2021 Topps Heritage Cavan Biggio Base Card Is Missing…For Now
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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.
I know it’s a big thing when something goes wrong regardless were it is because we put a lot of time and money in this and when you do that you want the best at least I do. I will tell you when it becomes a problem when no one takes care of the error I bought my very first high number box of cards to day and the card that ever body is tripping about was right there and it looks good.. I will have to say this cat is doing pretty good I like his numbers he is pretty good didn’t hear much about him this year but I am not a blue Jays fan but I usually know if someone is doing good or not but I thought I would write this and just say Man as long as it is put together buy people there are going to be mistakes and you can fire everyone in there and you will still have a problem I know you guys that are writing on this has made a bad mistake if not I don’t want to know nothing about you I never ever met perfect how would want to be if you don’t make a mistake some times how you ever going to get better just saying.
I finally found a Base set card out of a box I wonder if they will be a shortage of his cards. Or will this make a difference. I don’t understand how they forgot about one card and now all the sudden they figured out that they didn’t put it in the series one packs something don’t make since. So some one tell me we’re in the world was this card laying at if it was there and now all the sudden it didn’t make the series like the rest of the cards. This is for sure a sell pitch. Just like all the sudden with the Julio Rodriguez and Bobby Witt Jr rookie cards didn’t make the series one packs but they make the packs for series two packs and they don’t even have a Base card how are we going to build a series two set when they don’t even have a base card all they have is a sp and a SSP cards don’t make no sense to me and now these rookie cards are all over the undated series and what else is funny they put wander Franco rookie card in series two packs its a scam that is what it is just trying to make every doallar they can I like what the one guy said we buy them anyway and you are right it’s not stop me none so what do we do we have to have some of these guys I mean cavin biggo really ant worth 50 cents and that is in mint condition for real but if you like buying sets that is a different story I don’t buy cards for to build a set I am in it for the rookies for real or some of the greats in baseball but you have to take what you get and some of these cards are hard to find and I think that there doing like they did back in the 80s and 90s there making Way to many base cards for real I just wonder if some of the cards are really in it I buy a lot of packs of cards and I can’t find none of the rookie cards and I mean the SP and SSP when I do it is a no body I hope other people are having better luck than I have had ever body good luck on the hunt I wish everyone nothing but luck on your journey.