List of Topps All-Star Rookie teams

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Topps All-Star Rookie teams
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Type Baseball card
Company Topps
Country United States
Availability1959–present
Features MLB rookie players

This is a year-by-year list of Topps All-Star Rookie Teams. Note that players selected for a particular team appear in the following year's set release. So, a player named to the 2023 Topps All-Star Rookie team will have a trophy symbol on his 2024 Topps baseball card.

Contents

Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum [1] [2]

1950s

1959

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

See also

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References

  1. Gillette & Palmer, pp. 1755–1760
  2. "Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved December 3, 2009.