Anatomy of a Six-Inch Binder: 2025 Topps

 

The 2025 Topps Six-Inch Binder

The final cards from my adventures in trading (plus a few added eBay purchases) finally arrived yesterday. Today, I added them to the binder. And with these last 13 cards, my 2025 Topps & Topps Update Master Set six-inch binder is "officially" complete (I'll explain why the word "officially" is in quotation marks shortly).

The 2025 Topps binder contains a total of 2,161 cards.

Two thousand, one hundred sixty-one cards!!!

Not the record for most cards I've fit into one of these, but comes pretty close (the 2024 binder contains 2,028 plus a few more cards I've added since...I'll post that total on another day). 

The binder weighs a whopping 13 pounds, contains 140 9-pocket pages (cards are placed back to back, so no more than 18 cards per page). Each complete insert set is within their own pages, so there's no mixing between sets (with the exception of the 1990 Topps, Stars of MLB, First Pitch sets).

Page 1

Golden Variations and the 6 Extra Rookie cards

Update Series

There are a total of 30 complete insert sets in this binder, along with the 700-card S1/S2 set and the 350-card Update Series. The breakdown is below (includes which series/set the cards come from):

• 707 cards from Topps Series 1 and 2 (including both sets of 3-player variations from S2 and the factory set, plus the ALT-1 card of Weston Wilson)
• 350 cards from Topps Update Series
• 5 Topps Rookie Variation cards (from the factory set)
• 3 miscellaneous advertisement cards
• 4 Topps Golden Variation cards (3 from S1/2, 1 from Update)
• 4 Companion to the Jumbo cards (2 from S1/2, 2 from Update)
• 3 Real Photo Variation cards (2 from S1/2, 1 from Update)
• 25 First Pitch cards (10 from S1, 5 from S2, 10 from Update)
• 25 Mascots cards (Celebration)
• 12 2024 All-Topps Team cards (Series 1)
• 28 2024 Greatest Hits cards (Series 1)
• 25 Call to the Hall (Series 1)
• 25 Training Ground cards (Series 1)
• 25 8-Bit Baller cards (Celebration)
• 25 Game Day Drip cards (Celebration)
• 25 Power Players cards (Celebration)
• 50 1990 All-Star Variation cards (Series 2, where AL cards included blue frames and NL cards had red frames)
• 20 Dynamic Duo cards (Series 2)
• 25 OPS Leaders cards (Series 2)
• 50 Summer Superstar cards (Series 2)
• 100 1990 Topps cards (Series 1)
• 50 1990 All-Star cards (Series 2, where AL cards included red frames and NL cards had blue frames)
• 50 1990 Topps cards (Series 2)
• 50 1990 Topps cards (Update Series)
• 85 Stars of MLB cards (30 from Series 1, 30 from Series 2, 25 from Update)
• 20 Stars of Japan cards (Series 1 Japan)
• 19 History of MLB/Japanese Baseball cards (Series 1 Japan)
• 15 World Tour Domination cards (Series 1 Japan)
• 100 Costco Flagship cards (Series 1/Heritage Super Boxes)
• 15 Hobby Rip Night cards (from a Hobby Rip Night)
• 25 The Nice List cards (Topps Holiday/Advent Calendar)
• 50 2025 All-Star Game cards (Update Series)
• 25 Bleacher Reachers cards (Update Series)
• 40 Most Valuable cards (Update Series)
• 25 Mystical cards (Update Series)
• 25 Night Terrors cards (Update Series)
• 25 Topps BlackGold (Update Series)
• 4 Super Box Jumbo (1 from S1, 1 from S2, 2 from Update)
• 1 Topps Clear (Update)
• 1 Homefield Advantage (Update Series)

Now this alone should be enough to call it a complete master set. However, I'm calling it "complete" because there are cards I'd like to add, but might run out of room (and this binder is close to bursting).

The final page of the binder.

There is a second set of Costco Flagship cards I'm on the hunt for, these are found in Super Boxes of Series 2/Archives. Also, when the Topps Update Series checklist was posted, there were to be three insert sets that were exclusive to a Japan Edition set: Stars of Japan (continuing from Series 1, Tokyo Series Highlights (from the Cubs vs. Dodgers series at the start of the year), and Strike Zone Heroes (an exclusive to Japan insert set that was introduced with the 2024 Topps Japan set...which I'm watching on the Bay but not yet purchased). I have not seen any of these three insert sets or cards online, so I'm wondering if these are real or if cards have not arrived in Japan yet.

The end of the Stars of MLB and the start of the Stars of Japan

Overall, I'm thrilled that the hunt for 2025 Topps is (mostly) over, and I am ready to get my hands on some 2026 Topps cards next month.

Sincerely,

JayBee Anama