Miscellany

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. It was a flat sheet of something comparatively tasteless that shattered if dropped.

Each pack will have five cards and a wrapped piece of Bazooka gum, complete with the Bazooka Joe comic and fortune.

Reebok will announce as early as Monday that it has consummated a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with Delray Beach (Fla.) teenager Venus Williams.

Williams, 14, who has played only one WTA Tour event, will join Michael Chang, Todd Martin and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, other key Reebok representatives, making appearances and doing TV commercials.