2009 Topps Heritage Baseball Pujols Rookie Card Variation
 

How difficult is this variation to find?

Phil aka Tere 1071

https://baseballcardpedia.com/index....Topps_Heritage

The "gimmicks" subset included 13 cards, of which 3 (including Pujols) were in High Number. Their insert ratio isn't listed on the page, but I can tell you the SSP gimmicks from this year are rare. No Pujols has been uploaded to COMC ever.
PSA has only graded 3 of the Rookie Designs.

I think I have master Heritage sets from 2001 to 2010, meaning all the SPs and the variations/errors they produced for each set. In 2011 they had like 3 different versions of the 1962 green tint cards and the variations and errors became near impossible to assemble. So from 2011 to 2024 I have just done the "standard" master set, all SPs and the 4 or 5 common insert sets like Flashbacks and The & Now, and no lomger pursue the variations and errors

I used to collect all of the SSP variations. I have the Pujols graded 9.5 by Beckett. I was never able to get the Jeter, Pedroia, or Feliz variants before I decided to collect the Topps cards of my youth as well as a 53 Bowman Color set. One day I will use the Pujols to get missing cards to finish my current sets.

Happy collecting!

Phil aka Tere1071

Heritage are the perfect gateway to vintage cards, even teaching me to get used to impossible-to acquire shortprints! I love em but gave em up after 2008 or so to focus on older stuff. Heritage seems to have gotten even deeper into ssp and alternates, brutal for collecting but fun to see.

When I collected Heritage from 2012-2019, I began simply, but then I had to get the entire run with all of the SSPs. I drew the line at chrome, relic, and autographed cards, they were never a part of my sets. Part of the reason that I started going after the SSPs was a sense of havint to "complete" the sets, plus I wasn't convinced that I could collect the cards of my youth. Well, I was wrong and as a result, my vintage collecting beginning at the tail end of 2019 to the present has cost me far more than if I had begun in 2012. Oh well.

Happy collecting!

Phil aka Tere1071

Fortunately, I have the Pujols rookie variation the original poster asked about and Al posted. Mine is not graded. It is in my team set album.

I did not know about the 2011 (1962) Heritage green tints. Looks like I now need a Skip Schumaker and a Ryan Franklin. Urgh!

Speaking of rare Heritage variations, I am STILL looking for a 2014 (1965 design) Topps Heritage Adam Wainwright throwback uniform SSP. I finally acquired a Molina last year and it took years to find. I am also looking for last years 1975 design of Nolan Arenado's SSP throwback. I have the mini, but not the regular size.

Edited to say - I just found a Ryan Franklin for $22.03 including shipping. Now, I need the Skippy. Hoping it is not too difficult!

Shane---there are red and blue tints too. Not sure if they are consistent with the green in tems of players....but if so you need all 3 versions :).


For anyone not familiar Shane's Topps Cardinals collection is amazing. He has a comprehensive thread on CU

https://forums.collectors.com/discus...ditions#latest

Al,

Number one - thanks for the Cardinals collection comment. Much appreciated. That is just a thread on my the autograph portion of my collection. I have regular team sets that are not signed that fill up 27 albums.

Number two - not so much thanks on notifying me of TWO MORE variations for Skip Schumaker and Ryan Franklin.

https://baseballcardpedia.com/index....Topps_Heritage