More on the base set tomorrow morning. I was happy that Topps returned to coding the backs of the Heritage set cards to help collectors pick out the different variations. The bottom of the base cards feature the numbers 253 as the last three digits of the code.
I am going to focus on the variations and inserts that I landed in boxes in this post. I pulled some nice cards and was happy with my boxes. I would have loved to have landed an autograph, but the short prints and variations were really nice in my box. Let's start out with the inserts, since they have been basically the same since the start of the Heritage product in 2001.
The basic inserts in the Topps Heritage year in and year out are the Now & Then set, which features league leaders from the past year and design year, Flashbacks, which feature both sports and non-sports events from the design year, and the New Age Performers set, which features younger star players. There are also Chrome cards this year.....
and there are also several different box toppers. I pulled an original 1966 Topps card and one of these mini card sheets....
My two relic pulls weren't bad. I would have loved to have pulled an autograph, but two nice players here with the Wright having a centered pinstripe. The Mauer also has a pinstripe, but it is way over on the very edge of the window on the card. Now, my favorite parts, the short prints and variations.
The high numbered cards, above 425, are short printed and seeded at about 1 in 3 packs. There are a total of 75 short prints and I ended up with 19 different short prints in all. The basic short prints have the 258 code at the end....
and the code on the back of the action short prints....
Finally the best card of my box at the odds in 1 in 140 packs is this great looking Mike Trout Banner Swap short print.....
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