2015 Topps Tribute Baseball preview

Topps has fine tuned it’s Tribute brand for the 2015 season. They listened to collectors on how to make improvements to the product and aim to please with this year’s release, which comes out in February 2015. Topps has promised boxes of Tribute will once again contain three autographs cards plus three relics and that all signatures will be on-card.

The base card set for 2015 Topps Tribute has 100 cards with both current and retired players included in the set. There is a guarantee of one veteran or retired player parallel in every box that is numbered to 99 or less. Green and Black parallels are sequentially numbered, Purple parallels are numbered to ten and there are one-of-one Red parallels and Printing Plates.

2015 Topps Tribute Baseball boasts a large collection of autographed cards. The most basic of these cards are Tribute Autographs with on-card signatures from veteran and retired players. Tribute Autographs also have seven levels of sequentially numbered parallels, including Green, Orange, Black, Gold (#’d to 25), Purple (#’d to 10), Red (#’d 1/1) and Onyx (#’d 1/1) plus one-of-one Printing Plates.

Topps has included two new series of autograph cards in 2015 Tribute. Foundations of Greatness uses photos from the early years of the careers of baseball stars from the past and present. Rightful Recognition highlights career milestones of the greats of the game. Both sets of autograph cards come sequentially numbered with levels of parallels and Printing Plates.

To The Victors Die-Cut Autographs are special case hit signature cards that recognize players that have won the World Series. Look for Gold (#’d to 15), Purple (#’d to 10) and Red (#’d 1/1) parallels.

Eccentric Eye Black autograph cards return with an eye-black stickers joined by a player signature. Basic cards are numbered to five and there are one-of-one Red parallels.

2015 Topps Tribute Baseball also features a large array of memorabilia cards. Prime Patches feature jersey swatches from both veterans and retired players and are sequentially numbered. Milestone Relics contain pieces of game-used baseballs from memorable MLB games. Topps has expanded this set to 40 different subjects, including Masahiro Tanaka’s first MLB start, Albert Pujols’ 500th HR game, Clayton Kershaw’s debut game and many more.  There is an additional subset of World Series Baseball Relics featuring San Francisco Giants stars such as Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner. Milestone cards are numbered to ten and contain a MLB authentication sticker.

Tribute Relics and Diamond Cuts contain jersey swatches from both current and retired MLB stars. The relic pieces on Diamond Cuts are die-cut in the shape of a baseball diamond. Both sets have numbered parallel versions, including patch parallels that numbered to 25 or less.

Dimensions of the Game is an all-new three dimensional memorabilia piece featuring an autographed baseball.  It includes the likes of Clayton Kershaw, Hank Aaron and Don Mattingly.

2015 Topps Tribute Baseball Hobby Box

Product Features

• 6 Packs Per Box
• Three Autograph Cards Per Box!
• Three Relic Cards Per Box!
• 1 Base Parallel # to 99 or less Per Box!
• All Autographs are ON-CARD!

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