Buzz Break: 2025 Topps Heritage baseball cards (hanger)

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The box: 2025 Topps Heritage baseball cards (hanger)
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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: 
29 of 400 (7 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Juan Soto, Dusty Baker, Mel Ott, Chris Sale, Shota Imanaga, William Contreras, Willson Contreras, Luis Robert Jr., Corbin Carroll, Hunter Goodman, Jack Flaherty, Randy Arozarena, Fernando Tatis Jr., Salvador Perez

RC logo cards (7) – Spencer Schwellenbach, Darren Baker, Griffin Conine, Drew Thorpe, Will Wagner, River Ryan, Mike Burrows

Insert/short-print cards: 6 (all cards in gallery below)
Short-prints (Nos. 401-500) (1) – Chris Bassitt
Chrome parallels (1) – Brendan Rodgers
Burgundy Sparkle Chrome parallels (1) – Josh Lowe
Light Purple parallels (1) – Parker Meadows
Player Icons (1) – Freddie Freeman
Through The Years Holographic (1) – Ichiro Suzuki ... one in 33 hangers?!?

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: I ripped one on Monday and, well, I couldn't wait for more since this one is a lot more interesting this year vs. other recent Heritage releases from the last few years. Why? More variety, more inserts and more potential. This one had one more insert card than last time and its run of better names among the base and rookies was solid -- that gets this box a still-not-flashy A-level grade from me. What put it over the edge? Something from the stat sheet -- that Ichiro is one in 33 hanger boxes, though I'm truly not sure why a simple holofoil stock swap should be that rare ... it's a $4 asking price on eBay on a quick search, so it's clear those odds aren't really wowing too many out there even with Cooperstown calling him soon. But I'll take it over nada. ... 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. ... I'll still 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-
Fun Grade: B (hangers seem to be much stronger than past years -- but still can be hit and miss)

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