First look: 2010 Topps Heritage baseball cards
Topps unveiled its basic product information and preview images on Friday for its 2010 Topps Heritage baseball set, the 10th consecutive release in the throwback line which this year utilizes the 1961 Topps design.
Set to arrive in the last week of February, this year’s Heritage will include a 500-card base set of veterans and rookies (75 of those short-prints; 1:3 packs) in the famed, but simple, look.
One of the new inserts will be Chase ’61, which will note the great home run chase by the New York Yankees’ Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle — a set that will include Relic parallels with as many as three memorabilia pieces and three cut autographs. (So, yes, that will include Babe Ruth as well…)
Every 24-pack hobby box will include one autograph or Relic card with all signatures signed on the cards.
See several preview images and get more info after the jump.
Other inserts will include the Chrome cards everyone has come to expect with their Heritage (whether they think it’s necessary or not) as well as new additions such as Topps Stamps (207 players as well as buybacks).The Chrome cards will be numbered to 1,961 (standard), 561 (Refractor) and 61 (Black Refractor).
Also back are New Age Performers (15 cards), Then and Now (10 cards), Baseball Flashbacks (10 cards) and News Flashbacks (10 cards) as well as the same autograph and Relic lineups from 2008 (just with a new design).
The red-ink autographs will be limited to 61 copies, while the duals and flashback autographs will be limited to 25. All signed Relics are numbered to 25 except for the duals, which will be limited to 10.
Among those on the preliminary autograph checklists are Ryan Howard, Matt Kemp, Gordon Beckham, David Wright, Matt Holliday, Luis Aparcio, Bob Gibson, Stan Musial, Carl Yastrzemski, Frank Robinson, Buster Posey and Dustin Pedroia.
Among those on the preliminary cut autograph checklist — besides the Chase for ’61ers — is Warren Spahn. There will be 10 1961 cuts, but just Spahn and Mantle are on the checklist right now.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Graded Card Investor. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
Holy crap, is that a Ruth, Mantle Maris tripl relic?
These cards look awesome; one of the cleaner, simpler base card designs in Topps’ history.
What is the release date of 1962 Topps Heritage?.
See second paragraph.
I’m as huge a topps heritage collector as anyone and this is a sight for sore eyes! Heritage has been this good in a long time, but I still have my doubts, the early checklist for 2009 heritage also had some big names on it, guys like Sparky Anderson and Ryan Howard, but when the product released they wern’t in it. I find the release of this info one week before the very weak 09 update comes out to be very interesting. Im sure they are having a hard time selling the update version, especially in this economy and this time of year. This info on the 2010 product will only help to spur intrest. Lets hope topps keeps their promise this year.
Kevin
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the mantle blasts 565 ft. home run card in the 2010 topps heritage production looks like a contrived card. first, hitters did not use batting gloves in 1961. ken harrelson was the first to use batting gloves and that was in 1964. the original 1961 topps card pertaining to the monster homer showed yankee stadium taken from an airplane…too, the background in the current card shows what looks to be a phony skyline…mantle was also batting right-handed when he hit the homer, and he did not have black sideburns…the bat looks to be photo shopped into hands that look like they were drawn by a poorly-paid artist. i am an old biomechanics guy who coaches cross country, and i say if a hitter used the stance shown in the picture, he would likely be batting 200 points below the mendoza line. in other words .000…the batter actually looks a little bit like hideki irabu from a few years ago. one would think topps could produce a better card that would pay homage to one of the all-time greats.
one correction to previous comment…the original card was an airplane snapshot of griffith stadium in washington dc…
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Love the product. Perfect for the set builder. My fav Heritage design yet.
Here’s a funny video about a collector: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG18hRu416c
Does anyone know if the Buster Posey card shown exists? I have never seen it, but I want it!