Topps Announces Initial Plans for Bryce Harper in Upcoming Products

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On the heels of announcing that Topps had signed an exclusive agreement with 2010 Number 1 Draft Pick, Bryce Harper, Topps announced today their plans for including Harper in some of their upcoming products.

2011 Bowman

Harper will make his first appearance as a Washington National in 2011 Bowman. In addition, Harper will sign autographs for this release.

2010 Bowman Chrome

Harper will be added to the recently-announced Autographed 2010 Bowman Chrome USA BUYBACK program. Cards will be sequentially numbered with foil stamping to 100 and will also include James Taillon, Yasmani Grandal, Drew Pomeranz, Michael Choice, Christian Colon, Manny Machado and Bryce Brentz. These on-card autographs will be available via redemption.

2010 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects

Harper’s 2009 AFLAC Autographed cards will be inserted into packs of 2010 Bowman DP&P. Each of Harper’s on-card autographs from the 2009 AFLAC All-American Game will be sequentially numbered with foil stamping.

2010 Topps Football Short Print (SP) List

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In the 2010 Topps Football release, Topps has inserted some alternative photos for some of the rookie cards in the set. The short print variations (SP) are seen on the left in each of the photos below.

#101 Arrelious Benn

#148 Rob Gronkowski

#194 Colt McCoy

#203 Toby Gerhart

#221 Jimmy Clausen

#248 Dexter McCluster

#254 Emmanuel Sanders

#268 Jahvid Best

#275 DeMaryius Thomas

#300 Sam Bradford

#360 Ndamukong Suh

#364 Jonathan Dwyer

#398 Golden Tate

#403 Ryan Mathews

#425 Dez Bryant

#440 Tim Tebow

More 2010 Stephen Strasburg Autographs going live

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Topps has been keeping Stephen Strasburg busy.

Topps recently sent out a bunch of redemption only Strasburg autographed cards, and they are slowly finding their way to the secondary market. Most notably are the 2010 Topps Tribute cards, which feature Strasburg’s auto along with relic’s from his first MLB game. These seem to come in single and dual relive forms. With variations of numbered to both 99 and 75.

Along with the Tribute autos, Strasburg was the cornerstone of the Topps Million Card Giveaway promotion. Collectors who were lucky enough to redeem a Strasburg were given the opportunity to have their cards autographed prior to receiving them. It was reported that there are only 299 of these autographs issued.

2010 Topps Football hitting the shelves

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On the heels of the 2010 NFL season, Topps is set to release their first football product for the year. Designed much like it’s baseball counterpart, the 2010 Topps Football product will be sharing much more the design characteristics.

The Topps Million Card Giveaway has been such a success, that Topps has also included the Gridiron Giveaway in their products this year. Packs will randomly contains a code card (1 per pack in Jumbo, 1:6 in Hobby) that can be redeemed online for original vintage Topps Football cards and other prizes including signed memorabilia from the fabled Topps archives.

2010 Topps Sam Bradford Rookie Premiere Auto

With 1 autograph or relic card per Hobby box, and 2 autographed and 1 relic card per Jumbo box, consumers have some outstanding odds at finding some great cards packed away in their boxes. The most sought after of these each year is the Rookie Premiere Autographs. The Rookie Premiere Autographs appear in single, dual, and quad autographs. This year Topps has introduced on-card serial numbers, in hopes of alleviating the counterfeit issues that have plagued the product in the past. Several have already shown up on eBay for Sam Bradford, Jahvid Best, Colt McCoy, Jimmy Clausen, and many others.

Once we receive the entire Rookie Premiere Auto checklist, it will be posted on the web site.

Much like the hype surrounding Stephen Strasburg in baseball, football has their own golden child for 2010. Tim Tebow has been one of those publicized players throughout most of his collegiate career and that has not changed since being drafted. Tebow appears to have SP card as well as a few autographed cards available in the set. Tebow is also featured on a dual autograph with former Bronco great John Elway.

Once we receive the entire SP checklist, it will be posted on the web site.

An exclusive 2010 Topps football break will be posted later this week.

Over 2,400 Rene Tosoni 2008 Bowman Chrome Autos Turn Up on eBay

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While, we’re not exactly sure how they all ended up on in the sellers hands, over 2,400 2008 Rene Tosoni Bowman Chrome Auto’s have been placed up for auction on eBay. The seller, who deals in “buying lost freight shipments, unclaimed freight, manufacturer and distributor overstocks, and close-out merchandise”.

The seller currently has auctions for 2,412 of the cards, that were originally inserted as redemptions from Topps in their 2008 Bowman Chrome product:

The lot of the Orange refractors also contains 24 of 25 Tim Bascom Orange Refractors autographs too. If you ever wanted to own a near entire print run of an card, here is your chance.

This has to make you wonder what Topps will do to replace the redemptions currently in circulation or which have been redeemed?

MLB announces exclusive deal with Topps

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Topps has signed an exclusive deal with Major League Baseball, and starting 2010 will have an exclusivity on MLB, club trademarks, logos and other intellectual property for use on baseball cards, stickers and other product categories featuring MLB players.

What does this mean? Basically that no other card manufacturers will be able to show photography of players in their actual MLB uniform or use team logos on their product. Topps is hoping that this exclusivity will appeal to a new generation of enthusiasts and restore their reign as the crown jewel of the sports collecting world.

he exclusive arrangement ends MLB’s 30-year relationship with Upper Deck, the other main player in the market, which retains licensing rights from the MLB Players Association. That enables Upper Deck to continue producing cards with players’ images, but team logos and such are out.

Topps announces first Red Hot Rookie of 2009 is Fernando Martinez

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2009 Topps Red Hot Rookie Fernando MartinezThe 20-year-old New York Mets phenom, Fernando Martinez, made his major league debut last Tuesday (5/26/2009) making him the youngest player in the MLB today. Today, Topps announced that F-Mart would be their first Red Hot Rookie redemption player. These redemption cards were randomly insert one-per-box in the 2009 Topps Series 2 Baseball packs. The cards can be redeemed online at topps.com.

In total, there are 10 Red Hot Rookies in the set, which will be announced throughout the rest of the baseball season.

Fernando also was featured in the 2007 Bowman Chrome Prospects Auto set, as well as, the 2008 Bowman Chrome Draft set. While this 2009 Topps Red Hot Rookie may not be his first produced card, it will definitely be a sought after card due to the expiration of the redemption and the attractiveness of the card.

Topps Confirms 2008 Allen & Ginter Short Print List

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Topps confirms that there are several short printed autographed cards, relic cards and base cards in the recently-released 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball.  In addition there are RED INK autograph variations limited to just 10 copies each.  The subjects and quantities are as follows.

SHORT PRINTED AUTOGRAPHS

Ryan Howard

90

David Ortiz

90

Manny Ramirez

90

Matt Holliday

90

Prince Fielder

90

Jose Reyes

90

Hunter Pence

90

Bruce Jenner

190

Andrea Farina

190

Allen Fisher

190

Andrew “William Ocean” Litz

190

Bonnie Blair

190

Bob Motley

190

Billy Mitchell

190

Dan Jansen

190

Dean Karnazes

190

Frank Morris

190

Joey Chestnut

190

Jeff King

190

Jeanette Lee

190

Kerri Strug

190

Kevin Van Dam

190

Lisa Leslie

190

Les Miles

190

Matt Biondi

190

Mark Spitz

190

Pete Weber

190

“Rampage” Jackson

190

Serena Williams

190

Todd Clever

190

Takudzwa Ngwenya

190

Adriano Moraes

190

Deep Blue

190

David Wright

240

Brad Penny

240

Hanley Ramirez

240

Travis Hafner

240

Carl Crawford

240

Torii Hunter

240

Nicky Hayden

240

Stevie Williams

240

AUTOGRAPHED RELICS

Marcus Henderson 100

SHORT PRINTED RELICS

Aaron Pryor

100

Andre Ward

100

Danny Green

100

Edison Miranda

100

Jeff Fenech

100

Joel Casamayor

100

Kelly Pavlik

100

Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini

100

Samuel Peter

100

Archie Moore

100

Nicky Hayden

250

Stevie Williams

250

Bonnie Blair

250

Dan Jansen

250

Kerri Strug

250

Matt Biondi

250

Todd Clever

250

Takudzwa Ngwenya

250

Lisa Leslie

250

Serena Williams

250

Joey Chestnut

250

Billy Mitchell

250

Mark Spitz

250

Frank Morris

250

Andrea Farina

250

Dean Karnazes

250

Kevin Van Dam

250

Jeanette Lee

250

Andrew “William Ocean” Litz

250

Pete Weber

250

Allen Fisher

250

Les Miles

250

“Rampage” Jackson

250

Jeff King

250

Bruce Jenner

250

Bigfoot

250

Adriano Moraes

250

SHORT PRINTED BASE CARDS  (1: 2 packs)

301

Felix Pie

Chicago Cubs

302

Brad Lidge

Philadelphia Phillies

303

Jason Bay

Pittsburgh Pirates

304

Victor Hugo

Poet/Playwright/Novelist

305

Randy Johnson

Arizona Diamondbacks

306

Carlos Gomez

Minnesota Twins

307

Pat Neshek

Minnesota Twins

308

Jed Lowrie

Boston Red Sox

309

Ryan Church

New York Mets

310

Michael Bourn

Houston Astros

311

B.J. Ryan

Toronto Blue Jays

312

Brandon Wood

Angels

313

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author/Abolitionist

314

Mike Cameron

Milwaukee Brewers

315

Tom Glavine

Atlanta Braves

316

Ervin Santana

Angels

317

Geoff Jenkins

Philadelphia Phillies

318

Andre Ethier

Los Angeles Dodgers

319

Jason Giambi

New York Yankees

320

Dmitri Young

Washington Nationals

321

Wily Mo Pena

Washington Nationals

322

Hank Blalock

Texas Rangers

323

James Bowie

American Pioneer/Soldier

324

Casey Kotchman

Angels

325

Stephen Drew

Arizona Diamondbacks

326

Adam Kennedy

St. Louis Cardinals

327

A.J. Pierzynski

Chicago White Sox

328

Richie Sexson

Seattle Mariners

329

Jeff Clement

Seattle Mariners

330

Luke Hochevar

Kansas City Royals

331

Luis Castillo

New York Mets

332

Dave Roberts

San Francisco Giants

333

Coco Crisp

Boston Red Sox

334

Jo-Jo Reyes

Atlanta Braves

335

Phil Hughes

New York Yankees

336

Allen Fisher

Arm Wrestling Champion

337

Jason Schmidt

Los Angeles Dodgers

338

Placido Polanco

Detroit Tigers

339

Jack Cust

Oakland Athletics

340

Carl Crawford

Tampa Bay Rays

341

Ty Wigginton

Houston Astros

342

Aubrey Huff

Baltimore Orioles

343

Bengie Molina

San Francisco Giants

344

Matt Diaz

Atlanta Braves

345

Francisco Liriano

Minnesota Twins

346

Brandon Boggs

Texas Rangers

347

David DeJesus

Kansas City Royals

348

Justin Masterson

Boston Red Sox

349

Frank Morris

Rubik’s Cube Champion

350

Kevin Youkilis

Boston Red Sox