Buzz Break: 2025 Topps Heritage baseball cards (blaster)

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The box: 2025 Topps Heritage 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: 8
Cards in this box: 68
Base set completion: 
58 of 400 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Juan Soto, Bobby Witt Jr., Ronald Acuña Jr., Jackson Holliday, Shota Imanaga, Clayton Kershaw, Aaron Judge, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Kyle Schwarber, Ernie Banks, Tris Speaker

RC logo cards (15) – Spencer Schwellenbach, Kumar Rocker, Levi Jordan, D.J. Herz, Brooks Lee, Caden Dana, Tyler Phillips, Luis Guerrero, Javier Sanoja, Angel Chivilli, Isaac Collins, Jairo Iriarte, Gordon Graceffo, Thomas Saggese, Tyler Gentry

Insert/short-print cards: 10 (all in gallery below with some base)
Short-prints (Nos. 401-500) (1) – T.J. Friedl, Miguel Amaya
Dark Green parallels (2) – J.T. Realmuto, Daulton Varsho
Chrome parallels (2) – Trevor Megill, Ryan McMahon
Pink Sparkle Chrome parallels (2) – Gunnar Henderson, Ted Williams
Notable Americans (1) – F. Scott Fitzgerald
1976 Player Icons (1) – Gunnar Henderson

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: There's more Chrome and more parallel action here and while it's a smidge forced it's been needed for Heritage for a few years -- those are more spots for potential big-name highlights to pop up in a smaller box, meaning most blasters here have a better chance at delivering something ... and that's what affordable retail boxes need these days, perhaps more than ever. Why? Collecting. This re-visitation of the 1976 Topps set -- a crisper and cleaner version of a set that, to me, evokes 1970s Ford Motor Company stylings ... an industrial, but crisp feel a la an old LTD car or something but not quite as clean and sporty as a Mustang. Gone are the weird colors and that garish font of 1975 with those traded in for some quirky cartoons on the fronts that are perhaps the only thing that's not clean and relatively timeless here -- but they do immediately draw it back to the original. Gone are most of the issues that made last year's Heritage rough -- the backs are readable here, the collation seemed clean and no overwhelming issues from printing and packaging other than maybe some rough edges ... but even that wasn't as tough as the last few years. This particular box delivered some good names on clean base cards -- what H should be about as an old-guy alternative flagship set -- and then a good mix of inserts. This one breaks away from some of the predictable H formula of the last 25 years -- at least it didn't in this box -- but offers up retro nods to the 1976 set and the country's bicentennial anniversary that year to still swim in retro vibes. I'll rip more of this one this year than I did last year that's for sure.

Product Grade: A- (crisper and cleaner than last year's H with more Chrome/variety added)
Box Grade: A (solid crop of star cards, a couple better rookies and some good names in inserts)
Fun Grade: A- (parallels feel forced but they are extra spots for potential highlights in lesser boxes, which is good)

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