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2010 Topps Baseball Series 2 arrived in Hobby shops May 26, 2010. The base set includes the next 330 cards (#331-660), with another 20 more photo variation cards — each of which will be limited to just 3,000 copies per card. Each 36-pack hobby box will include one autograph or Relic card, while HTA Jumbo boxes will include three.

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The highly-anticipated 2010 Bowman was released on May 10, 2010. The set contains the first MLB-licensed cards of Stephen Strasburg, Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Cashner, Dustin Ackley and many other young prospects. The set features 220 cards and a 110 card Prospect insert set. Each Hobby box will yield one on-card autograph, and each HTA box three. New this year are three different insert sets: 1992 Bowman Throwbacks, Topps 100 Prospects, and Bowman Expectations.

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The inaugural 2010 Topps National Chicle Baseball set was released April 28, 2010. It's a 329-card, all-painted, set inspired by the 1935 football card set of the same name, and consists of 204 current players, 50 retried players, and 20 rookies all in an Art Deco design. The set also includes three, somewhat controversial, subsets: Retired Stars Revisited, Vintage Veterans and Rookie Renditions.

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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 consists 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 139 or less, and up to eight serial-numbered parallels.

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Exclusive to Hobby outlets, 2010 Topps Finest 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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1995 Topps Dimension III, released by Topps in October 1995, was a "three-dimensional" lenticular set consisting of 59 cards. "D3," as it has come to be known, was not well received by The Hobby and is considered one of Topps' biggest flops of the era.

Hobby buzz

The excitement of 2010 Bowman is sweeping The Hobby as collectors discuss this release on card blogs and forums. The Stephen Strasburg 1/1 SuperFractor and the Dustin Ackley Autographed 1/1 SuperFractor sold for $16,403 and $3495, respectively.

Currently, Strasburg's Red parallel and the Jason Heyward Autographed Rookie SuperFractor (both ones-of-one) have been pulled and posted to eBay.

Even though a good amount of Bowman has already been opened, prices of Bowman wax remain unusually high (~$150/hobby box, ~$325/jumbo box). $20 Blasters, which were recently released, are selling on the secondary market for as much as $30 -- despite the fact that the Strasburg autograph is exclusive to Hobby and HTA wax. Strasburg's base card is going for $10 right out of the pack and his Chrome for $25. Strasburg's autographed Bowman card is selling in the $400-$600 range, with the Orange parallel (serial-numbered to 25 copies) for as much as $4050.