2024 Topps Heritage Returns to 1975
One of Topps’ most anticipated releases of the year, 2024 Topps Heritage, is in stores now. This year’s release takes collectors back to a classic set and the most imaginative design from a decade of simple designs that ranged from iconic to downright boring.
The first half of the decade featured iconic single-color designs in 1970 (gray), 1971 (black), and 1973 (white), as well as the 1972 picture frame design. The second half of the decade led to Topps using mostly white designs with splashes of other colors for mostly forgettable products.
However, 1975 gave collectors a product with an imaginative and bright two-toned product in a set that features several baseball icons—filled with legends like Hank Aaron, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, and Brooks Robinson, rising stars like Mike Schmidt and Dave Winfield, and rookie cards of future Hall of Famers Gary Carter, George Brett, Robin Yount, and Jim Rice, as well as Mets legend Keith Hernandez.
For Mets fans, the 1975 product featured Mets legends Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Jon Matlack, Tug McGraw, Rusty Staub, Ed Kranepool, Cleon Jones, and many more.
The 2024 Topps Heritage product resurrects the colorful designs of 1975 while ushering in the biggest and brightest in today’s game. The Topps Heritage set is a 500-card set that is structured differently than its previous iterations. In previous products, short print cards made up the final 100 cards in the set; however, Topps flipped it around and decided to begin the 2024 set with the first 100 cards being the short prints. For the Mets, you can find short prints of Kodai Senga and the first Mets card of Luis Severino in the first 100 cards.
As with other Topps Heritage products, you can expect to find the insert sets New Age Performers and Then & Now, which pairs former and current stars together. And of course, there are plenty of certified autographs and memorabilia cards.
Below is a full checklist of all Mets cards found in 2024 Topps Heritage.
Base
34 Luis Severino (short print)
93 Kodai Senga (short print)
110 Brandon Nimmo
117 Francisco Lindor
219 Brett Baty
257 Edwin Diaz
266 Starling Marte
295 Jeff McNeil
296 Ronny Mauricio (rookie card)
373 Joey Wendle
410 Pete Alonso
1975 Baseball Sensations
75BS-1 Tom Seaver
75BS-11 Pete Alonso
1975 Topps Zoo’s Who Stick-Ons
75Z-9 Polar Bear
75Z-10 Flying Squirrel
1975 U.S. Postal Stamp Relics (serial-numbered to 50)
75US-TS Tom Seaver
Baseball Flashbacks
BF-7 Tom Seaver
BF-9 Tom Seaver
Chrome (serial-numbered to 999)
93 Kodai Senga
110 Brandon Nimmo
117 Francisco Lindor
410 Pete Alonso
Clubhouse Collection Dual Relics (serial-numbered to 75)
CCDR-AT Joe Torre/Francisco Alvarez
Clubhouse Collection Relics
CCR-BN Brandon Nimmo
CCR-FL Francisco Lindor
CCR-JMC Jeff McNeil
CCR-PA Pete Alonso
CCR-RM Ronny Mauricio
Clubhouse Collection Triple Relics (serial-numbered to 25)
CCTR-ABT Francisco Alvarez/Joe Torre/Brett Baty
Color Swap Variations
110 Brandon Nimmo
117 Francisco Lindor
410 Pete Alonso
Missing Facsimile Signature Variations
411 Francisco Alvarez
New Age Performers
NAP-11 Francisco Lindor
Nickname Variations
295 Jeff McNeil
Oversized 1975 Topps Baseball Box Loaders
OB-17 Joe Torre
OB-45 Tom Seaver
OB-46 Yogi Berra
Real One Autographs
ROA-PA Pete Alonso
Then & Now
TAN-5 Spencer Strider/Tom Seaver
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