2015 Topps Archives Baseball Cards

I am looking to buy gold versions (numbered/50) of the basic set. Contact me if you have some to sell.

Bought a blaster box while shopping at Target. They were marked down to 12.99 from 19.99. Got home and pulled a Kris Bryant SP non-auto, Starling Marte Silver /199, and Mike Bordick fan favorites auto. Hands down best blaster box I’ve ever opened, but I don’t open many

Consistently excellent, year after year.

Not bad retail — pulled a Silver Gaylord Perry auto out of a Walmart blaster box the other day. Have also pulled other Silver SPs and a Gold. Yet to pull a base short print though, will keep trying.

So is Alex Cobb’s name (#278) done in an unreadable yellow on purpose? Feel bad for anyone trying to collect his cards for some reason.

I pulled #142 out of a blaster tonight. Definitely an error but have no knowledge of it being corrected.

I just pulled a Joc Pederson 1990 All Star Rookies Black version. 1/1..

I haven’t seen this reported but, I have a Babe Ruth base card error card. One the back, it says he was acquired in 1990. Anyone know anything about this?

Love the card design but hate just about everything else…One, I can only get the 90’s draft picks and Star Rookies in hobby boxes. Also the mix of all the product has me baffled…I’ve opened two hobby boxes and got zero of the 301-330 cards and the only 301-330 card I got were from opening the 10 blasters boxes (5 each) from different stores, were two Monte Irvin and a Devon White. In all the product I’ve gotten 9 Silver and 2 Gold and a printing plate of Alex Gordon which isn’t bad but I wanted to finish the set and that seems impossible considering the 301-330’s are nearly as rare as the /50 cards…and allegedly there are gold and silver parallels to these as well…I am either the most unlucky collector on the planet or the cards numbered above 300 and their parallels never left the factory. O and the two Buy Backs I got…1970’s commons…are IMO worth less then the commons card I have in my 1970’s sets without the Foil print. What is the point of these cards? Make a 1979 common in excellent (at best condition) a 1/1? Either way I am collecting the base set, but it seems it would be easier to collect jut the 1-300 in Gold and Silver then to collect the entire thing. I mean the 311 Gold Honus Wagner is most likely rarer then his T206 (Rant over…going to by more)

Was at Walmart and checked to see if they had any Allen and Ginter blasters and they didn’t so I got an Archives blaster instead to see if I could get anything good. I was pleasantly surprised by pulling a Jacob DeGrom silver parallel and a Mark Prior fan favorite auto. This product might not be the best from a hobby box stand point but for retail it seems pretty good.

Good product nice selection of current & past players. Card designs are good, the backs have gotten better since they started this product to match that years cards. Hopefully they will do cards from decade instead of just 3. Not crazy about celeb or presidential cards, they no place in any sports cards. Overall I give it 4 stars.

Mark my words. THE NO NAME ON FRONT CARDS WILL BE WORTH HUGE $$$$ IN THE FUTURE! Especially Trout and Harper. Once they get bought up into collections, prices will skyrocket. I believe there are 25 of each. The nostalgia of the 1990 Frank Thomas NNOF combined with the current popularity of non-numbered Topps Variation cards is a formula for BIG value IMO.

Well … Pulled a 1/1 Adrian Beltre plate.

Bought a blaster box and was completely disappointed by the thin, flimsy paper they were printed on. I honestly think I got better board from cutting cards off of a box of cereal when I was a kid. These were a complete waste of my money.

I broke one box and liked it. Plenty of inserts like the card designs . Also like that i got some old player auto’s that didn’t sign much. But i was very lucky and pulled a Will Ferrell Auto .

Love the Archives set each year. Reminiscent of 2003, 2004 Topps Fan Favorites sets. I just bought one Hobby box and pulled a Fan Favorites Marquis Grissom auto (pretty cool) and get this, a 1990 #1 Draft Pick Gold #/50 Mike Trout auto! Unbelievable. Still in shock a day later.

Overall…I enjoyed ripping into a box of this yrs archives but I was quickly disappointed to find so many duplicates(13) in a single box…wow. The odds of being able to build a complete set is very difficult. Thanks topps…who doesn’t love duplicate cards, right?

Dear sir, great archives sets ,great years you picked for cards , l hope one day there be team cards. Thank you very much . john czyzewski Jr.
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Dear sir l have error card of Khris Davis #142 the picture shows Carlos Gomez brewers, back of card has Khris Davis info. John czyz.

My favorite chase set every year. 1 Hobby and 10 Blasters deep so far and have been pretty impressed by the pulls. Wish they said what the print run of the SP’s were though. 2 Plates (CJ Wilson, Jason Rogers) 4 Autos (Shawn Green, Frank Viola Silver, Harold Baines base and Silver), 3 SP’s (Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and Honus Wagner) Gold Griffey Jr and 11 Silver Base and 9/10 Ferrells. I think the pricing is pretty spot on for what you get. Won’t disappoint. Thanks CBC for all the great info.

THE ONLY REASON THIS PRODUCT GETS 2 STARS IS IT’S GOT NICE LOOKING CARDS. ASIDE FROM THAT IT’S JUNK. TRY AND BUILD A SET WITH 1 SHORT PRINT IN 3 HOBBY BOXES, YOU’LL SPEND WAY MORE THAN THEY ARE WORTH, WAY MORE. THE INSERTS ARE NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT. THE HI PRICE IS BASED ON THE FERRELL CARDS “GOOD LUCK”, GO TO A CASINO THE ODDS ARE MORE IN YOUR FAVOR. I FEEL IN WAYS THAT TOPPS MAY SOME DAY PRICE THEMSELVES OUT OF THE MARKET. THE ONLY BENEFIT ON MOST OF THESE CARDS IS SELLING THEM ON E-BAY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY THEM AT THESE STUPID PRICES.
WAIT A FEW MONTHS AND BUY THEM AT THEIR TRUE VALUE. I HOPE TOPPS WAKES UP BEFORE THEY LOOSE THEIR M.L.B. LICENSE AND ITS TOO LATE FOR ALL OF US WHO LIKE TO COLLECT. ARCHIVES IS “NOT” A $100.00 BOX OF CARDS.

The series and cards in general are great, but the Johnny Bench (202) image shows him as a left handed catcher. Pic is reversed, an obvious error!

Was a bit upset with the Will Ferrell push on this product, eBay sales are crazy priced for them because of it. Topps shot foot on this as the collecting and buying public will soon realize there are more Will Ferrelll cards in this product than any actual player! Folks are gonna be very upset when they realize they are essentially worthless. 1 per 24 pack hobby box, 1 per 8 pack blaster and 1 in 24 retail value packs. Set, not counting SP high numbers, is 300 cards. If one bought 4 blasters they would total 320 cards, 4 being Will Ferrell cards, and I would pretty much guarantee they didn’t get one card of every other of the actual players!

I forgot a rating in my last post.

This is the best year of Archives in my opinion. I am glad that the most recent card design of the base cards is 1983 Topps. I am really not a fan of the late 80’s-early 90’s designs. They remind me of all the money I wasted on valueless cards during that time period. I prefer the older designs. Fan favorites autos are always nice for a change of pace. So far I’ve pulled Kent Tekulve, Frank Viola, Eric Karros, Sparky Lyle, Oscar Gamble, Jose Cruz and Brady Anderson. What a crew! Last night I pulled the amazing Rickey Henderson 1981 Topps original buyback auto numbered to 10. Earlier in the week I was lamenting that Topps didn’t use Rickey’s 1980 Topps rookie card, which would have been cooler, only to pull that very card days later. No complaints now!

I also feel like the low-numbered parallels are more readily available this year. I’ve pulled two printing plates (Tony Gwynn (base) and Jorge Soler (insert)) and gold /50’s of Joc Pederson (insert), Lou Brock (base), Adrian Gonzalez (base) and Chris Sale (insert).

This is a very good haul for 5 boxes purchased, so while I may be just getting lucky, I feel there is better value in this Archives set than in previous years. Also very fun for set-building. I have not pulled any SP’s, but the base set is hard enough! I’m still not there yet, but close.

This is the first time I have purchased a Topps Archives hobby box. I am a huge fan of Topps Heritage and have the entire base Derek Jeter Heritage collection in PSA 10 and I would have loved to see a 2015 Topps Heritage Jeter or 2015 Archives Jeter. I have no doubt Jeter will appear in future archives sets possibly even in the look of the 2015 Heritage. At least I hope that Topps is keeping this in the back of their minds as I would love to collect Jeter in every single look of pre-Jeter Topps cards. One other thing that bugged me, Trout, Harper and Stanton, 3 of the hottest players in baseball right now, all in the look of the 1983 Topps (really?!). They could have picked a better year or at least different years for all 3. All in all I will probably give Topps Archives one more shot next year, if no Jeter then I will no longer be a fan.

This set includes three of my favorite designs so I’m for it overall. The inclusion of Lenny Dykstra in the base set is a head=scratcher as his post-baseball life is definitely not commendable.

While opening my box of 2015 Archives, I opened a pack that was 8 blank, white cards. Does anyone know what this is about?

Just tore through two boxes and not much to write home about. Maybe my expectations were to high but dang. Hopefully I’m close to having a full set. As for the price point and the hits are concerned. MEH!

Archives can usually be a reasonably attainable set, despite always containing SPs. Last year, the SPs fell at one in every four packs. In general, I hate short prints, but you could get them without too much trouble.

For whatever reason, they changed the SP odds this year to one in every seventy packs. Yes, that’s one in almost every three boxes. This is low-mid end, right?

I’d like to thank Topps for breaking me of any desire to collect a full set with SPs.

p.s. I just pulled the Sparky Lyle auto–no more than 15 minutes since I posted the previous message. Add that to the Mike Bordick auto I had already pulled and I am raking!!! Gotta love Archives!!!

I’m with D-Lite and Jeremy on this. “Fan Favorite” autos have helped me get autographs of players that I would normally not be able to get–or at least get as authenticated. There are always some big hit autos in the product. I pulled Axl Rose redemption (was it last year?), and sold it that day…but I’ll take that Sparky Lyle auto any time…and keep it. Archives are this Fan’s Favorite!

I don’t think a lot of you collectors get the point of Fan Favorites. D-Lite is right on with his comment about Jeter. The whole point of the set is to highlight players who were “fan favorites” (hence the name of the set) but not necessarily superstars.

A lot of us Yankee fans would like to see other players highlighted. Jeter gets all the love as it is, why not others?

I just don’t get why Topps does Fan Favorites auto’s of players who didn’t play for the team in the year they are depicted. For example Scott Hatteberg, Oakland A’s, on a 1989 card. He was not even in organized baseball at the time as he was still in college! Does Topps want us to believe that they could find NONE of the 1989 World Champion A’s to sign a friggin’ baseball card?!? I know as far as Athletics fans go Topps does nothing for us but come on, at least have players sign cards for the right era and team that they played for, eh?

Are print runs a closely guarded secret? What is typical for a base run for these kinds of products.

How can there be no Derek Jeter card in this set? I’ve been collecting all his Topps “base” cards, which for me include the various Topps styles that occur in Heritage, Archives, mini’s, etc. This would have been a great chance to add a 76 or an 83 Jeter card. I seriously wonder about the thought that goes into the makeup of these sets sometimes. Topps appears to have done the same thing with this years Heritage set: No Jeter card in the 66 style. Yes, I understand he retired, but they did produce a regular 2015 Topps card of Jeter, why not a last Heritage card. As for the Archives set, what Yankee collector would want a Jorge Posada or an Orlando Hernandez card over the Jeter! Stupid!

Low End at over $100 a box this year, and over $150 last year. Low end, high price point. Once again I will have to avoid this.

Do you know the production amount this year

Sp’s in this set?