First Buzz: 2023 Topps Heritage MLB cards (updated)

What: 2023 Topps Heritage baseball cards
Arrives: May 31
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: It's time to turn back the clock a few years with Topps Heritage taking on 1974 ... and it's penciled in to arrive next month.

Keep reading for more as well as a full gallery of images.

The Basics: The basic set will once again consist of 400 cards with 100 short-prints atop that found eight times per hobby box. Parallels once again will include Black parallels (announced /50), flip-stock cards (announced /5) and Chromes for 100 cards with Refractors (/574), Silver (/374), Black (/74), Gold (/5), 1/1 Superfractors and Hot Box Refractors just like previous years. There also will be Minis (/100), throwback, image variations and nickname variations as well as some "unannounced surprises" just like past years.

Real One Autographs return with on-card ink and Red (/74 max) parallels along with duals (/25 max) and triples (/5) and on the auto-Relic front, there will be Clubhouse Collection Auto Relics (/25) with 1/1 Patch parallels that are hobby-only along with duals (/10 max) with a 1/1 Patch versions (hobby-only). There also will be Flashback Auto Relics with a 1/1 parallel as well as be baseball and celeb cut autograph sets. ... For standard Relics, there are Clubhouse Collection cards with Gold (/99) and 1/1 Patch parallels along with dual (/74), triple (/25) and quad (/10) cards all also with 1/1 hobby-only patch versions. Also in there will be Mint coin cards with Nickel (/15), Dime (/10), Quarter (/5) and 1/1 half-dollar versions all using 1974 coins. Joining them will be 1974 stamp Relics (/50).

The standard insert lineup should be familiar with New-Age Performers, Then & Now and Flashbacks for baseball and the news from 1974. Rounding it all out will be 1974 jumbo box-toppers for 50 players (/1,000) with auto parallels (/25 max) and 1974 Puzzles (/500) as well as new Deckle Edge cards (every other box) with original buyback cards from 1974 also in the mix (every other box).

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