<< <i>I'm not impressed with the inserts, but I'll still do a Dodgers set. The '66 is my birth year set, so maybe I'll try to put together a TTM parallel. >>
Pre-orders are out along with the Sell-sheet. Can't find any real surprises for 2015, blue backs (?)
Configuration: 12 boxes per case. 24 packs per box. 9 cards per pack.
Relive the year 1966 in the upcoming 2015 Topps Heritage Baseball, featuring current and past MLB stars in the classic design. In addition to the returning Real One Autographs and Clubhouse Collection Relics, this year's edition features vintage buybacks and all-new Baseball Punchboard Box Loader cards that celebrate 1966.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS - Every Box will include: 1 autographed or relic card
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
AUTOGRAPHED CARDS
Real One Autographs Retired and active players. - Real One Special Edition - Signed in Red ink. #'d to 66.
Real One Dual Autographs Numbered to 25. HOBBY ONLY
Real One TRIPLE Autographs Numbered to 5. HOBBY ONLY
Clubhouse Collection Autograph Relics Hand-Numbered to 25.
Clubhouse Collection Dual Autograph Relics Hand-Numbered to 10. HOBBY ONLY
Flashbacks Autograph Relics Numbered to 25.
1966 Cut Signatures #'d 1/1
RELIC CARDS
Clubhouse Collection Single uniform and bat relic cards of active stars. - Clubhouse Collection Gold Parallel #'d to 99.
Clubhouse Collection Dual Relics Dual uniform and bat relic cards featuring a player from 1965 matched with a current player from the same franchise. Numbered to 65.
Clubhouse Collection Triple Relic Hand-numbered to 25. NEW!
Clubhouse Collection Quad Relic Hand-numbered to 10. NEW!
'66 Mint Relic cards featuring today's stars and retired stars from 1966, along with a coin minted in that year. HOBBY ONLY! - Nickel #'d to 15. - Dime #'d to 10. - Quarter #'d to 5. - JFK Silver Half Dollar #'d 1 of 1.
1966 U.S. Postage Stamp Relics Includes a photo of an event or player matched with a U.S. stamp from 1966. #'d to 50.
BUYBACKS
1966 Topps RUB-OFFS BUYBACKS Stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. NEW!
1966 Topps BATMAN BLACK BAT BUYBACKS Stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. NEW!
1966 Topps GET SMART Buybacks Stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. NEW!
1966 Topps LOST IN SPACE Buybacks Stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. NEW!
INSERT CARDS
New Age Performers Top current players in the same mold as 1966 superstars.
Then and Now 1966 and 2014 MLB statistical leaders paired together.
Baseball Flashbacks 1966 MLB highlights.
News Flashbacks Highlighting the top world news events from 1966.
BASE CARDS (1-500)
Base Cards (425 subjects) Veterans and Rookies in the 1966 Topps Design.
High-Numbered Short-Printed cards (75 subjects)
BASE CARD VARIATIONS
Throwback Uniform Variations Cards featuring subjects in throwback uniforms worn during the 2014 MLB season.
Action Image Variations Features images of base card subjects in action. HOBBY ONLY!
PARALLELS
Blue Backs The base card backs are featured in Blue Ink.
Mini Base Card Variation - #'d to 100.
Chrome Base Card Variation - Chrome Refractor Parallel - Black-Bordered Chrome Refractor Parallel #'d to 66. - Gold-Bordered Chrome Parallel #'d to 5. HOBBY ONLY!
BOX LOADERS
1966 AD PANELS 3-card strips with an advertisement on the back. HOBBY ONLY.
1966 Topps Originals Original 1966 Topps cards foil-stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. HOBBY ONLY.
1966 OVERSIZED PUNCHBOARDS Styled after the 1966 Baseball Punchboards game. NEW! HOBBY ONLY. - Insert version limited to 50. - Jumbo Patches #'d to 25. - Autographs #'d to 10. - Autographed Jumbo Patches #'d to 10.
Oh please. Tease me with a mariano auto #25 like sabathia's only auto in 2013 which happened to be a very limited dual auto. The quad patch looks cool, but I suppose it will also be window shopping. I'm stil trying to run down some of the dual relics from 2008 and 2009. Anyway, if topps holds true to form, bobby richardson should have his last card reprint auto this year. Loved the 2014/1965 design but topps blew it in a number of areas in both unattainable inserts and poor production quality. Hoping for a better year in 2015 heritage, and I'm in for a case too.
With the scheduled release date two weeks from today and still no checklist from Topps, I'm thinking it's going to be a delayed release again this year.
Cardboard Connection just put up a check list. They list two Action Image variation sets, each slightly different; the first is hobby only. I hope some players don't have two AI variations. The number of inserts is getting crazy. I liked the first few years a lot better, without all the "bells and whistles". I printed out the check list. It's TWENTY TWO pages, plus two pages of comments.
Yeah, that's ridiculous. Heritage was a LOT of fun in the mid 2000s. There was an extremely active trading community here, lots of camaraderie, lots of support and happiness for each other. Master sets, complete with inserts and short printed variations, were easily attainable, especially with people willing to trade. Topps killed all of that. Horrible ROI on cases, waaaaaay too many SSPs and other gimmicky inserts, mediocre autographs (with way too many of them being redemptions that all too often are never fulfilled). That's just off the top of my head. I haven't purchased a case since 2008, and that was only the 2nd year of SSPs. It's gone way downhill since then. Too bad, too. 1966 is my birth year - I'd love to go hog wild this year, but will satisfy myself with a team set from eBay and maybe chasing down whatever SSPs appear in it - probably Puig and Kershaw if I had to guess.
A Legend Begins and A Legend Retires sub sets exclusive to Target and Wal-Mart sound interesting. Although I have no desire to tracking down packs at either retailer just to chase them.
I am in for two cases.....will build refractor set, so if anyone has extra refractors let me know! also will pickup the hof autos...hopefully koufax won't be such a pain as he was to pull in 2011/2012.
I am in for a case this year. My favorite set to build in the design of my favorite set. Retail could show up as soon as this weekend as in past years.
IS Topps still running with the "hot Box" craze of a few years back and creating a colored Chrome series, on top of the normal Chrome? I think that lost its shine, but I wasn't sure if they were back for 2015. It's hard set to complete when you get no more that 24 per case.
<< <i>IS Topps still running with the "hot Box" craze of a few years back and creating a colored Chrome series, on top of the normal Chrome? I think that lost its shine, but I wasn't sure if they were back for 2015. It's hard set to complete when you get no more that 24 per case. >>
Checklist is only showing Black /66 and gold /5 that I can see. I was not a fan of the purples either.
welp, the news today in heritage land is not good. Autograph odds have doubled from last year and will be at around 1:258 packs. Chromes, at least in hobby boxes are 1:23...yes you read that right, prepare to pull just one chrome in a box. Early rumor is that chromes will be easier to pull in retail. Another rumor is that retail boxes will be plentiful this year and that hobby boxes will be increased in production also.
Wonder what will replace the chrome cards per box? With all the other inserts, did Chrome just get squeezed out, or will it be more base cards and less hits?
I think what topps has done is made more base card product and filled extra packs with that. I see nothing from the odds that were posted to suggest anything but topps watering it down. I hope I am wrong come pack time, but 1 chrome a box is just cheap.
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<< <i>http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/2015-topps-heritage-preview/ >>
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<< <i>I'm not impressed with the inserts, but I'll still do a Dodgers set. The '66 is my birth year set, so maybe I'll try to put together a TTM parallel. >>
Same here, well on the birth year!!
Don't see any new crazy gimmicks. Just the saturated ones from last year.
Any word on the 2014 Heritage Hi Number set?
Should be showing up soon, right?
for high number info
Bowman Baseball -1948-1955
Fleer Baseball-1923, 1959-2007
Al
<< <i>I am a McCutcheon fan but in that card he looks like one of the vampires from Underworld >>
Ya know Al.
Sometimes I just wonder...
what the hell is Topps thinking?
<< <i>http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/2014-topps-heritage-high-number-boxed-set-preview/
for high number info >>
2014 Heritage High Number set
Thanks for info. Looks like it's go again this year.
Somebody post a thread when that high number box set comes out. I'm afraid I'll forget by then!
Pre-orders are out along with the Sell-sheet. Can't find any real surprises for 2015, blue backs (?)
Configuration: 12 boxes per case. 24 packs per box. 9 cards per pack.
Relive the year 1966 in the upcoming 2015 Topps Heritage Baseball, featuring current and past MLB stars in the classic design. In addition to the returning Real One Autographs and Clubhouse Collection Relics, this year's edition features vintage buybacks and all-new Baseball Punchboard Box Loader cards that celebrate 1966.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
- Every Box will include: 1 autographed or relic card
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
AUTOGRAPHED CARDS
Real One Autographs
Retired and active players.
- Real One Special Edition - Signed in Red ink. #'d to 66.
Real One Dual Autographs
Numbered to 25. HOBBY ONLY
Real One TRIPLE Autographs
Numbered to 5. HOBBY ONLY
Clubhouse Collection Autograph Relics
Hand-Numbered to 25.
Clubhouse Collection Dual Autograph Relics
Hand-Numbered to 10. HOBBY ONLY
Flashbacks Autograph Relics
Numbered to 25.
1966 Cut Signatures
#'d 1/1
RELIC CARDS
Clubhouse Collection
Single uniform and bat relic cards of active stars.
- Clubhouse Collection Gold Parallel #'d to 99.
Clubhouse Collection Dual Relics
Dual uniform and bat relic cards featuring a player from 1965 matched with a current player from the same franchise. Numbered to 65.
Clubhouse Collection Triple Relic
Hand-numbered to 25. NEW!
Clubhouse Collection Quad Relic
Hand-numbered to 10. NEW!
'66 Mint
Relic cards featuring today's stars and retired stars from 1966, along with a coin minted in that year. HOBBY ONLY!
- Nickel #'d to 15.
- Dime #'d to 10.
- Quarter #'d to 5.
- JFK Silver Half Dollar #'d 1 of 1.
1966 U.S. Postage Stamp Relics
Includes a photo of an event or player matched with a U.S. stamp from 1966. #'d to 50.
BUYBACKS
1966 Topps RUB-OFFS BUYBACKS
Stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. NEW!
1966 Topps BATMAN BLACK BAT BUYBACKS
Stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. NEW!
1966 Topps GET SMART Buybacks
Stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. NEW!
1966 Topps LOST IN SPACE Buybacks
Stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. NEW!
INSERT CARDS
New Age Performers
Top current players in the same mold as 1966 superstars.
Then and Now
1966 and 2014 MLB statistical leaders paired together.
Baseball Flashbacks
1966 MLB highlights.
News Flashbacks
Highlighting the top world news events from 1966.
BASE CARDS (1-500)
Base Cards (425 subjects)
Veterans and Rookies in the 1966 Topps Design.
High-Numbered Short-Printed cards (75 subjects)
BASE CARD VARIATIONS
Throwback Uniform Variations
Cards featuring subjects in throwback uniforms worn during the 2014 MLB season.
Action Image Variations
Features images of base card subjects in action. HOBBY ONLY!
PARALLELS
Blue Backs
The base card backs are featured in Blue Ink.
Mini Base Card Variation - #'d to 100.
Chrome Base Card Variation
- Chrome Refractor Parallel
- Black-Bordered Chrome Refractor Parallel #'d to 66.
- Gold-Bordered Chrome Parallel #'d to 5. HOBBY ONLY!
BOX LOADERS
1966 AD PANELS
3-card strips with an advertisement on the back. HOBBY ONLY.
1966 Topps Originals
Original 1966 Topps cards foil-stamped with a 50th Anniversary logo. HOBBY ONLY.
1966 OVERSIZED PUNCHBOARDS
Styled after the 1966 Baseball Punchboards game. NEW! HOBBY ONLY.
- Insert version limited to 50.
- Jumbo Patches #'d to 25.
- Autographs #'d to 10.
- Autographed Jumbo Patches #'d to 10.
That's pretty much all I can afford this year.
May check out the Archives set in June if it's affordable. But that's about it.
54 Red Hearts
and now 64 Stand ups
Allen & Ginter Cards
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<< <i>Heritage? Never heard of it....any good? >>
I don't think you would like it Walt
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I printed out the check list. It's TWENTY TWO pages, plus two pages of comments.
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Real One Triple Auto
Clayton Kershaw - Los Angeles Dodgers
Nolan Ryan - New York Mets
Sandy Koufax - Los Angeles Dodgers
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
No one
Admires heritage
More than me
8 years strong for me
1st set will be to keep
2nd set will be to sell
I have no idea why that came out all choppy.
A Legend Begins and A Legend Retires sub sets exclusive to Target and Wal-Mart sound interesting. Although I have no desire to tracking down packs at either retailer just to chase them.
<< <i>
<< <i>Heritage? Never heard of it....any good? >>
I don't think you would like it Walt >>
Yea...I don't think he would dig it either...ESPECIALLY the older Heritage sets.
Topps Heritage - Trade Page
2/25. None
Out
<< <i>Retail Report, agent Walt reporting.
2/25. None
Out >>
That would be because it's a March release.
<< <i>Retail Report, agent Walt reporting.
2/25. None
Out >>
Did you check the pillow aisle?
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
IS Topps still running with the "hot Box" craze of a few years back and creating a colored Chrome series, on top of the normal Chrome? I think that lost its shine, but I wasn't sure if they were back for 2015. It's hard set to complete when you get no more that 24 per case.
<< <i>IS Topps still running with the "hot Box" craze of a few years back and creating a colored Chrome series, on top of the normal Chrome? I think that lost its shine, but I wasn't sure if they were back for 2015. It's hard set to complete when you get no more that 24 per case. >>
Checklist is only showing Black /66 and gold /5 that I can see. I was not a fan of the purples either.
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
that right, prepare to pull just one chrome in a box. Early rumor is that chromes will be easier to pull in retail. Another rumor is that retail boxes will be plentiful this year and that hobby boxes
will be increased in production also.
W
Wonder what will replace the chrome cards per box? With all the other inserts, did Chrome just get squeezed out, or will it be more base cards and less hits?
My initial guess would be the two other Chrome spots will be image variations or "blue backs" etc. Perhaps making those "less rare".
down. I hope I am wrong come pack time, but 1 chrome a box is just cheap.
Waalt