Used Cars, Poutine and Larry Walker: Topps Commercial Imagines Tom Brady, Montreal Expos Legend
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you know that there are Tom Brady baseball cards in 2023 Bowman Draft Baseball. In fact, the football great is the big chase in a product typically centered around the year’s top draft picks. In reality, Bowman Draft still is but with most of them being at least a couple of years out from their MLB debuts, Brady is a good marketing hook.
And what a marketing hook Topps and Fanatics have tapped into. Getting people talking through social media drops, early online breaks and a 12/12 release date are all cute. Going all out and imagining what might have been if Brady stuck with baseball is something entirely different.
Brady himself stars in the commercial, which “looks” back on his time with the Montreal Expos, the team that drafted him in 1995. His list of achievements mirrors the reality of what he accomplished in football, both on the field and in the community.
There are plenty of nods to the one-time catcher including reflections from Hall of Fame “teammates” Larry Walker, Vladimir Guerrero and Pedro Martinez.
Brady appears in two separate but similar spots on the 2023 Bowman Draft Baseball checklist. A standard insert uses the 1995 Bowman Baseball design with Chrome stock. He also has autographs numbered to 50 or fewer.
Awesome commercial, great idea for cards, almost positive I’ll never pull one!