2017 Topps Finest Baseball Checklist

2017 Topps Finest Baseball is a 100-card refractor-driven release from June 7, 2017, with 25 High-Number Short Prints added to the base. It leans on retro and rookie themes, with Finest Firsts for the 2017 rookie class and a crossover set recreating the 1994-95 Finest Basketball design.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 100 cards with Refractor, Purple /250, Blue /150, Green /99, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /5 and SuperFractor 1/1, plus 25 High-Number Short Prints
• Inserts: 1994-95 Finest Basketball Recreates (20), Finest Breakthroughs (20), Finest Careers Die-Cut (10) and Finest Firsts (10)
• Finest Autographs: 57 signers with Blue /150, Green /99, Gold /50, Blue Wave /25, Red Wave /25, Orange /25, Red /5 and SuperFractor parallels
• Other autographs: Finest Firsts (12), Breakthroughs (14), 1994-95 Finest Basketball (15), Finest Finishes (20), Careers Die-Cut Autographs /10, Finest Originals Autographs /20 and Mystery Autograph Redemptions

Key rookies

Mike Trout opens the base at No. 1 and Aaron Judge's rookie card is No. 2, with Manny Machado, Max Scherzer and Trea Turner also in the set. Finest Firsts covers Andrew Benintendi, Alex Bregman, Dansby Swanson, Yoan Moncada, Tyler Glasnow, David Dahl and Orlando Arcia, and its autograph version adds Hunter Renfroe and Jose De Leon.

Grading considerations

Aaron Judge base refractors and Finest Firsts Autographs are among the cards collectors commonly consider for grading. Finest's chromium surfaces show scratches readily, and the Finest Careers Die-Cut cards have fragile cut edges that chip and whiten. See our grading scale.