“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” – Hall of Famer Honus Wagner
There was a time when the end of the World Series meant the start of “the dark times”, with no baseball cards, no baseball games, and scant baseball news. Today, though, we have constant hot stove updates on social media, endless highlight reels at our fingertips, and some late-season card releases.
One of these late-season releases is the holiday-themed 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball. But what will fans find inside 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball? What are the release formats? What are the hits? And are these worth asking Santa for or putting under the tree?
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The release date for 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball was scheduled for November 20, 2024 (subject to change).
2024 Topps Holiday Baseball Mega Boxes contain 10 packs per box. Each pack contains 10 cards per pack. Mega Boxes are pre-selling on Topps.com for $30.
Each Mega Box includes:
• 2 Short Printed Holiday Image Variation Base Cards
• 5 Exclusive Silver Glitter Holiday parallel cards
• 1 Exclusive Blue Metallic Glitter parallel card
• 1 Relic, Autograph, or Autograph Relic Card
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2024 Topps Holiday Baseball Ornament Tins are shaped like an oversized Christmas ornament and contain 59 cards. Each Holiday Tin contains 54 Base Cards, 1 Short Print Holiday Image Variation, 1 Blue Metallic Holiday Tree Parallel, and 3 Holiday Tree Border Parallels on average. Ornament Tins are pre-selling for $20.
New for 2024 are 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball Advent Calendars. Sold out already on Topps.com, Advent Calendars are pre-selling for $90-100 on the secondary market.
Advent Calendars include:
• 20 exclusive five-card packs
• 1 Three-card evergreen pack
• 2 Single card foil buyback card packs
• 1 Original buyback pack
The base set of 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball consists of 200 cards. The checklist consists of select cards from 2024 Topps Series 1 and Series 2.
From a design perspective, the cards are based on the 2024 Topps design, but with the addition of holiday-themed flair on every card.
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Parallels are a big part of the appeal of 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball, and it’s all about the Glitter and Holiday Trees.
Parallels include:
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Image Variations are an area where 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball really shines, like the star atop a Christmas tree.
Holiday Variation Short Prints really up the holiday theme, with a variety of holiday-themed additions to the cards. Set consists of 50 cards from across the base set. Seeded 1:4 mega, and 1:1 tin packs.
Inserts offer up another level of holiday fun in 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball, including some format-exclusive offerings.
Evergreen consists of 25 cards, and are exclusive to Advent Calendars (which contains 3 per box).
Gingerbread Man is made up of one card…of a Gingerbread man. Seeded 1:4,792 mega packs, this kind of pushes the limits of what manufactured scarcity can do.
Hidden Elf is made up of 25 cards, five each of five big names in the hobby. Seeded 1:200 mega and 1:19 tin packs.
Making the Nice List includes 25 cards of players who did “good” things in 2023.
Oversized Die-Cut MLB Ornament land one per Mega Box and are perfect for the tree. Collect all 20 for a very Topps Christmas.
The Santa Archives is made up of 25 cards, all of…Santa Claus. Not consecutively numbered, with numbers ranging from 1 to 98. Seeded 1:200 mega and 1:19 tin packs.
Snowman again consists of just one card…of a snowman. Seeded 1:240 tin packs.
Stocking Die-Cut Ornaments bring more decorations for the tree (or the card box). The 20-card set is exclusive to Ornament Tins, where they’re seeded 1:3 tin packs.
Relics are one of the possible hits (along with an autograph or an autographed relic) in Mega Boxes.
Relics consist of 91 cards and are seeded 1:11 Mega Packs. Parallels include Glitter (1:462 mega), Red Glitter (1:4,563 mega), and Golden Glitter (1:45,808 mega).
Holiday Relics is made up of 48 cards with a holiday flair. Seeded 1:1,154 mega packs. Parallels include Glitter (1:3,460 mega), Red Glitter (1:8,676 mega), and Golden Glitter (1:81,799 mega).
Holiday Faux Relics is made up of relic cards of holiday-themed fictional characters or other items. Seeded 1:33,682 mega packs.
Autographed versions of relic cards are available for those lucky enough to find something extra from Santa in their stocking.
Autographed Relics brings the ink to 36 cards from the relic offering. Seeded 1:2,323 mega packs. Parallels include Glitter (1:4,306 mega), Red Glitter (1:20,450 mega), and Golden Glitter (1:95,434 mega).
Holiday Relic Autographs adds signatures to 29 cards from the set. Seeded 1:14,139 mega packs.
Holiday Faux Relics Autographs features “autographs” of all five cards from the base relic offering. Seeded 1:32,720 mega packs.
Autographs are not guaranteed in any packaging format, but are available and likely to be among the most sought-after hits in the product.
Autographs are based on the design of the base set, and consists of 41 cards. Seeded a tough 1:783 mega packs. Parallels include Glitter (1:4,306 mega), Red Glitter (1:10,604 mega), Green Glitter (1:20,450 mega), and Golden Glitter (1:95,432 mega).
2024 Topps Holiday Baseball is a low-priced, holiday-themed product with lots of fun inside. But are these a good candidate to buy-and-hold unopened? Let’s see what recent Mega Box comps from the last few years can suggest to us.
| Year | Recent Mega Box Comp Price |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $30 |
| 2023 | $22-30 |
| 2022 | $25-35 |
| 2021 | $25-30 |
Nothing about the recent comps suggests that these have any real potential to increase dramatically in value. They are clearly made to be ripped, and that’s likely the best thing to do with them.
What about in terms of singles? What can a look at recent sales of 2023 Topps Holiday Baseball tell us about the potential for 2024?
A Golden Metallic 1/1 Autograph of Gunnar Henderson in a PSA 9 slab sold for just under $2,000. A Silver Auto /10 of Juan Soto in PSA 10/Auto 9 sold for under $1,000.
A PSA 10 Autograph of Gunnar Henderson sold for $700, and a PSA 10 Corbin Carroll Auto out of /200 sold for $300. Prices drop from there, but it suggests there’s at least a shot at a better hit here, which is impressive for such a low-cost product.
Every product has pros and cons when deciding whether to purchase or break them. What are some of the pros and cons of 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball?
Pros
Cons
2024 Topps Holiday Baseball is a fun, low-priced holiday-themed product that may not contain any monster hits, but should make for a fun and colorful break. If you want
to get into the holiday spirit, you can do far worse than breaking a box of 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball, regardless of which format you choose.
What’s your take on 2024 Topps Holiday Baseball? Looking to break a box? Buying into a break? Buying singles? Or are you passing? Tell us about it at CardLines on Twitter.
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