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Leaf is back with another chapter in its ever-expanding anthology of sports legends, and this sequel is one for the bookshelf. The 2025 Leaf History Book Sports Edition Chapter 2 follows up the 2023 debut with a release that feels like a coffee-table conversation between the biggest names in every sport. It’s been nearly two years since the first edition, but the company clearly used the time to pack the next volume with fresh concepts, wild signatures, and memorabilia so rich it could be its own museum exhibit.

This is a multi-sport product, but “multi-sport” almost undersells it. These are full-blown crossover booklets featuring the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Roberto Clemente, Vince Lombardi, and Pelé—names that can’t share the same field but can now share the same cardboard. Every hobby box contains exactly two cards, and every card is a booklet. No base filler, no throwaways, just heavy hitters and hinge-bound glory.

Booklet Breakdown: Where Card Design Turns into Storytelling

Leaf isn’t just repeating old tricks. Chapter 2 introduces several fresh formats that play like clever literary puns in cardboard form. The Next Chapter series pairs autographs and photos from two different eras or teams of a player’s career—think of it as a sports timeline that actually flips open. Autobiography makes a return, combining a signature with a short, printed summary of the athlete’s journey. New this year is Art Book, a visually rich autograph line that merges signature and illustration in the same spread, giving off high-end gallery vibes.

Match Book makes a comeback with dual-signed combos, while Book of Generations triples up with iconic family-tree-style signings. Then there are the ultra-ambitious builds—eight-way signatures inside Black Book and Book Club Autographs, and the ultimate prize of the set: Dominant Dozen, which crams twelve signatures into a single piece. If you manage to land one, you’ll need both hands (and maybe a second mortgage).

Collectors who love patches, bats, and jersey swatches get their own lineup of relic-heavy releases. Spinning Yarns offers an autograph surrounded by multiple memorabilia pieces, while Double Booked doubles the fun with two signatures and two relics.

Memorabilia collectors can chase Get Your Program Here! with eight relics, Famous Fabrics with nine, and two ten-piece sets—Aces in My Book and Pages in History. Four ambitious booklets—Book Club Memorabilia, Book of Honor, Book of Legends, and Power Memorabilia—crank the count up to twelve relics per book, turning them into tiny textile time capsules.

The Checklist: A Museum of Signatures and Swatches

Leaf’s “at a glance” numbers say it all: two booklet cards per box, one box per case of ten, and a release date of October 22, 2025. Within those ten boxes, collectors can expect around five to six multi-signed booklets and an assortment of autographs from names that stretch across sports and generations. We’re talking Aaron Judge, Patrick Mahomes, Bobby Witt Jr., Charles Barkley, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Conor McGregor, Lionel Messi, Peyton Manning, Stephen Curry, Paul Skenes, Nolan Ryan, Bo Jackson, Larry Bird, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bob Cousy, and Barry Sanders. It’s like a fantasy draft where everyone’s already in the Hall of Fame.

The Subsets That Deserve Their Own Trophy Cases

Aces in My Book might be the most literal nod to greatness, featuring 10-player lineups of pitchers from different eras—Seaver, Ryan, Carlton, Maddux, Johnson, Clemens, and more—each throwing their legacy across the pages.

The Art Book line flexes its creativity, mixing sports icons from Aaron Judge and Allen Iverson to Olivia Dunne and Trinity Rodman. It’s part modern art show, part signature festival.

Autobiography feels personal, featuring a who’s-who of global stars from Alex Morgan to Lionel Messi, Katie Ledecky, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Yao Ming. Every one of these tells a short version of their story, written in ink.

Black Book keeps its name literal, with all-black backgrounds that make the autographs pop like neon signs. You’ll see everything from NBA legends Magic, Bird, and Dr. J to powerhouse football groups and even all-female lineups starring Ledecky, Brink, and Smith.

Book Club turns into a team-room meeting across sports. Baseball’s most beloved lineups share pages with NFL dynasties and Lakers legends. The memorabilia edition of Book Club goes even deeper, stacking twelve-player relic spreads with Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, DiMaggio, and modern icons like Judge and Rivera.

Double Booked hits right at the collector sweet spot: one spread, two signatures, two relics. There’s something inherently cool about flipping open a booklet and seeing Barry Sanders beside Bo Jackson or Patrick Mahomes paired with Lionel Messi.

Then there’s Famous Fabrics, which could easily be renamed “The Museum Collection.” Each card reads like a hall-of-fame roll call—Ruth, Mays, Mantle, and Aaron on one; Kobe, LeBron, and Shaq on another; and soccer’s holy trinity of Pelé, Messi, and Maradona on yet another.

Get Your Program Here! mixes nostalgia and lineup art with eight pieces of relic history per card. History condenses eras into trios—Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle; Ali, Chamberlain, Mays; Unitas, Staubach, Marino. Simple, iconic, and elegantly packed.

Match Book is the head-to-head edition collectors love, pitting icons against icons: Tyson vs. Lewis, Barkley vs. Rodman, Messi vs. Zidane, Gronkowski vs. Edelman, even Chuck Norris vs. Mel Gibson just because Leaf can.

Power Book is for the sluggers—Ruth, Aaron, Mays, Griffey Jr., and Bonds all in one place. If home runs had pages, this would be the hardcover edition.

Spinning Yarns turns threads into storytelling, pairing jersey pieces with autographs from athletes across generations—Barry Sanders, Bo Jackson, Peyton Manning, Giannis, and Messi to name a few.

The Book of Generations continues Leaf’s tradition of lineage-style storytelling: Singletary to Briggs, Earl Campbell to Eddie George to Chris Johnson, Pelé to Messi to Yamal—these are snapshots of sports’ evolving DNA.

The Book of Honors crams together the game’s royalty in oversized lineups, from Ruth and Gehrig to LeBron and Kobe, Trout and Judge, and everyone who’s ever had their number retired in multiple stadiums.

The Book of Legends feels like the main event, mixing the immortal names of every sport into one anthology—Ali, Brady, Messi, Ruth, Wilt, Bruce Lee, and so many more that it reads like a century of greatness in cardboard form.

The Dominant Dozen might be the wildest chase of all. Twelve autographs per card, no filler, no weak link. Imagine flipping open a booklet signed by Messi, Mahomes, Curry, Mayweather, Giannis, and Nadal on the same spread. It’s overkill in the best way possible.

The Next Chapter keeps it intimate, spotlighting single players who’ve crossed eras or teams—Barkley, Ichiro, Montana, and even Hulk Hogan show up here, proving that “sports” can mean a lot of things in a Leaf product.

Finally, The Pages of History closes the set with decade-spanning mashups of heroes across generations—Ruth beside Mantle, Messi beside Mbappé, Brady beside Mahomes. Every card reads like a chapter title in the long, ongoing story of competition.

Collector Details and Parallels

Leaf’s usual rainbow of parallels returns, with everything from Bronze and Purple to Blue, Silver Pattern, Green, Red, Silver Holo Foil, and Gold Holo Foil editions. Production numbers vary across sets, and the downloadable Excel checklist gives the fine print for completionists who need every version.

Each pack (or more accurately, each tiny hardcover) is a two-card experience, with every box holding one pack. Ten boxes form a case, and inside that case is where the thrill lives—multi-signatures, memorabilia that smells like sports history, and layouts that make you wish trading cards always came with binding glue.

Summary for the Shelf

Chapter 2 of Leaf History Book Sports Edition doesn’t reinvent collecting—it rewrites it, literally. With only two booklets per box, every pull feels like the main event, and every page is a reminder that sports history isn’t just meant to be remembered; it’s meant to be opened, flipped through, and admired.