These have always been one of my favorite collectibles in Topps Baseball and Football. They started out pretty rough in Stadium Club, but Topps has really separated the wheat from the chaff. If there’s one problem with sketch cards, it’s the way that Topps handles artist compensation. Instead of paying them full value, they allow the artist to keep a handful on Topps stock and sell them on eBay. Of course, these things hit eBay well before the actual release.
Chris Henderson has established himself as the best of the bunch by continually putting out amazing looking cards, but that’s just an opinion. Topps has really done a great job of gathering artists that suit just about every taste.
Topps also introduced a far less invasive sketch card design.
2011 Topps Sketch Cards, Chris Henderson:
Absolutely amazing. I love how Henderson actually faded the Ichiro and Pujols cards with ink. They’re both stunning in their classic 1952 topps design.
1. Albert Pujols, ’52 Original
2. Albert Pujols, ’52 Faded
3. Ichiro, ’52 Faded
4. Sandy Koufax, ’58 Damn.
5. Ernie Banks,
2011 Topps Sketch Cards, Neil Camera:
This are mind blowing.
1. Harmon Killebrew
2. Sandy Koufax
3. Ozzie Smith
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2011 Topps Sketch Cards, Brian Kong:
Brian Kong I have no clue how he does it. Here’s his incredibly amazing Will Clark that went for 170!
1. Will Clarke, ’87 Topps
2. Cal Ripken Jr.
3. Johnny Bench
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2011 Topps Sketch Cards, Andre Davis?:
Wow. Wow. Wow. These are absolutely incredible.
1. Joaquin Benoit, ’71-’72 OPC
2. Troy Tulowitzki, ’73 Love
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2011 Topps Sketch Cards, Don Pedicini Jr.:
Don always puts out the most interesting of the bunch. This year, they’re great.
1. Joey Votto
2. Ichiro Suzuki
3. Albert Pujols
4. Vladimir Guerrero
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2011 Topps Sketch Cards, Unsorted For Now:
1. Prince Fielder
2. Roy Campanella
3. Carl Yastrzemski
4. Nolan Ryan
5. Mickey Mantle
6. Johnny Bench
7. Sandy Koufax
8. Buster Posey
9. Bernie Williams “scetch”
