2018 Topps Heritage Baseball Cards

does any one know how many blue ink Shohei Ohtani Topps certified autograph issues were produced – I just pulled one out of my box today!!!

Seattle Pilots autographs are a sad joke (most never even played for team). ’68 Tigers forgotten again from New York Toppers. Note to Topps: there are other noteworthy ’68 Tigers still living besides your predictable Kaline autos & such….

Topps really has been able to evoke the memory of the Summer of 1969 with these cards

The 1969 Topps set was the second I ever collected so I love this return to that design.

2 Stars
over paid for box, got 1 jersey card valued at $2.00, and a Refractor valued at $2.99, and a Black bordered SP valued at $3.00,,,,,Right,,, got ****** BY TOPPS,,,,, THANKS AND NEVER AGAIN

Although I like the design, the price is high for an average product with little chance of set completion. Also, I have received about the same number of miscut cards as inserts. Hobby price for a box is approachig $200.00

Excellent series that mixes the classic old feel of baseball cards with today’s players. I’ve had some excellent pulls (both hobby and retail), and this product is very exciting with all the different insert varieties. This is you best bet for Topps Baseball 2018.

An excellent set. It evokes the memories of the 1969 cards I used to collect. The short prints are easier to acquire this year because they are not star players

Yes, I know that Trey, but my question is if they are rare or not. As I explained in my initial message, I have seen non on eBay, but I pulled 6 in a single case. Was this normal, or there was a distribution problem from Topps.

Hi Trey,

I have a question about the buy backs in this series. I pulled some Mike Fiore/Jim Rooker in my case 1969 Stars Rookies. I checked on eBay to see the value and I only saw one copy sold and no others on sale. Are they that rare? I don’t seem to find any info about this.

Fantastic product . I’m a set builder and can’t get enough of this product . It takes over 2 cases to build the set ( even then you’ll need to buy some singles to fill in ) but i want it tiotake months not days to complete .I pulled some pretty pricy cards along the way too . This set isn’t for everyone . Huge hits are spread thin so it’s not really for big hit seekers . Autos are also spread thin which is a good thing as I like to chase them until they are in my collection ,which also means less people are going to build the set . Ebay has made building sets boring as I can get any card I want while lying on the couch .I enjoy the Hunt !!
I read most comments how people are not satisfied with what they pulled , and that happens more often than not . Or how they won’t be buying any more , we’ll good it will make my set worth more then . I have 1-500 with all inserts , now I’m working on action variations , nicknames , team color swap variations , then on to chrome ……… 5 Stars !!!

Worst hobby box I’ve ever opened. This was my first of 2018, and I’m going to try a second box this week. Best card in the box was the base Clubhouse Collection Gary Sanchez, which wasn’t even numbered. If this next box is as poor, I won’t purchase another one. For $120, I expect more value for my buck. This was reminiscent of opening a box from the 80s and 90s; endless amounts of commons with no production limitations. Topps, do a better job of Quality Assurance with your products.

Anyone see that Jose Reyes is the only player in the set with no “Major League Totals” bottom line on reverse of card? Was this a miss on purpose? On all the others that have played forever (Rodney, Pujols, Sabathia, the ‘t’opps logo upper left was sacrificed to make room for the totals line). Reyes got the logo, but no career totals. Odd.

I give heritage 3.5 stars you get some good pulls. but the price is a little overflated due to othani who is getting lit up like a Christmas tree this spring. look at today he gave up 7 runs in an 1inning including 2 home runs.

The front of the cards look good, but topps screwed up on the back, card numbers hard to read, stats in bold print. At $115 per box or $5 pack, I hope topps does much better with 1970 heritage. This could have been 5 star product if they did back of cards right.

3 stars, Don’t like how Topps chooses who the All stars are. Perez was the leading vote getter for catchers and was the starting catcher in the all star game. topps News all star catcher. Sanchez. Who was injured and or having a horrid first half of the year. But hey, he’s from new your will make him the star.

Given the 1 star list of SPs surprised I am giving this rating but:

The cards are nice! In one case these were the major hits:

Judge “All Rise”
3 Autos
Poster of Miami Marlins
1 Stamp (Brock)
8 Actions (Trout, Bryant, etc)
2 Color Swaps incl Devers
3 Rookie variations (Frazier, Hoskins, Rosario)
1 Hot box with all the major names
8 Black borders incl Judge/Sanchez, Correa, etc

No cards below 25 so no flip stock
No chrome below base refractor

All this said – I was into the case early so if I had ripped this at current prices I would give it 3 stars based on relative bang for buck

This has quickly become my fav Topps set – but its a fine example of how poor execution can ruin something that should be very, very good. Holding back most of the Ohtani card just for Hobby is great if your a dealer or breaker – which is likely all Topps cares about anyway – but not if you’re the casual collector… even a young collector. Not everyone has cardshop nearby to get the hobby product and after the dealers bloat the price you cant help but expect something great to justify the cost. I watched a couple case breaks… they were hilariously bad. 3 autos out 12 boxes and all the same player. The 9 relics were low end filler, and 5 were same exact player and relic… plain white jersey. Toploaders COULD HAVE been more interesting but seemed like a rehash, and the buy backs were a complete joke. 6 buybacks, 5 were same player, same card. The variety of cards reminded me of 89-91 Upper Deck boxes. Same exact cards nearly in same order. I know there had to be folks that werent able to complete an entire team set out of a case of boxes. I had a chance to buy this at $85 but passed because the value wasn’t there. When I see “Guaranteed Auto OR Relic” that tells me your getting a $5 relic hit for your $85 box. Seems like Topps S1 release was handled and rolled out MUCH, MUCH better. This looks rushed and “phoned in.”

Typically I love the Heritage collection. In 8 hobby boxes I’ve had zero autographs and eight low-end relic cards. I’ve had some nice pulls – Ohtani, a few action image cards, and a nice Bryant player name error variation. My question – Any insight from Topps on the player error variation counts? Seems like there are quite a few already for sale on e-bay. I’m thinking these cards might be more numerous that w e think.One other point…it would have been nice if Topps could have mixed these cards a little better. Seems every pack with Sonny Gary on the front finishes with Johnny Cueto. Takes the fun out of things.

I reserved a case in November at my LCS at what I thought was a fair price at that time. It turned out to be a great price once it was announced Ohtani had cards in it. No Ohtani, but no disappointment either. Best hits were Aaron Judge Nickel, Jim Bouton Seattle Pilots Auto & Francisco Mejia RC Auto. I have to give it five stars based on my experience.

Last time I’ll every purchase this garbage. 1 autograph in an entire case, and a ton of horribly centered and beat up cards. I wouldn’t buy a box of this ever again. Even if you hit something decent, you run a decent chance of the card being beat up or terribly cut.

Sean P. The boxes I bought were in Cincinnati, the person I deal with buys factory direct. Topps did increase the prices per case but not to the $90.00 to 100.00 level some are trying and getting plus shipping. One shop in Cinti. is asking $135.00, I feel this is a joke and will never buy there. I also agree with you 100% on the real crappy so called autographs Topps puts out, if you can’t write your name they should not pay you. The real problem is who really scribbled on the card the player named or WHO ?? A lot of collectors are getting really upset with Topps. I believe in 2020 their MLB license is up for grabs and Panini may just grab it, that would be a sad day. I like Topps and their history but it seems like they no longer think about the long time set builders only money and E-Bay.

What a bunch of hot garbage ! Shame on you Topps, over $90 a box and not a guaranteed Auto. Ridiculous. Most cases I’ve seen barely have 2 autos per case. Another thing, for us older true collectors and fans of Vintage cards, what’s the deal making the codes on the back so small, you can’t read the things to confirm whether or not you actually hit some SP or not. Pathetic..

Sorry for the typos in above comment.

U was wondering if Topps would replicate the thinner card stock like the original ’69s. Finally held a few in my hand and the stock is pretty thin, even thinner than the originals I think. Also the finish of the cards is kinda dull, almost matte-like. I don’t think this will go down as the best Heritage set. Next year, we get the ’70s w/ the thicker card stock and a chance for Topps to atone. Also a little disappointed in some of the carelessness w/ Flashback images. A two-tear-old pic of the Beatles that gas nothing to do w/ the Abbey Road LP? Kinda shoddy, Topps.

pulled a Judge Rookie Trophy error sp from a Target blaster. Some are calling the trophy error cards ssp, but I’m not seeing any distinction in the release materials???

Excellent set. Lots of stars and of course variations, which I like. Got a deckle edge card of Cody Bellinger. It looks like a real autograph on the front, but also hard to tell. Nothing in the description above indicates these are autographed. Is this autograph for real or a facsimile? Thanks again for your help.

I just saw a couple of the dual autograph cards of Lou Brock and Steve Carlton and they look great. My question for New York based Topps is why didn’t they include either a dual or triple autograph card of the World Series winners, the Detroit Tigers, rather than the World Series loser’s, the Cardinals?

I hit my target in the am hoping for blaster boxes but for some odd reason they where delayed so all i had to work with was 6 hanger boxes. The dude that was stocking them gave me 30% off of them for the delay in blasters. After opening them i was quite pleased with my pulls. I love building huge base sets and thankfully the judge base card wasnt so short printed like it was in series one 2018 topps. Overall quite an enjoyable rip and getting a sp per hanger makes it really worth the trip.

I give it 4 stars. Everything is great except the cards all look alike. 1969 was an expansion year and Topps hadn’t gotten any new photos in a couple years, so there were a ton of head shots. Think Al McBean, Jose Herrera, Woodie Held. The 2018 are almost exclusively taken at the same angle with no variation. That knocks off one star.

Questions/Thoughts on above comments:
1. Hammer- where are you finding $85.00 boxes?
2. Am I the only one who would prefer a material (esp. a limited material with some flair) (not bat!) over an indecipherable scribble players call an autograph these days?
3. I’m always happy when they increase odds on inserts/short prints/variation pulls (see Josh on Chrome above). Doesn’t make sense to me to build interest in the hobby esp. for kids by making cards harder to get.
4. I love the fact that they did save all the stars for the short prints in the last 100 cards. Really bothered me to spend all that money to build a base set (yes, I still do that) and not have any of the good players!
[I have not gotten my boxes yet so I will hold off on my actual star rating (required)].

As a Mets fan, was hopping for inserts to commemorate their WS win. Only change I’m going to make this year is not buying the chrome.

Cards are meh.. but pulled an Ohtani SP card out of only box I opened, so I can’t complain too much.

I see that the “regular” Reggie Jackson autograph card is the same reprint card used in the 2012 Archives set, unlike the two actual 1969 buyback cards I have seen on ebay that were autographed by Reggie that are a much better photo…New technology I guess.

Found an error in production on card #1 2017 batting leaders. Put Hanley Ramirez on the card instead of Jose Ramirez for the batting leaders. Does anyone know if this was corrected.

Got it Trey. So it’s a serial number without the actual serial number printed on the card :)

Hi Trey or anyone else who can help me.

I don’t quite understand what this means : “Black Border (50 copies, Hobby), 100th Anniversary (25 copies), Magenta Backs (10 copies), Flip Stock (5 copies, Hobby)”

What do Topps mean by 50 copies, or 25 copies, etc.? Is it a sort of a serial number?

Thanks.

P.S.I’m new with baseball, hence my question.

A little disappointed with the increased odds on the Chrome’s this year. I don’t mind the increased odds on the Variations. I agree with others here that Topps can cool it on all of the different types of variations…it’s getting a little excessive.
I love the texture and feel of Heritage cards – makes me feel young again.
I went out and bought 3 boxes yesterday @ $120 per box with the intent of opening 2 boxes and holding onto one to see if the price goes up as the supply dries up.
2 relics for the hits…and I thought I was done with my 2 action image variations…but then I got a Bryant Error variation. So I guess you can get multiple variations in a box.
I don’t think many people are going to be getting their money back out of their box now unless they get a very rare parallel, or an Ohtani…but I still love Heritage.
I’ll probably lose patience and end up opening my third box too…my wife’s gonna kill me.

Ryan, I held off on those $90.00 a box Heritage and yesterday bought 3 boxes for $85.00 a box and there’s no shipping cost on them. I have seem them in my area for over $100.00 a box. I feel this is a rip off. Had Topps not gotten Ohtani
I wonder what the prices would have been. I do love the Heritage cards but wish Topps would slow down on the sub-sets, way too many and the intentional variations. It’s getting to the point where you can buy the set cheaper than you can build it and that’s no fun.

whats the print run? Topps 2018 series 1 was mass produced and i fear Topps is printing cards like its 1988 again.

Cool looking product, really like the feel of the packs. Quick question though. I pulled a harper “The Topps News” National League All Stars insert and the back has an image of a dodgers jersey. Is this a common error?

I opened up some retail packs today. Lots of errors in this set, most notably the American League Batting leaders card that has Hanley Ramirez as a leader, instead of Jose Ramirez. Hanley hit.242 last year. Jose hit .318!

I wish Topps would come to a happy medium when it comes to SPs – last year almost all the names were in there and this year almost none. I wonder what the price would be if this was known 3 months ago? I know Otani is pushing this as well and there are some awesome inserts but still. I will still open my case but looking far less forward to it right now

Never mind – I figured it out.

Is the list for the ’69 poster set checklist correct? It says 30 cards with 50 copies each but the list has 330 different players.

Not a single player in the base set who actually played in 1969…And they call this a “heritage” set? Would be nice to see at least a few cards depicting players that Topps didn’t deem worthy of having a card in the original ’69 set…

Once again the Detroit Tigers are forgotten. Only TWO autograph cards from the World Champions, Kaline (predicable) and Dick Tracewski. Would have been nice to see a triple or double of World Series hero’s like Mickey Lolich, Willie Horton and Denny McLain, but no New York based Topps wouldn’t think to include them. Oh well that means I only have to hunt for 2 cards and maybe I’ll get lucky and find an Oakland A’s Reggie Jackson…

Hurrah!!!!! Hurrah!!!!!! Topps did not short print all the Stars in fact they short printed very very few. Finally!!!!!! Though Hoskins and Devers should have gotten there own card.

I was lucky and got a pre-order case for 900.00 some sites are selling at 1400 a case now

Tiger fan here too. It’s not Topps fault that the Tigers have gutted their roster of card-worthy players. It also seems that Topps is not reserving the SPs for star players like in the past (I figured a player like Aaron Judge would be a SP for sure). That should bring the price down for individual card shoppers like myself. Overall, the sample cards I’ve seen look nice – crisp portrait photos.

The Tigers have only 4 base cards. Is it possible to give this release zero stars?

If you can buy for $90/box from clowns on ebay you should buy every box you can get your hands on right now… i can assure you you aren’t getting better than that price locally, no matter how “honest” you LCS is

As a Tigers fan, this release is hot garbage (much like the Tigers are I guess)

ONE non relic/auto insert and FIVE SP of lousy players.

Steve that $90.00 a box is for fools who buy from the E-bay clowns. Their box breaks and other ploys have almost ruined this hobby. It seems it’s only about money anymore. There are dealers and shows in my area that sell this product at a much better price. Look around before you buy from a clown. There are still honest sellers out there.

yes

Does anyone know if it has been confirmed that Otani will have a card in 2018 Topps Heritage? Topps said he will have a card in packs during spring training…

If the 100 short print players are all good players like the past, that is going to suck

I love Heritage, but $90 is a lot to spend when you only get 3-4 autos per case. If we were guaranteed one signed card per box, I’d buy no question… Maybe it’s just me, but the relics aren’t on the same level of coolness as a signed card.

Wonder if we will get any autographs from the Tigers, World Series champs in 1968? I suspect this set will see a lot of 1969 NY Mets though…

Great looking set– is release date still 2-28. Don’t see it on the release calander