Art and baseball cards have more than a century of history together, and collectors now have the chance to scoop up cards from the next chapter of the relationship with the 2025 Topps Shoebox Treasures Baseball Collection, the fourth full Topps set in five years to feature the work of artist Andy Friedman. Two box types are available: Single Boxes and Collector’s Edition Boxes. In Single Boxes, collectors will find an exclusive Bubblegum Foil parallel and have a 1:4 chance at an autograph. Collector’s Edition boxes yield at least one autograph and an encapsulated original painting (1/1) or SSP Canvas Stock parallel. Friedman uses original Topps cards as inspiration for watercolor artwork that Topps transforms into standard-size baseball cards. For the first time on baseball cards, Friedman also used gouache, which is essentially an opaque watercolor paint. The New York City-based artist has reimagined 100 cards for the base set, going as far back as the 1952 Topps Duke Snider card and as recent as 2024 cards featuring Shohei Ohtani, Juan Soto, Paul Skenes, and Gunnar Henderson. In between, collectors can find a little bit of everything – Hall of Famers, current stars, and solid retired veterans. Most of the cards are inspired by flagship Topps base cards, but other sets represented include Topps Mini, Topps Kids, Topps Allen & Ginter, Topps Chrome, Topps Pristine, and Topps Now. Not every card is a player’s most coveted or most popular card, either. That ties together the set name, as in cards you may find in a random shoebox of cards, and also plays on Friedman’s personal baseball fandom of not always focusing on the biggest and brightest. “I have long been fascinated by the regular player, not the stars,” Friedman said a few years ago, “and it is what I grew up drawing, as early on I was making my own baseball cards.”