If you like your cards with as little clutter as possible, Topps has a little something for you this year. 2024 Series 1 Baseball (and presumably Series 2 and Update) will have a design variation that offers a borderless design with none of the usual graphics on the front: no team name, player position or even the player’s name–just the Topps logo in the upper left.
They’ll be among the chase cards inside the new year’s first baseball card product, set for release on Feb. 14.
A full checklist for 2024 Topps Series 1 and odds of pulling certain cards in the product are both available at the bottom of the page.
Hobby Box Configuration
2024 Baseball will come in all sorts of pack sizes but once again there will be two Hobby options: traditional boxes with 20 packs of 12 cards, guaranteeing an autograph or relic card and a single silver bonus pack and Jumbo boxes with 10 packs of 40 cards, at least one auto, two relics and two silver packs. Those bonus packs will once again have chrome cards of rookies, veterans and former greats, with numbered autographs and parallels possible.
The number of cards in flagship boxes has shrunk quite a bit over the last several years. Content is down by 76 cards from 2020’s total of 336. In 2018 boxes still held 360 cards–ten packs with ten cards per pack.
Base Set
The base set will have 350 cards, including veterans, rookies, Future Stars, League Leaders, Team Cards, and other content. Cover boy Ronald Acuna Jr. leads off the set as card no. 1. More than 60 players will have official rookie cards in Series 1, including Cincinnati Reds star Elly De La Cruz.
Parallels are many and include:
• Gold Foil Parallel – Printed on gold foil-board Inserted1:2 packs (Jumbo Exclusive)
• Rainbow Foil Parallel – Inserted 1:10 packs
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 2024
• Blue Holofoil board Parallel – #’d to 999.
• Purple Holofoil board Parallel – #’d to 799.
• Green Crackle Foil board Parallel – #’d to 499
• Orange Crackle Foil board Parallel – #’d to 299
• Red Crackle Foil board Parallel – #’d to 199
• Vintage Stock Parallel –#’d to 99
• Independence Day Parallel – #’d to 76
• Black Parallel – #’d to 73 Hobby/HTA Jumbo Exclusive
• Mother’s Day Hot Pink Parallel – #’d to 50
• Father’s Day Powder Blue Parallel –#’d to 50
• Memorial Day Camo Parallel – #’d to 25
• Clear Variation – #’d to 10 (350 subjects) Hobby Only
• Printing Plates – Printing plate of card fronts (4 sets) #’d 1/1
• Platinum Parallel – #d 1/1
• First Card Parallel (new this year)
• Base Card True Photo Variation – all base card elements removed to allow image to show in full.
• Base Card Team Color (color match) Variation – 1 per case.
Rare Golden Mirror Image Variations for base cards are back, with a new image and all gold card back.
Last year, Blowout Cards offered a $250,000 bounty to those who were able to complete full sets of them.
Inserts
Several new inserts are part of 2024 Series 1, including Superstar Blueprint – which offers “characteristics that provide the ‘blueprint’ for the player’s success,” according to Topps, along with Grand Gamers (mostly retired players), 2023’s Greatest Hits and All-Topps Team inserts.
They’ll all come with several parallels, including:
• Blue Parallel – limited
• Black Parallel – #’d to 299
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 75
• Red Parallel – #’d to 10
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
• Autograph Parallel (select subjects) – #’d to 25 or less
Topps will trot out the 1989 design once again, this time in honor of the 35th anniversary of the product. The checklist will include both past and present players and offer several parallel versions, including:
• Blue Parallel – limited
• Black Parallel – #’d to 299
• “The Real One” Parallel – printed on “Heritage-style” stock #’d to 89.
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 75
• Red Parallel – #’d to 10
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
There will be a Ken Griffey Jr. insert set this year, offering a career retrospective set of Ken Griffey Jr., 35 years after his MLB debut.
Other insert sets will include:
- Heavy Lumber, which offers 20 of the league’s best hitters on wood grained cards. They’ll be limited to just 500 of each player.
- Social Media Follow Back redemption cards, once again offering collectors the chance to earn a social media follow from a well-known
- Homefield Advantage and Legendary Homefield Advantage, which includes imagery from the player’s home stadium. They’ll be case hits.
- Sketch cards are 1 of 1 hand drawn art featuring current stars and former greats. They’ll be found only in Hobby products.
Commemorative Relics
Home Sweet Home Stadium Medallions offers a manufactured relic of their home stadium. They’ll be numbered to 299 except for:
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 75
• Red Parallel – #’d to 10
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
• Autograph Parallel (select subjects) – #’d to 25 or less
• Autograph Red Parallel – #’d to 10
• Autograph Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
Autographed Relics
Topps Reverence Autograph Patch Cards offer on-card autographs and game-used patch pieces of MLB greats, past and present. they’ll be numbered to 10 and be exclusive to Hobby and Hobby Jumbos.
• Red Parallel – #’d to 5
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
Major League Material Autograph Cards are numbered to 50, 25 (Red) or 1 (Platinum).
• Red Parallel – #’d to 25 or less
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
World Champion Autograph Relic Cards are all about the 2023 World Series champion Texas Rangers with game-used material and autographs. They’ll have Red (# to 25 or less) and 1/1 Platinum parallels as well.
Postseason Performance Autograph Relic Cards highlight players from the 2023 MLB postseason with cards containing autographs and game-used material. They’ll be numbered to 50 with Red and Platinum options.
Heavy Lumber Autograph Relics focus on the top power hitters with autographs and game-used bat relics. They’ll be numbered to 25 or less.
Autographs
Baseball Stars Autographs are where the standard autographs in 2024 Topps Series 1 begin. They’ll all have a quartet of parallels including:
• Black Parallel – #’d to 199
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 50
• Red Parallel – #’d to 25 or less
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
Dual versions numbered to 10 are also in the mix.
1989 Topps Baseball Autograph Cards bring signatures to the 1989-style cards referenced above and a checklist of rookies, stars and retired players. Parallels there include:
• Black Parallel – #’d to 199
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 50 or less
• Red Parallel – #’d to 25 or less Hobby Exclusive
• Platinum – #’d 1/1 Hobby/HTA Jumbo
World Champion Autograph Cards – Sequentially numbered to 50 orless
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 25 or less
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
Postseason Performance Autograph Cards are numbered to 50, 25 (Gold) or 1/1 (Platinum).
Relic Cards
A new relic subset this year are the City Connect Swatch Collection cards, which utilize game-used pieces from the colorful City Connect jerseys worn by players at times throughout last season.
Parallels
• Black Parallel – #’d to 199
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 50 or less
• Red Parallel – #’d to 25 or less
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
Major League Material cards are the basic relic cards.
• Black Parallel – #’d to 199
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 50 or less
• Red Parallel – #’d to 25 or less
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
In The Name Relics are 1/1 relics that if collected, spell out a player’s name from the back of his jersey.
nameplate letters.
1989 Topps Baseball Relics will include memorabilia pieces on cards of players that are done in the ’89 design. Parallels include:
• Black Parallel – #’d to 199
• Gold Parallel – #’d to 50 or less
• Red Parallel – #’d to 25 or less
• Platinum Parallel – #’d 1/1
World Champion and Postseason Performance relic cards will be numbered to 99, 25 (Gold) or 1 (Platinum).
You can check pricing for 2024 Topps Series 1 boxes on eBay here.
2024 Topps Series 1 Baseball Odds
