IBO Boxing Honesty and Integrity
Israel’s 10-inning victory over Korea on the first day of the World Baseball Classic™ gets the first Topps Now treatment as Topps, the exclusive trading card partner of Major League Baseball, and the WBC are teaming to bring baseball fans exclusive, tantalizing Topps Now™ cards starting today. Scott Burcham‘s two-out RBI single ...
Read More »Yankees’ Sanchez Takes Mantle’s Vaunted No. 7 Topps Card
New York Yankees star catcher Gary Sanchez, who hit 20 home runs in 53 games in his rookie season in 2016, may or may not be the next Mickey Mantle in the Yankees lineup. But the powerful 24-year-old is following in The Mick’s footsteps in another way for Yankees fans ...
Read More »Baseball Fans Vote Kris Bryant to Card No. 1 for 2017 Topps Baseball
Baseball fans have voted for the next player to be on Card No. 1 for 2017 Topps® Baseball. Chicago Cubs World Series Champion and National League Most Valuable Player Kris Bryant will grace Card No. 1. “It’s a huge honor with Card No. 1 depicting legends before me,” Bryant said. ...
Read More »The Sweet Spot, a New Streaming TV Channel for Baseball Fans
Evzone Media+Experiential, LLC, a documentary production company, announced today they are launching a new streaming television channel, The Sweet Spot – A Treasury of Baseball Stories. The Sweet Spot will feature an original documentary anthology series of the same name, focusing on deep, personal, and inside stories from players, coaches, ...
Read More »WHOOP Announces Findings of Largest Performance Study Ever Conducted in Professional Sports
WHOOP, the human performance optimization company, today announced the results of a performance study involving minor league players from nine Major League Baseball (MLB) organizations. The landmark study, which was conducted with 230 minor league players from June – November, 2016, was designed to monitor the relationship between physiological status ...
Read More »Early Star’s Career, Untimely Death Recalled In Biography
Even avid baseball fans are not likely to have heard of Win Mercer. His career–and, sadly, his life–over just before the detente between the National League and upstart American League would lead to the first World Series, Mercer toiled for always losing and mostly dismal Washington teams in seven of ...
Read More »Annual Major League Baseball Topps® All-Star Rookie Team is Revealed
The Topps® MLB All-Star Rookie Team continues its decades-long tradition by honoring Major League Baseball’s top rookies. Eleven MLB players were named to the Topps All-Star Rookie Team led by three Los Angeles Dodgers: Corey Seager (short stop), who was named National League Rookie of the Year, Kenta Maeda (right-handed ...
Read More »The Topps Company Signs Derek Jeter to an Autographed Trading Card Deal for the First Time in Over a Decade
The Topps Company, the exclusive trading card partner of Major League Baseball, is excited to announce the signing of former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter to a multi-year autograph trading card deal today. Jeter’s autographs return to Topps products for the first time in over a decade. The addition ...
Read More »Topps Gives Fans the Power to Decide Card #1 for 2017 Topps® Baseball Series One
The Topps Company, Inc. will turn to its fanbase once again to decide who is worthy of the iconic Card No. 1 in 2017 Topps® Baseball Series One with the return of public fan voting. The voting will open to the public from Tuesday, October 11 at 10 a.m. EST ...
Read More »Topps Now™ Surpasses 300,000 Cards Sold In First Year
The Topps Company today announced that their fast-growing on-demand platform TOPPS NOW™ has surpassed 300,000 cards sold thus far, exceeding the expectations of the program and helping to re-engage thousands of fans, especially millennials, with the TOPPS brand and the joys of collecting now in an on-demand environment for the ...
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