Your Guide to 2025 Topps Baseball Series 1 Live Card Breaks

Marking the unofficial start of the new MLB season, 2025 Topps Series 1 baseball cards bring collectors of all ages, budgets, and experience levels an exciting mix of current superstars, legendary icons, and rising rookies. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or just starting, breaking this highly anticipated product on Fanatics Live offers an accessible, thrilling, and community-driven way to experience the hobby.

To add even more excitement to the opening day of 2025 Topps baseball Series 1 breaks, we’re giving away $200 in credit for each of the first 25 Heavy Lumber Auto Relics hit – $100 to the participant for whom the card is hit and $100 to a lucky audience member. Check out The Ten to learn more.

Find a 2025 Topps baseball break on Fanatics Live today and rip into this collecting favorite. 

‍What’s Inside 2025 Topps Series 1 Baseball Card Boxes?

A 2025 Topps Series 1 Hobby Box contains 20 packs, guaranteeing at least one autograph or relic card per box. Meanwhile, the HTA Jumbo Box features 10 packs, delivering three total hits, including at least one autograph. These boxes are packed with the potential of landing intriguing inserts and chase-worthy parallels. Returning base parallels include:

Gold /2025

Purple Rainbow Foil /250 (Hobby Exclusive)

Independence Day Parallel /76

Black Rainbow Foil /10 (Hobby Exclusive)

Foilfractor 1/1 (Hobby Exclusive)

First Card 1/1

The exciting Confetti parallel is a new addition to the world of Topps parallels, offering another reason for collectors in live baseball break auctions to celebrate.

In addition to parallels, there are also plenty of variations to hunt down. These begin with 10 Hobby-exclusive Dancing Dodgers variations, with none other than Shohei Ohtani's #1 leading off the checklist. Player Number variations are also Hobby exclusive, and present a design scheme that incorporates the player's jersey number and a print run the corresponds to it. Some of the players to chase include:

#1 Shohei Ohtani /17

#65 Gunnar Henderson /2

#74 Dylan Crews /3

#78 Corbin Carroll /7

#98 Paul Skenes /30

#100 Bobby Witt Jr. /7

#150 Elly De La Cruz /44

#207 Ronald Acuna Jr. /13

#250 Bryce Harper /3

#300 Aaron Judge /99

There are also Golden Mirror Image variations, one of which is created for each of the 350 base cards in Series 1.

Exciting Inserts and Autographs

2025 Topps Series 1 brings several new and returning insert sets to the plate, giving each pack serious power potential.

New additions include 2024 All Topps Team, Training Grounds, and Call to the Hall, which celebrate some of the game's best players of the past and present. These come in a range of exciting parallels that add another exciting element to your collecting.

1990 Topps Baseball cards pay tribute to the famous design that debuted 35 years ago. On-card autos add modern-day collectability to these fun inserts.

In a tip of the cap to one of the most famous error cards of all time, there's even a no-name Shohei Ohtani printing to hunt that pays homage to the notorious Frank Thomas rookie.

Heavy Lumber cards are limited to a print run /500 and place 20 of the game's best sluggers on wood-grained cards. Heavy Lumber Autographed Relics (one of which is pictured at the start of this article) take this incredible production to another level with game-used, with 23 cards featuring signed bat pieces and print runs of no higher than /10.

Of course there are plenty of other exciting autos and relics to chase in your live baseball breaks, perhaps the most exciting of which are Flagship Real One Autographs. For the first time in Topps flagship history, there will be signed versions of base cards featuring on-card autos. These come in six parallels, ranging from Green Foil /99 down to the Foilfractor 1/1.

A Great Break for All

The 2025 Topps Series 1 product offers a welcoming break experience that won't break the bank. Some of the biggest shops in the hobby are getting in on the 2025 Topps Series 1 action, including:

‍Dave & Adam's

SlabStox

Mama Breaks

Most and Watson

Queenz of Cardz

The release of Topps Series 1 flagship is always an exciting prospect, and this year is no different. Hop into one of the dozens of baseball card live breaks on Fanatics Live today and get ready to rip.