Topps will bring out the latest edition of one of its more budget-friendly products with the spring arrival of 2021 Big League Baseball. It's the fourth year for the product, which seems to have gained a following. Big League leans kid-oriented but also aims to draw in older collectors with some designs that might conjure up memories of sets issued in the 1980s and … [Read more...]
2021 Topps Series 2 Baseball Continues 70th Anniversary Theme
Topps will continue its 70th-anniversary celebration with the Series 2 release of its flagship product. Set for release the week of June 9, 2021 Topps Series 2 Baseball will offer a large base set, some parallels continuing from Series 1, and some new wrinkles too. A hobby box will include 24 packs, with 14 cards to a pack. Topps is promising one autograph or memorabilia … [Read more...]
Topps Brings Chrome to Stadium Club: Preview and Checklist
2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome is the latest new addition to the company's stable, set to trot out on December 9. 2020 Topps Stadium Club Chrome Base Set Topps seems to be making a strong effort to make the Chrome set different than the regular TSC set. The Chrome base set will have 400 cards compared to 300 in the regular one. Those 100 new cards will … [Read more...]
2020-21 Panini Certified Basketball Preview
Four weeks after the NBA tips off its new season and a week after the arrival of its Hoops product, Panini's 2020-21 Certified Basketball is scheduled to land online and at hobby shops. Thanks to the unusual times we're living in, it's still too early for the company to offer images of what this season's rookies will look like inside the annual release but Panini can give us … [Read more...]
Sports Card Release Calendar 12/1/20 -12/15/20
The baseball season may be long over and a boatload of free agents are about to hit the market but it's still 2020 and there are still new baseball card products arriving. A few new entries arrive in the first half of December, along with some football and hockey. 12/2 2019-20 Upper Deck Chronology Hockey, Volume 2 This is the second half of the … [Read more...]
2020 Bowman Draft Baseball Preview, Checklist
Only avid fans of MLB prospects will recognize many of the names, but a few years from now, everyone will likely want at least a few of the cards from an annual release known for the game's better prospects and the current year's top draft picks. 2020 Bowman Draft Baseball has a release date of December 9. A checklist is available below. 2020 Bowman Draft … [Read more...]
2020-21 Panini Hoops Basketball Set to Arrive in January
The NBA season will open December 22 and one of the Association's most familiar trading card lines will follow a few weeks later. 2020-21 NBA Hoops is set to arrive January 13, more than two months after the release of the 2019-20 edition. Panini has now released some preliminary information on this season's issue, which has its origins in the late … [Read more...]
Seattle Children’s Hospital Card Set Campaign a Big Hit
Any little trading card set that includes the chance for Ken Griffey Jr. or Russell Wilson autographs has a pretty good shot at success. In Seattle, the big name sports stars are mixing with entertainers and some special kids in a new Seattle Heroes trading card set produced by Topps that’s raising money for Seattle Children’s Hospital. The boxed sets, which … [Read more...]
Topps Opening Day Promises New Content
The first regular season games will still be a little over three weeks away when the first boxes hit store shelves, but 2021 Topps Opening Day will whet the appetite of both younger and older fans when the annual release arrives on March 10. Designed in large part to appeal to kids and adults who prefer less expensive products, Opening Day is a collector-oriented … [Read more...]
Koo’s Kicks Kick Koo Cards
After the September 13 game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Seattle Seahawks, a pair of recent football cards, by mainstream maker Topps, suddenly began to merit collector attention. Yes, Topps football cards. Products from the very brief partnership between Topps and the Alliance of American Football served up the first cards of 26-year-old Younghoe … [Read more...]