2024 Topps Finest Baseball Hobby 2 Box Break #1 - PICK YOUR TEAM

2024 Topps Finest Baseball sticks with the brand long-standing tradition of big and colorful designs done on chrome stock. That said, it’s also undergoing an overhaul with both its hobby box configuration and base set structure.

For the past several years, Finest hobby boxes have come with a pair of six-pack mini boxes. For 2024, boxes have six packs total. However, the total number of cards hasn’t actually changed as the pack size has doubled from five cards to 10. The two autographs per box also remains the same.

2024 Topps Finest Baseball Checklist Overview

The biggest change in 2024 Topps Finest Baseball is the main set. It leaps from 125 cards to 300. In doing so, Topps is adopting a strategy that the line used in the mid-1990s by offering three tiers of rarity. The first 100 cards are “common.” The next 100 are “uncommon,” landing one per pack. “Rare” rounds things out with these landing 1:3 packs or two per box. While the player selection in each level is different, there is some overlap with stars having multiple cards. The structure is very much in line with modern Panini Select releases.

All three levels have the same assortment of parallels:

• Refractors
• Checkerboard Refractors
• Sky Blue Refractors
• Purple Refractors
• Blue Refractors
• Purple Checkerboard Refractors
• Blue Checkerboard Refractors
• Green Refractors
• Gold Refractors
• Orange Refractors
• Black Refractors
• Oil Spill Refractors
• Red Lava Refractors
• Superfractors

Autographs and Other Inserts

Finest Autographs has a checklist of nearly 140 players. Rookies figure heavily although there are some veterans and retired stars as well. The design adapts the base set with on-card ink getting the focus. The rainbow for these features:

• Refractors
• Sky Blue Refractors
• Purple Refractors
• Blue Refractors
• Green Refractors
• Gold Refractors
• Orange Refractors
• Black Refractors
• Red Lava Refractors
• Superfractors

Finest Moments Autographs return, pairing a signature with a specific highlight from the player’s career.

A couple of Finest traditions continue with a to-be-announced Mystery Autograph Redemption and Finest Originals, signed buybacks of past Finest cards.

The 2024 Topps Finest Baseball checklist has several other insert themes. Some should appear in every box while others could take many cases.

Dipping into Topps’ past, albeit not further than the planning stages, are What If…1993 Finest Prototypes. These use a very early design as the card maker was readying their landmark first Finest set, which also brought chromium to baseball cards. These land approximately two per box.

Future So Bright, Finest Rookies Designs Variations, Finest Timelines and Arrivals are among the other inserts that are on the more common side. All have several Refractors. Select cards from all but Timelines and Arrivals also have autograph versions.

Rare inserts themes include Finest Firsts Die-Cuts (1:96 packs), Diamond Finest (1:193 packs), Fiesta (1:288 packs), and a new batch of Let’s Go (1:680 packs).

2024 Topps Finest Baseball cards at a glance:

Cards per pack: Hobby – 10
Packs per box: Hobby – 6
Boxes per case: Hobby – 8
Set size: 300 cards
Release date: August 7, 2024

What to expect in a hobby box:

• Autographs – 2
• Arrivals – 1
• Future So Bright – 1
• Rookie Design Variations – 1
• What If…1993 Finest Prototypes – 2
• Uncommon Base – 6
• Rare Base – 2