When Topps announced its decision to combine forces with an acquisition company on Tuesday, the company offered some interesting details on its finances and future plans. In touting the initiatives that led to its current valuation, Topps revealed it make a $92 million profit in 2020—a strange and unexpected time in which the sports card market exploded in the midst of a … [Read more...]
Topps, Sports Illustrated Team Up for On-Demand Cover Card Set
Topps and Sports Illustrated magazine both launched in the sports boom that accompanied the end of World War II. They partnered for pull out sheets of reprinted cards inside some of SI’s first issues back in 1954 and ’55. Now, the two iconic American companies have teamed up again. As part of its ongoing 70th anniversary, Topps has created a 70-card set of … [Read more...]
Topps Launches Project70 with Betts, Tatis, Ruth
Topps has launched its Project70 series with the first three cards including a baseball icon and two active stars. The initiative is part of Topps' 70th anniversary, but also similar to last year's Project2020 on-demand program. Project70 will utilize 51 different artists and creatives to create the cards. Nineteen of the 20 artists who worked on last year's … [Read more...]
Topps, MLB Network Team Up for On-Demand Set of MLB’s Top 100 Players
Topps is producing an on-demand baseball card set in conjunction with MLB Network’s Top 100 players countdown. Created under the Topps Now brand, the cards are being sold online in packs of ten with all 100 players that are revealed on the network included on the checklist. MLB Network is counting down its top 100 players at a rare of ten per day for ten days, … [Read more...]
Paul Jennis’ Artwork Returns in 2021 Topps Game Within the Game
Paul Jennis enjoys creating a “fine art baseball card.” Judging from his previous work, he has created quite a few. The New Jersey-based artist is back for a second year to partner with Topps for its “Game Within The Game” promotion, and the company rolled out the first of its 16 on-demand cards on Friday. A painted card featuring Ronald Acuna was Jennis’ first effort of … [Read more...]
Topps “Project 70” Coming Soon
If you thought Topps Project 2020 was a one-and-done deal, think again. The company has a new twist in the works for this year, but the "artists recreating old cards" concept is returning within days. They haven't announced anything to the public yet but 2021 Topps Project 70 is definitely in the works. The company has given the go-ahead to let several of … [Read more...]
Topps Keeps Online Products Flowing in Unique 2020 Baseball Season
In the eight months that have passed since Topps named Patrick O’Sullivan brand manager of Topps’ e-commerce, he’s had to endure a lifetime of changes in baseball. You know things are different when there are cards featuring an infectious disease specialist and others of players wearing masks on the field. These days when his wife asks him why he’s watching so much … [Read more...]
Notes: Topps 3D Set; Beckett Grading Price Hike; Lucky Zion Pull; Auction Updates; Ali Torch Donation to IOC Not “The” One
Topps has produced a 3D set, featuring 100 cards from Series 1 and 2. It was posted on the company’s website Thursday afternoon and 12,500 packs of eight cards sold out in less than an hour. Like similar issues of the past, the cards are printed using lenticular technology, giving the illusion of movement. There are image variations for ten of the base … [Read more...]
Topps Launches “Prospect Pool” Set of MLB Summer Campers
Topps has been able to secure photographs of players participating in MLB’s “Summer Camps” and is utilizing some of them for a new on-demand set of prospects. 2020 Bowman Next-Prospect Pool was unveiled Wednesday as a 30-card issue. The checklist includes players who were named to their respective club’s 60-player pool for extended Spring Training and MLB regular … [Read more...]
Masked Trout Kicks Off Topps Summer Camp Set
The memorable image of Mike Trout running the bases in a mask during MLB’s first days of “Summer Camp” is now a baseball card. It’s part of a new Topps NOW Road to Opening Day set that was launched on the company’s store Tuesday. The set features players who weren’t included in the initial 2020 Road to Opening Day sets that were produced and sold during spring … [Read more...]