What's New With Topps Baseball Cards

David Reel, Vice President of Sales for Topps and Cincinnati local,  made his annual trip to Goodyear to ink the Reds' players to the standard contract for using their likeness on the Topps baseball card.

Each player no matter, what their stature, get the same amount of money.  Daniel Corcino will be paid the same as Homer Bailey or Clayton Kershaw.

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Topps Series One is out with 330 cards; an average of 10 players per team.

"Some teams will have more than others," Reel said.
There will be a mid-season edition with another 330 cards for a total of 660 for the season.

"There could be 661, if there is a sensational rookie," Reel said.  "If we get (Masahiro) Tanaka signed, he could be added."

The total does not include special cards such as inserts, parallels, variations, "Relic" and "Autograph" cards which you can find randomly inserted in 2014 Topps Series I Baseball packs.


The special cards are all vintage original Topps cards that Topps bought back and stamped with a special Topps commemorative logo. These now unique cards, the same older edition cards that ended up in so many bicycle spokes, have been placed in this year’s packs at random.

Corky Miller spent the pre-meeting morning opening pack after pack of cards.

One of the cards was a Gus Bell 1959 card that Miller promptly gave to clubhouse manager Rick Stowe.

"I'm going to show it to David and Mike (Bell's grandsons)," Stowe said.  "It is on the wall of my office."

The special vintage card is actually one of thousands of originals that Topps bought back and stamped to make it even more valuable than the original. The Gus Bell card may be the only 1959 Topps Gus Bell card in the whole product. Pretty amazing odds to pull that card in the Reds clubhouse!

Votto 2014 Topps Card

Reel handed me a stack of Reds' cards which included Joey Votto, Billy Hamilton, Aroldis Chapman, Chris Heisey, Alfredo Simon, Johnny Cueto, Donald Lutz, Jonathan Broxton, Jay Bruce, Jack Hannahan and Mike Leake.  Leake's card showed him swinging a bat. There are also two cards for Chapman with different pictures.  Derrick Robinson and Xavier Paul cards are also shown with the players in Reds' uniform.   Paul signed with Baltimore and Robinson is a free agent.

Reel also gave me a pack to open. It contained Wilmer Flores of the Mets, Manny Machado of the Orioles, Ben Revere of the Phillies, Chris Davis in a baseball highlights card, Jhonny Peralta with the Tigers, Hisashi Iwakuma of th Mariners, Rajai Davis of the Blue Jays, Andrew Lambo of the Pirates and Bronson Arroyo in a Reds' uniform.  He has since signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks.  The specialty card was Felix Hernandez 2005 rookie card.

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