2019 Topps Heritage Baseball Cards

I have a John Means 2019 John Means 2019 Topps Heritage Chrome Refractor #269, yet everywhere i look it shows that # 269 is Shane Green is this a uncorrected error or a rare misprint

pulled a eddie rosario jersey card and a jon lester refractor. thats it.

Really like the product. Pulled a ‘
Real One’ Auto of Anthony Rizzo (Serial #3/4) and am unable to locate on any checklist. Any ideas?

Can you help me with one? 2019 5×7 Box Topper Nickname Variations Bryce Harper “mondo” numbered 5/10 and its black and white, well grey. Do you know what this is?

All the big time stars are not in the base set? Really? Come on Topps – this hobby has been on the downside for years and you continue to force hobbyists and YOUNG COLLECTORS to have to buy more cards in order to have a Trout base card as a sp card?

I usually buy hobby boxes but this year have not bought one 2019 topps heritage hobby box. I have been buying blaster boxes from Walmart. I have pulled 2 black refractors (Ohtani) one auto and many sp’s. I have almost completed the main set all from Walmart…

Does Topps ever reveal the print runs for the SPs?

Got the hobby box, had 1 relic and only 1 parallel in the entire box (numbered to 999). Got 8 other non-base cards, 9 short print cards (numbered 400 – 500) and the other 197 were just regular cards numbered 1-399.

While highly stylized (nearly all these days are) these cards use a proven style. A classic style. A style from the best era in cards. Modern cards can have a pleasing aesthetic but often, very often do not. They have an over baked background design that looks several years dated as a brand new design.
These cards embrace “dated” and use it to their advantage for a classic baseball card appearance vs. a 90s era beach towel graphic equivalent many today have.

Crooks at Topps play card collectors for pure suckers; the Short Prints are of most of the star players and that means likely spending more money for an already OVERpriced product. I guess 75 SPs wasn’t enough, now there’s 100. Distribution also stinks. We should all quit for a few years and see what happens. This system is a RIPOFF. I may be done with this aggravation.

The original 1970 set was a disappointment after a good run of sets in the 60’s. From a purely graphic perspective, it was bland. Lousy choice of font for the players’ names. And what really killed it for me was breaking the run of color-coded team names from the previous seasons, i.e. Mets and A’s were always in purple, Tigers and Cardinals always in yellow, etc. As kids we used to flip cards based on the colors! The 1970 set used only 4 different colors for the team names – red, black, white and yellow. So I can’t get excited about this 2019 set…

Great product with wonderful inserts, autos and super cool coin cards. Not to mention Chrome Refractors & Superfractors!

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How bout I hit the mystery player A special edition redemption in a blaster box from Target!!

Mega Box has 100 different chrome players – and different Game Used cards. At least the numbering on the GU is different. So are the poses. Any word on a checklist?

Opened 2 Wal-Mart Mega boxes although they don’t carry the “Mega” designation this year. Great collation of the base. Just a few doubles out of the 30 total packs. Pulled one Chrome refractor (deGrom). Got the same 3 New Age (Ohtani, Betts, Lindor), 1 Then/Now (Yelich/Torre), and Flashback (Hendrix) in each box. In addition I pulled 2 cloth in each and 1 scratch off. Lastly, these boxes have a 3 card pack of Chrome that is listed as cards #100-200 in the set that appears to be simply a different hundred cards from the base in the chrome versions. From my 2 pack I pulled 3 #/999, 2 refractors #/570, and 1 black refractor #/70.

If Topps adds a stick of bubble gum into the packs next year it would be glorious. I would just swallow the gum and let it digest for 7 years in my stomach. Just started collecting again after 30 years and find these cards to be pretty cool and simple to understand with all the crazy variations in card collecting these days. We need more simple sets to attract the next generation. Less crazy variations of variations of chrome black refractor whatevertheheck short print. Just give me a simple set of cards to collect.

Topps has finally killed a once great product. A few years back would hit 2-3 Chromes per box now they are every other box.

Awful overproduced product.

This 1970 heritage is a good looking set, like the grey border no funky colors on the back. Topps pretty much kept to the theme back then. Big disappointment, no team photos or check list included in set, if done right this could be a 3-series set with about 750 to 800 cards. Also too many short prints, Topps should cut that number in half.

Opened 4 boxes from a sealed case and there were 2 red ink and 1 regular auto, Traded variation, hot box and other hits. I have heard from others that opened these that the cases are very feast or famine. Something tells me the QA in box-packing went astray. So my experience was fantastic but others are getting the same shorting of SP cards

Bought a blaster. Meh. 3 SP’s, nothing to write home about. No relics/autos/SSP’s. Got a dud box. Did notice a couple of errors that may have escaped QC (so not likely short printed). Look on the backs of 54 (Ross Stripling) and 97 (Rich Hill). Their stat lines state that they played for the Angels in the NL for a few years when in fact, they were Dodgers. Hill did play for the Angels briefly in 2014 (correctly identified) but not in 16, 17, 18.

I purchased a box from a local hobby dealer and I have to say, I’m very disappointed in this year’s Heritage. I essentially paid $100 for a box of commons, one unknown auto, and 2 short prints. Really bad job by Topps.
Save your money because Topps dropped the ball on this. Oh, I forgot to mention the box topper was a card featuring the photo of 3 members of Topps Quality Control Team.
Laughable at best.

I buy Heritage every year and usually put together a set. This year’s Heritage is a bust. Not because I didn’t get a great autograph, but because the collation is horrible. I bought 3 boxes from one dealer and got 3 very, very similar boxes. I got 3 or 4 of many cards. This has never happened to me before. Combine this with Topps Jumbo boxes having less cards per pack, I think Topps is really making changes for the worse. I love collecting cards. But so far this year, Topps stinks.

jacques the hanger boxes sps are 1 out of every 2 boxes so you did get the ratio

I’m getting fed up with Topps Heritage and their ripoff short prints. I bought 2 hobby boxes and got the advertised ratio of 1:3 short prints so I got 16 short prints out of 2 boxes but none of the really higher priced superstars. But the worst was I just bought an 8 box hanger box case, 35 cards per box, 280 cards total. That means at the above ratio I should have gotten at least 10 short printed cards. I got 4 and no autographs, or any other variation
cards. Total ripoff. I’m done with Topps Heritage, and may be done with Topps altogether.

Opened 48 packs from Target. 5 short of base set and no dupes in the bunch. Crazy. Pretty bland roster of players in the base. Can only hope 1 or 2 of the rookies (I had never heard of) will hit big in the next year or two to drive up the value. Best bet to get decent chase cards is to buy on eBay.

Any numbers on print run of clubhouse collection cards? Pulled Judge from hobby box, but don’t know how limited it is.

Thanks.

Boring, unattractive design. Horrible cards came in the box of 24 packs I purchased. The photo edited is terrible with players photographed in front of bushes, fences and other non-baseball backgrounds. How could they mess up a retro set like this is beyond me, but its a bunch of really ugly designed cards.

Purchased a case for my son & I to open together. Really disappointed. After opening 12 boxes, we’re still missing ~80 of the base (1-400) cards. Did get a hot box where every pack had a chrome card, but didn’t make up for Topps’ awful randomization.

I hope Topps is not headed in the same direction of the competition with a “BASE” and a short pint set with all the stars and rookies. I’ve collected cards for sixty years and really hate to see this. It kind’ a takes the fun away from the hobby.

Bought 2 hobby boxes, no auto’s but 2 jersey cards (Freddie Freeman & Zack Greinke).. not much excitement. I think I’m done..

A LOT of “meh” players from what I opened up, had VERY bad luck with any kind of inserts. I hit up Target and had two of their 19.99 boxes, and the few other forms they carry of it. Was very disappointed overall. Will not be buying any more, maybe just some singles on ebay.

With the 1970 set being so bland (IMO), I had very little intention of collecting the this set. As an O’s fan I was browsing the checklists looking for any Baltimore signed cards and was VERY disappointed to see there are none so that sealed the deal for me. I will not spend a penny on the ’19 set. Hey Topps: Your “token Orioles” Brooks Robinson and Jim Palmer won’t cut it.

I busted a case – 9 relics (Harper, Salvador Perez, Porcello Yadier Molina & Gleyber Torres are the better ones) & 3 autos (Blake Snell, Bill Dillman & Rico Petrocelli). Best pulls were a Kluber flip stock /5 and an Andujar gold refractor /5. I picked up a couple blasters yesterday and pulled a Lourdes Gurriel Jr. red auto /70. 16 cards away from completing the master set. I’m giving 5 stars based on my experience.

Finished opening my case and out of 12 boxes only 1 of the 12 had any SP”s. Filled out the Topps form found on there website, so let’s see what happen’s.

I wanted to give this 2 stars, but can’t be sure that the blandness of this set isn’t mostly due to honoring the 1970’s design a little too well.

The card stock is decent, but the design isn’t. The new age performer cards are catchy, but they seem very out-of-place with the rest of the set. Star are hard to come by here too. It was a dull box to open with very few inserts and no numbered cards. Of course, most people will get a junk relic as their price for a hobby box.

I’m looking forward to 71,72,73 & 75.

Love the old 1970 design! Hate the fact that all the star players are short prints. Topps way of making the big buck!

I see all the people that failed to get sp’s,
I got mine but all were cut with no top border
on the card.Not sure which is worse!Funny but
all base cards are cut perfect.Now I get to
see if Topps will replace these cards.

Decent product. Wasn’t expecting much. Did get a hot box but that was the only thing worth mentioning. My Juan Soto box loader has on the back Bryce Harper listed as Bruce Harper. Would like to have some info on this.

Maybe I am just burned out, but I just opened my first product of 2019 and it was a box of Hobby Heritage. I just found it bland and boring. I was never a fan of 1970 Topps (I love 1971) so I should have known I may not be a fan. Yet it wasn’t just the blandness of the cards but the images seemed horribly photoshopped and stretched in some cases to fit the confines of the picture box. The inserts are hard to distinguish from a subset card and the bland relic vs a nice auto per box is getting old. Nothing about this box opening had me happy, even for the players and team I PC.

Thank you, Trey.

I had the same problem as John Linville. I opened 6 boxes and only received 5 SPs. All 5 were variations. In past years, SPs have been seeded one per 3 packs.

Excellent product! Heritage is. always one of my most popular sellers. Love the throwback feel and look and the challenge of shortprints and variations.

I love this design. Bought a case, and chomping at the bit to rip!

I respectfully disagree with complaints about the 1970 set. The gray borders and name typeface are distinctive, and most important are the terrific photos and wide variety of uniforms, washing away the dreadful impression of the 1st 4 or so series of 1969. It was crucial in 1970 that Topps reassert itself after the awful job it performed on the Athletics and Astros, in particular, in 1969.

Case I opened had 3 autos, none numbered, and 9 patches, 8 from the clubhouse collection and 1 dual.

Update from my earlier post, the first box contained no SP, the one that I thought was a SP was a traded variation. Second box no SP’s only one Action Variation. I had this issue a couple of years ago and it took Topps forever to make it right.

Love the product have always done heritage since they first came out. Collation is terrible. Opened my first box from a case and got only 1 SP. In one pack I got 3 of the same card. Not sure what the rest of this case is going to give me. Will let you know. Anyone else get shorted on SP’s?

This is Topps #1 product as far as I’m concerned. I will agree that the 1970 cards were really ugly cards but the Heritage cards mimic the originals and that I like. I even have certain 1970 originals ugly as they are.

Cant believe Topps short printed the stars. 100 short prints with dealers charging a average of $10.00 a card. $1000, to complete the set. Not good.

Going to be a boring box to open, any card a person would want is an SP. And what’s with the huge borders?

Short Printing all the stars is not the way to expand the hobby and make collecting fun, it makes collecting costly.

Easy set for me to collect as only one card interests me, the annual Al Kaline autograph. Too bad Topps didn’t put either Rollie Fingers, Sal Bando or another Oakland A’s player with Reggie Jackson on the dual/triple auto cards. I just refuse to chase autographs of players who weren’t even born yet with the players that actually played in 1970!

I cant wait for these to come out next week. It might be the 1st time I buy a case. Love that all of the SP cards are super stars, adds a lot more value to the product. Also like the checklist on the real one autos as well. Heritage in my opinion is the best set Topps puts out every year

Interesting checklist – looking forward to seeing the actual cards. I noticed that the checklist doesn’t include team cards. I know that most people don’t care as there’s little $ value, but I like team cards and to include them would be truer to the original set. BTW, I always liked the 1970 design and the thick paper stock.

It’s hard to argue with David’s post (2/5/19) that the 1970 set was one of the ugliest Topps ever produced. However, this checklist is filled with drool-worthy content, and I am DELIGHTED the HHN’s are mostly populated with legitimate stars (thumbs up on Hoffy’s post from 1/23/19). I am especially delighted with the Munson Oversized CS, and the RODA/TA of the Braves. It appears, at least from the checklist and previews, that Topps is banging the ugly right out of the inaugural 1970 set. Look forward to having these in-hand next week!

More Topps trash. So glad I stopped buying cards. Best decision I ever made. Tired of IOUs — oh, excuse me, REDEMPTIONS, my bad — redundant, pointless parallels and insert sets, poor typography, gimmicks, sticker autographs, a glut of garbage…need I say more other than goodbye?

Trey,
I started collecting full sets from 1964 on and I believe that the Topps 1970 set was the, hands down, ugliest early set ever made!

I will be curious to see if they can spruce up a dull set.

It would be an incredible product if you didn’t have to buy a case to build a complete set (hyperbole here for free)

Great looking cards. Any word on whether the short prints will be star-laden like in years past? I was disappointed last year when there were very few stars. Seems pointless if they’re mostly just common players…

What’s the status on the Bazooka release? Will there be one? What about 3D XO Graph Technology debuted that year with the Kellogg’s set lest we forget the Milton Bradley print run? Maybe someone can influence Topps to acknowledge those sets as they would be fun to chase and collect them too.

The borders are too large and the photo is too small.

Nice — these Heritage appear to be a pretty popular set, agree?

What is “Real One”?