1975 White Hen Pantry Milwaukee Brewers Team Ruler

 Manufacturer: Whie Hen Pantry

 Set: 1975 Milwaukee Brewers

Year: 1975

Type: Ruler

A great oddball item from 1975.  I hate calling this item a rookie item, simply because all Yount fans know that Robin broke into the majors in 1974, but he has no merchandise with his visage until 1975.  But since all Yount's rookie cards are in 1975 I guess we can lump this into the rookie catagory.

Alright enough nitpicking. What we have here is a 1975 White Hen Pantry Milwaukee Brewers Team ruler that features a very young Robin Yount.  It also has most of the team and of course the other big name on the ruler is Hank Aaron.  

White Hen Pantry was a chain of convenience stores that started in Des Plains, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. They also had a large number of stores in New England, mainly Massachusetts and New Hampshire and I'll assume that they also had a large number in southern Wisconsin, but I can't find any good information on that.  I would have also thought that since the company was based in Illinois that they might also have issued some Chicago team related stuff, but the only other ruler I found was the 1972-73 Milwaukee Bucks.  Alas, White Hen is no more, in 2010 all of it's stores were rebranded as 7-11's.

But this is still a pretty cool oddball item. And it's even useful. I don't have a 1972-73 Bucks ruler, but from images I've seen they appear to be a hard plastic rule. These 1975 Brewers rulers are made of thin plastic and flexible. I'm not sure if this was a stadium giveaway, which is likely, or these were sold or given away at stores in Wisconsin.  As to the rarity who knows. I'm sure some of these were used, others probably just thrown away, but they do appear on ebay from time to time usually in the $10 dollar range. I can't remember what I got these two rulers for, but I know it was well under that price.

2013 Topps Triple Threads Sepia Unity Relic Bat card

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Triple Threads

Year: 2013

Card Number: TTUJR-RY

Card Type: Relic

Relic Set: Sepia Unity Relics

Relic Type: Bat

Card Attributes: Bat Relic, Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 10/27

You know the best part of about Topps Triple Threads each year is the base cards. Seriously. It seems that those are the only cards in the set that change.  Look at all the relics and auto cards in this years set and they look exactly like all the years past.  But for some I guess that's a good thing.  I have a hard time keeping up with every insert set in Triple Threads too, mainly because there are a ton and on top of the each set has about 5 parallel versions.  

It was a little overwhelming for a player collector. Until I realized that I could be happy with just one representative card for my collection.

I ended up picking up this beauty recently and for a great price.  This is from the Unity Jumbo Relic set.  The base cards in the set are numbered to only 36.  This one happens to be the Sepia parallel numbered to 27. And there are 4 more parallel versions numbered even less.  But I'm happy to finally have this one card in the collection.  Not that I wouldn't hunt down the other parallel versions of the card for the right price, but I'm happy to have just the one Unity Jumbo Relic card in the collection.   Now to find some cheap base.

2013 Panini Home Town Heroes

Card Manufacturer: Panini

Card Set: Hometown Heroes

Year: 2013

Card Number: 19

Card Type: Base

The latest and greatest from Panini is the Home Town Heroes set which features a nice selection of current and retired stars and Hall of Famers. Cool thing about Yount's card is that the card number is his number. 

So far I've only gotten the base card, but the base also has two parallel versions, state and zip code. Robin also has a checklist card in this set as well that'll be on the look out for.

1992 Mr Turkey Panel

2013 is turning out to be a great year if your a Yount collector, but I'm going to turn back the clock on a neat oddball I picked up this summer.  I already have a Mr. Turkey card, but when I saw this full back panel I decided to add it to the collection as well.  Plus it was pretty cheap.

Yount Archived! 2013 Archives parallel.

I've been insanely busy lately and, well, not only has my blogging dropped to a trickle, so has my card collecting.  But Robin has a bunch of new cards available in this year's Tribute, Museum Collection and Archives from Topps.  The first new addition I acquired in passing is his foil parallel card.  I haven't even opened a pack of this stuff and I'm not sure if I'm going to, but I will be collecting the Brewers from this set and of course all the Younts I can get my hands on.  Besides the base and this foil parallel, I know there is at least one more parallel to be had and that's the Day Glow parallel.

Teeny Tiny Younts

If you read this blog or my main blog, Collector's Crack, you know I'm a sucker for oddballs and mini's.

I've got a few examples of micro and super micro cards from the Yount collection.

From 1991 to 1993 Topps put out a set of Micro cards.  These came out as a factory set in a tiny little box.

In 1991 Cracker Jacks also put mini cards in it's boxes.

On the left we have the Topps Micro and on the right the Cracker Jacks card, I've put the regular Topps card in the middle for reference.

In 1992 Cracker Jacks decided to do another baseball card offering, but this time with Donruss cards.  You can see that the Cracker Jacks cards used different photos for their cards than the base Donruss set.

Here we have the 1992 Topps Micro Cards.  

In 1993 Topps also inserted 12 Prism cards with each set and if you have a favorite player from this set, he's got a micro prism parallel.

There you go, by far the smallest Yount cards I own.  Topps had put out mini cards before and even super jumbo cards, but this 3 year experiment saw Topps work that far end of the size spectrum.  But then again back in the early nineties going micro was all the rage.  I'm glad Topps got away from these micro cards.  There hard to enjoy being so small and I can see them getting lost in a collection.  The 1993 set also introduced a new technology that we still see to day, but oddly enough Topps didn't reuse for quite a long time. Opting to go the foil route instead.

2010 Brewers Yount Ticket

I found these a couple weeks ago on the bay.  I couldn't resist picking up two for the Yount Collection.  These tickets are from 2010 on Robin Yount Bobble Head night.  

I'm a sucker for oddball stuff like this.

Cooperstown Collection

Been slow in the new Yount catagory most of the year. But Panini's Cooperstown Collection had quite a few Younts or at least Yount featured cards.  Robin has a base card in the set and that set also has a Crystal parallel numbered to just 299.

I was finally able to find a nice cheap copy of the crystal parallel and luckily it came with the base as well.

The scan really doens't do the crystal parallel justice.  It looks like the cracked ice parallels Topps put out this year. The numbering is on the front if you can make it out on the right hand side there.  Panini did a lot of close cropping in the set so it didn't have to airbrush hats or uniforms.

Here's the back. It's the same for both cards.

The set also feature a few other inserts that Robin has a card for.  I haven't gotten my hands on any of those and there is also a Autographed card #d to 100 to find as well.

The newest Yount for the Yount collection.

If you read my main blog, Collector's Crack you've already seen this, but this deserves to be put up on the Yount Collector as well.

I just got back from Arizona for my Honeymoon, only 7 months after the fact, of course.  We ended up getting to go to two Spring Training games at Maryvale Park, home of the Brewers Spring Training games.  I was lucky enough to get to briefly meet Robin Yount and came away with this.

I was on cloud 9 the whole rest of the day, still am!!!

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.