2009 Topps Heritage Baseball Pujols Rookie Card Variation

[frankhardy]

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!

[ALR-bishop]

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

[frankhardy]

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.

[swarmee]

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

In the 1962 Topps set, the early press runs of the second series (cards 110-196) were printed with extra green ink. As a result, the backgrounds of a limited number of Series Two cards have a lime-green "tint" to it.

2011 Topps Heritage evokes these "Green Tint" cards with a special variation available in all packs of cards 110-196, EXCEPT for Joba Chamberlain's card #159. Instead, #159 was replaced with Joba Chamberlain's "139 kneeling ball & glove" variation (see below).

In addition, two other color tints were available exclusively in retail packs.

Blue tint: Exclusive to Wal-Mart looseys
Red tint: Exclusive to Target looseys
Like the Green Tints, the checklist on the Blue and Red Tints parallels cards 110-196 in the set.