The 2012 Topps Heritage set is scheduled to be released on Wednesday March 14th, 2012. The set will be based upon the design of the 1963 Topps set.

The 2011 Topps Heritage Minor League set is is an add second set that came out several months after the original 2011 set. The card numbers start over and as you might guess, only minor league players are featured on the cards.

The 2011 Topps Heritage set is based on the design of the 1962 Topps set. It features autographs, relics, inserts, stamps and an all new '62 Mint set which includes coins minted in 1962,

The 2010 Topps Heritage set is modeled after the classic 1961 Topps set and features many familiar parallel and insert sets, along with a new 200+ set of baseball stamps.

The 2009 Topps Heritage High Numbers set includes 220 base cards including short prints, 100 chrome parallel cards, 15 Rookie Performer cards, ten Then and Now cards, ten Flashback cards and a wide variety of autograph and relic cards.

The 2009 Topps Heritage set includes many parallel and insert sets, along with a wide variety of base cards and short prints.

A checklist of cards included in the 2008 Topps Heritage High numbers set.

There are 35 new semi-short printed black back variation cards in the 2008 Topps Heritage High Numbers set.

The 2008 Topps Heritage High Numbers Flashbacks set features 10 cards showcasing some of the most memorable moments from the 2008 baseball season.

The 2008 Topps Heritage High Numbers Rookie Performers insert set consists of 15 of the top rookies from 2008.

There are 35 new short print SP cards in the 2008 Topps Heritage High Numbers set.

The 2008 Topps Heritage High Numbers Then and Now insert set consists of 10 dual player cards featuring winners of post season awards.

The 2008 Topps Heritage checklist consists of 500 cards, including 75 short prints and 110 semi-short prints. Each card listed is searchable.

The checklist for 2008 Topps Heritage Real One Auto's includes 58 cards from both the Topps Heritage and Topps Heritage High Numbers sets.

2008 Topps Heritage Chrome Checklist with clickable search links for each card.

2008 Topps Heritage Black Back Checklist with clickable links to search for all the black back cards.

The 2001 Topps Heritage set was a breakthrough for card collectors. It appeals to both vintage card collectors and modern card collectors.

After the smash success of the first Heritage set, Topps followed up with the 2002 Topps Heritage set. These cards are designed after the 1953 Topps baseball card set.

The 2003 Topps Heritage set is modeled after the 1954 Topps set, one of the all time classics. The base set includes 100 short prints, 10 of which are black/night background variations and 10 of which are vintage logo variations.

The 2004 Topps Heritage set is based on the 1955 Topps set, a classic set that featured Topps first horizontal style card fronts. The base set includes 100 short prints, 10 of which are variations.

Seven super short print variation cards have been discovered so far in the 2009 Topps Heritage set. They are #58 Conor Jackson, #70 Tom Glavine, #102 Adrian Gonzalez, #346 Fred Lewis, #407 Randy Winn, #445 John Smoltz and #488 Hanley Ramirez.

Ten super short print variation cards have been discovered so far in the 2010 Topps Heritage set, as well as a regular short print variation of the #463 card. They are #1 Albert Pujols, #2 Joe Mauer, #15 Grady Sizemore, #55 Pablo Sandoval, #77 J.A. Happ, #94 Zach Greinke, #215 Derek Jeter, #366 CC Sabathia, #393 Ryan Braun, #427 David Wright and #463 Mark Teixeira.

Topps Heritage Real One autograph cards and various other autographs are the most sought after cards in the set. There are blue ink versions which are not serial numbered, and red ink versions which are serial numbered out of the number that corresponds to the last two digits of the year that particular set is based on.

Not everyone likes to buy boatloads of packs, rip them, sort them and collate into partial sets, then complete the set by buying more cards or trading.