Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Heritage High Number MLB (blaster)

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The box: 2024 Topps Heritage High Number baseball cards (blaster)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 9
Cards in this box: 72
Base set completion: 
63 of 200 (32 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Fernando Tatis Jr., Chris Sale, Chris Morel, Teoscar Hernandez, Rhys Hoskins, Justin Turner

RC logo cards (29) – Notables include Jackson Chourio, Jack Leiter, Yoshinobu Yamamoto ... see all rookies in gallery.

Insert/short-print cards: 9 (all in gallery below with some base)
Short-prints (Nos. 701-up) (2) – Stephen Kolek (RC), Robert Suarez
Aqua parallel (1) – Evan Phillips (errant White Border notation on back)
White parallel (1) – Eloy Jimenez
Green parallel (3) – Rhys Hoskins, Leo Rivas, Josh Smith (errant White Border notation on back)
Perfectly Programmed (1) – Ronald Acuña Jr.
Combos (1) – Wyatt Langford & Evan Carter

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: My last box of this one -- at least from my early grabs -- delivered a boatload of rookies with a few notables in there, the typical lean assortment of veterans and then a little more action within the inserts variety-wise but the same volume as most rips I have done. All in all, the variety helped this one and the RC cards helped make sure it was a decent little box but nothing was big enough, not even the overall volume of big names, to get to an A grade today. The number of cards stuck in the wrapper seal like several I've seen in all of my blasters (one previous at right) was at least not as bad this time -- only a few got that unintentional botched-parallel treatment. ... As noted previously, this months-late arrival caps the 2024 take on the colorful 1975 Topps set and was perhaps worth the delay. It's improved with an array of parallels added to the mix in this format along with an expanded Chrome presence (all cards Chromed save for the 100 in the first series) atop the rookie-dense lineup that catches up on all the notables of last season working out their sophomore kinks now.  ... There's a lot to be found here across its formats -- just hobby and blasters -- with long odds so a lot was made. That said, the Chrome shift here means more Superfractors here than in any Heritage release ever made and the strong rookies will help those be even bigger finds at times, though it also means more common Supers, too. (It's one in 4,500ish and up in all formats.) About the only bummer is how the Minis here for just this release are one in 30 packs after being a standalone release of their own -- you'd think they could have flowed more regularly here -- if not even one per pack -- to be collectable and not a dollar chase since the first series was a full release. (No Mini parallels here, either.) There's a lot to find but I may wait for prices to settle -- if they do -- as the odds on bigger stuff are long in all formats. I'll dabble with the smaller format here, conceding the hit per box (autos are roughly twice as tough in retail, while standard Relics are slightly easier ... hobby has more variety on that front) for the basic stuff here will be easily found later. Why? It's only 200 cards in a base set -- you'll land just under one set per hobby box and you get about a third of a base set in a single blaster ... that's a lot of every player here and all the notable RCs are among the basic part of the set and not the SPs. They should get more affordable over time, while the rarer stuff could be steeper as the odds are longer within a meaty print run.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: B-
Fun Grade: B- (crimper error still showed up but not as often as other boxes)

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