SCF Official Review: 2011 Topps Heritage MiLB Edition

[Enigma]

First and foremost, I'd like to thank our sponsors at Topps for providing us with this box.



24 packs per box
9 cards per box
Current Retail Price (online): $52.99 - $64.99

Product Description

EACH 24-PACK BOX CONTAINS:
- 2 Autographed Cards Per Box!
- 1 Relic Card
- 4 Numbered Parallel Cards


BRYCE HARPER ON-CARD Autographs and Relics Included in Overall Box Hits!


PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

BRYCE HARPER AUTOGRAPH CARDS
Bryce Harper Real One On-Card Autographed Cards: Signed ON-CARD and numbered* to 54.
Available in the following SIGNED ON-CARD parallel versions:
- PRINTING PLATES: Four rare ONE OF ONE printing plates
- BLACK-BORDERED: ONE OF ONE
- GREEN TINT: Numbered* to 5
- RED TINT: Numbered* to 10
- BLUE TINT: Numbered* to 25

Bryce Harper Autographed Jumbo Patch Card: Harper personally signs an over-sized ONE OF ONE patch piece card.


BRYCE HARPER RELIC CARDS
Bryce Harper Game-Used Base Relic Card: Each card features a swatch from a game-used base from Harper's Arizona Fall League debut game.
- BLACK-BORDERED: ONE OF ONE
- GREEN TINT: Numbered* to 5
- RED TINT: Numbered* to 50
- BLUE TINT: Numbered* to 100


AUTOGRAPH CARDS - 2 PER BOX!
Real One Autograph Cards: Over 35 talented youngsters appear with their autographs.
Available in the following parallel versions:
- PRINTING PLATES: Four rare ONE OF ONE printing plates
- BLACK-BORDERED: ONE OF ONE
- GREEN TINT: Numbered* to 10
- RED TINT: Numbered* to 25
- BLUE TINT: Numbered* to 99


RELIC CARDS - 1 PER BOX!
Clubhouse Collection Relic Cards: Outstanding players are featured with swatches from their game-worn jerseys.
Available in the following parallel versions:
- MiLB LOGO PATCH: These ONE OF A KIND rainbow foil board cards feature the Minor League Baseball logo that appears on the back of each player's jersey. ONE OF ONE,
- BLACK-BORDERED JUMBO PATCH: Numbered* to 5,
- GREEN TINT: Numbered* to 50
- RED TINT: Numbered* to 99
- BLUE TINT: Numbered* to 199


BASE CARDS - 9 PER PACK!
Minor League Baseball Stars: 200 top Minor League stars are featured on the famed 1962 Topps design on 24 pt. stock.

Short-Printed All-Stars: "Presented by Baseball America" these cards feature of 50 subjects from above. Inserted 1:4 packs.


PARALLEL CARDS - AT LEAST 4 PER BOX!
- PRINTING PLATES: 1000 one of one printing plates featuring the entire base set.
- BLACK-BORDERED: The base set numbered to 62.
- BLUE TINT VARIATION: 75 minor leaguers from the base set numbered to 299.
- RED TINT VARIATION: Another 75 base set subjects numbered to 299.
- GREEN TINT VARIATION: 50 players from the base set numbered to 299.

WHAT WE PULLED



Base - 197/200 (98.5%)
SPs (6)
Checklists (3)
Blue Tint /620 (3) - Bryce Harper, Miguel Sano, Yorman Rodriguez
Green Tint /620 (1) - Tyrell Jenkins
Red Tint /620 (3) - Carlos Perez, J.P. Ramirez, Luke Jackson
Black Border /62 (1) - Travis D'Arnaud



Bryce Harper Base Relic



Robbie Aviles Autograph



Tommy Shirley Autograph



FINAL RATINGS

Base - 5/5
Design - 4/5
Fun - 3/5
Value - 4/5
Rebuy - 3.5/5

Total - 19.5/25 (78%)

Pros:
Almost a complete base set
1 numbered parallel in every three packs
Bryce Harper is featured

Cons:
Bryce Harper is featured
Confusion within the parallels
No inserts
Use of checklist cards

Expanding on the exclusive rights to product MiLB cards, Topps has given us Heritage Minor League. Just like its Major League counterpart, the card design is based off of 1962 Topps. A chance at a complete set is ruined due to the use of checklist cards. It's time to get rid of the checklist cards. Without those, that would have left the door open to include the missing three cards to complete the set. And this set will be an autograph seekers dream as the cards are perfect for in-person and TTM autographs.

While I know he is the household name and the it guy, this release is too Bryce Harper driven. It's nice to be able to find his autographs in products, but when everything is built around him being in the product, it is complete overkill. But my biggest gripe are the parallel cards. Each of the three parallels are numbered to 620, yet the odds printed on the packs so that each should fall at a different rate. Then what makes one more rare over the other? Also, the colors can be confusing as the green parallel actually looks yellow and I had a blue parallel that looked green.

This is not that bad of a release, but it does have a lot of flaws. Price wise, it can be a worthwhile venture, but it's not one to buy over and over. Besides, with Bowman Chrome, Bowman Draft and Topps Pro Debut, do we really need another set featuring minor leaguers?

Once again, I'd like to thank our sponsors at Topps for giving us the opportunity to open and review this release. For more information on all their products, visit them today at www.topps.com.

[coronado2010]

we can get base cards w/ a SASE right...do you still have the harper???

[Enigma]

Harper Base was given away a while ago...sorry...

[coronado2010]

ight...just found out about theese...will have to pay closer attention...just one question---we can't get inserts right, but we can get rc from the base set?? thanks

[Enigma]

Base cards, rookies and unnumbered inserts as long as we don't pull them beforehand for site giveaways or our Card Cash Store...