2021 Topps Heritage Cavan Biggio Base Card Is Missing…For Now
Topps Heritage Baseball is one of the most heavily built sets each year. For a set that’s got its share of short prints, there’s one card in the 2021 Topps Heritage set that’s proving to be particularly elusive — Cavan Biggio (#216).
Collectors can stop they hunt, at least for now.
The base version of the card isn’t in packs. At this point, it doesn’t exist.
In a statement on Twitter, Topps claims a production error caused the mishap but doesn’t go into any further details.
Biggio’s French and Mini parallels didn’t suffer the same fate. They’re in packs.
The gap in the base set isn’t permanent, though. Topps did say in their statement that the card will be included in 2021 Heritage High Number later this year.
Hi Ryan
Sounds like a sneaky way to sale more high numbered sets?
What about the Biggio parallels? Are they missing, too?
Bob
@Bob – The French and Mini variations are in packs. I haven’t seen any others. I don’t think Cavan Biggio is a needle mover if this were some intentional thing. Cards are made by people. People make mistakes.
I have never been a big fan of the quality control at Topps, but after the flipped backs of Update and substandard checklist for stars on Heritage and now just actually missing a card from a set for the first time I can remember, one really has to question how some of these people keep their jobs. Then again, we still buy the stuff, so maybe they don’t need to care about quality control.
@JDonovan – People deserve to lose their jobs because a card back is flipped around? Is it annoying? Sure.
I’ve already seen some complete sets up on eBay over the past few days. I wonder how they accounted for the fact that one of the cards wasn’t even there.
@Ryan – Don’t get me wrong I am not advocating people being fired over a relatively small mistake, but if my product consistently comes out with poor quality control, you better believe I will at least consider going in a new direction. If it was just one time, I would obviously write it off as a mistake, but it’s not just been one minor error with Topps’s QC.
I will simply state 2021 base set 1 – 400 ( no card 216 cavin Biggio, ) 399 card set. 216 will released with high number set in the fall.
Calvin biggie will be up for sale when grading is available if they find boxes in my boxes of cards.
#216 should be Pete Rose
It would be nice if Topps made up for this mistake by allowing people to send in 2021 Heritage wrappers in exchange for the missing Cavan Biggio card instead of making it available in High Numbers that we have to buy later.
Back in the early days of Topps they purposely left cards out of the set….
@Mike – Other companies did that like Goudey, but I can’t recall any base cards from Topps being left out on purpose. Do you have any examples?
I got one of the mini cavan biggo /100.