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2010 Topps 206 was released August 30, 2010. The base set consists of 350 cards -- 50 of them being short-printed variations. Unlike the 2009 edition, the variations will be numbered as an extension of the base set (Cards #301-350). 2010 Topps 206 will feature a "Historical Events" insert -- the first time a Topps 206-branded product will feature non-baseball subjects.

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Dubbed the "Dynasties & Rivalries Edition," 2010 Topps Tribute was released on July 22, 2010. Each five card pack will yield either an autograph or relic card, a parallel serial-numbered to 249 copies or less and three base cards. All autographs will either be cuts or on stickers. The base set, like last year, will consist of 100 cards including a 15-card "Tribute to the Stars" subset (all done in the style of the 2003 Topps 205 set), and a ten-card "Greatest Rivalries Revisited" subset. The Greatest Rivalries Revisited subset will mark the first time Topps has included non-baseball-related subjects in Tribute.

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2010 Topps Allen & Ginter World Champions was released Tuesday, June 29, 2010. The 350-card set consist of 260 veterans, 30 rookies, 25 public figures, and 35 World Champions. New inserts include: Gods and Monsters, Scribes and Seafarers and Cabinet cards featuring full-size, complete relic swatches. Each Hobby Box contains a box loader and a combination of any three of an autograph, Cut Signature, Rip, Relic or Printing Plate.

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2010 Topps Baseball Series 2 arrived in Hobby shops May 26, 2010. The base set includes the next 330 cards (#331-660), with another 20 more photo variation cards — each of which will be limited to just 3,000 copies per card. Each 36-pack hobby box will include one autograph or Relic card, while HTA Jumbo boxes will include three.

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The highly-anticipated 2010 Bowman was released on May 10, 2010. The set contains the first MLB-licensed cards of Stephen Strasburg, Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Cashner, Dustin Ackley and many other young prospects. The set features 220 cards and a 110 card Prospect insert set. Each Hobby box will yield one on-card autograph, and each HTA box three. New this year are three different insert sets: 1992 Bowman Throwbacks, Topps 100 Prospects, and Bowman Expectations.

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The inaugural 2010 Topps National Chicle Baseball set was released April 28, 2010. It's a 329-card, all-painted, set inspired by the 1935 football card set of the same name, and consists of 204 current players, 50 retried players, and 20 rookies all in an Art Deco design. The set also includes three, somewhat controversial, subsets: Retired Stars Revisited, Vintage Veterans and Rookie Renditions.

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2010 Topps Pro Debut, Topps' first fore into Minor League cards since acquiring the MiLB license, was released exclusively to hobby stores on March 31, 2010. The first series consists of 220 cards, each stamped with a "Pro Debut" logo, on the same design of Topps' Major League flagship. Each 24-pack, eight card, Hobby box should yield two autographed cards, one relic card numbered to 139 or less, and up to eight serial-numbered parallels.

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Exclusive to Hobby outlets, 2010 Topps Finest was released on March 25, 2010. The set is comprised of 170 cards (125 veterans, 25 rookies and 20 Autographed Letter Patch Rookies). New for 2010 are one-of-one signed on-patch In the Name X-Fractor Rookie Book Cards. Also back are Finest Moments autographs, a 20-card checklist that includes key players during key moments in the 2009 season. These will be found with Red Refractors (25) and new Purple Refractors (1/1s).

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2010 Topps Heritage is the tenth year for the popular brand and was released February 23, 2010. The 500-card base set is based on the 1961 Topps design, and will have 75 short-prints. On average, each hobby box will yield an on-card autograph or a relic; either a three-card advertising strip or a stamp album; and every-other box will contain a foil-stamped 1961 buyback. Once again, each pack will include one individually-wrapped stick of gum.

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2010 Upper Deck, which arrived in retail stores the first week of February, is Upper Deck's third baseball set released without a license from Major League Baseball Properties (MLBP) in 2010. Team nicknames and logos (except on uniforms) do not appear anywhere on these cards due them being unlicensed by the MLBP. This set consists of 600 base cards and a number of new inserts; Portraits, Season Biography, Tape Measure Shots, All World, Pure Heat and a few more.

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2010 Topps Series 1, which arrived in retail stores on January 20, 2009, contains a 330-card base set, one autograph or relic card in every 36-pack hobby box or one autograph and two relics per 10-pack HTA jumbo box. New inserts for 2010 include The Cards Your Mother Threw Out, History of the Game, Tales of the Game, Hall of Fame buybacks, Legendary Lineage and When They Were Young.

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1997 Donruss Preferred is a 200-card set best known for its unusual packaging. Each five-card "pack" was distributed in a "tin" box. Similar to 1996 & 1997 Finest, the set is fractured into 100 Bronze, 60 Silver (1:3/packs), 30 Gold (1:12), and 10 Platinum (1:48) cards.

Hobby buzz

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Serious quality control issues have plagued the initial packs of 2010 Topps 206. Many of the one-per-pack mini-sized parallels are coming out of the pack severely mis-cut and/or diamond cut.

Topps Tribute

In what may be a repeat of last year's Babe Ruth stadium seat "relic" scandal, some Mickey Mantle "relic" cards being pulled out of Tribute packs are obviously not from a New York Yankees jersey.

A&G

Nick Jacoby has once again "Cracked the Code." In a post to Freedom Card Board, Jacoby explains how he did it. Again.

Bowman

The Stephen Strasburg SuperFractor which recently sold for $16,403, has been resold to Brian Gray of Razor Entertainment for $21,403 in a private sale. Gray plans on including it in 2010 Razor Rookie Retro. Despite being a one-of-a-kind item, the first purchaser submitted the card to Beckett Grading Services, who gave the card a grade of "9.5" or Gem Mint, before reselling it. The high grade has been controversial, with some collectors questioning the accuracy of the grade -- especially in regards to the card's L/R centering.