Trade Your 1980s Baseball Cards for New Ones

Got monster boxes full of 1980s baseball cards sitting around your house or shop? At long last, you might be able to do something productive with them...at least some of them. In conjunction with the May release of its 2013 Topps Archives product, Topps is setting up hobby shops to accept one of those 80s cards and in return, the shops will hand over a cello pack of 2013 Topps baseball. Autographed cards and new parallels are going to be randomly inserted in those packs. No word yet on what the limit might be but safe to say you won't be able to hand over 3,200 80s cards for 3,200 packs as quantities will be limited.

The trade-in will only last a week and it'll actually be the second half of a two-part promotion that begins a week earlier with 25-cent five-card packs available at hobby shops. Each pack will contain one exclusive parallel card.

Additionally, each box of 2013 Archives will have a redemption card that can be traded in at a brick-and-mortar shop for a random card from the Topps Vault that will be packaged in foil and date from the 1950s through the 80s (so you might be able to trade some of those worthless '80s cards in during one promotion but chances are you'll get a few back, too.

The promotions will be tied in with Father's Day.

Topps also announced some new additions to Archives including the revival of an old brand, an old insert set—and some heavy metal rockers.

Stadium Club Triumverate Illuminators are die-cut cards; three players from the same team that can be collected to fit together. Albert Pujols, Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton will form one trio. The cards are similar to a 1998 Stadium Club concept.

Gallery of Heroes returns with its stained glass look. The checklist of the set includes:

Babe Ruth
Mike Trout
Buster Posey
Derek Jeter
Roberto Clemente
Jackie Robinson
Cal Ripken Jr.
Albert Pujols
Yogi Berra
Lou Gehrig
Sandy Koufax
Miguel Cabrera
Ted Williams
Mariano Rivera
Willie Mays

Fans of big hair, heavy metal bands will get a kick out of the Heavy Metal Autographs inserts which include Tommy Lee of Motley Crue, Sebastian Bach of Skid Row and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, among others. There will also be a Bobby Brown card for those who prefer a different genre. There will be a Real Metal parallels edition, numbered to 25.