This week, Topps releases a huge lineup of new baseball sets ranging from the high-end Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition to the annual collector favorite, Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball. After a couple of delays, Topps is also putting out their 2021 Topps US Olympic and Paralympic Team Hopefuls set. Panini joins the weekly trading card release calendar with the newest versions of Donruss Elite Football and Chronicles Racing. Read about these trading card releases and more in this week’s issue of The Rip.
2021 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball
The 2021 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball set takes its style from the vintage era of Pre-War tobacco trading cards. 2021 marks the 11th year for this mid-tier Topps Baseball card product. Historically, the Gypsy Queen set is best known for its photo variation cards that include photography from Jackie Robinson Day, Roberto Clemente Day, and The Negro Leagues Centennial Celebration.
The 2021 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball set returns with a 300 card base set checklist, including rookie cards, and also holds an array of parallels, autographs, and the aforementioned image variation cards. The 2021 edition also introduces the Captain Minis subset for the first time. This subset showcases a top player from each of the 30 MLB teams and is influenced by mini cards of vintage card sets. The Captain Minis subset will include Indigo parallels (numbered out of 250), a Black 1/1 parallel, and there will also be an autograph variation subset. The 2021 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball Hobby Box comes loaded with eight cards per pack and 24 packs per box. You can find two autographs and one Chrome Topper Pack in each box, on average. While a full checklist has not been revealed, the product preview teases a rookie card for Alec Bohm and Jo Adell, as well as Mike Trout autographs.
The 2021 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball Hobby Box releases July 16th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
2021 Topps Museum Baseball
2021 Topps Museum Baseball lives up to its name giving you the chance to add several high-end cards to your collection from current and former stars. While there is a 100 card base set, the real draw of Topps Museum Baseball are the various low print run autograph, relic, booklet, and autograph relic cards.
The 2021 Topps Museum Baseball Hobby Box contains four mini boxes, with each mini box holding five cards. The hobby box promises you four hits in the form of one on-card autograph, one autograph relic, one relic, and one quad relic. You can also expect four parallels per hobby box.
The 2021 Topps Museum Baseball Hobby Box releases on July 14th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
2021 Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition
The 2021 Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition makes the old new again by taking some classic Topps Baseball cards and adding player autographs to them. The set includes 93 retired All-Star caliber players such as Derek Jeter, Ichiro, Bob Gibson, Ken Griffey Jr., and many more.
The 2021 Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition Hobby Box keeps it simple as it is packed with one sealed serial-numbered card that has been autographed by the player or players the card features. 2021 Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition releases on July 14th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
2021 Topps US Olympic and Paralympic Team & Hopefuls
Although some of the Tokyo Summer Olympics details are still being worked out, the 2021 Topps US Olympic and Paralympic Team Hopefuls set is here to celebrate the world-class athletes who are on track to represent the United States at the global competition. With the Olympic Games happening every two years, and the 2020 Tokyo games being delayed until this summer, this is the first Olympic trading card set from Topps since 2018. The set will feature base cards, limited print-run color parallels, autographs, and more, across most of the Olympic sports including basketball, skateboarding, swimming, track & field, plus others.
Each 2021 Topps US Olympic and Paralympic Team Hopefuls Hobby Box is supplied with eight cards per pack and 24 packs per box. By ripping open the box, you are promised one autograph card and two relic cards.
The 2021 Topps US Olympic and Paralympic Team Hopefuls Hobby Box release on July 14th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
2021 Panini Donruss Elite Football
2021 Panini Donruss Elite Football offers the newest edition of the enduring Panini football card line. While the checklist does feature the 2021 NFL rookie class, it also brings in past and present stars of the NFL as well. You can find rookie cards and even autographs for highly anticipated prospects such as Trevor Lawrence, Trey Lance, Zach Wilson, DeVonta Smith, Justin Fields, and more. In addition to the 100 card base set checklist, there is a plethora of inserts and subsets including Ascension, Rookie Elitist, Pen Pal Autographs, and Moxie Jersey memorabilia cards.
The 2021 Panini Donruss Elite Football Hobby Box is loaded with five cards per pack, and 20 packs per box. On average, you can look to pull two autographs, one relic, 11 inserts, six limited print run parallels, and three rookie cards.
2021 Panini Donruss Elite Football is set to release on July 16th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
2021 Panini Chronicles Racing
2021 Panini Chronicles Racing brings back the licensed NASCAR set for its second year after it debuted in 2020. Like all Chronicles sets, the checklist is made up of multiple Panini product lines that won’t see their own release this year. The cards included are from sets such as Select, Gold Standard, Pinnacle, Obsidian, Spectra, Contenders Optic, Panini Prime Jumbo, and more. Most notably, 2021 Panini Chronicles Racing marks the first time legendary racer Jeff Gordon has been included in a Panini NASCAR set.
The 2021 Panini Chronicles Racing Hobby Box holds eight cards per pack, and six packs per box. Each box will typically come with three autographs, one relic, and two Spectra cards. One of the chase cards teased in the set is a Jeff Gordon Cornerstone quadruple relic autograph.
2021 Panini Chronicles Racing releases on July 16th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
