{"id":520770,"date":"2026-01-15T00:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/520770\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:12:15","slug":"topps-creates-one-of-a-kind-dan-marino-baseball-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/520770\/","title":{"rendered":"Topps creates one-of-a-kind Dan Marino baseball card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; A one-of-a-kind baseball card now ties a Hall of Fame quarterback to the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Wednesday, sports card maker <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Topps\/status\/2011473355744895184?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Topps\/status\/2011473355744895184?s=20\">Topps announced<\/a> that a 1-of-1 Superfractor autograph card of Hall of Fame Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino will be made to commemorate his time as a Kansas City Royals draft pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Marino was drafted by the Royals in the fourth round of the 1979 MLB Draft out of Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rather than head toward a career in the MLB, Marino enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh and four years later became the 27th overall pick in the first round of the 1983 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Topps announced a 1-of-1 Dan Marino baseball card based on the Kansas City Royals draft pick...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RMDNCGTEQRFRBL66PEKHGML7ZY.jfif.jpeg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1375\" \/>Topps announced a 1-of-1 Dan Marino baseball card based on the Kansas City Royals draft pick of him in 1979.(Fanatics Collectibles)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Marino is one of several Hall of Fame &#8212; or near Hall of Fame &#8212; quarterbacks with a tie to baseball. Tom Brady, John Elway and Russell Wilson all were drafted in an MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s unclear how collectors can get their hands on the unique Marino card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; A one-of-a-kind baseball card now ties a Hall of Fame quarterback to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,69059,936,2123,55,2596,2595,17252,4,252,30942,69058],"class_list":["post-520770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-dan-marino-baseball-card","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-topps","tag-unique-baseball-card"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115896225093179664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}