On the Radar - Topps Online 206 Wave 2 Yount Checklist

 Robin is featured in Wave 2 of the second year of this online exclusive product.  The packs are available for purchase from May 18th till June 8  and cost $14.99 for a 10 card pack.  Robin is listed as #32 in this wave of 50, but last year cards were unnumbered and since Wave 1 just closed today we still haven't seen if this year's cards are numbered.  Regardless, robin has a base card and all the parallels.

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - #32?
2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Piedmont Back

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Sweet Caporal Back

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - American Beauty Back 

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Sovereign Back

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Carolina Bright Back

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Cycle Back PR25

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Lenox Back PR10

2021 Topps 206 Wave 2 - Ty Cobb Back #/1

2002 Topps 206 Piedmont Black Back Pinstripes

Year: 2002

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: 206

Card Number: 289

Card Type: Mini Parallel 

Mini Parallel Set: Piedmont Black

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I've written about my love of the 2002 Topps 206 set.  Well mainly series 2, and mainly the fact that Robin was featured in the set and had two base card variations.  At the time I was pretty enamored with the set because it was the first time I could remember Robin being featured in a base set of new cards, although that's probably incorrect, it was the first time I remembered seeing it.  And as a guy who collected Robin Yount cards I was super excited.  Plus it was Topps first attempt at the vintage tribute set and I liked it.  It also marked the beginning, yes I know Pacific had done it years before, but really this set marked the returned tobacco sized mini inserts.  Over the year's I've been slowly picking up the different backs and image variations featuring Robin.  As a matter of fact with this card I have only one mini card left to find to finish the quest.  Series 2 featured 4 different backs all with some differing rate of difficulty finding.  The most common being the Polar Bear backs and the rarest being the Carolina Brights.  Mixed in the middle were the Red and Black Piedmont backs.  And I'm glad I was able to find this pinstripe Piedmont Black variation to help get me one step closer to completion.  Now all I need is to find a Piedmond Red Blue Jersey mini and I'm done. 

2002 Topps 206 Mini Blue Jersey Polar Bear back

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Topps 206

Year: 2002

Card Number: 289

Card Variation: Blue Jersey

Card Type: Tobacco Size Mini parallel

Card Back Variation: Polar Bear

I vividly remember when Topps 206 came out.  I opened a ton of this stuff. Left me rephrase that I opened a ton of Series 2 of this stuff.  Mainly because Robin had not one, but two base cards, or rather a base card and two variations.  Plus the mini's and the back variations.  I pulled some great card from this set.  I pulled an original T206 buyback, some bat cards featuring vintage players from the original set, and a Joe Mauer rookie autograph, among others. It also came out right about the time I really started getting back into card collecting and my discovery of eBay.

It was also the birth of using vintage designs for a products that paved the way for Allen and Ginter, Goodwin Champions, Champ's, Turkey Red, Topps 205, Mayo, and two more sets of 206.

And while this isn't first time tobacco sized mini's had been inserted in a current product, that belongs to Pacific Private Stock, it is the start of the trend. This set does start the overall return of the tobacco size insert, but wouldn't be used again till 2006 with the inaugural Allen and Ginter set.

Each of the three series featured different mini back parallels.  Robin's card was featured in Series 2 and has the Polar Bear, Piedmont, red and black, and Carolina Bright's backs.

The Polar Bear backs are the most common and can be considered the base backs, then rarity goes, Piedmont Black, Piedmont Red, and Carolina Bright's being the rarest.

I love that the variations for Robin's cards in the set pretty much bookend his career with this blue jersey, classic 70's Brewers, representing the start of this career and the Pinstripe variation representing the end.