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Review: 2009 Topps Series 1 Baseball
Before spring training even gets underway, Topps rolls out Series 1 Baseball cards to get collectors pumped for the upcoming MLB season. The 2009 set includes 330 base cards, insert cards saluting the legends of baseball and World Baseball Classic rookie redemption cards.

Review: 2008 Sweet Spot Baseball
With its distinctive autographed cards that feature signatures on real baseball leather, Sweet Spot Baseball is a favorite of autograph collectors. The highlight of the 2008 edition is an autographed card or memorabilia card in every tin.

Review: 2008 UD Documentary Baseball
UD Documentary baseball is based on a simple but ambitious concept: chronicle the entire 2008 MLB season. The result is a sprawling set that totals almost 5,000 cards.

Review: 2008 Topps Heritage High Number Baseball
One good series deserves another for Topps Heritage Baseball. The 2008 High Number series updates the set with 220 new cards, and every pack has Topps Updates & Highlights cards too.

Review: 2008 Stadium Club Baseball
Stadium Club baseball merges some of Topps' best photography with an avalanche of autographed content. The 2008 hobby edition features an autographed card in every pack.

Review: 2008 Topps Updates & Highlights Baseball
Call it Topps Series 3 if you'd like, but it stands on its own too. Topps Updates & Highlights Baseball closes out the company's most basic look at the 2008 MLB season with more base cards, new insert cards and a memorabilia card or autograph in each box.

Review: 2008 UD Masterpieces Baseball
With paintings of 120 current and former MLB players, UD Masterpieces Baseball cards can rightly claim to be works of art. Framed parallels enhance the feeling, and autographs and memorabilia cards can be found in every box.

Review: 2008 Bowman Chrome Baseball
If you want the first cards of future MLB stars but like your cards a little shinier than normal, Bowman Chrome is for you. The 2008 product features 110 new Bowman Chrome Prospects and an autograph in every hobby box.

Review: 2008 Topps Heritage Baseball
Featuring the design from the 1959 Topps Baseball set, 2008 Topps Heritage Baseball offers up a 500-card base set, plus the short prints, variations and other inserts collectors have come to expect.

Review: 2008 Topps Opening Day Baseball
Looking for an even more wallet-friendly version of the 2008 Topps baseball set? Topps Opening Day fits the bill, with a red twist on the regular Topps cards plus a handful of inserts geared toward younger collectors.

Review: 2008 Finest Baseball
Sporting an autograph in every mini box, 2008 Finest Baseball focuses on memorable moments and players from the 2007 season. Look for on-card signatures and plenty of Refractor parallels as well.

Review: 2008 Topps Co-Signers Baseball
Topps Co-Signers Baseball gets a few little tweaks for the 2008 season but still touts three autographs - including one dual autograph - per box. Look for boxing autographs in this year's set as well.

Review: 2008 Bowman Baseball
Prospect collectors always perk up when Bowman Baseball is released. The 2008 set introduces the world to 110 new faces, with an autographed prospect or MLB Rookie Card in every hobby box.

Review: 2008 Topps Series 1 and 2 Baseball
Hitting stores earlier than in 2007, Topps' flagship baseball set returns for 2008 with a white-bordered retro look. Series 1 includes 330 base cards and seven insert sets, plus cut signature cards of some of the key figures in this year's U.S. presidential race. Series 2 adds 330 more base cards, Red Hot Rookie redemptions and a guaranteed relic or autograph in every hobby box.

Review: 2008 Topps Chrome Baseball
Like your Topps baseball cards with a little more shine to them? 2008 Topps Chrome Baseball puts the base Topps design on glistening Chrome stock, complete with two autographs in every hobby box.

Review: 2008 Upper Deck Series 1 and 2 Baseball
Closing in on 20 years in the hobby, Upper Deck Baseball Series 1 shows off its trademark action photography with a 400-card base set, joined by another 400 cards in Series 2. Both series feature memorabilia cards and autographs in every box, plus the beginning of the season-long Yankee Stadium Legacy series.

Review: 2008 Goudey Baseball
Upper Deck is almost 20 years old, but it goes back several more decades for the design for 2008 Goudey Baseball. Based on the original look of the set from 1934, these cards blend old and new and also feature Sport Royalty autographs.

Review: 2008 Topps Triple Threads Baseball
Topps brings back some of the most unique memorabilia cards in the hobby for 2008 Triple Threads Baseball. Each pack contains an autographed relic (memorabilia) card or multi-swatch relic card, some with as many as 24 game-used pieces.

Review: 2008 Topps Allen and Ginter Baseball
Baseball cards don't get much more retro than this. Allen and Ginter duplicates the look of some of the first trading cards ever made while utilizing today's best players and modern technology.

Review: 2007 Bowman's Best Baseball
Bowman's Best Baseball tries to capture the hearts of autograph collectors with three autographs per mini-box in 2007. There's also plenty of rookie and prospect content, which collectors have come to expect from Bowman products.

Review: 2007 Bowman Sterling Baseball
Bowman Sterling Baseball once again falls toward the high end of Topps releases for the 2007 season. Each five-card pack contains two autographed cards, one relic card, one rookie card and one prospect card.

Review: 2007 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Baseball
Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Baseball closes out the Bowman line for the 2007 season with a final batch of rookie cards and new prospect cards. Expect to find two Chrome cards per pack and an autographed Chrome card in each box.

Review: 2007 Topps Rookies 1952 Edition Baseball
It's a pretty simple idea: put today's rookie baseball players on one of the most famous designs of all time, the 1952 Topps set. The result is 2007 Topps Rookies 1952 Edition, packing in hundreds of first-year players and three autographs per box.

Review: 2007 Elite Extra Edition
Donruss made its name in baseball cards, but it's been a while since the company has been able to visit the national pastime. Elite Extra Edition does just that with cards of top baseball draft picks, plus a whole lot more.

Review: 2007 Topps Updates & Highlights Baseball
Two series weren't enough for 2007 Topps Baseball. Updates & Highlights finishes off the season with 330 more base cards and a full lineup of additional inserts.

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