搶先看:2015 TOPPS S1 BASEBALL CARDS

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The new year is here.

Topps released the first glimpses and basic details for the 2015 Topps Series 1 baseball card set on Thursday, a base set that is the largest for the company in years with 350 cards in the initial release.

Set to arrive on Feb. 4, there will be 36 packs per hobby box with 10 cards per pack, while jumbos will have 50 cards per pack and 10 packs per box for HTA. There will be one auto or Relic in each hobby box and a guaranteed auto and two Relics in every jumbo as has been the pattern in recent years.

Each of the 350 cards in the set will have eight parallels while the standard cards will be found with borders accented with the player’s team colors. The parallels are Gold (numbered to 2015), Snow Camo (/99), Black (/64; hobby- and jumbo-only), Pink (/50), Rainbow foil and 1/1 Platinum and printing plates. Also to be found one per case will be new silver-framed parallels that have a metal frame.

Among the insert cards will be Inspirations, a 15-card set pairing past and present players found four per box. Also to be found are Gallery of Greats cards two per box with a Gold parallel limited to just 99 copies. Also found four per box will be Free Agent 40, a look at some notable names in the 40-year history of free agency.

Another 25-card insert set will be Archetypes — players who were the model of consistency — found six per box, Highlight of the Year cards (nine per box), and stamped buyback cards two per box. A new crewation will be Baseball/History, a 30-card set that has baseball achievements linked to notable historic news such as the 1969 moon landing and what the Miracle Mets did that day.

Among the manufactured Relics, which will be found one per hobby case or one per jumbo box, will be three different types of cards. First up is the MLB Silhouetted Batter Logo Pin card, a metallic logoman card. Then there will be Future Stars Pins showcasing 10 players with the 1987 Future Stars logo. These will be limited to just 99 copies per player on its vintage parallel. Then there will be Birth Year Coin and Stamp cards with five versions to chase — a quarter, quarter with auto, a dime, a nickel and a penny version.

Autographed Relic cards will only be found in hobby and jumbo packs and there are eight different sets for collectors to chase. There are Archetypes auto Relics limited to 10 copies each as well as Highlight of the Year, Inspirations and Free Agent 40. Each of these sets will also be limited to just 10 copies per card. The Gallery of Greats auto Relics will be signed on-card and limited to just five copies per player. Also waiting to be found — and these will be a bit easier — are World Series Champion auto Relics and Postseason Performance auto Relics. Those will be limited to 50 copies per player, while Strata Signature Relics will return and be found with 25 signed-on-card copies per player.

For standard autographs, there will be 10 sets to chase — Career High, Archetypes, Highlight of the Year, Inspirations, Gallery of Greats, 1/1 Baseball/History Cut Signatures, Free Agent 40, World Series Champions, Postseason Performance and 1/1 Strata Cut Signatures. These sets will be limited to either 25 or 10 copies per card.

For Relics, the same lineup can be seen — Career High, Archetypes, Highlight of the Year, Inspirations Duals, Gallery of Greats, Baseball/History Stamps, Free Agent 40, World Series Champions and Postseason Performances. These will be limited to no more than 100 copies for all but the Career High cards with some limited to just 50 or 25 copies and some only found in hobby or jumbo packs.

Also to be found are 1/1 In the Name Relics with letters from MLB All-Star workout jerseys displayed on the card.

Last but not least, there will be two promotional programs coming with the new set. There will be online code cards found six per hobby box and a Pennant Chase program where every team will have 50 cards printed good for a prize if that team wins the pennant.

A preliminary checklist was not released.

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The 2015 Topps Series 1 baseball checklist



Topps released the checklist for it 2015 Topps Series 1 baseball card set today, which arrives on Feb. 6.

You can click the link below to see and examine its contents as released by the company. We may add some analysis of the inclusions here soon. — Chris Olds

Click here for the checklist.

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First pitches are first surprises in 2015 Topps



The Dude and a seven-nation army might be impressed.

A 15-card set of ceremonial first pitches will be among the baseball cards to be found when this year’s first set of cards, 2015 Topps Series 1, arrives on Feb. 6.

Among them are actor Jeff Bridges, musicians Jack White and Eddie Vedder, Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney and even 50 Cent, whose notoriously bad first pitch at a New York Mets game has become the highlight reel of legend.

Each of them recently threw out the first pitch at a game and should appear in MLB jerseys as the company released their names and team affiliations on a checklist Tuesday.



Also among those showcased? A 105-year-old named Agnes McKee, who threw out the first pitch at a Padres game last July, a man named Tom Willis who threw out a first pitch at a game despite being born without arms — something he has done in 18 ballparks and counting — and 20-year-old Bae Suzy a singer-actress from Korea.

Who else made the cut? Check out the checklist below.

2015 TOPPS FIRST PITCH CHECKLIST
FP-01 Jeff Bridges — Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-02 Jack White — Detroit Tigers
FP-03 McKayla Maroney — Chicago White Sox
FP-04 Eddie Vedder — Chicago Cubs
FP-05 Biz Markie — Oakland Athletics
FP-06 Agnes McKee — San Diego Padres
FP-07 Austin Mahone — Atlanta Braves
FP-08 Jermaine Jones — Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-09 Tom Willis — Baltimore Orioles
FP-10 Graham Elliot — Chicago Cubs
FP-11 Tom Morello — Chicago Cubs
FP-12 Macklemore — Seattle Mariners
FP-13 Suzy – Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-14 50 Cent – New York Mets
FP-15 Meb Keflezighi — Boston Red Sox

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Sparkles, photo variations return in 2015 Topps



Note: Lists will continue to update as more are discovered by collectors.

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By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor

This year’s first baseball card set officially arrives on Wednesday in 2015 Topps Series 1, a release that packs more cards and a more-colorful design than in recent past.

Among the inclusions are First Pitch cards of celebrities at MLB games — a first for the brand — but two things collectors will be hunting are back from past releases.

Sparkles and photo variations.

The total number of short-printed cards remains unknown — and Topps has yet to confirm any certain cards — so this work in progress is compiled based on discoveries by dealers and collectors online as well as those who have put their discoveries up for sale on eBay.

See all that have been found so far … after the jump. We’ll continue to add confirmed variations to the list in the coming days.


SPARKLES (batch code in copyright info ends with 903)