2013 Topps Archives Baseball Cards

This is by far my favorite release year out of the Archives to date. The inserts really stand out to me. The Gallery of Heroes subset drew me in quick when I first discovered these Archives releases. The 2015s almost bore me and the 2014s are long gone from shelves. What is left of those are too expensive anyway. I admit a small bias to this particular due to having pulled one of, if not the, greatest card in all my collecting years – a 1983 All Star Carlton Fisk Auto #3 of 5. And that was simply out of a Wal Mart blaster box! Over this set just produces and does it for me.

Purchased a rack-pack of the 2013 today and pulled a Fan Favorite SP Vince Coleman #233 and a Lloyd Moseby #243 the trademark date at the bottom of the Moseby is 2013 just like the rest in the pack, however the date on the Coleman card is 2012. What’s going on with this?

Great, fun entry level product with some great things sprinkled in. I pulled a Touched by Greatness auto. We’ll see who it is!

i forgot to give the 4 star ranking

like the content…has anyone seen the axel rose card….i bet they never get him to sign em…..notice that bichette and dibble tall boys not numbered any other cards not numbered 4 stars

always nice to get autos signed on the card, no tape in these. Also, I do like the inserts, makes for nice team sets with Stickers, ’72 NBA look, NFL look for Tallboy mini’s. Needs a few more superstar autos to get a 5-star rating.

Good review and accurate. I actually like the different varieties an love the stained glass cards. Pretty reasonable price for a hobby box.

I really like the look of these cards!

This set is what Archives Football should have been!

I like the overall look of all the cards from base to auto’s but my favorite is the gallery of heroes

I like the stained glass look.

Nice review.

Nice Review, Like the fact it has past players in it.

great throwback look , auto-GU VN

Very nice review of a very nice product. This product has a very good mixture of current and past players.Also, a good variety of cards appearances.

I like the 73 and 83 remakes. I am not a big fan of the basketball remakes of 1972 or the 1990. I wish the cost was so high, but overall I love the retro cards.

Great review – love the some of the autos in this this year!

Great looking set. Have always liked the fan favorites autographs.

I really like the Gallery of Heroes stained glass cards. I would really like to get my hands on one of the hand-print autographs. Overall, it’s a nice design.
–Jeff

great review .Not a big fan of this design love the autos great choice of players there.

Excellent design

I like the old school look which brings back memories of being a kid and getting packs for 25 cents. Great review.

5 Stars. Love the set. Has everything I like in a set. Some good variety. Not overloaded with Rookies so that they still hold some value and they are not worthless like some of the other sets Topps makes. Like the throwbacks and the fact they kept it to 4 different year. Like the Tiffany set for the Short Prints which is so cool. Nice blend and mix of cards without getting ridiculous

I am not the collector I was when I was a kid in the 80s. As an adult collector, I appreciate the look of these cards. The ugly plain features of the 1990 set is one of my favorite looks… But this isn’t why I am writing. On my recent outing to the land of Wal*#%$, I picked up a blaster of this set. I had previously purchased two packs (and pulled five of my team out quickly) and didn’t notice a thing as far as miscuts. The blaster was full of them. Not that this isn’t normal, but I’d have thought in the years since the 80s, machines would be aligned better.

I personally do not like the 1972 Basketball idea nor the 1965 Football Mini Tall Boys idea. The 1969 4-in-1 stickers are too small. I think last year’s Archives had a better pool of autographs than this year as well.
I do like the Triumvirate idea to an extent but I wish they were a little more common. Gallery of Heroes are interesting, I found 3 in 5 hobby boxes, but two of them had peeling corners.

The one 1960’s relic that I pulled had two beaten up corners that had to have happened at the factory because the rest of the cards in that pack were pristine.

I would prefer that the Archives line didn’t branch out into so many different things; at least 3 of the different styles could have been eliminated, and anything non-baseball should have been put into Allen & Ginter, which is more of a miscellaneous set than Archives should be.

Overall, I love the 1972 and 1982 Baseball design, which is the main reason why I decided to buy these. The 1985 is meh, and the 1990 is horrid. If they had done 1991 I would have loved it more.

I meant to say the Heavy Metal Auto Metal Lita Ford…super rare

I like it enough. Not enough to buy a box, but to pick a few packs for fun. I did that today at my LCS and pulled the Real Heavy Metal Lita Ford Auto…SWEET

Inexpensive + Great player selection + All on-card autos = WINNER!!!
I’m going to my local hobby dealer today to pick up 2 boxes. Can’t wait.

I think the checklist looks week in my opinion but was going to buy a couple boxes on release just for fun. I have since changed my mind. Our local retail store had there blasters out a day before release date so I got one. When opening the cards I couldnt get into them, no excitement like I usually have opening packs. Thinking I will save my $80 a box for upcoming release of Ginter.

I LOVED 2012 Archives so was very excited to hear about this one BUT, you are right, these are exceptionally ugly years for Topps baseball. I like ’72, but yikes, the others are truly bad. Where’s the 1955 look? To be fir, there really weren’t many good looks after 1981, at all. The thing that pushes this over the edge for me into the “I probably wont collect it” is the lackluster “Fan Fave Short Print” list.

I have been a steady card collector since 1963, and they truly could not pick four uglier year designs to select from………

Why? The only thing this product does is dilute the Heritage brand. Not that I collect either, keep up the shortprints Topps, I’ll spend my money elsewhere.

I loved 2012 Archives; so I’ll probably pick up a box or two of this. But, did they really have to do the 1990 design? Ugh.

Taking a look at the info, I can’t wait for this release!