Topps is releasing baseball cards of celebrity first pitches

Topps, in its continuing effort to pop culture-ize the baseball-card game, is making cards of 15 “celebrities” who threw out first pitches at MLB parks in 2014. Considering Topps created cards with the cast of “Major League” last year, this isn’t entirely surprising. 

The news comes via baseball-card bible Beckett, which tells us the first-pitch cards will be part of Topps’ 2015 Series 1, out Feb. 6. Among the celebrities getting the Topps treatment: rock ‘n’ rollers Eddie Vedder, Tom Morello and Jack White, rapper/horrible first thrower 50 Cent, thrift-store shopper Macklemore, gymnast McKayla Maroney and actor/”The Dude” Jeff Bridges.

The cards look like this, again, via Beckett:

Also included in the set are a few non-celebrities who first-pitch stories caught the nation’s attention — such as Agnes McKee, the 105-year-old who threw out a first pitch at a Padres game last summer, and Tom Willis, a motivational speaker who was born without arms.

Here’s the entire checklist:

2015 TOPPS FIRST PITCH CHECKLIST

FP-01 Jeff Bridges, Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-02 Jack White, Detroit Tigers
FP-03 McKayla Maroney, Chicago White Sox
FP-04 Eddie Vedder, Chicago Cubs
FP-05 Biz Markie, Oakland Athletics
FP-06 Agnes McKee, San Diego Padres
FP-07 Austin Mahone, Atlanta Braves
FP-08 Jermaine Jones, Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-09 Tom Willis, Kansas City Royals
FP-10 Graham Elliot, Chicago Cubs
FP-11 Tom Morello, Chicago Cubs
FP-12 Macklemore, Seattle Mariners
FP-13 Suzy, Los Angeles Dodgers
FP-14 50 Cent, New York Mets
FP-15 Meb Keflezighi, Boston Red Sox

Common sense says 50 Cent is the card you gotta have. The question is what you’d trade to get it. One Macklemore and one Austin Mahone, for sure. But probably not a Biz Markie or Jack White.

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