To promote the release of 2025 Bowman Chrome baseball cards, Topps shared a video on Friday starring actresses Emma Roberts and Lorraine Bracco in a familiar setting to fans of The Sopranos.

Bracco, who famously portrayed Dr. Jennifer Melfi in the legendary HBO show, again plays a therapist as Roberts (who has become a big card collector in real life) shares her dilemma in an office vaguely resembling Melfi’s from The Sopranos, with a familiar soundtrack and cliffhanger…

Roberts’ issue? Not relationship or job woes, but “Cards! AGAIN!” Bracco writes before leaning in to offer her advice as Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” abruptly gets cut off similar to how The Sopranos ended nearly two decades ago.

The topic of discussion is Bowman’s Red Rookie Redemption program, which began with Topps’ 2025 Bowman Baseball release back in May. A limited number of rookie cards in both that set and Bowman Chrome are stamped with a red “RC” logo. These cards can be redeemed for Fanatics FanCash if the player wins AL or NL Rookie of the Year honors, but to add a bit of long-term intrigue, they can be redeemed for more FanCash if the ROY winner goes on to win MVP or CY Young awards in future years, and more still if they reach the Hall of Fame.

At this point, Athletics slugger Nick Kurtz is a virtual lock for the AL Rookie of the Year crown while Chicago Cubs pitcher Cade Horton is the betting favorite in the NL, followed by Atlanta Braves catcher Drake Baldwin, according to BetMGM. So the chases seem clear — and all three are among the 40 players with Red RC variations in the Bowman Chrome checklist — but the question remains whether the winners will have more honors in their future.

Since Bowman Chrome went on sale earlier this week, Kurtz’s Red RC cards have been selling for between $80 and $95 on the secondary market, given the initial redemption value of $100 in FanCash (usable on Fanatics’ website) for winning Rookie of the Year.

In addition to the Red RC cards, 2025 Bowman Chrome has several other interesting inclusions, like Shoeless Joe Jackson’s first ever Topps card. Although Jackson had several highly valuable baseball cards produced during his playing days and others made sporadically since, he had long been banned from MLB when Topps began in the 1950s. Now that he’s been reinstated along with Pete Rose and others, Topps is giving Jackson his short printed (appearing at a rate of one in every 1,924 hobby box packs) first Bowman card. Early sales of the Retrofractor have been for north of $400.

HEARKEN! We beareth glad tidings: the first official base-ball cards of Joseph Jackson are anon revealed!

This youth of one-and-twenty years hath but newly inscribed a most historic covenant of five and seventy dollars by the month. Some wise scouts whisper he might yet prove… pic.twitter.com/437XsVp7Dr

— Topps (@Topps) September 17, 2025

MLB Garbage Pail Kids are also back this year after debuting in 2024. “Smashed Skenes” along with “Meteor Mike” Trout and “A-mazing Nick” Kurtz are sure to be popular, but my favorite of the bunch might be Coby “Hold the Mayo,” depicting the Orioles rookie dripping with mayonnaise. Because Garbage Pail Kids are supposed to be kind of gross.

The Athletic maintains full editorial independence in all our coverage. When you click or make purchases through our links, we may earn a commission.

(Top image: Screencap/Topps)