Wow, Sweet Topps Heritage Mantle

Ran across this 2009 Topps Heritage 1/1 Mickey Mantle cut signature on eBay. Went for a nice amount too. Thanks to the owner (halscoins) for letting me use the scan of the card. Check out the eBay auction at:

2009 Topps Heritage Mickey Mantle Cut Signature

How Much Is A Steal (Jayson) Werth?

In case you missed it, Jayson Werth of the Philadelphia Phillies did something pretty rare last night. Apparently this has happened like 49 times, but it's the first time I've ever seen it. Jayson stole second base, then he stole third base and then he stole home when the pitcher lobbed the ball back to the pitcher after a pitch. Yep, he stole all three bases in the same inning. Nice job Mr. Werth.

Red Ink!

Pulled this nice 2009 Topps Heritage Justin Masterson Real One Red Auto from a blaster (bonus) box the other day. Probably the best single card I've hit in this set.

Rock N Heritage

Put together a very short video of some of the more notable cards I have pulled from 2009 Topps Heritage packs over the last few days.

First Big Hit of 2009

The first case I opened of 2009 Topps Heritage gave me an amazing four black refractors, which according to the odds on the pack are one in 250 packs. Each black refractor is numbered out of 60, and this one is of Pirates catcher Ryan Doumit.

2009 Topps Heritage Black Backs???

Well, info on 2009 Topps Heritage is slowly starting to trickle in, although nothing is official yet. Brentandbecca are always one of the largest openers of Topps Heritage product, and they just listed this master set on ebay:

2009 Topps Heritage Master Set from Brentandbecca

The interesting part about this is that they have the master set listed as 620 cards. They break it down as 500 base cards including short prints, the 45 insert cards that we all know and love, and 75 black back cards. This is the first I have heard mentioned about black back variation cards. Things may be about to get more interesting!

***UPDATE: Brentandbecca have taken down their master set with the black backs. I wonder if they got some bad information. I will shoot them an email and see if they can clarify. I post the update here if/when they reply.***

2009 Topps Heritage Hits The Streets

Looks like Heritage was not delayed. Kevin from the PSA boards managed to pick up six hobby boxes from his local dealer today and a few of his nice pulls are show below. There are also a couple of cards that have already hit the auctions:

2009 Topps Heritage Derek Jeter Chrome

2009 Topps Heritage Ichiro Chrome

You can read Kevin's review of the set at:

Heritage King's Review

2009 Topps Heritage Delayed?

2009 Topps Heritage was originally supposed to hit the streets tomorrow (Feb. 25th), but it's looking like the release will be delayed. This is pretty common with Topps Heritage, but the 2008 set was released on time or perhaps even a few days early. Someone on the PSA message boards posted that their local dealer was saying the new release date will be this Friday, Feb. 27th. I can handle a couple of days, but if it's delayed any longer that that I might start showing signs of Heritage withdrawal!

2009 Topps Heritage Is Almost Here!!!

The scheduled release of 2009 Topps Heritage is now less than two weeks away! The cards are getting hard to come by with one of the major case suppliers, LRCards, recently going out of business. I checked today and yesterday for cases on ebay and there were NO hobby cases for sale at all! There is one retail case for sale and that is it. That is crazy. I've heard rumors that Topps has cut the production level this year, but I don't believe that has been confirmed. It's looking like either demand is way up this year, or production is down, or a combination of both. Either way, once 2009 Topps Heritage hits the marked it should be a Heritage frenzy. Here is a video preview of the 2009 Topps Heritage set. This video was actually released by Topps on youtube: