2009 Topps Heritage Retail Is Live!
My wife and I stopped by Target last night to get some diapers, and as luck would have it, the store had a single retail box of Topps Heritage. It looks like your routine pack searcher already hit the thing, but that matters not to I as I just wanted to have a taste of Heritage. I bought two packs. Results of the break are inside …
PACK ONE:
Card 115: Knuckler & Fork // The first card in my Heritage pack is a Red Sox card. That is awesome. How great would it have been if Topps decided to call Papelbon a “Forker”
Card 35: Andy Pettitte // He’s looking old here.
Card 277: Bobby Crosby // Still looking like a dork.
Card 243: Andy Marte // ~Love~ the 2008 Spring Training photos …
Topps Mayo Target Exclusive: Hanley Ramirez // Yes, yes, yes! These cards look awesome.
Card 391: The Champs Celebrate // Good looking card.
Card 373: Andy LaRoche // I think it’s funny that we get a leg shot of some photographer in the background. HA.
Card 172: Cameron Maybin // Another good looking card.
PACK TWO:
Card 146: Ramon Ramirez // I like these rookie cards. For what it’s worth I’ve got a 1960 Yastrzemski rookie on the way …
Card 112: Scott Lewis // The Rawlings logo on that glove is staring at me …
Card 248: Henry Blanco // I would have rather had Geovany Soto. Is Blanco wearing lipstick?
Card 421: Bengie Molina // I’m pretty sure this is a short print.
Flashback Ernie Banks // I’ve pulled a lot of Heritage Flashbacks in recent years … they always seem to be of Ernie Banks (or Stan Musial.)
Card 434: Jon Garland // This is a grey back variation. This is a pretty good pack, an insert, short print and a variation. Would be better if there were …
Card 230: Mound Magicians // … another Red Sox card. Pretty sweet, two packs, two Red Sox cards featuring five Red Sox pitchers.
Card 103: Brad Lidge // How appropriate, a Lidge card to close out the Heritage break
Comments: Two packs is hardly enough to give a fair review. That said, these are nice cards, probably my favorite Heritage set to date. If you’re building a set, I think retail is the way to go because of the fixed pack/blaster price. The hobby boxes offer better odds at the hits, but we’ve seen some lame relics, namely Kevin Millwood. Ugh.
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March 11, 2009 at 11:32 am
Sweet!
I really like the Mayo insert.
Do you know how many cards are in the Mayo subset?
March 11, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Nice, and I never care about the hits in Heritage, mostly the #ed things and just the design are cool!
March 11, 2009 at 12:59 pm
It ain’t live here. Maybe tomorrow.
Given how many bloggers already have these things, I may have seen all the cards in the set by the time I get any in my hands.
March 11, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Well, it looks like I got lucky. I hit up a few other retailers and no one has blasters … hmm.
You usually see this kind of stuff on the East Coast — closer to distribution centers — than here on the West Coast.
March 11, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Live in Atlanta, not in St. Louis yet though.
March 12, 2009 at 12:45 am
Ten cards in the Mayo subset, which is lame. Hopefully they will release a full Mayo baseball set with a similar configuration to Ginter and the Mayo football stuff.
March 13, 2009 at 8:43 pm
That Hanley Mayo looks great. I like the vintage feeling of that subset