2016 Topps Heritage High Number Baseball preview

Topps closes the curtain on the 2016 edition of its popular Heritage Baseball series with 2016 Heritage High Number Baseball. Heritage High Number will use the 1967 Topps design and include one autograph or relic card per box.

2016 Heritage High Number will include the final 225 cards (#501-725) in this year’s Heritage set, with the final 25 being short prints inserted in 1:3 packs. Base card subjects will include rookie players called up during the season as well as traded veteran players. In typical Heritage fashion base cards will have numerous variations and parallels to chase, including Action Image Variations (15 cards), Team Name Color Variations (25 cards), Red Back parallels, Gum Damage Backs, Flip Stock and mini base cards (50 cards, #’d to 100).

There will also be 50 Chrome Base parallels numbered out of 999. Chrome cards have three levels of numbered parallels: Chrome Refractor (#’d to 567), Black Bordered (#’d to 67) and Gold Bordered (#’d to 5) plus Hot Box Refractor parallels. 2016 Heritage High Number has four set of inserts as well, Rookie Performers, Now and Then, Award Winners and Combo Cards.

Real One Autograph cards are hard-signed and include signatures from current and retired players. Special Edition parallels are signed in red ink and  hand-numbered to 67. Dual autos are hand-numbered out of 25. Topps has also inserted one-of-one cut signatures of baseball personalities and other celebrities that were making headlines in 1967.

Clubhouse Collection Relics contain uniform or bat relic pieces. Single relic cards have Gold parallels numbered to 99. Dual (#’d to 65), Triple (#’d to 25), and Quad (#’d to 10) feature hand-numbering. Clubhouse Collection auto relics are numbered to 25 while Dual auto relics are hobby-exclusive and hand-numbered to ten.

Hobby boxes of High Number Heritage include a box loader that can be either an ad panel, foil-stamped 1967 Topps buyback card or a Punchboard card. Punchboards come in four different versions, Insert (50 copies), jumbo patch relic (#’d to 25), autograph (#’d to 10) or jumbo patch relic auto (#’d to 10).