I’m taking a break from football for a more timely release. 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball features a 200-card base checklist. The design mirrors that of other 2024 Topps flagship releases but with a bunch of added holiday flair. Keeping with the neon design elements, each base card features a neon stocking, Santa Claus, wreath, and…
The 2018 Topps Series 2 Baseball variations are taking a similar path to Series 1. First off, there’s lots of them. Secondly, they come in multiple tiers. That means SP and SSP variations. But the 2018 Topps Series 2 variation short prints are doing something different as well — they have retired legends. And a…
It has been several years since the last time Barry Bonds signed new MLB-licensed baseball cards. That’s about to change. Topps has announced they’ve got signatures coming from the all-time career home runs leader. 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Barry Bonds will have Topps certified autograph cards for the first time since 2017. pic.twitter.com/k0mhLLv1ad — Topps (@Topps) December 23,…
2022 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Baseball features a 220-card checklist. There are some big name prospects included, with Jackson Holliday and Druw Jones being the first two cards on the checklist. The entire base checklist also has autographed versions, so there are some good autographs to chase down! Each box should yield five autographs, too….
In the playground, we wanted to run as fast as Rickey. Someone would pretend to be Rickey, while someone else would pretend to be Carl Lewis—the winner of the race proving which one of the actual men was fastest. This is Henderson’s 1980 Topps rookie card. He stole 100 bases in 1980 to go along…
Multiple opened packs of Topps 2023 Series One baseball cards sit on the desk of Raymond Partsch III. — Photo by Raymond Partsch III I showed an unbelievable amount of restraint. As I stood at the register of my neighborhood dollar store, and the cashier was ringing up my items—a few snacks for my wife…
Baseball star Shohei Ohtani wants his former interpreter to hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of baseball cards he says were fraudulently bought using his money. The Los Angeles Dodgers star is also requesting Ippei Mizuhara, who previously pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud for stealing nearly $17 million from the unsuspecting…
In a new series called Card Back Questions, Tony flips over old trading cards and speaks with a wide range of professional athletes about the fun facts found on the backs of their old cards. First up is former University of Georgia star and five-year NFL veteran running back Tim Worley. Burbank Sports Cards Tony…
When you ultimately make the decision to collect something, what goes into that decision? In most cases, that answer is a personal one. For me, both what and how I collect has evolved as I’ve grown older. Initially, at age 6, I wanted all the Dallas Cowboys cards I could find, back then a fairly…
Over 170 of the 253 MLB Debut Patch cards have been pulled from this year’s Topps Chrome Update. Every rookie from the past year was included in the update version of Topps Chrome, including Junior Caminero. His patch card was pulled early, within the first few weeks of the product’s release, and has now sold…