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The Topps Company, Inc. Formerly based in New York Citytopps, topps Topps is best known as a leading producer of baseball and other sports and non-sports themed trading cards.

COLLECT thousands of digital collectibles featuring your favorite athletes, characters, superstars, legends, iconic moments, and more! TRADE with fans around the world on a quest to build the ultimate digital collection. Climb the leaderboards, rise to the top, and win prizes! In , Topps created its Topps Digital division, launching a digital collectible app for its baseball enthusiasts. Over the last eleven years, Topps Digital has been a pioneer in the digital collectibles space, launching numerous apps across both sports and entertainment as well as a best in class NFT platform to usher in a new era of collecting. With the acquisition of Topps by Fanatics Holdings, the group is excited for what the next generation of collectors will be able to experience. Playing our apps on your mobile device gives you the most optimal experience so we recommend you either email yourself a download link or head to the App store directly.

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For card collectors, Topps Series 1 Baseball ushers in a new season even if it arrives a few weeks before the first official games. The configuration is similar to how it has been for a few years now, both with pack and box sizes as well as the core of the release, the base set. But, like every year, the flagship release has some new twists and spins — as well as some nostalgic gazes to the past. Standard hobby boxes continue to promise one autograph or relic — game-used or manufactured patch. Hobby jumbo boxes have three hits: an autograph, a memorabilia card and a manufactured relic. The base set consists of cards. In addition to standard veteran and Rookie Cards , there are subsets like Future Stars, League Leaders and team cards. For Topps Baseball, there was no fan vote like recent years to determine who would lead of the set with card 1. Rather, it was awarded to San Diego superstar Juan Soto.

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The Topps Company, Inc. Formerly based in New York City , [3] Topps is best known as a leading producer of baseball and other sports and non-sports themed trading cards. In the s, Topps was the only baseball card manufacturer with a license with Major League Baseball. Topps itself was founded in , [5] but the company can trace its roots back to an earlier firm, American Leaf Tobacco. Eventually, in , Morris Chigorinsky Shorin came in control of the company. American Leaf Tobacco encountered difficulties during World War I, as it was cut off from Turkish supplies of tobacco, and later as a result of the Great Depression. To do this, they relaunched the company as Topps, with the name meant to indicate that it would be "tops" in its field. The chosen field was the manufacture of chewing gum. At the time, chewing gum was still a relative novelty sold in individual pieces. Topps's most successful early product was Bazooka bubble gum , [7] which was packaged with a small comic on the wrapper.

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In Topps started to expand its non-sports category by adding more TV shows, as well as sci-fi with its brand-new Star Wars line expanding into its own Topps virtual card app, similar to Topps BUNT , as well as Doctor Who , with regular autographs as well as vintage cut autographs, screen-worn relics, and more. Beckett News. This primarily involved using various types of cartoons drawn by its stable of artists. Topps Comics particularly specialized in licensed titles with tie-ins to movies or television series, though it also published a few original series. It also had some pedagogical benefit by encouraging youngsters to take an interest in the underlying mathematics. The resulting glut of different baseball sets caused the MLBPA to take drastic measures as the market for them deteriorated. The longest-lived Topps product line remains Bazooka bubble gum , small pieces of gum in patriotic red, white, and blue packaging. With sales stagnating, the company decided to pull out of the comics business in In , Topps finally managed again to incorporate a player photo on the back as well as the front of the card, after some competitors had been doing so for a number of years. Non-sports trading cards. Arriving without an appointment, Sy succeeded by speaking in Yiddish to Brian Epstein , the Beatles' manager. The initial Topps effort at producing a premium line of cards, in , was called Stadium Club. Retrieved December 4, Beginning at Topps when he was a teenager, Art Spiegelman was the company's main staff cartoonist for more than 20 years.

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Download App. Topps has continued to create collectible cards and stickers on a variety of subjects, often targeting the same adolescent male audience as its baseball cards. Originally, Topps was purely a gum company, and its first product was simply called "Topps gum". Power Players. Marvel Collect! At the time, chewing gum was still a relative novelty sold in individual pieces. Topps was left with a substantial amount of surplus stock in , which it largely disposed of by dumping many cards into the Atlantic. These appeared on card backs as late as , but gradually declined in the prominence of their placement and the proportion of cards on which they appeared. One of the features that contributed significantly to Topps's success beginning with the set was providing player statistics. American Leaf Tobacco encountered difficulties during World War I, as it was cut off from Turkish supplies of tobacco, and later as a result of the Great Depression. This undertaking was not very successful, however, and Topps unloaded the site on Naxcom in January In response to the competition, Topps began regularly issuing additional "Traded" sets featuring players who had changed teams since the main set was issued, following up on an idea it had experimented with a few years earlier. Although more competitive for a time, the football card market was never as lucrative as the market for baseball cards, so the other companies did not fight as hard over it.