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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 company also decided that its playing card model was too small (2 inches by 2-5/8 inches) and changed the dimensions to 2-5/8 inches by 3-3/4 inches with square corners. The cards now had a color portrait on one side, with statistical and biographical information on the other. This set became a landmark in the baseball card industry, and ...
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. Also, the design changed dramatically and was now a photograph of the player and not a painting (particularly 1953).
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.
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[2] In 2024, Shohei Ohtani (2018) was named MVP for the National League. [7] Aaron Judge (2017) was named MVP for the American League. [8] Many players named to a Topps All-Star Rookie team have also played in a Major League Baseball All-Star game. The most prolific All-Star was Cal Ripken Jr., who appeared on 19 All-Star rosters. [9]
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There are also multiple cards for the same player in different poses, different uniforms, or even with different teams after being traded (since the set was issued over a period of three years). The cards measure 1 + 7 ⁄ 16 by 2 + 5 ⁄ 8 inches (3.7 cm × 6.7 cm) which is considered by many collectors to be the standard tobacco card size.