Next month, Topps goes retro with gum in card packs that sell for 50 cents.Topps put gum with its cards until 1992, but there were two problems. The gum stained the cards, and it wasn’t Bazooka.

The Topps Company was founded in 1938 as Topps Chewing Gum, and in its early years produced a popular penny "Topps Gum" from a factory in Brooklyn, NY. After World War II, the company developed ...

Though this year's Topps Heritage offering has revived a bit of nostalgia around the issue, 1976 Topps baseball is a set that largely resides well off the radar ...

Bazooka gum dates back to 1947, when it was created by the Topps Company. Named after the World War II weapon, the gum became popular for the Bazooka Joe comic strip that was included in each package.

Two gum companies -- including Topps, maker of the Bazooka gum that Gonzalez chewed, and Mueller Sports Medicine -- bid on the item in recent days. So, too, ...