 1993 Topps

Year: 1993

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship

Card Number: 1

Card Type: Base

This year Robin was given honor of being card #1.  I for the life of me can't remember if there was a reason for it or not.  Regardless this would be Robin's final year in the MLB.  We'll get one more base card next year.  Topps issued the set in two series, something they hadn't done in 20 years.  And this set was big, the biggest Topps had ever issued at 825 total cards.  And the gold foil parallel cards first introduced last year were so popular Topps added one to every pack.   Topps also changed up the backs going from the classic horizontal layout to the vertical, which made for reading all those stats just a little bit harder.  They also added a headshot to the back of the card, something that would get carried over to the 1994 set.

All About the Base - 1991 Topps

Year: 1991

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship

Card Number: 575

Card Type: Base

While I loved the 1990 Topps set, I'm very smitten with this set as well.  I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the color coordinated borders.  Maybe it's the 40th Anniversary logo or the fact that logo is watermarked on the back of the card.  Maybe it's the bubble gum pink backs. Maybe it's the nostalgia that this will be the last flagship set printed on this kind of card stock.  Either way we get a great Yount card featuring Robin swinging.  The font size for the career stats continues to get smaller and smaller.  

All About the Base - 1989 Topps

Year: 1989

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship

Card Number: 615

Card Type: Base

I wonder out of the hundreds of this card I probably have squirreled away I managed to grab one with grease stains on the front?  Well I'm not going into the archives to scan another one.  I'll be honest I have a huge love for this set in general.  I love the simple border design and the ballpark font for the team name with the player name in the tail. I chewed a lot of gum from these packs.  And for some reason I really loved the smell of this set, yes the smell.  Topps brings back the red and black color scheme for the card backs.  Topps used that color scheme just a few years ago with the 1985 set and I liked it then as I much as I liked it for this set.  In last year's issue Topps brought back the baseball graphic to the backs of the card, but this year Topps returns the graphic to it's place of glory framing the card number.  The last time Topps did that was in the 1981 set.  Again no room for anymore trivia, but we do get the game winning RBI stat squeezed into the bottom.