Gypsy Queen Baseball 2015 is hitting the market with two autographs and two relic cards per box, plus a special 10-card mini box. A full checklist is linked below.
GQ’s 300-card base set includes veterans, rookies and retired greats. Fifty of the cards will be short printed, falling at an average of one in every four packs. There will be photo variations of 50 different players to chase and three different base card parallels including:
• Paper Framed Parallel: sequentially #’d
• Black Paper Framed Parallel: #’d 1/1 (hobby only)
• Printing Plates: #’d 1/1 (hobby only)
There’s a 300-card mini base set that parallels the regular sized cards. There will be one in each pack with 50 short-printed minis in the set, falling one per 24 packs.
Parallels for the 2015 Gypsy Queen Mini-Base and Short-Printed Mini Base Cards will include:
• Silver Parallel: sequentially #’d.
• Red Parallel: sequentially #’d.
• Black Parallel: sequentially #’d to 5
• Graphite Variation: #’d 1/1
• Printing Plates: #’d 1/1
There will be 100 Mini Box Base photo variations.
Topps is promising sequentially numbered on-card autographs for 2015 Gypsy Queen and there will be four different parallels to look for including:
• Silver Parallel: sequentially #’d.
• Gold Parallel: sequentially #’d to 25
• Red Parallel: sequentially #’d to 5
• Black Parallel: #’d 1/1.
Mini Autographs will be exclusive to those hobby-only mini boxes and be limited to ten copies of each. There will be sequentially numbered autograph relic cards as well as:
• Gold Parallel: sequentially #’d to 25
• Red Patch Parallels: sequentially #’d to 5 (new)
• Black Button Parallel: #’d 1/1 (hobby only—new)
Relic cards will feature game-used bats and uniforms of the game’s veterans and retired stars and include:
• Gold Parallel: sequentially #’d to 25 (new)
• Red Patch Parallel: sequentially #’d to 5 (new)
• Black Button Parallel: featuring a game-used jersey button. #’d 1/1 (hobby only-new)
There will be mini relics in GQ as well with:
• Gold Parallel: sequentially #’d to 25 (new)
• Red Patch Parallel: sequentially #’d to 5 (new)
• Black Patch Parallel: #’d 1/1 (new)
Jumbo Relic Cards will offer a super-size game-used jersey swatch. All will be numbered and hits will include:
• Gold Parallel: sequentially #’d to 25 (new)
• Red Parallel: sequentially #’d to 5
• Black Parallel: #’d 1/1 (new)
Inserts in 2015 Gypsy Queen will include a new ‘Walk-Off Winners’ set featuring walk-off victories from the 2014 season and the game’s historic moments (one in every four packs); Glove Stories which are images of amazing catches from throughout baseball history falling one in every six packs, a new Queen’s Throwbacks set that showcases black and white photography of current-day stars wearing throwback uniforms (1:6 packs)and Laces Around the League, a 14-card set featuring pieces of game-used baseballs.
There is also a Basics of Base Ball Mini set that has cards which detail the fundamentals of the game with a hand-drawn sketch reproduction (1:24 packs). The Basics of Baseball set will also offer rare 1/1 artist sketches in mini mode.
Not in the product this year: Dual and triple auto relics, hometown flags, wood minis or button cards.
Boxes of 2015 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball generally run $100-115. You can see boxes, single cards, sets, lots and more on eBay by clicking here.