Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Looking Forward to 2010 Heritage

With all the hulabaloo lately over National Chicle, I thought I would look ahead to one of the sets that got me back into collecting 2 years ago... Heritage.

The 2010 version will feature the 1961 design. A plain, rather boring design in card history. 3 boxes, player image, player name and position, and team name. Simple - boring. Topps really let the player image do the talking for this set. The vertical card layout is the way I like cards. It makes for easy flipping through. 2009 Heritage lost me with the horizontal design.

It's the back of the card that makes it great. A 3 panel comic strip of information. Stats galore. "Bill won the 1960 World Series with his home run". Awesome! What might a 2010 back look like? "Alexi Casilla slaps a hit to finish off the Tigers in game 163". The horror.

3 comments:

  1. Kudos on the vertical layout. This is the beginning of the Fantastic run of 1960s Topps card designs.

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  2. I'm really not crazy about the early '60s stuff. I think '61 is boring inside and out. And I don't get interested in the '60s Topps sets until 1965 ('65 and '67 are my favorites).

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  3. Agreed. The '65 set with the little pennant is great.

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