Two of the hobby’s most anticipated late-season releases are now in stores with the release of 2023 Topps Pro Debut and Topps Archives. Topps Pro Debut Topps Pro Debut was released with a surprising whimper in mid-October. Usually, a product that has made waves in past years was barely a blip on the radar, whereas Topps Archives hit significantly harder in early November after the news that the...
Topps is back with the release of its annual update set, the 2023 Topps Update Series. Essentially a Series 3, Topps Update Series serves as a bookend to Topps’ flagship product.Using the same design as Series One and Two, the Update Series features some of the players who changed teams throughout the season and rookies who have made their debuts. However, this earlier release of...
One of the hobby’s most popular products is back with the recent release of 2023 Topps Allen & Ginter. Created in the image of the original tobacco cards made by the Richmond, Virginia based tobacco company Allen & Ginter, this product resurrects the inclusion of the non-baseball related cards and includes tobacco-sized cards while creating a card that appears hand painted instead a...
After a summer with fewer card releases then normal and the drama caused by mudslinging lawsuit filed by Panini, and Fanatics countersuit, 2023 Bowman Chrome has finally been released.Essentially a continuation of the Bowman Baseball product, Bowman Chrome utilizes the same card design as Bowman Baseball and is 100% chrome. You will find your usual variety of veterans and rookies comprising the...
Every year, collectors flock to their local brick and mortar card shops and big box stores in an effort to get their hands on the latest Topps Heritage release. First released in 2001, Topps Heritage was an instant hit with collectors. The inaugural set used the legendary 1952 Topps design and was released as a way to celebrate Topps’ 50th anniversary of releasing baseball cards. The...
For years, Bowman Baseball has served as the first product of the new season for collectors to get their hands on the first card of players that changed teams in the offseason in their new team’s uniform. This is in addition to rookie cards for top prospects that made late season debuts, and the first card for several of the game’s top prospects.The 2023 Bowman Baseball prospect delivers on all...
Topps ended February with several major announcements at their annual hobby conference held at Chase Field in Phoenix, while their parent company Fanatics continued to tighten their rattlesnake-like grip on the industry.Some of the biggest news included Topps announcing several different products being placed on hiatus for the 2023 season. Bowman 1st Edition, Bowman Chrome X, Bowman...
Released just two days before Thanksgiving, 2022 Bowman Chrome has finally come to the market with such an obnoxious amount of refractor parallels to chase that collectors may actually forget that the base set exists.Normally scheduled for a September release date, the 2022 product follows the tried-and-true formula with a 100-card base set of veterans and rookies and another 100 cards of...
With a simple premise devised over thirty years ago at the end of the junk era, Topps is finally releasing the popular hobby product, Topps Archives. The newest iteration of Topps Archives became available on Wednesday. First created as a 330-card reprint set, Topps Archives first debuted in 1991 as Topps Archives 1953, a reprint of Topps’ 1953 product. A year later, Topps regained the licensing...
After a long summer filled mostly with lackluster releases of products without licensing from Major League Baseball and expensive, high-end releases from Topps that priced out most collectors, a hobby mainstay returns on September 16.2022 Topps Chrome Baseball is back in stores with a 225-card set with the final five cards in the set featuring some of the year’s top rookies in a shorter...
With sports cards back on shelves in local Target and Walmart stores across the country, Fanatics is flexing their muscles on a still thriving marketplace. Just a year ago, Fanatics sent shockwaves through the trading card industry by obtaining exclusive licensing rights to manufacture trading cards for three of the four major sports in North America. This caused the $1,300,000,000 dollar SPAC...
