2025 Topps Shoebox Treasures #15A "Wood Stock Auto" #/5

 

Card Review: 9.1

This is the "wood stock" autograph variant.  These are numbered out of five.  This is actually pretty cool.  As far as I can tell, the front of this card is actually made out of wood.  The back is like a normal card, but the front is some sort of balsa wood I would guess.  It's firm enough that I feel like it would fully snap in half if I bent it enough, though I presume its glued to the back of the card in some manner to keep it from literally breaking into two pieces.  It's not any thicker, at least not by much, than the standard base card.

If Topps is going to insist on filling products with an endless onslaught of goofy inserts, then they should do stuff like this.  I've never been one for  "relic" cards with pieces of bats or jerseys.  In large part due to how thick they are.  At some point, it stops being a "baseball card" for me and it just becomes a chunky novelty item.  But if they could shave down bats thin enough to print the base card photo on top of, like this, I could get behind that.

In any event, I can set aside my disdain for inserts to acknowledge that I actually find this one pretty cool.

Number of this card in my collection: 1