He lived briefly in Covington, Indiana, then his family moved to southern California when he was an infant; his father got a job testing rocket engines with Rocketdyne.

[2] Yount was the third pick overall in the June 1973 Major League Baseball draft, one slot ahead of fellow Hall of Famer and 3,000 hit club member Dave Winfield.

On September 14, 1975 (two days before his 20th birthday), Yount broke Mel Ott's 47-year-old record for most games played in the major leagues before turning 20.

Early in the season, Paul Molitor was called up from the Brewers Class A affiliate to the major league team because of Yount's absence.

[3] He was an early proponent of weight training – then uncommon in baseball – and by 1980 Yount's power hitting had improved, particularly for a shortstop.

[4] Before his 26th birthday, Yount had accumulated 1,153 hits, the seventh highest total for a 25-year-old player in MLB history, ahead of Baseball Hall of Fame members Hank Aaron (1,137), Jimmie Foxx (1,127) and Rogers Hornsby (1,073).

With the title on the line, Yount hit home runs in each of his first two at-bats against Orioles starter Jim Palmer.

In addition to his only 200-hit season, he registered career highs with 29 home runs, 114 RBI, and a .331 batting average (.001 behind the league leader, Willie Wilson).

Yount finished with a .578 slugging percentage and .957 OPS on his way to gaining 367 total bases – leading the major leagues in all three categories.

[9] Yount was the first AL player to win multiple MVP awards in over 25 years, since the Yankees' Roger Maris (1960 and 1961) and Mickey Mantle (1956, 1957, and 1962).

The California Angels were prepared to make a serious offer,[11] but Yount signed a three-year contract with the Brewers worth $9.6 million in February 1990.

[12] At the start of the 1990 season, he had 2,602 hits in his career, which was fourth among players by age 34 to Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and Hank Aaron.

[17] Yount holds Brewers career records for games, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, RBIs, total bases, walks and strikeouts.

His 11,008 career at-bats is the ninth-most in Major League Baseball history (through the end of the 2020 season), and he ranks 20th on the all-time hit list.

[18] He, Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn and Bob Uecker threw out the ceremonial first pitches at the 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Miller Park.

In 2005, Brewers manager Ned Yost convinced Dale Sveum, a teammate of Yount's, to become Milwaukee's new third base coach.

Yount is a popular figure in Milwaukee and often attends Brewers On Deck, the team’s annual preseason fan-fest.

[30] While hunting in Arizona in 2012, Yount accidentally shot friend and former teammate Dale Sveum with pellets from his shotgun, hitting him in the back and ear.

The Chinooks play at Kapco Park at Concordia University Wisconsin where the right field fence is 319 feet in his honor (a reference to Yount wearing number 19).