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The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

batmagadanleadoff Jan 04 2022 12:11 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jan 04 2022 12:55 PM

First Fanatics receives an exclusive license from MLB to produce baseball trading cards, beginning in 2025, thus ending Topps' 60+ year reign as the premiere baseball card distributor. Today, Fanatics buys out Topps for about half a billion bucks. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/fanatics-acquires-topps-trading-cards.html I guess this means that we'll continue to see Topps Heritage releases, even when Fanatics takes over. They'll just be called Fanatics Heritage cards.

Edgy MD Jan 04 2022 12:50 PM Re: Baseball Card Business

It seems to me that, having already beaten out Topps for the license that was Topps' golden goose, the main reason to acquire Topps would be to get the Topps brand and continue putting it on baseball cards.

seawolf17 Jan 04 2022 12:51 PM Re: Baseball Card Business

Yeah, and Topps sort of said as much today. I'm sure we'll see changes in distribution and process and whatnot between now and then, but it looks like the brand will survive.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 04 2022 01:01 PM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

They'd be idiots to try and futz with the brand. Make Fanatics your NFT sub-brand

seawolf17 Jan 05 2022 07:10 AM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

Exactly. Topps is a fuckin' cash cow, which is why they bought it. Everyone panicked (myself included, a little bit) when the original deal when down, but I said at the time that a LOT would happen between then and 2025, and this proves it. Fanatics isn't going to spend millions of dollars and then alienate the oldest part of their fan base with the most disposable income to blow on this stuff.

Marshmallowmilkshake Feb 17 2022 08:54 AM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

https://scontent.fdet2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/274095649_10159794018764594_3856110389251747814_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=2c4854&_nc_ohc=YFaxFBDt_kcAX9MbZMq&_nc_ht=scontent.fdet2-1.fna&oh=00_AT8oMwPrXW1tYm1G2EZbFxmMiKay056lbs-dhR-KNpkXng&oe=6213143C> Topps posted this neat graphic showing each year's designs. Would make for a cool poster.

seawolf17 Feb 17 2022 01:32 PM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

I am super excited for this year's design, especially after last year's was such a mass. Haven't seen them in the wild yet, but they usually show up on Fridays. I bought into a break on The Bench too.

G-Fafif Feb 19 2022 01:45 PM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

[tweet]https://twitter.com/super70ssports/status/1495136897085149188[/tweet]

Marshmallowmilkshake Feb 19 2022 02:59 PM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

Got my first pack today. Impressive how Topps PhotoShopped Guardians uniforms on the Cleveland players. A long way from those 1977 Blue Jays and Mariners! https://beckett-www.s3.amazonaws.com/news/news-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-Topps-Series-1-Baseball-Variations-21-Shane-Bieber.jpg> https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61x31oZhcTL._AC_SL1000_.jpg> https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71-WTSwebRL._AC_SY445_.jpg>

Willets Point Feb 19 2022 03:09 PM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

The Topps airbrush artists were, um, creative at times. https://beckett-www.s3.amazonaws.com/news/news-content/uploads/2021/02/agee-spectacular-400.jpg>

batmagadanleadoff Mar 20 2022 05:56 PM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

Have it Your Way. I am not a crook. Ya Gotta Believe! Topps Heritage celebrates 1973. [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qsYAAOSwJTBiL-t7/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Ln4AAOSwjv5iL-p3/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kRYAAOSwD9diL8Kg/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jvkAAOSwi1piL8nT/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8GIAAOSwrhJiM51O/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LNsAAOSwHjRiMyNf/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NJgAAOSw0nViMyNg/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HrYAAOSwUiBiLUgj/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UH0AAOSwgfZiMlWb/s-l1600.jpg[/FIMG]

seawolf17 Mar 21 2022 07:58 AM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

My favorite thing about Heritage every year is how Topps echoes the old sets. Those Dom and Marte photos are right out of the 1973 set. (So's Pete, for what it's worth.)

Benjamin Grimm Mar 21 2022 08:43 AM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

Two of those cards overlap with previously existing Schaefer cards: http://ultimatemets.com/cards/PeteAlonso1973.jpg> http://ultimatemets.com/cards/DominicSmith1973.jpg>

seawolf17 May 03 2022 01:01 PM Re: The Baseball Card Thread: 2022

This is far and away the wildest baseball-card related thing I've ever seen. Tanner Jones is a card collector/designer who is the world's biggest Jose Canseco fan, and what he just made is absolutely mind-blowing. https://tanmanbaseballfan.com/2022/05/youve-never-seen-a-baseball-card-like-this-before-mystery-cabinet-full-of-secrets-surprises.html