The baseball card gods keep churning out products for 2026! With 2025 Bowman Draft behind us and Topps Museum Collection right around the corner on January 26, Topps’ first big 2026 baseball release falls around February 11 for Series 1. Pre-orders are available now. Topps’ Series collections are a staple for any collector. Series 1 celebrates 75 years of baseball for Topps. Each...
While the most wonderful time of year may be behind us, baseball card season never stops giving. With some epic releases in 2025, one of the most highly anticipated releases is near. Topps is gearing up to release its 2025 Bowman Draft product, a set known for including top prospects and recent draft picks, on January 14 at 12 pm ET. Bowman Draft is a must for any collector willing to drop a...
Good morning, Mets fans! Topps announced on Friday that over 34,000 copies of the Juan Soto signing with the Mets card have sold. Topps announced this number in addition to the cards from his previous transactions. When he was traded to the Padres, that card sold just over 3,000 times. When he was traded to the Yankees, that card sold just over 7,000 times. Mets fans are, clearly, beyond excited...
One of Topps’ most anticipated releases of the year, 2024 Topps Heritage, is in stores now. This year’s release takes collectors back to a classic set and the most imaginative design from a decade of simple designs that ranged from iconic to downright boring. The first half of the decade featured iconic single-color designs in 1970 (gray), 1971 (black), and 1973 (white), as well as the...
As the calendar page turns to February, and pitchers and catchers begin reporting to Spring Training in Florida and Arizona, collectors are gearing up for the release of Topps Baseball Series 1 on February 14th. Coming less than a month after the release of 2023 Topps Stadium Club, the release of Topps’ flagship product and the first product of 2024, Topps Baseball is a 350-card set that may be...
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...
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...
Hope springs eternal across Major League Baseball as we move closer to pitchers and catchers reporting for Spring Training across Florida and Arizona. Shortly before that happens, 2023 Topps Baseball Series One hits the market this week on February 15th with a 330-card offering of their flagship product that will surely satisfy the appetite of collectors.Topps continues its standard...
What is a rookie card? That has become an age-old question in the hobby that has become highly subjective with an ever-changing definition over the past few decades. During the hobby’s vintage era, which is classified as when Topps monopolized the industry prior to the 1980s, the definition of a rookie card was cut and dry. A player’s rookie card was their first card. Collectors can easily point...
Last week, I finally had the opportunity to watch the new HBOMax documentary “Say Hey, Willie Mays.” I can count on one hand the number of baseball players from before I was born whose highlights I would look forward to watching. I would gladly watch highlights of Willie Mays any day of the week. I was in awe watching a now 91-year-old living legend speaking about his career. Arguably the...
