Description
2025 Topps Chrome Baseball marks the 30th release of the chromium upgrade to the Topps flagship set, and this year’s edition includes the exciting addition of Gold Logoman Relics. A wide-ranging collection of colorful Refractors accent the base set, and inserts and autographs will again be in focus throughout the product.
Standard hobby boxes will include one autograph, while jumbo hobby boxes guarantee three autographs. Mega and Value boxes offer exclusive Refractor parallels.
2025 Topps Chrome Baseball Checklist Overview
The 2025 Topps Chrome Baseball set returns with a 300-card checklist that includes 100 rookie cards. Dozens of Refractors cover the base set, with various types of Refractors found only in certain styles of boxes.
There are 50 players who have base card variations, and a smaller slate, 10 cards, have SSP variants. The MVP, Rookie of the Year, and Cy Young Award winners from 2024 also have special base variations.
2025 Topps Chrome Baseball Inserts Overview
When it comes to the inserts in 2025 Topps Chrome Baseball, collectors will find many traditional favorites, several new sets, and a handful of retro concepts returning for the first time in decades.
Retro-Themed Inserts
- Power Players – The eccentric Power Players insert came onto the scene in 2000 but had not had a reprisal until 2025. The colorfully designed cards feature 25 established and up-and-coming home run hitters from today’s game, and collectors will find a card from the set at an average of once every seven hobby packs.
- Fortune 15 – In 1999, the Fortune 15 insert made its debut with 15 of the top established and rising stars of the time. Like Power Players, Topps hits the reset button on the idea for the first time since then, bringing 15 of today’s leading talents onto another insert that isn’t too difficult to find (1:12 packs).
- Hobby Masters – Unlike the other retro themes, Hobby Masters will be tougher for collectors to pull. Hobby Masters debuted in 1997, then had a steady run from 2002 to 2007. Previously only a flagship Topps insert set, this year’s Hobby Masters will be the first ever to feature the Chrome finish, but collectors will not find them easily (1:2,453).
Additional Inserts
As has been the case in Topps Series 1 and Series 2, a 35th anniversary tribute set will continue in Topps Chrome – this year features the 1990 Topps design (1:9 packs). Returning favorites are sets like All Etch (1:9) and Future Stars (1:9) plus many harder-to-find concepts, such as: All Etch Rookie Rush (1:121), Radiating Rookies (1:481), Ultra Violet All Stars (1:686), Helix (1:3,530), Exposé (1:18,766), and Let’s Go! (1:34,014). Youthquake (Breakers Delight) and Fanatical (Value and Mega Box) return as exclusive inserts.
New to the product are some tougher finds: Shadow Etch (1:481), Lightning Leaders (1:960), Homefield Advantage (1:1,057), and World Series at Night (1:1,921).
The Numbers Live Forever insert (1:28,354) delivers a new twist. It features three retired players whose primary jersey number matches the year, in this case 25. Players on the brief checklist are:
- Barry Bonds, who wore #25 for the Giants from 1993 to 2007
- Jim Thome, who wore #25 for six teams from 1992 to 2012
- Jose Cruz Sr., who wore #25 for the Astros from 1975 to 1987
Collectors can also find World Series Champion Refractors of many Los Angeles Dodgers players and special cards honoring the 2025 inductees to the National Baseball Hall of Fame: Ichiro, C.C. Sabathia, Billy Wagner, Dick Allen, and Dave Parker. Ichiro, Sabathia, and Wagner have autographed versions. Sadly, Allen died in 2020, and Parker has battled health issues that prevent him from signing autographs.
2025 Topps Chrome Baseball Autographs Overview
Rookie and Legend Autographs are back as the pillars of the autograph checklist in 2025 Topps Chrome Baseball. There are 166 rookies and 52 legends on the autograph checklists, and all of those cards have many colorful parallels.
There are also autographed versions of many inserts, including 1990 Topps, All Etch, All Etch Rookie Rush, Future Stars, Numbers Live Forever, Radiating Rookies, and Ultra Violet All Stars.
Topps has introduced World Series Champions Autographs, a series of 33 players (mostly retired) who have at least one World Series ring to their credit. Chromographs, which originally debuted in 2002-03 Topps Chrome Hockey, make their baseball debut this year. Collectors can also find Dual Autographs.
2025 Topps Chrome Baseball Gold Logoman Patches
Perhaps the most anticipated aspect of 2025 Topps Chrome Baseball will be the debut of Gold Logoman patch cards.
Following the success of MLB Rookie Debut patches, Fanatics and Major League Baseball collaborated before the season to create gold MLB Logoman patches to put on the jerseys of prominent award winners from the 2024 season.
Like the MLB Rookie Debut patches, these Gold Logoman patches will be authenticated by MLB and then used for extremely limited Topps baseball cards. Redemption cards for the Gold Logoman Relics and Autographed Gold Logoman Relics will be released as the ultimate chase cards in 2025 Topps Chrome Baseball.
Players in the set are:
- Shohei Ohtani, National League MVP
- Aaron Judge, American League MVP
- Paul Skenes, National League Rookie of the Year
- Chris Sale, National League Cy Young Award
- Tarik Skubal, American League Cy Young Award
2025 Topps Chrome MVP Buyback Program
For a fourth consecutive year, Topps Chrome will be the home of the MVP Buyback Program. Collectors owning base cards and parallels of the eventual American and National League MVPs for the 2025 season will have the option to exchange those cards for credit at participating hobby stores.
Collectors should also be on the lookout for 2024 MVP Buyback cards in 2025 Topps Chrome packs. Select Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani cards taken back in last year’s exchange program have been redistributed with a special stamp. Both players also have autographed buyback cards.
2025 Topps Chrome Baseball cards at a glance:
Cards per pack: Hobby – 4, Jumbo – 11, Mega – 6
Packs per box: Hobby – 20, Jumbo – 12, Mega – 7
Boxes per case: Hobby – 12, Jumbo – 8, Mega – 20
Set size: 300 cards
Release date: July 23, 2025
