Dan Marino is the latest Hall of Fame quarterback to score a series of autographed trading cards in one of Topps’ flagship baseball sets.
Known for his 17-year career with the Miami Dolphins, Marino appears in 2025 Bowman Draft Baseball, which released Wednesday, as a member of the Kansas City Royals.
Hall of Fame QB Dan Marino has a BASEBALL card?! ????
— Topps (@Topps) January 14, 2026
Unreal boardroom footage has JUST surfaced from the dream advertising pitch that made him the first two-sport star ????????
You can find Dan Marino autographed Kansas City Royals cards in 2025 Bowman Draft, available today! pic.twitter.com/Ia47KQ4yQh
Marino was originally drafted by Kansas City in the fourth round of the 1979 MLB Draft, but opted to play college football at Pittsburgh instead. He later was drafted by the Dolphins in 1983 and won NFL MVP in 1984.
Marino is now the latest player in Topps’ “What If?” series, which so far has placed Hall of Fame quarterbacks once drafted by an MLB team into Bowman Draft sets.
The series started in 2023 with Tom Brady as a member of the Montreal Expos and continued in 2024 with John Elway on the New York Yankees.
Marino will have autographed cards as a member of the Royals, including a Superfractor 1/1.
Topps introduced Marino’s cards to the hobby Wednesday with a commercial playing off the “Bo Knows” Nike campaign slogan from Bo Jackson's two-sport campaign in the 1980s.
Built around “Marino’s” instead of “Bo Knows,” the commercial’s mock advertising campaign pitched Marino as a star in baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis, menswear, all-weather tires, two-in-one shampoo and eventually acting.
The “What If” campaign’s launch in 2023 saw significant collector interest with hobbyists chasing the first autographed baseball cards of Brady. The seven-time Super Bowl winner's Superfractor Autograph 1/1 from the set sold for $158,600 at Goldin in January 2024.
According to Card Ladder, the public record for an Elway card from 2024 Bowman Draft is the $5,280 paid for a Red Refractor Autograph /5 on eBay in January 2025.
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Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture. He was previously the collectibles editor at Sports Illustrated. You can follow him on X and Instagram @benmburrows.