2024 Topps Baseball Forum

I was surprised to get my order of two hobby boxes of Topps Series 1 on Tuesday afternoon (before Wednesday's official release date). I ordered these off the Topps website. Click the images to enlarge.

Hobby boxes now contain 20 packs with 12 cards per pack.

Silver packs contain four cards. I always open these packs last. All of the packaging looks very nice. Let's see how the cards look...

This was the first card out of my first pack and OMG, these look much better in hand than on a computer screen. I won't say why--I'll let you see for yourself. But I'm definitely now a huge fan of this years flagship cards. I'm pretty sure that in 2030, 2024 Topps will be a heavyweight contender for Best Flagship Design.

However, for many collectors the back leaves a lot to be desired. Some will say the backs are plain/bland/vanilla/boring. Others might say the backs are definitely not gaudy, just "minimalist'. I do like how at least one of the stat headers/footers match the team color. The line that runs across the back and encircles the team logo is reminiscent of a somewhat similar (but reversed) design element on the bottom front of 2022 Topps.

There were no inserts or hits in the first pack but there's many more to come. I just hope I can stay awake long enough to open each pack and post the highlights.

imho even the League Leader are impressive. And in some cards, the team name is slightly behind the photo subject.

Here's a couple of the inserts so far...

1989 Topps Baseball 35th Anniversary 89B-34

2023 Greatest Hits 23GH-30 (very nice looking insert!)

Here's more of the inserts and I was lucky enough to get an auto.

Holy moly, there was a 2nd auto in the box! Thing is, I'd never heard of either player. But that's ok, they'll still have a place in my collection.

The Independence Day parallel is impressive too (#'d to 76).

Here's an Ozzie Smith Grand Gamers, Paul Goldschmidt Superstar Blueprint and two rainbow foil cards.

Rounding out the remaining 1989 Topps baseball inserts...

Topps even stepped up their game with the Silver pack cards. The prism pattern is seen inside the team name and behind the name plate for a very cool and attractive effect.

With two autographs that was a pretty good box. even if those players aren't exactly household names. It's really late as of this post so I'll bust the 2nd box after catching a few ZZZs.

Fantastic!  Thanks for sharing.

The only thing that bothers me is that every time Topps has redone the 1989 set, they can never get the player name right.  In 1989, the fonts were sized to the name and were centered inside the wave.  It is just lazy seeing all that dead space after Willie Mays and the other short names. 

Great post! Good for you to take a two box plunge... must have been fun.

My only problem with them is as a Nats fan there is a very very small checklist. Aside from the base cards and parallels there are 2 Inserts, yes 2. Mackenzie has a baseball stars auto and Josiah has a city connect swatch collection. Now I’m not going to say that the Nats have 5 future hall of famers (well maybe) but 2 inserts is just ridiculous.