Collector Type: Set/Autograph/Chrome Fans
Chrome continues to be king. Box busters love looking for that cardboard bling.
A hobby box of 2021 Topps Chrome Baseball comes with (24) packs. Each hobby box should come with (2) autographs.
Balance is the perfect word to describe this box. In addition to the autographs, a wide variety of parallels and inserts were found. The parallels pulled are of some highly watched rookies too – Cronenworth, Adell, and Mountcastle. Throw in a Gold Wave, Tatis Jr. Prism, and a Freeman Negative, and you’ve got a nice balance of color.
That’s the best thing about Topps Chrome. If your autographs aren’t that recognizable, the parallels can easily make up for it.
The base set consists of (220) cards. Parallels include Refractor (1:3), Sepia (2 per Blaster), Pink (2 per Blaster), Prism (1:6), Negative, Magenta #’ed/399, Magenta Speckle #’ed/350, Purple #’ed/299, Aqua #’ed/199, Aqua Wave #’ed/199, Blue #’ed/150, Green #’ed/99, Green Wave #’ed/99, Blue Wave #’ed/75, Gold #’ed/50, Gold Wave #’ed/50, Orange #’ed/25, Orange Wave #’ed/25, Red #’ed/5, Red Wave #’ed/5, SuperFractor #’ed 1/1, and Printing Plates #’ed 1/1.
How could you have such a popular product like this in today’s hobby without photo variations? You can’t. Topps made sure you have plenty to look for. I always check the CMP codes to see if I’ve pulled any:
- Base – #310
- Variation SP – #350
- Variation SSP – #356
Variation SPs have Green #’ed/99, Gold #’ed/50, Orange #’ed/25, Red #’ed/5, and SuperFractor #’ed 1/1 parallels. The Variation SSPs do not have any parallels.
Autographs include Rookie Autographs, Dual Rookie Autographs, 1986 Topps Baseball Autographs, Béisbol Autographs, Future Stars Autographs, and Prismic Power Autographs.
Relics include Captain’s Cloth Chrome Relics, and Captain’s Cloth Chrome Relic Autographs.
Inserts include 1986 Topps Baseball, Béisbol, Future Stars, and Prismic Power.
Other versions of Topps Chrome Baseball this year include Topps Chrome LITE, Sapphire Edition, and Ben Baller Edition.
Topps Chrome LITE offers (16) packs per box. Each box guarantees (4) Black & White Mini-Diamond parallels. Black & White Mini-Diamond Rookie Autograph parallels can also be found.
Sapphire Edition should be coming down the line soon.
Ben Baller recently announced his Topps Chrome boxes should arrive in October.
Checklist
Here is what I pulled:
Autos:
- Jonah Heim RC Auto
- Ryan Jeffers RC Purple Refractor Auto #’ed/250
Parallels:
- Charlie Morton Gold Wave Refractor #’ed/50
- A.J. Puk Blue Refractor #’ed/150
- Freddie Freeman Negative Refractor
- Evan White RC Prism Refractor
- Adonis Medina RC Prism Refractor
- Aaron Judge Prism Refractor
- Fernando Tatis Jr. Prism Refractor
- Jake Cronenworth RC Refractor
- Jo Adell RC Refractor
- Kris Bubic RC Refractor
- Ryan Mountcastle RC Refractor
- Chris Paddack Refractor
- Wilson Ramos Refractor
- Jorge Alfaro Refractor
- Josh Hader Refractor
Inserts:
- Cody Bellinger Prismic Power
- Jesús Luzardo Béisbol
- Yasmani Grandal Béisbol
- Randy Arozarena Future Stars
- Brusdar Graterol Future Stars
- Brendan McKay Future Stars
- Mike Trout 1986 Topps 35th Anniversary
- Casey Mize RC 1986 Topps 35th Anniversary
- Brady Singer RC 1986 Topps 35th Anniversary
- Juan Soto 1986 Topps 35th Anniversary
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