Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Heritage baseball cards (hanger box)

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The box: 2024 Topps Heritage baseball cards (hanger)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 35
Base set completion: 
33 of 400 (8 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Adley Rutschman, Freddie Freeman, Jose Altuve, Spencer Strider, Ivan Rodriguez, Chipper Jones, Carl Yastrzemski, Orlando Cepeda, Fred Lynn, Joe Morgan

RC logo cards (7) – Luis Matos, Ronny Mauricio, Nick Loftin, Dominic Canzone, Everson Pereira, Jacob Lopez, Trey Cabbage

Insert/short-print cards: 2 (all in gallery below with some base)
Baseball Sensations (1) – Oneil Cruz
New-age Performers (1) – Juan Soto

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

Watch for surface dents/lines from machinery in this format -- about a half-dozen in all three of my hangers. (Click for closer look.)

What's Buzz-worthy: My final hanger of Heritage was again a colorful one and it continued to show some issues I saw in the first -- about a half-dozen cards with unusual surface lines/indents from equipment and then more standard (but still not cool) top edge curls on too many cards that just aren't good to see no matter the price point. Beyond that first impression (again), this pack was slightly better on the star power front but still not much there beyond the MVP subset cards. At $12 for a stack of 33 base cards and two inserts/SPs (always on the back of the pack in this format, by the way) it wasn't really that impressive -- and I've been a buyer of Heritage -- and a lot of its offshoot brethren -- every year since 2001. I'll likely not dabble more here until this format hits bargain bins. It needs to deliver more for that price -- and deliver cleanly. The stock here is light and chippy -- too light and chippy -- while the backs are often too dark to read them, which isn't ideal, either. The printing and cutting is, for the most part, cleaner than 1975, though, and the colorful yet industrial spirit of the 1975 design comes through here for sure.

Product Grade: B
Box Grade: B- (helped only by Soto)
Fun Grade: C (definitely needs something more in this format and too many damaged edges/surfaces here)

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