2025 Topps Update - Yount checklist

 Robin has just one card to chase in this year's Topps Update, but it's a fan favorite SP insert.

2025 Topps Update - Heavy Lumber #HL-61 PR500

2024 Topps Update - Yount Checklist

 Robin has only one card to chase in this year's update set, but it's a big one.  Robin finally gets his own Legendary Home Field Advantage card!!!  These Legendary cards are much harder and rarer than the regular HFA cards.  So good luck out there hunting this one down.

2024 Topps Update - Legendary Home Field Advantage #LHA-12

On the Radar - 2022 Topps Update - Legends Variation

 Topps Update is officially out tomorrow, but has been showing up for a couple days now and it has been confirmed that Robin  is part of the Legends variation checklist.  

2022 Topps Update #US19

On the Radar - 2020 Topps Update Yount Checklist

 Robin is featured in one of the insert sets in this year's Topps Update.  It's also possible that he'll get a varaition card in the main checklist, but we'll have to wait till the set comes out to see if that happens.

2020 Topps Update - A Numbers Game #NG-12
2020 Topps Update - A Numbers Game #NG-12 Blue
2020 Topps Update - A Numbers Game #NG-12 Black #/299
2020 Topps Update - A Numbers Game #NG-12 Gold #/50
2020 Topps Update - A Numbers Game #NG-12 Red #/10
2020 Topps Update - A Numbers Game #NG-12 Platinum #/1
2020 Topps Update - A Numbers Game Autographs #NGA-RY #/25 or less

I'll revise this checklist if anything else pops up and I'll add images once the set is released.

2019 Topps Update Legends Variation

Year: 2019

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Topps Update

Card Number: US168

Card Type: Variation

Variation Type: Legends SP

COMC Black Friday Haul #34

We got a double dip in 2019 with Robin getting a Legends Variation in Series 2 and again in the Update series.  Topps picked another great photo to use for Robin's card.  Personally I'm a big fan of these legends variations. First there's no doubt when you pull one of these that you have something special and it's a great way to get retired and HOF players into a new set.  

On the Radar - 2019 Topps Update

After looking through the released checklist for 2019 Update I was a little bummed and relieved that Robin wasn't featured in any of the inserts sets.  Fast forward to yesterday, when the product was released and low and behold Robin is once again featured as a Legends variation subject.

2019 Topps Update #168 - Legends Variation

It's an interesting photo choice, but it's nice to see an image that to my knowledge hasn't been used for a trading card yet.

2017 Topps Update Commemorative MVP Medallion

Year: 2017

Manufacturer: Topps

Set: Update

Card Number: MVPR-RY

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Commemorative MVP Award Medallion

Card Attributes: Manurelic, Heavy

I'm still just starting to dip my toes back into the eBay game.  I decided a couple years ago to stop set collecting and just focus on my team and player sets.  And to be honest I really have just been mainly focusing on Robin.  I've been pretty selective with my purchases over the last 8 months or so and have just now started to finally find some the cards I missed last year.

I ended up picking up Robin's 2017 Topps Update Commemorative MVP Medallion card for a great price.  The last one I bid on went for about 10 bucks so I was pleased to win this card for about a buck and a half plus shipping.  

The first thing I noticed when I opened the package is just how impressively heavy this card is.  I have a feeling you would have no problem picking this card out of a box.  This card commemorates Robin's 1982 MVP award and it might as well commemorate his 1989 one as well, because he didn't get two cards in the set.  I'm not a huge fan of manufactured relics, but they do have a place in my collection, and this card is very well done.  There are also numbered variations of the set.

On the Radar - 2017 Topps Update Checklist and Gallery

So Robin has a couple cards to chase in this year's update series.  I'm a little miffed that he didn't get a card in the base MVP Award insert, but he does have a manurelic to chase and that manurelic has different parallel levels.

2017 Topps Update MVP Award Commemorative Medallions MVPR-RY
2017 Topps Update MVP Award Commemorative Medallions MVPR-RY Gold #/99
2017 Topps Update MVP Award Commemorative Medallions MVPR-RY Black #/50
2017 Topps Update MVP Award Commemorative Medallions MVPR-RY Platinum #/1

2016 Topps Update Yount Checklist and Gallery

While the Milwaukee Brewers only have 6 base cards in the set and most of the inserts feature Ryan Braun, Robin does have 5 cards to chase.  From the fairly easy to get 3000 Hits Club base inserts and the unnumbered Medallion parallel card, to much more limited Medallion parallels and the autographed version.  These have been added too Robin's running 2016 checklist bring up the total to 158, not counting all the 5x7 card sets, I'll try to track those all down later to add.

Here is the checklist and image gallery

2016 Topps Update 3000 Hits Club #3000H-11
2016 Topps Update 3000 Hits Medallion #3000M-11
2016 Topps Update 3000 Hits Medallion Gold #3000M-11 #/50
2016 Topps Update 3000 Hits Medallion Platinum #3000M-11 #/10
2016 Topps Update 3000 Hits Medallion Autographs #3000MA-RY #/10

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.

New Yount Alerts!

I was finishing putting together my Brewers team set checklist for Topps Update and noticed Robin is featured in the Highlight of the Year insert and is also in the autograph parallel set.

Highlight of the Year
H-81

Highlight of the Year Autograph #/25
HYA-RY

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.

2010 Topps Update Black Bat Barrel Parallel Manurelic

Manufacturer: Topps

Year: 2010

Set: Topps Baseball Update Series

Card Number: MBB-156

Card Type: Insert Parallel

Insert Set: Manufactured Bat Barrels

Parallel Type: Black Bat Barrel

Card Attributes: Manufactured Relic, Serial Numbered

Serial Number: 09/25

Love them or hate them Topps Manufactured relics are probably here to stay.  And while Topps' creations are hit or miss, sometimes they're a grand slam.  When Topps put out these bat barrel replicas in the 2010 Update Series it was s culmination on a year of interesting ideas.  But these were by far the best of the bunch.  These cards are incredibly think and the scan does not do the card justice.  They came in a couple varieties.  The base card was numbered to 99 and the ultra rare pink barrel was numbered to just one, but for my money the black bat barrels were the best looking.

2014 Topps Update Fond Farewells

Card Manufacturer: Topps

Card Set: Topps Update Baseball

Year: 2014

Card Number: FF-RY

Card Type: Insert

Insert Set: Fond Farwells

This never happens to me.  I ended up picking up a blaster of Topps Update the other day.  Saw it was on the shelf and hemmed and hawed until I looked at the checklist for the manu-relics.  The checklist had two Reggie Jacksons, a Rollie Fingers and a Paul Molitor possible, three guys I collect so what the hell. I didn't get any of those guys, but in the packs I did end up pulling one of the insert cards I really wanted.  Robin Yount's Fond Farewells.  The other card I wanted is the relic version of this card. It would have been cool if Topps had actually carried Robin over to the two other parallels of this card, the autograph and relic autograph.

Overall the card is pretty simple, but it works well. I like the name in foil script, the classic Brewers mitt logo and nice little write up on the back.  A great addition to the collection, now to hunt down one of those relics!

2014 Topps Update includes some Younts!

By my count Robin has been issued 190 new cards this year.  You read that right.  Sure that number includes printing plates,other 1/1 cards and all those variations and parallels, but the simple fact is Robin has been getting a lot of love this year being featured in almost every issue Topps and Panini has put out this year.  Well with Topps Update due out Wednesday he's has a couple cards included in the set as well.

I was perusing the checklist over at Cardboard Connection and noticed the new insert set Fond Farwells.

Robin will have a base card and a relic card, but is not featured in the autograph and auto relic versions.

Topps release one live photo of the Auto relic version of Johnny Smoltz.