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[[2009 Kellogg's Japan]] is a set of six "rulers" produced for the Japanese market. Each ruler measures fifteen centimeters and features lenticular printing of the player "in action." Unlike the previous two year's Kellogg's Japan sets, these "cards" do not have the Upper Deck branding.
  
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Dubbed the "Dynasties & Rivalries Edition," <b>[[2010_Topps_Tribute|2010 Topps Tribute]]</b> was released on July 22, 2010. Each five card pack will yield either an autograph or relic card, a parallel serial-numbered to 249 copies or less and three base cards. All autographs will either be cuts or on stickers. The base set, like last year, will consist of 100 cards including a 15-card "Tribute to the Stars" subset (all done in the style of the 2003 Topps 205 set), and a ten-card "Greatest Rivalries Revisited" subset. The Greatest Rivalries Revisited subset will mark the first time Topps has included non-baseball-related subjects in Tribute.
 
  
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[[2002 Donruss Originals]] - [[1999 Topps Opening Day]] - [[2006 Upper Deck]] - [[2004 Upper Deck Vintage]] - [[1997 Bowman's Best]] - [[1999 Fleer Brilliants]] - [[1997 New Pinnacle]] - [[2004 Dodgers Fleer]] - [[1995 Topps Embossed]]  - [[2005 Topps Total]] - [[2001 Sweet Spot]] - [[1993 Donruss McDonald's Blue Jays]] - [[1990 Bazooka]] - [[1999 Skybox Molten Metal]] - [[1994 Stadium Club]] - [[1983 Topps Stickers]] - [[2002 Playoff Piece of the Game]] - [[2012 Topps Update]] - [[2000 Greats of the Game]]</td>
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<b>[[2010_Topps_Allen_&_Ginter_World_Champions|2010 Topps Allen & Ginter World Champions]]</b> was released Tuesday, June 29, 2010. The 350-card set consist of 260 veterans, 30 rookies, 25 public figures, and 35 World Champions. New inserts include: Gods and Monsters, Scribes and Seafarers and Cabinet cards featuring full-size, complete relic swatches. Each Hobby Box contains a box loader and a combination of any three of an autograph, Cut Signature, Rip, Relic or Printing Plate.
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<b>[[2010_Topps_Series_2|2010 Topps Baseball Series 2]]</b> arrived in Hobby shops May 26, 2010. The base set includes the next 330 cards (#331-660), with another 20 more photo variation cards — each of which will be limited to just 3,000 copies per card. Each 36-pack hobby box will include one autograph or Relic card, while HTA Jumbo boxes will include three.  
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[[2024 Bowman Chrome]] was released September 11th with a 100-card base set supplemented by a 100-card Prospects set. Each 12-pack Hobby box will yield a pair of autographs.
  
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For the fifth consecutive year, HTA Choice boxes are available which contain three autographs and nothing else.
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The highly-anticipated <b>[[2010_Bowman|2010 Bowman]]</b> was released on May 10, 2010. The set contains the first MLB-licensed cards of Stephen Strasburg, Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Cashner, Dustin Ackley and many other young prospects. The set features 220 cards and a 110 card Prospect insert set. Each Hobby box will yield one on-card autograph, and each HTA box three. New this year are three different insert sets: 1992 Bowman Throwbacks, Topps 100 Prospects, and Bowman Expectations.  
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[[2024 Topps Pro Debut]] is a 200-card Minor League set released September 6th. Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield four autographs.
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[[2024 Panini Boys of Summer]] is a 100-card set released August 28th. Each eight-card box will yield one game-used card and three autographs.
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The inaugural <b>[[2010_Topps_National_Chicle|2010 Topps National Chicle]]</b> Baseball set was released April 28, 2010. It's a 329-card, all-painted, set inspired by the 1935 football card set of the same name, and consists of 204 current players, 50 retried players, and 20 rookies all in an Art Deco design. The set also includes three, somewhat controversial, subsets: Retired Stars Revisited, Vintage Veterans and Rookie Renditions.  
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[[2024 Topps Pristine]] is a 300-card set to be released August 23th. Each ten-card pack has three mini packs.  One mini pack will contain seven base cards/Refractors, the second will have either two inserts or an Autographed Relic, while the third will yield an encased card.
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[[2024 Finest]] is a 300-card set released August 7th.
  
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For the first time since 1997, Finest will have a tiered base set. The first 100 cards are "Commons". Cards #101-200 are "Uncommons" and are seeded at the rate of one-per-pack. The final 100 cards are "Rare" and come one in every third pack.
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<b>[[2010_Topps_Pro_Debut_Series_One|2010 Topps Pro Debut]]</b>, Topps' first fore into Minor League cards since acquiring the MiLB license, was released exclusively to hobby stores on March 31, 2010. The first series consists of 220 cards, each stamped with a "Pro Debut" logo, on the same design of Topps' Major League flagship. Each 24-pack, eight card, Hobby box should yield two autographed cards, one relic card numbered to 139 or less, and up to eight serial-numbered parallels.
 
  
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Exclusive to Hobby outlets, <b>[[2010_Finest|2010 Topps Finest]]</b> was released on March 25, 2010. The set is comprised of 170 cards (125 veterans, 25 rookies and 20 Autographed Letter Patch Rookies). New for 2010 are one-of-one signed on-patch In the Name X-Fractor Rookie Book Cards. Also back are Finest Moments autographs, a 20-card checklist that includes key players during key moments in the 2009 season. These will be found with Red Refractors (25) and new Purple Refractors (1/1s).
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* Six Refractor parallels.
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[[2024 Donruss]] is a 200 card set released August 5th.
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<b>[[2010_Topps_Heritage|2010 Topps Heritage]]</b> is the tenth year for the popular brand and was released February 23, 2010. The 500-card base set is based on the 1961 Topps design, and will have 75 short-prints. On average, each hobby box will yield an on-card autograph or a relic; either a three-card advertising strip or a stamp album; and every-other box will contain a foil-stamped 1961 buyback. Once again, each pack will include one individually-wrapped stick of gum.
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[[2024 Topps Museum Collection]] is a 100-card set to be released July 31st. As usual each five-card pack will contain one autograph or game-used Relic. Each four pack Hobby box will yield the following:
  
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<b>[[2010_Upper_Deck|2010 Upper Deck]]</b>, which arrived in retail stores the first week of February, is Upper Deck's third baseball set released without a license from Major League Baseball Properties (MLBP) in 2010. Team nicknames and logos (except on uniforms) do not appear anywhere on these cards due them being unlicensed by the MLBP. This set consists of 600 base cards and a number of new inserts; [[2010_Upper_Deck#Upper_Deck_Portraits|Portraits]], [[2010_Upper_Deck#Season_Biography|Season Biography]], [[2010_Upper_Deck#Tape_Measure_Shots|Tape Measure Shots]], [[2010_Upper_Deck#All_Word|All World]], [[2010_Upper_Deck#Pure_Heat|Pure Heat]] and a few more.
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[[2024 Topps Chrome]] was released July 17th. The base set has been expanded to 300 cards. Each Hobby box will yield one autograph eight inserts and 12 Refractors while each Jumbo box will have three autos and twelve Refractors.
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[[2024 Topps Tier One]] was released July 3rd. As usual, box will contain two autographs and a relic.
  
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<b>[[2010_Topps_Series_1|2010 Topps Series 1]]</b>, which arrived in retail stores on January 20, 2009, contains a 330-card base set, one [[autograph]] or [[Game_Used|relic]] card in every 36-pack hobby box or one [[autograph]] and two [[Game_Used|relics]] per 10-pack HTA jumbo box. New inserts for 2010 include [[2010 Topps Series 1#The_Cards_Your_Mother_Threw_Out|The Cards Your Mother Threw Out]], [[2010 Topps Series 1#History_of_the_Game|History of the Game]], [[2010 Topps Series 1#Tales_of_the_Game|Tales of the Game]], Hall of Fame buybacks, [[2010 Topps Series 1#Legendary_Lineage|Legendary Lineage]] and [[2010 Topps Series 1#When_They_Were_Young|When They Were Young]].  
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[[2023-24 Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary]] is a 500-card set, released May 22nd, 2024.  All cards are on chrome stock and are done in the style of the [[1954 Topps]] set.
  
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Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield six Refractors, an X-Fractor, and an autograph.
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[[2024 Bowman]] is a 100-card set, supplemented by a 150-card Prospects set, released May 8th. Each Hobby box will yield one autograph and 18 inserts. Hobby Jumbo boxes will contain three autographs and 12 inserts.
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[[National, The (NSCC)]] The National Sports Collectors Convention is an annual card show that has grown from a small hotel ballroom, to the premiere card show/trade show/mega-event it is today. First staged in 1980, The National rotates venues on a yearly basis, usually in either California or in the Midwest. The 2010 edition took place for the first time in Baltimore, and has just concluded.  
 
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[[2024 Topps Chrome Black]] is a 100-card set released April 17th. Each four-card box will yield two base cards, one Refractor parallel serial-numbered to 199 copies or fewer, and one autograph.
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[[2024 Topps Heritage]] is a 500 card set.  In keeping with the brand's aesthetic, the design is based on the [[1975 Topps]] set. 
  
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In what may be a repeat of last year's Babe Ruth stadium seat "relic" scandal, some Mickey Mantle "relic" cards being pulled out of Tribute packs are [http://blog.stalegum.com/2010/08/topps-tribute-here-we-go-again-with.html obviously not from a New York Yankees jersey]. 
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The first 500 cards were issued as part of the Heritage Series and was released April 10th.  Each Hobby box will, as usual, yield a relic, an autograph or an autographed relic.
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Nick Jacoby has once again "Cracked the Code." In a post to [http://www.freedomcardboard.com/?p=876 Freedom Card Board], Jacoby explains how he did it.  Again.
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* [[Buying Wax]]
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* [[Rookie Card|Rookie Cards]]
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Early reports on [[2010_Topps_Allen_&_Ginter_World_Champions|2010 Topps Allen & Ginter World Champions]] are not good. After a reported [http://twitter.com/brentandbecca 100 cases have been opened], only three Strasburg minis have been pulled. Topps assured collectors that Strasburg would have a regular mini, but some collectors think that the Strasburg mini was a late addition and it wasn't included in the very first batch of cases. 
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The Stephen Strasburg SuperFractor which recently sold for $16,403, has been resold to [http://blogbeckett.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/strasburgtwist/ Brian Gray of Razor Entertainment] for $21,403 in a private sale.  Gray plans on including it as "buyback" in a future Razor product.  Despite being a one-of-a-kind item, the first purchaser submitted the card to Beckett Grading Services, who gave the card a [http://blogbeckett.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/get-a-closer-look-at-the-stephen-strasburg-superfractor grade of "9.5"] or Gem Mint, before reselling it.  The high grade has been controversial, with some <ref>http://www.sportscardsuncensored.com/2010/06/bgs-discusses-strasburg-grade-fail.html</ref> collectors questioning the accuracy of the grade -- especially in regards to the card's L/R centering.
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* [[2010 Topps Triple Threads]]
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* [[2024 Topps Cosmic Chrome]]
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* [[2024 Topps Update]]
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* [[2024 Panini Impeccable]]
  
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* [[2024 Panini Prizm]]
  
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* [http://www.hobbynewsdaily.com Hobby News Daily]
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* [http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com Sports Collectors Daily]
  
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* [http://freedomcardboard.com Freedom Cardboard]
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* [http://www.thebenchtrading.com The Bench]
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* [http://community.cardboardconnection.com/forums/forums.php Cardboard Connection Forum]
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* [http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/ Blowout Forum]
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* [http://forums.collectors.com/categories.cfm?catid=11 Collectors Universe]
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* [http://cardboardicons.com Cardboard Icons]
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* [http://thorzul.blogspot.com Thorzul Will Rule]
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* [http://nightowlcards.blogspot.com Night Owl Cards]
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* [http://junkwaxgems.wordpress.com Junk Wax Gems]
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* [http://collectorempire.com Uncharted Hobby]
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* [http://cardsbysooz.blogspot.com Cards by Sooz]
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* [http://baseballcardblog.blogspot.com The Baseball Card Blog]
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* [http://bdj610bbcblog.blogspot.com bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog]
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* [http://bapple2286.wordpress.com 30-Year Old Cardboard]
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* [http://firstballot.blogspot.com First Ballot Picture Cards]
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* [http://joeaveragecollector.blogspot.com Joe Average Card Collector]
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* [http://projectpedropc.blogspot.com Project Pedro/Cheap Wax Wednesday]
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* [https://therealisticcollector.com The Realistic Collector]
  
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<b>Collection Management</b>
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* [http://www.zistle.com Zistle]
  
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<b>Baseball Card Cyber Museum</b>
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* [https://www.cardcybermuseum.com/ Card Cyber Museum]
  
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* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4FgWE5nkp009mvQSOBhTBQ Hobby Hotline]
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* [http://www.sportscardradio.com/index.php/stream-the-sports-card-show Sports Card Radio]
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* [http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cardboardconnectionradio Cardboard Connection Radio]
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* [http://freedomcardboard.com/blog/tag/fcb-podcast FCB Podcast]
  
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* [http://www.psacard.com/ PSA]
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* [http://www.beckett.com/grading/ BGS]
  
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* [http://www.beckett.com Beckett]
  
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* [http://www.checkoutmycards.com Check Out My Cards]
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* [http://www.ebay.com eBay]
  
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Set of the Month

2009 Kellogg's Japan is a set of six "rulers" produced for the Japanese market. Each ruler measures fifteen centimeters and features lenticular printing of the player "in action." Unlike the previous two year's Kellogg's Japan sets, these "cards" do not have the Upper Deck branding.

Previous Sets of the Month

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2024 Bowman Chrome was released September 11th with a 100-card base set supplemented by a 100-card Prospects set. Each 12-pack Hobby box will yield a pair of autographs.

For the fifth consecutive year, HTA Choice boxes are available which contain three autographs and nothing else.

2024 Topps Pro Debut is a 200-card Minor League set released September 6th. Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield four autographs.

2024 Panini Boys of Summer is a 100-card set released August 28th. Each eight-card box will yield one game-used card and three autographs.

2024 Topps Pristine is a 300-card set to be released August 23th. Each ten-card pack has three mini packs. One mini pack will contain seven base cards/Refractors, the second will have either two inserts or an Autographed Relic, while the third will yield an encased card.

2024 Finest is a 300-card set released August 7th.

For the first time since 1997, Finest will have a tiered base set. The first 100 cards are "Commons". Cards #101-200 are "Uncommons" and are seeded at the rate of one-per-pack. The final 100 cards are "Rare" and come one in every third pack.

A six-pack Hobby box is expected to yield:

  • Six Uncommon base cards
  • Two Rare base cards
  • Six Refractor parallels.
  • Eight inserts
  • Two Autographs.

2024 Donruss is a 200 card set released August 5th.

2024 Topps Museum Collection is a 100-card set to be released July 31st. As usual each five-card pack will contain one autograph or game-used Relic. Each four pack Hobby box will yield the following:

  • Four parallels
  • One insert
  • Two Relics (one of which is a Quad Relic)
  • One Autograph
  • One Autographed Relic

2024 Topps Chrome was released July 17th. The base set has been expanded to 300 cards. Each Hobby box will yield one autograph eight inserts and 12 Refractors while each Jumbo box will have three autos and twelve Refractors.

2024 Topps Tier One was released July 3rd. As usual, box will contain two autographs and a relic.

For the first time since the product's 2011 introduction, there will be a base set. The 100 cards will be fractured into three Tiers. Each box will contain one base card or base parallel.

2023-24 Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary is a 500-card set, released May 22nd, 2024. All cards are on chrome stock and are done in the style of the 1954 Topps set.

Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield six Refractors, an X-Fractor, and an autograph.

Although marketed as a "2023" product, for rookie card purposes, BCP considers this to be a 2024 set.

2024 Bowman is a 100-card set, supplemented by a 150-card Prospects set, released May 8th. Each Hobby box will yield one autograph and 18 inserts. Hobby Jumbo boxes will contain three autographs and 12 inserts.

2024 Topps Chrome Black is a 100-card set released April 17th. Each four-card box will yield two base cards, one Refractor parallel serial-numbered to 199 copies or fewer, and one autograph.

2024 Topps Heritage is a 500 card set. In keeping with the brand's aesthetic, the design is based on the 1975 Topps set.

The first 500 cards were issued as part of the Heritage Series and was released April 10th. Each Hobby box will, as usual, yield a relic, an autograph or an autographed relic.

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