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)
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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: 
33 of 400 (8 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Bobby Witt Jr., Julio Rodriguez, Yordan Alvarez, Joey Votto, Tarik Skubal, Whitey Herzog

RC logo cards (9) – Kyle Harrison, Osleivis Basabe, Forrest Wall, Jose Ferrer, Drew Rom, Declan Cronin, Daniel Palencia, Allan Winans, Julio Pablo Martinez

Insert/short-print cards: 2 (all in gallery below with some base)
1975 Topps Zoo Who Stick-Ons (1) – "Crime Dog" Fred McGriff
New-age Performers (1) – Paul Goldschmidt

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: I hadn't opened any of these lately but grabbed a pair of them recently as some cheaper weekday filler here ... and, well, this better of the two packs is a reminder that this one is best bought in the larger boxes (if you like it) as the formats are not all made alike. This one didn't get any better. The Witt, Rodriguez and Crime Dog cards are the highlights here but this pack still wasn't a win at all. (I could land those for about $3 and have a decent Taco Bell day after that.) ... 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. I'll likely not dabble more here until this format hits bargain bins. It needs to deliver more for that price -- and deliver cleanly. The stock here is light and chippy -- too light and chippy -- while the backs are often too dark to read them, which isn't ideal, either. The printing and cutting is, for the most part, cleaner than 1975, though, and the colorful yet industrial spirit of the 1975 design comes through here for sure with damaged cards ... but not as bad as my earlier rips here.

Product Grade: B
Box Grade: B+ (Witt, J-Rod and Crime Dog are biggest highlights)
Fun Grade: C+ (needs something more in this format)

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