2014 Topps Museum Collection Baseball Cards

Phew, no trollish reviews. They were all actually quite helpful (for once!) Constructive criticism at it’s finest.

Thinking of picking up a box on ebay. Saw one go for $125! Most are listed at $200+. It would be my first experience delving into a high-end product.

Well for the amount I paid for this box, I would expect something spectacular to come from it. I pulled a Jedd Gyorko signature swatches, Wade Miley jumbo relic, and a Dan Haren quad relic. I was happy to see a redemption card for a triple auto of Josh Hamilton, Mike Trout, and Nolan Ryan. After reading previous reviews, I am starting to feel like I will never see this card….at least not in the near future. Any ideas how much a card like this would go for if I ever did get it?

Give this product 4 stars easy. Have only bought 2 (4-pack boxes). 1st box a 9/15 gold framed Bo Jackson Mus. Coll. silver on-card auto and a Stan M, Bob Gib., Jamie Garcia, Matt Hol. quad. relic. 2nd box a dual Archival Coll. Bo Jackson (talk about lightning striking twice!) and a Rickey Henderson on card Auto #’d to 15 Redemption, a Josh Hamilton Auto tripple relic, and a quad Juan Gonzo, pudge Rodriguez, Yu Dar., and Ad. Beltre. Super base and parallel set as well.

Brian,

I pulled and sold a Lou Gehrig Ty Cobb original sketch card last year, #/10.
I sold the card for around $140.

I would say that the card is a case hit.

Nice pull, brother!

Hi All. I pulled a Ty Cobb Original Canvas sketch wth Dan Bergren’s signature on back of card. Any idea what it’s worth? Would that be considered a case hit?

I have bought 9-10 Boxes and the 2 best pulls were a Ken Griffer Jr./Bo Jackson Dual auto card 1/15 and a Steve Carlton Primary Pieces Auto/Relic Book. Examples of cards I would be upset with that are in abundance in this set include Single-Player Primary Pieces Quad Relic Autograph PPAR-DG Didi Gregorius Etc. For the price you pay for these cards stuff like that should not be in the set. Overall it has nice cards and will attract buyers but needs more thought next year on what to include.

I opted to give the product a 3-Star “Average Product” rating not because of my experience, as my box was simply ghastly, but because of some of the comments above.
I pulled a 4-player Jersey card (the players are all average or below but for Tulowitzki) consisting of all single colors but a slender strip of blue along the inside of the Tulo’ jersey window, a Felix Doubront sticker auto w/2 all white swatches, and a Wade Miley auto. The last mini-box I have yet to open, but given that the net value of my 3 cards as listed above is no more than $25 at most, I’m skeptical that I’ll make back even 1/2 the $190 box price.
Tier 1 was a donation to the “Topps Pension Fund,” the 1 box of Tribute I opened was equally disappointing (Paul O’Neill, Marte, Carlos Santana, Juan Marichal autos) …only more so bc if the obscene price tag…& now this abomination.
I have 12 redemptions, 1 dating back to 2011, 4 from ’12, and the remainder from the last 2 years. The manner in which Topps handles it’s redemptions is almost criminal; I don’t want another Dwight Gooden or Vladdy Guerrero “make-good,” I want the cards I’ve pulled!

I think if Topps were a horse, the collector base would shoot it and put it out of its misery.

Prufrock: I hear ya. Tribute last year and this year were disappointments for me (2 boxes of each yielded very little). Never bought a Museum Collection from last year.

Triple Threads and Bowman Inception gave me some big name hits last year, but I was surprised at how little value the big names held in the upper end sets. I got a /50 Puig auto in Inception and it was only worth about 250. Meanwhile I pulled a /150 Puig auto in Bowman Chrome, which was worth over 600. The only logical way to explain that would be that Inception isn’t as watered down as Chrome, therefore the big names aren’t worth as much? I don’t know. Sometimes these values don’t make much sense to me in these modern sets.

I’m still finding a lot more enjoyment scoping out eBay for vintage card deals than I am opening these upper end hobby boxes.

I guess I shouldn’t view these upper end sets in terms of value, but rather in terms of fun. Although it’s tough to find fun in these when you don’t get the value back.

Sean, I see your point and oftentimes feel pretty much the same–though I did shift my buying a bit. I still buy SOME Topps-helf products like Museum and Tribute, but not as much as last year. This year I focused more on reasonable sets/boxes: Heritage, S1 and even Opening Day (3 hits [2 auto/1 relic] in five boxes). But like you said about the Mantle, I have purchased way more “classic” stuff–33 Goudey Ruth, 3 Christy Mathewsons (2 are T206), 1911 Cobb Hassan 3x-fold, and quite a bit more.

Still, Museum has been good to me this year. The design of the base cards is strong as before (personally, I enjoy and collect the bases), hits have been a bit light, but still stronger than Triple Threads or Tier One. Fun. Costly,

No Cutch? Sad sad sad…

Not really sure how to feel about the product. The designs of the cards are nice. Pulled a #1/1 jumbo lumber bat nameplate of Hanley Ramirez, which was a signed bat instead of engraved. Interesting, I don’t know what the value of this would even be. Also pulled a Billy Hamilton quad jersey with a piece of Mr. Baseball on it (worth about $25). The other two pulls were Todd Frazier and Tony Cingrani (junk, maybe $2-4 each). Way too many Reds in one box!

Aside from the 4 promised relics/autos, I got very little, just junk base cards, one serial numbered parallel of a junk player (to 100), and one canvas collection card of Brooks Robinson (which appears to be worth about $3-5).

With as few cards as you get, I was surprised that I pulled 2 junky Todd Frazier base cards. Really Topps? I know the base cards are worthless anyway, but 2 of the same junky player?

The Hanley Ramirez pull is impressive, but who wants him? These upper end sets are watered down with players nobody wants. Too often have I bought high-end hobby boxes like this and gotten nothing of value. I love opening packs of cards, but I can’t logically justify these high end sets anymore without knowing I’ll at least come back halfway on the value. I’d rather just go drop the same money on a good looking Mickey Mantle card on eBay, or save up two of these urges and buy a Hank Aaron rookie card there.

I give this product 5 stars. I wasn’t sure what to expect after Tribute disappointed me from a tactile perspective (the cardstock sucked). I was very happy and opened more boxes than I set out to do. First box, Babe Ruth quad relic and a Dodger pitcher book, second box Mike Schmidt Momentous Jumbo Patch 2-color, third and final box, a Johnny Bench auto relic piece. Great stuff, perfect cardstock!

Nice product,a bit pricey and hit or miss on better cards. Like the thick stock of base cards. Opened 1 box and hit a 1/5 Pedroia auto triple patch, Machado quad relic, Chapman Jumbo 1/50, and a Zunino auto. Hard to build a set unless you buy on ebay. Good quality so I will still get 1-2 boxes every year.

I had two nice pulls from two purchased packs and a half case team break. Got a Hyun-jin Ryu auto gold frame redemption and a 1/1 Y. Gollardo laundry tag. I simply got lucky and really feel bad for the folks who pull D. Freese or similar – you can get these in a lesser product like Gypsy Queen. Cheers – Mike in Milwaukee

Nice but I am still waiting on my Nolan Ryan Canvas auto numbered to 10 now for a year. Called Topps yesterday and they don’t have a clue when or if it will be signed. I don’t dare ask for a replacement because time I did that with Topps I got burned BIG TIME but them. More than likely just a loss of good money.

Product seems to disappoint every year…if the above list is correct, how can the base set not include the reigning NL MVP (Mccutchen)?! And, Andrew Lambo????, but not Gerrit Cole or pedro Alvarez?! Also, I really don’t need anymore Gose or Gregorius autos…which is all I seem to pull from these high end products. For the money that is being asked for this product, it just seems not worth purchasing for the average collector.

I like the product, hate the redemptions. Today I found out my Kershaw swatch is finally in the mail so at least the redemption has only taken a year but I’m still pretty pissed my framed oversized canvas of Miguel Cabrera redemption has no info for me. I probably will never see it, thanks topps. Still gotta give the product 4/5 stars though. I like having a hit in every box and the guarentees in every hobby. Just wish they could get their stuff together and send out redemptions.

5 Star Product every year people may complain about the redemption s but cards bring big $ on the secondary market. Also like the fact that the sketches will be 1/1 like mentioned before

It’s worth noting that with this years release, the original artist sketch cards are no longer /10. Each original sketch card is now rightfully numbered 1/1! This means if you do pull a sketch card, there are not several other similar ones out there. Each sketch card is truly original. Topps chose their favorites to be reprinted, so those will still be included, but there are many other 1/1s that were not reprinted

pulled a 8/10 jumbo patch auto of cal ripken jr……can you say…MOJO….and the patch is the top part of the 8 from his jersey!!! SO SICK!!!

LOL and how many redemptions in this product? No use in pulling a Trout auto, but it’s a redemption which gets replaced with a sticker dump auto.
No thanks! Pass.

4 Star……………some really nice hits including n hits, its a loss.he Mays Auto and Posey quad Patch. Problem with past Museum Collection is base cards have very little book value for set that is pricey. To me, it’s a “slot machine” buy. If you get the big superstar, box is worth its value. If you get lesser players, the box becomes a loss.