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The 2024 Topps Chrome Baseball checklist is growing. The overall focus of Refractors and autographs remains the same, but the base set is significantly larger this year with several new inserts also joining the mix.
Once again, there are multiple hobby configurations. Standard hobby boxes have one autograph while hobby jumbos have three.
2024 Topps Chrome Baseball Checklist Overview
The main 2024 Topps Chrome Baseball set has 300 cards. This is way up from the 220 it has been for the past couple of years and an even bigger jump from the 200 in 2020. Rookies get a significant part of the spotlight, accounting for more than a third of the checklist. These include early-season debuts like Jackson Holliday, Jackson Chourio and Wyatt Langford.
Collectors can expect a lot of Refractors covering all of the base set. That said, specifics have not yet been announced.
Autographs and Memorabilia Cards
First-year players don’t just make their presence known in the main set. Rookie Autographs are by far the largest portion of the signatures on the 2024 Topps Chrome Baseball checklist. More than 150 players signed for this part of the product.
Some of the other standalone signature themes include Future Stars Autographs, On the Spot Die-Cut Autographs and Dual Autographs.
Seamheads Signatures branch out into media with the likes Buster Olney, Ken Rosenthal and more.
Memorabilia may not be a central focus in 2024 Topps Chrome Baseball, but there’s still some on the checklist. Topps Chrome Authentics return with both unsigned and signed versions.
Additional Inserts
If you bought any 2024 Topps Series 1 or Series 2 Baseball, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that 1989 Topps Baseball inserts make their way into Chrome. In addition to their regular inserts and potential parallels, there are new Chrome Layer Variations. Exactly what these entail have not yet been disclosed.
Returning themes include Future Stars, Youthquake, Ultraviolet All-Stars, and tough Radiating Rookies, Let’s Go and Exposé.
Fanatical is one of the new additions to the 2024 Topps Chrome Baseball checklist. You can draw your own conclusion if it’s a branding thing for Topps’ parent company, Fanatics.
Chrome All Etch, All Etch Rookie Rush, Summertime in the Park, Strokes and Helix and among the other available inserts.
For those hoping for a fresh batch of Tacofractors, it appears as though they may be one-and-done. That said it is possible that Topps could be leaving them as a surprise, keeping them off of the list of announced cards.
2024 Topps Chrome MVP Buyback Program
For the third year in a row, Topps Chrome is home to the MVP Buyback Program. Base cards and parallels for the eventual National League and American League MVPs will be eligible for generous trade credit at participating stores.
Some of last year’s Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña Jr. cards are included in 2024 Topps Chrome packs with special stamps. Acuña also has a limited number of autographs.
2024 Topps Chrome Baseball cards at a glance:
Cards per pack: Hobby – 4, Jumbo – 13
Packs per box: Hobby – 24, Jumbo – 12
Boxes per case: Hobby – 12, Jumbo – 8
Set size: 300 cards
Release date (subject to change): July 17, 2024
What to expect in a hobby box:
Hobby jumbo box: