MLB ending its 70 year partnership with Topps

[savafan]

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/10295...facturer-topps

End of several eras…


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[Bob Sheed]

Baseball card collecting is such a mess right now.

I don't buy anything later than 1980 unless it's just for fun.

And as far as the cards they release now... If there isn't a 3/35 scarcity number on it, or some crazy refactor card, then that means they printed about 10 million of them.

[Danny Serafini]

That's a bold move to go with someone completely unproven, makes me a little nervous as a collector. I understand the financial reasons, just hope the product is still good. Bad day for Topps, they were supposed to merge with an investment firm and go public, that's now dead.

[cumberlandreds]

Wow! That really is an end to a tradition. Not surprising though. Its all about the money now. I'm not into card collecting anymore. It was just filled with a lot slimey people just trying to make money in any way they could. I lost interest in the newer cards and just collected the old ones through places like EBAY or online card stores. I'm glad I have my old cards still. It's little piece of the past that still means a lot to me. RIP Topps.

[OldFashionedRed]

I stopped collecting when they started jacking up prices for a pack of cards. It was greed on the part of Topps AND collectors.

[757690]

I imagine this is part of a move to go more online and maybe a move to NFT’s. It’s a bold new world when it comes to card collecting. I don’t get it but the kids love it.

[Bruce Berenyi]

will there still be market for my ken hunt card

[getfoul]

With the license expiring after 2025, hopefully Fanatics has time to cut a deal with card manufacturers to extend the brands collectors like. Right now, this is sad and sucks. But until it all washes out with manufacturing and distribution, we don’t know what the card landscape will be after the license expires.

[SomeCallMeTim]

I was serious as a kid when I started in 1978. I kept up getting a Topps set every year up until the 1990’s but when all of these other brands got in I quit.

I think I have all Topps from 78-93 or so. I guess I should unload them…no one to pass them onto that would care.

[getfoul]

I was serious as a kid when I started in 1978. I kept up getting a Topps set every year up until the 1990’s but when all of these other brands got in I quit.

I think I have all Topps from 78-93 or so. I guess I should unload them…no one to pass them onto that would care.

I started collecting in 1978 too, and was looking forward to 2027 Heritage to get new cards with that design. I could have easily quit cards forever after 1993 also. The strike definitely shut it down for about five years.

[Red Raindog]

I started collecting in the 50’s

Unfortunately my mother cleaned out all my baseball cards and comics when I went to college.

I try not to think of the money lost.

I did find a handful of 1958 Topps cards including Ted Williams and Mantle AllStar cards but yikes - it was many boxes


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[DocRed]

Crusher for Topps....they just had their SPAC deal cancelled that valued them at $1.2B.

[Patrick Bateman]

Card collecting is the number 1 reason I’m a fan to this day.


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[Strikes Out Looking]

And what will come of the manufacturer of that cement like sliver of gum?

[KeefeCato]

I was serious as a kid when I started in 1978. I kept up getting a Topps set every year up until the 1990’s but when all of these other brands got in I quit.

I think I have all Topps from 78-93 or so. I guess I should unload them…no one to pass them onto that would care.

Sadly Tim the years you have aren't worth much.