2025 Panini Crusade - Yount Checklist

 Robin has an insert and parallels to chase in this year's Crusade offering.  

2025 Panini Crusade - Numbers #11

2025 Panini Crusade - Numbers #11 Black #/1

2025 Panini Crusade - Numbers #11 Gold #/10
2025 Panini Crusade - Numbers #11 Green #/249

2025 Panini Crusade - Numbers #11 Purple #/149

2025 Panini Crusade - Numbers #11 Red #/25

On the Radar - 2021 Topps Series 2 - Yount Checklist

 Robin had a few cards to chase in Series 1 and it looks like we get a few more to chase in Series 2.  I'll add images when stuff starts popping up.

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball 35th Anniversary #86AS-36
2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball 35th Anniversary Black #86AS-36 #/299

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball 35th Anniversary Blue #86AS-36

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball 35th Anniversary Gold #86AS-36 #/1

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball 35th Anniversary Red #86AS-36 #/10

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball Autograph #86AS-RY

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball Autograph Black #86AS-RY #/50

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball Autograph Gold #86AS-RY #/25

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball Autograph Platinum #86AS-RY #/1

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Star Baseball Autograph Red #86AS-RY #/10

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Stars Baseball Relics #86ASR-RY

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Stars Baseball Relics Black #86ASR-RY #/199

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Stars Baseball Relics Gold #86ASR-RY #/50

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Stars Baseball Relics Platinum #86ASR-RY #/1

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps All-Stars Baseball Relics Red #86ASR-RY #/25

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps Baseball Relics #86BR-RY 

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps Baseball Relics Black #86BR-RY #/199

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps Baseball Relics Gold #86BR-RY #/50

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps Baseball Relics Platinum #86BR-RY #/1

2020 Topps Series 2 - 1986 Topps Baseball Relics Red #86BR-RY #/25

2019 Topps 1984 35th Anniversary Tribute

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship (Series 1)

Card Number: T84-32

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set 1984 Topps Baseball 35th Anniversary Tribute

COMC Black Friday Haul #46

Robin has a lot of cards to chase in 2019 Topps.  One of my favorite inserts was the 1984 35th Anniversary Tribute Set.  Well at least Robin's card in the set.  A quick search on Getty Images reveals Topps used a photo from a 1980, sadly the actual date and location are not listed.  The inset photo used is from a much later date as that is most definitely Yount as the elder statesman on the team.  I've also included Robin's actual 1984 Topps card for photo comparison.  The bigger difference is on the back with the card having Robin's stats through 1993, odd for a 1984 tribute and the stats start in 1978.  But I won't complain as long as my favorite Brewer keeps getting featured in these sets it just means more to add to the collection.  Or course card also has all the color parallels and gets the chrome treatment in the Silver Packs.

2019 Topps 150th Anniversary of Professional Baseball #150-138

Year: 2019 

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship (Series 1)

Card Number: 150-138

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: 150 Years of Professional Baseball

COMC Black Friday Haul #36

The last post featured Robin's first card in this insert set and now it's time for the other.  The 150 Year's of Professional Baseball Series 1 insert was subdivided into 3 sub-sets, Greatest Players, Greatest Seasons, and Greatest Moments.  This card celebrates Robin's great 1982 season in which he took the Brewers to their only World Series appearance and he won his first MVP title.

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)

COMC Black Friday Haul #35

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.  

2019 Topps Faces of the Franchise

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship (Series 2)

Card Number: FOF-16

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Faces of the Franchise

COMC Black Friday Haul #14

Last year Robin was featured in quite a few inserts in all three Topps Flagship series.  And of course those inserts, at least most of them, have parallels.  One of my favorite inserts from Series 2 is this Faces of the Franchise.  Since joining the Brewers in 2018 Christian Yelich has replaced Ryan Braun as the face of the current Brewers, at least on cardboard. I'm a big fan of this trio, however I would argue that Rollie is out of place.  If I would have put this card together Fingers would have likely been replaced with Braun, or if we're going old school Molitor.  Not that I'm complaining, as a Rollie Fingers collector I like cards that do double duty for my Player Collections, however if we go by All-Star Appearances Braun's 6 would supplant Yelich, but the write up on the back also highlights MVP awards and Braun's is controversial.  

On a side note I had though I had picked this card up with the rest of my team set from cardbarrel.com, but when I got the Faces of the Franchise card from them I notice it was actually the blue parallel and not the base.  It was an easy mistake since the only real difference between this card and the blue parallel is the top portion of the card is blue and pretty much the same blue as the bottom of this card, and it's unnumbered.  Regardless this was a cheap and easy pick up during COMC's Black Friday sale along with another parallel I'll feature later.

2019 Topps Allen and Ginter - Ginter Greats insert

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Allen and Ginter

Card Number: GG-50

Card Type: Insert

 Insert Set: Ginter Greats

Robin is not only featured again in this years Allen and Ginter, but he's also featured in the Ginter Greats insert set.  Every year Topps has at least one fairly large inserts set in Ginter.  This year there are two with Greats and Star Signs, both having 50 subjects.  Overall the design is nice and true to the brand.  In this set players are featured in alphabetically order so Robin gets the honor of having the last post in the set.

2005 Fleer Cooperstown Tribute

Year: 2005

Manufacturer: Fleer

Set: Tradition

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Cooperstown Tribute

Card Number: 4CT

Card Attributes: Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 1100/1999

Nothing like a shiny foilboard card to get the day off right.  I'm a big fan of Cooperstown tribute sets and cards.  The scan really doesn't do the card justice on just how shiny it is.

These Cooperstown Tribute cards were inserted into the Fleer Tradition set.  Tradition had become Fleers flagship set for the most part and the base set was suppose to be 750 cards, but Fleer's bankruptcy meant only Series 1 was release.  It's very possible that the 10 card Tribute set would have been much larger, but at least we got Robin included before the Fleer brand got sold to Upper Deck.  The cards are serial numbered to the year of induction, so Robin's is out of 1999.  There is an unnumbered gold parallel which was the retail insert for this set and there are two relic parallels to chase.

2019 Topps Series 1 Cactus League Legends

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship, Series 1

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Cactus League Legends

Card Number: CLL-29

This card was almost free.  Almost it literally cost me one cent.  Last month ebay was offering a $3 dollar off coupon, but the purchase had to be at least $3.01.  I saw lots of great pick ups all over twitter and after some careful deliberation I decided to try and pick up this card.  After scouring the ebay listings for Robin's 2019 cards I found a seller who had this card discounted to $2.58 with free shipping.  So I politely asked if they would be willing to raise the price to $3.01 so I could take advantage of the coupon, which they graciously did.  And about a week later I have Robin's 2019 Topps Series 1 Cactus League Legends insert card.  This set and it's cousin the Grapefruit League Greats are retail only inserts and I'm done buying Series 1 packs and I have yet to see an example show up at COMC.  It's a cool looking card and I wasn't sure if it was shiny, like foil board, or not.  It's not, but I think these would look great on foilboard, or even better chromed. 

2018 Topps New Era 1983 35th Anniversary Insert

Year: 2018
Manufacturer: Topps
Set: New Era Promotional Set
Card Type: Insert
Insert Set: 1983 35th Anniversary 
Card Number: T83-6

I posted about this card in early August and since then have been trying to snag one at a good price ever since. I finally pulled the trigger last week and picked up this card for $8 shipped. A little more than I wanted to pay for it, but that was the best price I've seen since they started showing up on ebay.  For those that don't know this card is an insert to the New Era hat promotion.  The only way to get a pack of cards was to buy a New Era hat from a select MLB stadium store.  And the fact that these cards are inserts to the base set make them a little harder to find.  The main reason I pulled the trigger was I've only seen a handful of listings for these cards and I was worried they would eventually disappear.  Not knowing the print run and scarcity I figured I better jump on one. 

I was hoping Robin would show up in the flagship insert, but so far no luck, but Update is coming out in a couple weeks.  A few differences between this card and the flagship 83 Anniversary insert.  First is the numbering on the back of the card.  These cards have the T83-# designation were the flagship set only has 83-#.  Also the anniversary logo on the front of the card is not foil, it's printed as part of the card.  As a matter of fact there's not an ounce of foil anywhere on these.  It would have been nice if there was a small New Era logo somewhere on the card to denote the set.  Overall it's a great looking card with great colors and beautiful photos.  It really looks great in hand.  As far as oddball and promotional cards go I have no idea how rare these actually are or will become, but if you have a player in the set you collect I'd say pick one up sooner than later.

2017 Diamond Kings - Originals

Year: 2017

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Diamond Kings

Card Number: DO-22

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Diamond King Originals

Still have a few Younts left from my Black Friday shipment.  Next up is a great insert from last year's Diamond Kings.  I bought a couple packs hoping I might just luck into this card, but in the end I found a cheap one on COMC.  And then not to long ago I also received one in a trade package from Julie who write the blog A Cracked Bat.  In the age of all these low numbered auto relics that I have no chance of picking up I love that Robin gets included in sets like this and he rightfully deserves to be there.  

2008 Donruss Threads Century Stars

Year: 2008

Manufacturer: Donruss

Set: Threads

Card Number: CS-13

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Century Stars

2008 would mark Donruss' return to the baseball card game.  Donruss lost their MLB license in 2005 and never got it back.  I don't remember if there was a big tado over this set, but you can clearly see parts of logos and team colors looked true.  Of course Upper Deck made sure that you couldn't get away with this anymore. And this would be the last year before Donruss was aquired by Panini.

 I was really excited when this set came out.  Robin was featured in the main checklist and was in the inserts and had lots of parallels, relics, and autos to chase.  Through my collecting life I've gone through ebbs and flows with collecting.  That mainly had to do with what I was doing for work.  My first be reawakening came in 2002 when I discovered ebay and had time to spend lots of money.  It didn't hurt, or maybe it did, that 2002 was also a great year for Robin's relic cards and inserts.  But my second great awakening came in 2008 and I'll be honest I've been riding the crest of that wave for awhile now.  

The base insert itself is fine, but like all the inserts it's made for the relic and auto versions.  There are also serial numbered parallels to chase. 

2016 Topps Series 2 Hallowed Highlights

Year: 2016

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flagship, Series 2

Card Number: HH-13

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Hallowed Highlights

Continuing my 2016 pick-ups from Justcommons.com.  I finally got to add Robin's Hallow Highlights insert card.  Out of all the recent issues for Robin this was probably my most desired card out of the more pedestrian ones.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe it's because out of the small 15 card set it's nice to see Robin included and recognized.  The card itself celebrates one of Robin's biggest milestones as a player and the one probably featured on the majority of his cards like this one: his 3000th hit.  I did learn something new on the back of the card.  I had never realized that all three of his milestones, 1000th, 2000th, and 3000th hits were all against the Indians.  A fact that I did verify.

2016 Topps Series 1 Berger's Best insert

Year: 2016

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Flaghip

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set Berger's Best

Card Number: BB-26

I made a pretty big stink when this card came out earlier this year.  I was pretty dumb struck by the egregious error Topps made when referencing one of their own cards.  If your a fan of this blog or Robin Yount and his baseball cards you know that Robin's first issued card was in 1975.  The 1975 set is pretty iconic with other great rookie cards like George Brett and Gary Carter to name a few.  While it's true that Robin's rookie year was 1974 Topps also seems to think it was the year they issued his first card.

Ahem, anyway.  Seems like every year Topps also has to put out a reprint insert and Berger's Best is this year's reprint insert. At least for Series 1.  This insert also has relic, autograph and autograph relic parallels and Robin is included in all three of those sets too.

I guess I should just count my blessings they included Brewer and Robin in the set.  

2015 Topps Update Highlight of the Year insert

Year: 2015

Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Update Baseball

Card Number: H-81

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Highlight of the Year

Fresh out of the mailbox!  I've been seeing these cards go for as much as $4, which seems crazy to me given it's just a base insert.  My card comes much cheaper.  I picked up a lot of 5 of these bad boys off of justcommons.com for a whole thirty five cents a piece.  It was part of a larger order  filling some Brewers team set needs from recent releases.  

The insert comes from Topps' big continuation insert from Series 1 and 2.  The complete set has 90 cards, 30 from each series.  I featured this card and it's autograph variation in a post when Update came out, but this is the collection post.  

The card celebrates Robin joining the 3000 hits club, a stat that pretty much made him a first ballot shoe in.  I really like the overall design and look of the set, but I'm just not into trying to put together monster insert sets anymore, so the only cards I keep are for my team and player collections.

A great cheap addition to the collection.

2012 Topps Golden Moments Insert

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Year: 2012

Card Set: Topps Update

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Golden Moments

Card Number: GM-U26

Not to be confused with the Golden Moments Die Cut cards that were available though Topps' online promotion in 2012, the Golden Moments insert was a continuity insert that ran through Series 1 and 2 and into Update.  The Update set is denoted by the U in the numbering on the back.  

This insert set had autographs, relics and auto relics available for some players and I was excited to see Robin in the set, but disappointed to find out that he did not have any of the other variations.  It's sad because this is one of those inserts that was designed for the autograph and relic versions.  The relic would have gone with there home plate and logo is and the autograph would have been inserted around Robin's waste.

The card commemorates Robin's awesome day at the ballpark on the last day of the season in 1982 and moving on to the ALCS.