2020 Topps Baseball Holiday: Was bummed when these were pushed back to a late December release but I found and purchased a loan box at my Wal-Mart last week. These are the holiday cards we were looking for. Not Panini's holiday football cards with a single holiday card in the box (rookie relic). The holiday cards include cards from Topps Series 1 and 2 but are numbered specifically for this release. We'll start out with this Blake Snell SP (1:7 packs) which was easy to spot due to the Santa hat.
This Christian Yelich with the candy cane bat and eye liner is a rare variation (1:20 packs). It took me three looks at all the cards before I found the three variations I pulled. I saw Snell right away but the other two took weren't as easy. Beckett does a good job looking at the variations at the link here.
Some great young players s were in this box including a SP Kyle Lewis who is a hot commodity right now.
I really like the designs for these. If you're going to do a holiday card go over the top and make me feel in the holiday spirit which these do. I know the design isn't something everyone likes and that's okay. If nothing else collectors should like that the print run on these is less than the flagship set plus you get the different variations.
My relic. Kind of "meh" on this but of course a more name player changes my outlook considerably. The design is a big blah too.
You'll never be able to tell from the scan but that Chavis is one of my metallic parallels. The snowflakes are raised so you can feel them.
I really enjoyed this box. Hopefully we'll get these in advance of the holidays this year. Just a fun alternative for card designs I like. ...and you get an die cut ornament in the box. If you're fan of the player you pull I could see this going on the tree.
BREAKDOWN:
100 – Total Cards
14 – RC
7 – Topps All-Star Rookie
5 – Metallic Parallel
2 – SP
1 - Rare
1 – Relic
1 – RC/Topps All-Star Rookie
1 - MLB Ornament Die-cut
