Will there be a 2023 Topps Heritage set?

[packs]

I do wish they'd improve the product though. The relic OR autograph is such a bummer.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by packs

I do wish they'd improve the product though. The relic OR autograph is such a bummer.

I love pulling an Aaron Hicks relic card that doesn’t even promise it’s from a major league game or has anything to do with Hicks in every box.

[packs]

The worst. I love Heritage for the images and eclectic short prints but I pretty much know I’m going to get a crappy relic.

[Kzoo]

I bought 2 Heritage hobby boxes last year from the same seller at a show for $100 each. He had a stack of 4 boxes and I picked the middle 2. I got a stupid relic in the first box, then I lucked into this in the second box. It's normally a losing investment, but somehow the cards aligned in my favor.

[packs]

Wow that’s nice.

[jayshum]

I talked to a dealer at the Philly Show who had boxes of new product, and he said he hadn't heard anything yet about ordering 2023 Heritage cards yet but he said he would be surprised if there wasn't going to be one.

[Rich Klein]

Topps/Fanatics did announce at their hobby conclave a listing of sets which would not be issued in 2023 (or in some cases no more) and Heritage was not on said list.

I think we'll see heritage in the 2nd quarter of 2023

Rich

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by packs

I do wish they'd improve the product though. The relic OR autograph is such a bummer.

It's also an increasingly unrealistic product in terms of being true to the sets they are supposedly paying homage to. The designs are pretty spot on, but that's about it. The '22 set and the 1973 design is a bunch of boring portraits against blue sky, the occasional bat on the shoulder or faux stance. There was some of this still in the early 70's, yes - but the real '73 set was an explosion / breakout year for Topps in terms of action photos and wonky wide angle stuff. On some cards unless you were already baseball savvy, you couldn't necessarily even tell which player was the one who was supposed to be depicted. Look up the '73 Topps Pat Corrales. Corrales is writhing in pain at home plate having just been run over by Fergie Jenkins, ball still in hand.

Sadly you won't find anything remotely close to these types of photos in '22 Topps Heritage. It's still a cool set, I just wish they could be bothered to try harder.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Sadly you won't find anything remotely close to these types of photos in '22 Topps Heritage. It's still a cool set, I just wish they could be bothered to try harder.

Ok. I'll take some of that back. There are action shots, even some cool horizontal ones - in '22 Topps Heritage. (Upon further examination of cards I didn't realize I had...) I guess they still don't capture the true spirit of '73 Topps though, mainly because the pictures are probably too good - if that makes any sense. The ability to have high speed film enough to do any action shots at all was relatively new in the early 1970's, and sets such as '73 Topps reflected that. I suppose at the end of the day you can't complain a ton. Heritage overall historically has been a very nice product. '22 really is not a ton different.