First look: 2013 Topps Heritage Minors baseball cards

Heritage is headed down to the minors for the third straight season.

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For every season, there is a passage that a baseball fan must go through.  In summer, it is uplifting hope; in autumn, it is crushing disappointment followed by uplifting hope; in winter, it is boredom, followed by uplifting hope, and in spring, i…

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Picking up where we left off yesterday, here’s the rest of the players who have hit a home run in their first at bat in the past 10 years.6/5/08: Mark Worrell. I don’t have any cards for Worrell, probably, because beyond hitting this home run, he didn’…

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Wikipedia is full of lists. One I came across recently is a list of players who hit a home run in their first at bat. I’ve checked some other sources as well and it looks like the Wikipedia list is up-to-date. On average, this is a pretty rare feat. On…

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While trying to get my Topps Heritage Braves team binder together I checked a whole lot of online checklists to figure out what I actually needed. I learned a lot from my research – that all online checklists should be taken with a grain of salt. Espec…

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These Topps Heritage player sample cards really grab my attention because they have a bit of mystery.

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Topps Heritage baseball cards came out last week, and I’m pretty happy with this year’s set. We’re up to the 1964 design, which is pretty simple but appealing – at least for the Mets. I decided to skip buying unopened packs this year and just picked up most of the singles I wanted at the [...]

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It’s amazing the moods you can capture with just head and shoulder shots. Some are happy  Some are a little mean Some are bearded (is that thing even real?) Some are really happy  Some are wistful Some are unkempt Some are disg…

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2013 Heritage came out last Wednesday or last Monday if there’s a Wal-Mart near you. I’m not as active in the blogosphere as I once was but I’m pretty sure there’s been a flurry of Heritage posts all over the place. A lot of people like it, a lot hate …

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Enjoy; watch them in order.

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Join Beckett Media’s Chris Olds and Susan Lulgjuraj as they rip into boxes of 2013 Topps Heritage and chat with you at 5 p.m. Central time.

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I got a pack of 2011 Topps Chrome in one of those 12-pack Fairfield repack boxes. First out of the pack was this.2011 Topps Chrome Heritage Refractors #123 Brent MorelSo here is something that Topps did in 2011 that will be confusing to future collecto…

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I’ve documented my collecting habits over the last seven years on this blog, following an arc from the scattered, massive accumulation of decades-worth of baseball cards to new-card musings to a realization that in terms of collecting, less is more: th…

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(Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that my last post was a week ago when I speculated the the start of Spring Training might hearken an increase in my posting here. Well, it hasn’t yet, but I hope it will soon. One post a week isn’t good enough for you Orioles …

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Product released 6th March 2013Topps Heritage is a throwback to the Topps 1964 baseball card release, featuring the top MLB players of today and retired legends from the past. BASE CARDS (1-500):Base Cards (425 Subjects): Veterans & Rookies i…

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How long has the flagship Topps base set been dead? Since 1996? Maybe not that long, but it sure has felt like that. Instead of a checklist interspersed with All-Stars, team cards, and subsets, almost a generation of flagship base set checklists have b…

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 So there is a great deal of talk about 2013 and what that means as a collector. Put aside all the other sets that I am trying to complete, that are accumulating year on year – for me 2013 will be all about Topps Heritage and the 1964 design….

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I’m not sure how many parts this is gonna be, at least 2. In Part 1, I’m going to attempt to pick my favorite card of each main set. Since they are my favorite cards, the criteria will obviously be purely subjective. As I was putting this together I fo…

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December 19, 2012:2002 Topps Heritage #38 Denny NeagleSomething’s wrong with that face. Immediately upon pulling this card out of its little calendar nook, I thought of an old Weekly World News cover about a woman whose face could be covered with a te…

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I’ve been scanning a lot of cards lately, the total scanned is now 36,170.Card #220401991 Bowman #562 Javier OrtizNot a promising start to this random card post.Card #334931992 Stadium Club #295 Brian HolmanAmazing difference between the 1991 Bowman an…

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This is a follow-up post to a similar post I did last December. Last year the youngest players were all born in the 1990s with the youngest in 1991. This year we’ve got a pretty decent 19-year-old who will probably be the youngest player for a couple o…

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This year, Topps decided to make a limited 100-card update series for their Topps Heritage set that was sold exclusively through the company’s website. While the decision sparked a fair amount of collector anger, the sets sold out and both sets and singles seem to be doing well on the secondary market. There are four [...]

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Arriving before I left for the holiday, this trade came from Adam at Thoughts & Sox.Giving:2012 Topps Update Series #US292 David Ortiz Photo VariationGetting:2009 Topps 206 #235 Yovani Gallardo, 2011 Topps Heritage #438 Shawn Marcum (SP), 1979 Kellogg’…

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Join Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds as he opens a set of 2012 Topps Heritage High Numbers cards — an online-only release — in this latest edition of Box Busters.

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Card # 31637: 1991 Donruss #483 Mike Scott1991 was the last year for this basic design from Donruss. They’d been doing this for years with the oddball front borders and the plain stats on the back.Card # 3104: 2002 Upper Deck MVP #260 Randy WolfA large…

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Pre-ordering for the ShopTopps.com-exclusive 2012 Topps Heritage High Number set has begun today, its originally announced date, but the sets will not begin shipping until Nov. 6, according to the company.

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I will absolutely and totally admit to being a sucker for Nostalgia. In particular I absolutely adore the Mars Attacks property, originally a trading card set in 1962 illustrated primarily by Wally Wood and others. Most people only know it at a movie…

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With the release of Topps Heritage, Minor League Edition, the company is running a special promotion where one lucky collector can win the chance to be a professional ballplayer for a day, meet Nolan Ryan and get their own trading card. Read More

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I put up a post like this before concerning 2005 Red Sox and Indians team cards. I’m in the process of reorganizing my Phillies cards and noticed a similar thing. Here’s the Phillies team card from 2005 Topps.34 players and coaches are in the photo. He…

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Subject Line: DUDE, YOU’RE GOING TO WANT THIS CARD!!! Word for word, that is exactly what the subject line read. I have been trading emails over the last few days with a loyal ’30-YOC’ reader Matt.  He is the one … Continue reading →

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More 2013 Topps Heritage Images Courtesy Of Josh Hamilton & Matt Cain Here are a few more images of next year’s Topps Heritage release. Enjoy!!! **Hat-Tip to ’30-YOC’ reader Matt for the images.  Thanks Bud!

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The First Image From The 2013 Topps Heritage Set Is Here!!!
Enjoy!!!!

What do Yu think???  LOL

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My excess Cardinal cards went to madding at the Cards on Cards blog. Madding is a repeat trade partner and it’s always great to kook up with previous traders. Here’s some of the good stuff I got.1994 Stadium Club Golden Rainbow #289 Curt SchillingParal…

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James over at the Chipp ‘n’ Dale site (as in Chipper Jones and Dale Murphy) took my excess Braves cards for a nice selection of Phillies and Astros. He wrote up the cards I sent him here. 1989 Upper Deck #135 Gerald YoungI’m not too interested in Astro…

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Showing that not all successful trading card sets are related to the major sports, Topps has announced that Mars Attacks Heritage has officially sold out. Read More

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