If you collect cards and have been on your favorite social media site today, you know that 2025 Topps flagship images made their debut. The first images are appearing about a month before flagship's scheduled release, which is Feb. 12. This is the new pattern for Topps, it seems. The 2024 design dropped a month before release date, too . Aaron Judge is the cover boy for the box and for the design debut. I knew the second after I saw the 2024 design that I would be underwhelmed by the 2025 design. It's difficult to match 2024, which is my favorite flagship look in the last 40-plus years. Overall, the design is fine, an everyday kind of design. It's not offensive (see 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021). It's very much in line with several other reasonable designs, such as 2013, 2019 and 2022. The swoosh reappears after making a major return in 2019. And it's another reminder of 1982. Here's the original swoosh, although the 2025 swoosh travels nicely from the bottom...
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