Click to enlarge2008 Topps Heritage Baseball Cards Product Review

2008 Topps Heritage Baseball brings collectors the year’s best Rookies and Veterans highlighted on the classic 1959 Topps Baseball design. This year, Topps Heritage is introducing News Flashbacks of historic events from 1959 as well as Real One Dual Autographed cards! In addition, Topps Heritage offers Hobby Exclusive Advertising Panel Box Loaders and Original Topps cards from 1959! 2008 Topps Heritage Hobby Boxes contain 24 Packs of baseball cards and the 2008 Topps Heritage Hobby Packs contain 8 cards unless the pack has a relic card in it then they have only 7 cards. The regular set has 500 cards, however the sets have to be hand built because Topps does not make a factory set for thier Heritage Cards.

They are good amount of Short Printed cards and inserts in the Topps Heritage.

Insert cards Include New Age Performers with 15 players whose performances have surpassed the greats of the past, such as A-Rod, Ryan Howard and Josh Beckett. Then & Now Inserts with Ten cards featuring statistical comparisons of a current player with a legend from 1959. Notable comparisons include A-Rod/Banks, Ichiro/Minoso and Peavy/Drysdale. Flashbacks inserts with Ten cards with highlights from the 1959 season. News Flashbacks insert cards with Ten cards highlighting major news stories from 1959.

There are also a number of Autographed cards and relic cards that can be found at random if your lucky enough to get a pack containing them.

Real One autograph cards that have signatures from players who made their final appearance on a Topps card in 1959, as well as signatures from current stars. Real One Dual Autographs that only come out of Hobby Packs and Boxes. Real One Special Edition Autos with Retired and current players signed cards in red ink. Hand-numbered to 59 made. Flashbacks autographs with Five baseball legends autograph 25 Flashbacks cards each. Hand-numbered to 25 of each made. 1959 Cut Signatures in Hobby Packs Only that have Cut signatures from Mickey Mantle, Roberto Clemente and other stars on their reprinted 1959 cards. All one of one with only 1 of each made!

Clubhouse Collection Relic Cards with 40 active players and retired stars from 1959 are featured with bat or jersey relic pieces. Clubhouse Collection Dual Relics that have 5 dual relic cards featuring a player from 1959 matched with a current player of the same franchise. Hand-numbered to only 59 made. Flashbacks relics with Ten legends featured on special highlight cards from the 1959 season along with a relic from a former stadium such as Dodger Stadium and the Polo Grounds. Dual Flashbacks with Five cards featuring 2 players each and 2 stadium relic pieceseach Hand-numbered to only 10 of each made.

Autographed Relic Cards of two types, Clubhouse Collection Relics are autographed by players who appeared in the time-honored 1959 Topps set and Hand-numbered to only 25 of each made and Flashback Stadium Relics that have Five subjects will autograph 25 Flashbacks relic cards containing pieces from former Major League Baseball stadiums such as the old Yankee Stadium that are Hand-numbered to only 25 of each made.

There are also Hobby Box Exclucive Box Loaders Advertising Panels Featuring parallels that are included as 3-card strips. 1 per box! and 1959 Topps Originals with Original cards from 1959 are inserted and stamped, and are placed into 1-card packsand come 1 in every 2 boxes.

The 2008 Topps Heritage also has Chrome Parallel Cards. Black-Bordered which have 100 cards from the base set that are sequentially numbered to 59 of each made. Refractor Parallel Cards with the same 100 subjects refracted with a white border sequentially numbered to 559 of each made. Chrome Parallel Cards with the The 100 subjects on Chrome Sequentially numbered to 1959 of each made.





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2008 Topps Heritage Baseball Cards Hobby Box For Sale

24 Packs Per Hobby Box - 8* Cards per Hobby Pack Plus one stick of Gum Per Pack.*Packs with a Relic Card Contain Only 7 baseball Cards.

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2008 Topps Heritage Baseball Cards Hobby Pack For Sale

8* Cards per Hobby Pack Plus one stick of Gum Per Pack. *Packs with a Relic Card Contain Only 7 baseball Cards

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2008 Topps Heritage Curt Schilling Baseball Card For Sale

Boston Red Sox - Card #12 - Green Back $1.00

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2008 Topps Heritage Jacoby Ellsbury Baseball Card For Sale

Boston Red Sox - Card #6 - Green Back $2.00

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2008 Topps Heritage Alex Rodriguez Baseball Card For Sale

New York Yankees - Card #10 - Green Back $1.50

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2008 Topps Heritage Derek Jeter Baseball Card For Sale

New York Yankees - Card #68 - Green Back $2.50


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