June is a busy month for Topps Baseball releases.
Next week (11th June) sees Series 2 of the flagship set hit the streets and you can read all about that in my preview right here!
The following Wednesday sees the prospect heavy Bowman Inception hit the shelves, and more on that to follow soon!!
Tomorrow brings us the third release of June in the form of Tier One Baseball. Click on the link below to check out the details and to get an idea of what you’ll be getting for your hard earned cash –
2014 Topps Tier One Baseball Sell Sheet
When it comes to previewing new products I’ll always try and be as honest as I can, usually concentrating on the positives over the negatives, but if there’s something worth saying about a new release I’ll happily share with any of you who are interested.
The problem is – I don’t like Tier One Baseball!
Pretty straightforward really… Never been a big fan!
You see I’m not a huge fan of high-end products anyway, I might have mentioned that before 🙂 but I’ll happily acknowledge that high-end products have their place in the Hobby. I do think that Topps produces far too many of them each year, and they’ve only gone and increased that number this year, but I guess that they’re a feature of the Hobby that’s here to stay for the long term.
For me high-end equates to flipping for profit. Don’t get me wrong, Topps does produce some lovely looking cards in their high-end releases but they can be the scourge of player collectors as singles of even the most obscure and little-collected players will often reach silly levels on the secondary market due to dealers/collectors trying to make a return on their original investment.
Products like Tribute, Museum Collection and Triple Threads are particular favourites as they have some nice looking base cards to back up the autographs, relics and autographed relics that you’ll find in their thousands! However Topps Tier One is an odd beast as it doesn’t actually have any base cards in the product, it’s just pure relics through and through!!
For me it’s got to be one of the most unnecessary sets of the year! I’ve never owned a Tier One card and most likely I never will! I guess I’ll be spending my money elsewhere. Try not to lose any sleep over that one Topps!
Anyone else out there a big fan of Tier One? Let me know as I’m intrigued as to what you see in it.
The Wax Fantastic 
Holy s**t, Topps got Greg Maddux to give a real signature! Wish I could afford one.
Unless it’s a mock up, but that was exactly my thought as well 🙂