1993 Duracell cello pack

I stopped in to Don's Sportcards here in Anchorage a few weeks ago, yeah I'm that behind, and  while I was just going to pick up a few cheap cards off his drop board I ended up spending a lot more than I planned on.  Don had just bought a huge collection and had some pretty awesome Brett Favres.  I ended up picking up the a bunch of the more unique and interesting cards, but this post isn't about those Favres this is about the awesome Yount pick up I found.  While Don was pricing out all those great Favre cards and giving them to me at 60% book value I walked around and found a few unopened packs of Duracell cards.  Now I already have Yount's Duracell card it looks like this...

But I had never seen the cello packs the cards came in.

So for a buck I also got the Durcell cards of Gooden, Baerga and Gwynn.

And Mr Yount was right there on the back.  Pretty neat.  These cards came with the Super Saver packs of Durcell way back in 1993.  

I also picked up another pack with Frank Thomas in it for my Thomas collection.

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.

Tying up some loose ends

At the end of 2012 there were two Yount cards on my radar that I had yet to aquire.  Both had been going for way more than I wanted to spend and I had missed out until recently.

The first card was Robin's 2012 Topps Golden Giveaway Gold parallel die cut card.  I had picked up the regular card soon after people started getting them in hand, but this bad boy was always out of reach.  The seller was either always asking way too much or the auctions were ended way too high for my liking.  I finally got this one for well under what I wanted to pay.  I guess patience paid off in the end and I was getting a little worried.  There's a fine line on waiting too long.  Sometimes cards like this just disappear or you have only one seller who wants way too much.

The second card I needed was this 2012 Gypsy Queen Mini Relic card.  I had picked up the full size relic card a long time ago.  And seeing that 2013 Gypsy Queen is here already it was about time I finally got my hands on this one.  I'm not sure how many of these were made, but I know that a few of the veteran HOFer's were short printed and Mr. Yount's card was no different.  I had never seen more than a couple of these listed at anyone time and I was getting a little worried I had waited to long to try and go after it.  But recently another pair popped up on the ebay so I was able to pick this guy up for a great price.

That's most of the 2012 cards I need.  Sure Panini has a few from it's Cooperstown set I need, but I'm not in  a hurry.

2013 Topps Gypsy Queen - Lots of Robin to find

I already posted something about Mr. Yount showing up in this years Allen and Ginter coming in July, but I spaced thinking he might be in this years Gyspy Queen.  I was putting together my Brewers team sets needs from the checklist over at Cardboard Connections and realized that Robin has quite few cards to chase starting next week.  Here is a mostly complete run down Robin Yount cards in 2013 Gypsy Queen.

Base
#125

Framed parallel
#125 - I'm not sure if these will be numbered again and also have retail framed parallels as well or 1 of 1's either, but it's Topps so there is a really good chance that there will be a numbered framed parallel and also at least one retail exclusive and if Topps decides to make unique framed parallel cards for both Target and Wal-mart and maybe even TRU there could be a few of these to chase.

Mini's
Base
Black
Green
Sepia
Wood  numbered to 5
Leather numbered to 1!
Printing Plates

Mini Variation found in hobby mini box 

Mini Relic (framed relic)
GQMR-RY

So there are at least 8 cards to chase that are within reason.  I won't kid myself about the wood, leather and printing plates.  I'm also not going to kid myself if Topps does what it did last year and put in 1/1 framed parallel cards either, but there is always that chance.  I'll add photos to this once this product is released.

cb out

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.

2012 Panini National Treasures Yount Bat Knob card, or an insanely cool card I will never own.

I've been keeping track of all the cool National Treasure cards that have been hitting ebay, Not just for Yount, but for Rollie Fingers and other Brewers.  I found this great card and as I write this it's sitting at about $370 dollars.  Way to steep for my blood.  That's a car payment.

I have to say I'm a big fan of this Panini offering, even if they had to show the players from the neck up and chop off the tops of their heads and use black and white photos. These cards still look great.