Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Heritage baseball cards (hanger box)

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The box: 2024 Topps Heritage baseball cards (hanger)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here

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: 
33 of 400 (8 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Michael Harris, Pete Alonso, Rafael Devers, Matt McLain, Eury Perez, Trea Turner, Albert Pujols, Joe Mauer, Bryce Harper, Dick Williams, Earl Weaver, Sparky Anderson

RC logo cards (7) – Justin Martinez, Tyler Soderstrom, Oslevis Basabe, Alek Jacob, Masyn Winn, Kyle Leahy, Sal Frelick

Insert/short-print cards: 2 (all in gallery below with some base)
Short-prints (Nos. 1-100) (1) – Mitch Keller
Baseball Flashbacks (1) – Harmon Killebrew

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

Watch for surface dents/lines from machinery in this format -- about a half-dozen in all three of my hangers. (Click for closer look.)

What's Buzz-worthy: My first in-hand look at Heritage was a colorful one but this format is perhaps not the best starting point with three of these hangers all having a half-dozen cards with unusual surface lines/indents from equipment and then more standard (but still not cool) top edge curls on too many cards that just aren't good to see no matter the price point. Beyond that first impression, this pack was pretty decent on star power and had a small (and odd) run of 1975 manager cards and then a small batch of rookies with none really being A-list names. I'm pretty sure it should get better when I rip into other formats -- still in transit -- but much like I said yesterday in a break of last year's H in a hanger box just like this, it just feels like this brand is one that needs to be adding to its lineup as it finishes off the late-1970s if the goal is to sell more ... this one needs more. And at $12 for a stack of 33 base cards and two inserts/SPs (always on the back of the pack in this format, by the way) it wasn't really that impressive -- and I've been a buyer of Heritage -- and a lot of its offshoot brethren -- every year since 2001. It needs to deliver more for that price ... or at least deliver cleanly. The stock here is light and chippy -- too light and chippy -- while the backs are often too dark to read things on them, which isn't ideal, either. The printing and cutting is cleaner than 1975, though, and the colorful yet industrial spirit of the 1975 design comes through here for sure. The design is arguably better than much of the last five years for H re-dos, but I'm not sure the end result in the here and now is. (Not sure yet, really.) I'll offer up more thoughts when I rip more -- at least two more of these and some mega boxes on the way. I wasn't all that gung ho to rip a hobby box at opening prices so I did a little more around the options figuring they might out-deliver one hobby box. We'll see.

Product Grade: B
Box Grade: B- (see below)
Fun Grade: C+ (definitely needs something more in this format and too many damaged edges/surfaces here)

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