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This is a year-by-year list of Topps All-Star Rookie Teams. Note that players selected for a particular team appear in the following year's set release. So, a player named to the 2023 Topps All-Star Rookie team will have a trophy symbol on his 2024 Topps baseball card. †
The card previously sold for $3.2 million in a private deal in December 2019. 5 $4,633,923 $3,936,000 Mike Trout: 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospects Superfractor Autograph Serial numbered #1/1 BGS MT 9 August 23, 2020: Goldin Auctions The seller, gambling consultant David "Vegas Dave" Oancea, had bought the card for only $400,000 only two years ...
Topps also produces cards under the brand names Allen & Ginter [2] and Bowman. [3] In the 2010s, Topps was the only baseball card manufacturer with a license with Major League Baseball. [5] Following the loss of that license to Fanatics, Inc. in 2022, Fanatics acquired Topps in the same year.
The 240-card set, quite large for the time, included current players, former stars, and prominent minor leaguers. Individual cards measured 2 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 2 + 7 ⁄ 8 inches (6.0 by 7.3 cm), which Goudey printed on 24-card sheets and distributed throughout the year. [20] The bulk of early National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees appear in this set.
This practice continued until 1973, when the symbol was changed to a gold cup bearing the words "Topps All-Star Rookie." Topps left the symbol off the 1974 cards, marking the first year since 1960 that the players were not recognized on the card faces. The gold cups reappeared in 1975 and stayed through 1978.
[46] [47] Fanatics acquired Topps, the preeminent licensed trading card brand that has serviced collectors, fans and retailers for more than 70 years, in early 2022. [48] As part of the deal, approximately 350 global Topps sports and entertainment employees joined Fanatics to operate under Fanatics Collectibles.
In May 2021, a Wagner from a private collection sold for $3.75 million at auction, again setting a new sales record for the card. [13] In August 2022, a Wagner sold for $7.25 million, another record for the card. [14] In 2002, nearly 100 years after the original T206 cards were created, Topps rebooted the brand with Topps 206.
Each year, Topps faced the challenge of designing new cards to distinguish them from the year before. The 1952 - 56 sets were varied in presentation, but each were the same size, 2 5/8" x 3 3/4". The '52, '53 and '54 sets were vertical, the '55 and '56 sets horizontal. In 1957, the 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" size card became standard.