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2010 Topps Pro Debut, Topps' first fore into Minor League cards since acquiring the MiLB license, was released exclusively to hobby stores on March 31, 2010. The first series will consist of 220 cards, each stamped with a "Pro Debut" logo, on the same design of Topps' Major League flagship. Each 24-pack, eight card, Hobby box should yield two autographed cards, one relic card numbered to 99 or less, and up to 8 serial-numbered parallels.

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2010 Topps Finest, exclusive to Hobby outlets, was released on March 25, 2010. The set is comprised of 170 cards (125 veterans, 25 rookies and 20 Autographed Letter Patch Rookies). New for 2010 are one-of-one signed on-patch In the Name X-Fractor Rookie Book Cards. Also back are Finest Moments autographs, a 20-card checklist that includes key players during key moments in the 2009 season. These will be found with Red Refractors (25) and new Purple Refractors (1/1s).

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2010 Topps Heritage is the tenth year for the popular brand and was released February 23, 2010. The 500-card base set is based on the 1961 Topps design, and will have 75 short-prints. On average, each hobby box will yield an on-card autograph or a relic; either a three-card advertising strip or a stamp album; and every-other box will contain a foil-stamped 1961 buyback. Once again, each pack will include one individually-wrapped stick of gum.

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2010 Upper Deck, which arrived in retail stores the first week of February, is Upper Deck's third baseball set released without a license from Major League Baseball Properties (MLBP) in 2010. Team nicknames and logos (except on uniforms) do not appear anywhere on these cards due them being unlicensed by the MLBP. This set consists of 600 base cards and a number of new inserts; Portraits, Season Biography, Tape Measure Shots, All World, Pure Heat and a few more.

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2010 Topps Series 1, which arrived in retail stores on January 20, 2009, contains a 330-card base set, one autograph or relic card in every 36-pack hobby box or one autograph and two relics per 10-pack HTA jumbo box. New inserts for 2010 include The Cards Your Mother Threw Out, History of the Game, Tales of the Game, Hall of Fame buybacks, Legendary Lineage and When They Were Young.

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2001 Upper Deck Vintage was released in late January, 2001. Featuring a 400-card base set, Vintage is notable for two things. 1) The very first officially-licensed Major League rookie card of Ichiro Suzuki, and 2) A design that look suspiciously like 1963 Topps. The set was broken into tiers as follows: Base Veterans (1-340), Prospects (341-370), Series Highlights (371-390) and League Leaders (391-400). Inserts included All-Star Tributes, Glory Days, Matinee Idols and Retro Rules.