2011 Topps baseball cards are out!

[Judge Jude]

I picked up some 2011 Topps baseball cards at Target today (the only place I go that ever has trading cards).

Lots of fun stuff:
It’s the 60th anniversary, which is diamond, and I got a Robinson Cano card that looks like it has ‘diamond glitter’ on the front.

Also got one of the 50 cards that are replicas of an 1888 tobacco card set. They’re only about half the size of the regular cards. Player happens to be Jeter.

A “1 in 96 packs” odds come in when I got a Rickey Henderson “relic” card. There’s a small piece of a Henderson bat embedded in the card.

Then there’s a 1910 Honus Wagner replica.

And a 1983 Ozzie Smith replica card.

This is all in 4 packs plus about 50 regular cards. Very sharp regualr set imo.

I also wound up with two "cards" that allow you to go online and see which older card you won. First was a 1975 Frank White (Royals 2B, I have this card in a shoebox in the closet, but cool). Second was - a 1997 Alex Ochoa! lol
You can collect more, and eventually they'll ship the lot to you for a few bucks.

Consider my cockles warmed!

[Trader Mac]

I wonder where I can find some in China? Also, what are those replica cards worth? Seems to me that they wouldn't be worth much.

[Bob Kohm]

I wonder where I can find some in China?

What, cockles? Try any good fishmonger.

[revo]

I also wound up with two "cards" that allow you to go online and see which older card you won. First was a 1975 Frank White (Royals 2B, I have this card in a shoebox in the closet, but cool). Second was - a 1997 Alex Ochoa! lol

Awesome! I have that card too.

[Judge Jude]

I have about 15 of those now.

I swear there must be over 1000 cards in this set. I mean, I have a Nixon, Obama and Kennedy out of 10 "Opening Day First Pitches by Presidents" cards. Plus a bunch of "Lost Cards" - Topps didn't always have rights to guys like Mantle, Musial and Feller every year in the 1950s, so this year they made up a 'new' card of that year's style. There are "Spot the Error" cards, where each side looks the same except for one thing missing. And those "tobacco" cards.