First Buzz: 2024 Topps Heritage MLB cards (updated)

What: 2024 Topps Heritage baseball cards
Arrives: April 10
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 24-pack hobby 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 1975 ... 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. The full formal details have not yet been revealed but hobby basics have been teased and retail inclusions have been revealed in full.

Parallels will include Red (Target), White Border, Color Swap, Throwback uniform variations and Nickname variations. There also will be Chromes in play for 100 cards with Blue Sparkle in retail as well as Refractors (/575), Silver (/375), Black (/75) and 1/1 Superfractors. ... A new inclusion for this one will be 1975 Topps Award Winners buyback autos, while the insert lineup also will have some new finds such as retail-only 1975 Topps Baseball Sensations based on a 1975 Topps Bay City Rollers set with Gold (/999 Walmart) and Platinum (/999 Target) versions. Also in there will be Blue and Red (you can figure out the chains) 1975 Topps Zoo's Who Stick-ons with mascots and player nicknames the focus there. Also new will be 1975 Topps in 3D cards. ... The standard insert lineup should be familiar with New-Age Performers, Then & Now and Flashbacks for baseball and the news from 1975. 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).

Real One Autographs return with on-card ink and Red (/75 max) parallels along with Clubhouse Collection auto Relics (/25 max) and Flashback auto Relics (/25 max). ... For standard Relics, there are Clubhouse Collection cards with Gold (/99) and 1/1 Patch parallels along with dual (/75), triple (/25) and quad (/10) cards all also with 1/1 hobby-only patch versions. Also in there will be 1975 stamp Relics (/50) along with a selection of 1/1 cut autos for athletes and celebs of note in 1975.

Update: Boxes opened at $94.99 via Topps with cases at $1,099.99.

Update (March 14): This year, the SPs will be the first 100 cards in the set. According to the formal hobby reveal, there will be Black-bordered, Missing Facsimile Signature variations, Error variations, image variations, Gold Chromes (/5) and Purple Hot Box Refractors to be found.  Also only in hobby boxes will be dual autos (/25) and triple autos (/5). Auto Relics will have 1/1 patch versions only in hobby and the same will apply to standard Relics, dual, triple and quad Relics. ... Box-toppers will include oversized 1975 cards with some being signed as well as original stamped buybacks.

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