Buzz Break: 2025 Topps Heritage baseball cards (blaster)

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The box: 2025 Topps Heritage baseball cards (blaster)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 67
Base set completion: 
55 of 400 (14 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Paul Skenes, Colton Cowser, Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, Vladimir Guerrero, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Danny Jansen, Manny Machado, Paul Goldschmidt, Oneil Cruz, Luis Arraez

RC logo cards (9) – Coby Mayo, Grant Holmes, Brooks Baldwin, Jhonkensy Noel, Aaron Schunk, Pedro Leon, Walter Pennington, Hunter Feduccia, Bradley Blalock

Insert/short-print cards: 11 (all in gallery below with some base)
Short-prints (Nos. 401-500) (2) – Kyle Schwarber, A.J. Puk
Dark Green parallels (2) – Rhett Lowder, Joey Ortiz
Chrome parallels (2) – Luis Peralta, Edwin Diaz
Pink Sparkle Chrome parallels (2) – Jesus Sanchez, Lucas Erceg
Chrome Refractor parallels (1) – Kyle Schwarber
Chrome Refractor parallels (1) – Will Wagner (/150)
Redefined (1) – Shohei Ohtani

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Clubhouse Collection Relics (1) – Joc Pederson

What's Buzz-worthy: A hit is a nice find here -- no matter who it might be -- and that's one in 62 packs (eight boxes). The Blue Chrome? One in 334 (42 boxes). Redefined? One in 32 (four boxes). The standard Refrator? One in 16 (two boxes). Regardless of who showed up to play -- some were good names, some maybe not -- that gets this box an A+ and it also made me wonder if there are some collation/pack-out struggles going on here. Imagine how much better everybody's boxes might look if all this stuff wasn't showing up in the same one? It meant a solid box this time, though. ... As noted before, there's more Chrome and more parallel action here and while it's a smidge forced it's been needed for Heritage for a few years -- those are more spots for potential big-name highlights to pop up in a smaller box, meaning most blasters here have a better chance at delivering something ... and that's what affordable retail boxes need these days, perhaps more than ever. Why? Collecting. This re-visitation of the 1976 Topps set -- a crisper and cleaner version of a set that, to me, evokes 1970s Ford Motor Company stylings ... an industrial, but crisp feel a la an old LTD car or something but not quite as clean and sporty as a Mustang. Gone are the weird colors and that garish font of 1975 with those traded in for some quirky cartoons on the fronts that are perhaps the only thing that's not clean and relatively timeless here -- but they do immediately draw it back to the original. Gone are most of the issues that made last year's Heritage rough -- the backs are readable here, the collation seemed clean and no overwhelming issues from printing and packaging other than maybe some rough edges ... but even that wasn't as tough as the last few years. ... I'll rip more of this one this year than I did last year that's for sure.

Product Grade: A- (crisper and cleaner than last year's H with more Chrome/variety added)
Box Grade: A+ (at least three cards here that are rarer finds -- Blue Chrome being the toughest)
Fun Grade: A- (parallels feel forced but they are extra spots for potential highlights in lesser boxes, which is good)

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