Topps continues its flagship baseball lineup with the release of Series 2, the second of three annual installments that together form the complete 2026 Topps Baseball base set. Pre-sales for the product will take place via this page on Topps’ website this Monday, May 11. The expected hobby-wide release date is June 12, 2026.
The 350-card base set picks up where Series 1 left off, with cards numbered #351 and higher. It features the usual mix of stars, top rookies, Future Stars, League Leaders, and team cards, along with players who switched teams in the offseason. The set continues the year-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of Topps Baseball.
A major highlight is the flagship rookie card of Japanese slugging sensation Munetaka Murakami, who appears with the Chicago White Sox. Topps is recreating the photo from another well-known card of a Sox icon for Murakami’s base rookie card design.
The product also includes several insert sets that extend themes introduced in Series 1. These include 1952 Topps Rookie Variations (replacing the main base design with the classic 1952 style for select rookies).
There are 1991 Topps Baseball designs honoring the 35th anniversary of that set, Home Field (short-printed cards featuring players against backgrounds of their home cities), All Aces (top pitchers presented in a playing-card style), Heavy Lumber (short-printed wood-grain design), Spotlight and Stars of MLB (retail exclusive).
Anniversary-themed inserts such as Cover Athletes also appear.
Parallels return in force with a large rainbow of color and pattern variations for the base set cards. Additional anniversary-themed parallels tie into the 75th anniversary celebration.
Autograph and relic content includes Real One Autographs, Cover Athlete Autographs, 75 Years of Topps Autographs, 75 Years of Topps Die-Cut Autographs, Flagship Autograph Patch Cards, City Connect Swatches, and In The Name Relics (1/1 cards featuring swatches from a player’s jersey nameplate). Autographed base variants and rare red-ink versions are also part of the mix.
A special set dedicated to the 2025 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers is included as well.
Buyback cards featuring players from Topps’ Top 75 list will appear throughout the 2026 flagship releases, including Series 2, with redemption options for PSA-graded versions.
A variety of configurations are expected including Hobby, jumbo, super, and blaster boxes. You can see what’s available here beginning Monday.
As with previous years, Series 2 fills in roster updates, expands the rookie class, and provides collectors with the mid-season chapter of the flagship story before Update Series arrives later in the year.
