There’s some extra cardboard coming to card shops for the holiday season.
Topps revealed on Friday its 2017 Topps Holiday promotion, which will include three-card packs of a new set complete with holiday touches and December superstars alongside possible autographed cards.
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Santa Claus has signed an autograph deal with Topps for a new online release unveiled by the company today as the 2016 Topps Santa Claus set is now available only initially via Topps.com.
Terms of the autograph deal were not disclosed but he’ll be signing cards found one per set in this release.
Not to be outdone, Mrs. Claus also will be signing cards for this product as will one of the elves found at the North Pole.
With the holiday season here, cardboard is probably on the minds of many Buzz readers as they wonder what might await them soon.
Others, like Buzz, might be thinking of Cardboard of Christmas Past — you know, some of the Santa Claus trading cards we’ve seen throughout the years. Most of it’s trivial and not all that collectable — but they all stand out in a way compared to our traditional sports cards.
1989 Pro Set Promos #1989
When Dallas-based Pro Set created this card during its first season of making football cards in 1989, it sparked a trend that we saw in not just football cards but other areas in the years that followed. (Boy are there some bad Photoshop jobs there in the 1990s.) For all intents and purposes, though, Buzz would call this one a “Rookie Card.” Yes, there were previous non-sports cards — but this was the one that put cards like this on the minds of the sports-collecting masses after it was mailed out to dealers and selected NFL-related people.
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