Reading Night Owl’s post about his 2008 Topps Heritage set kind of opened a worm hole with me. I’ve never really been the kind of guy to put a set together by hand that wasn’t the basic flagship Topps set, so I never got the SP hunting fever like so many collectors have. I’ve opened my fair share of Heritage packs over the past 20 years, too. Until the last 2 or 3 years, I never even pulled any card #401 or higher from my stack of cards after they’ve been opened. I’ve just organized the cards by teams, and whatever SPs I pulled went into their respective team binder, and I was fine with it. It’s not like you can tell the difference.
Maybe that’s why I don’t get all jazzed up about them. If you show me a stack of 10 SPs that has 1 base card in it, I couldn’t tell you which one wasn’t worth as much as the others. All of them look like base cards to me. If you go to a show looking to finish your Heritage set, you either have to flip every card over to see if it’s #401 or higher, or you have to buy them at excessive prices from a Brah who knows they are SPs and just has them in a display case with outrageous prices. If it’s an earlier Heritage sets, the SP numbers are all over the place, so you have to have a chart with card numbers, player names, and team names and hope you get lucky. Just too much work in my opinion.
I’ve kind of been wanting to go through my binders and try to pull out all of the Heritage SPs. Reading Night Owls post made me actually do it. What good are those SPs going to do sitting in my binders looking like ordinary base cards when so many people are trying to collect Heritage sets and the SPs are driving them crazy. Why not list them by set and trade them to guys that can use them.
I also got them from the 2 Allen & Ginter sets I purchased more than 1 pack of, 2010 and 2011.
Here's what I've found.
2003
85 Manuel Ramirez
387 Eric Cyr
397 Jay Payton
11 Pat Burrell old logo
2004
407 Pedro Martinez
413 Milton Bradley
423 Brad Wilkerson
434 Chan Ho Park
440 Miguel Batista
120 Frank Thomas old logo
2005
135 Alex Rodriguez
2006
10 Barry Bonds
95 Alex Rodriguez
281 Melvin Mora
284 Jake Peavy
315 Johnny Damon
317 Giants team
2007
22 Jason Kendall
140 Johnny Damon
186 Scot Shields
257 Aaron Cook
312 Red Sox team
356 Bernie Castro
474 Brian Sanches
2008
430 Chien-Ming Wang
436 Ryan Freel
445 Kason Gabbard
484 Brian Roberts All-Star
716 Clayton Richard
Black backs
3 Eric Byrnes
49 Bill Hall
102 Moises Alou
175 Jeff Weaver
176 Preston Wilson
262 Hitters' Foes (Lowe/Penny/Billingsley)
266 Matt Morris
549 Jeremy Sowers
639 Mike Redmond
655 Angel Berroa
2009
426 Scott Rolen
437 Zach Duke
705 Kendry Morales
716 Orlando Hudson
719 Ricky Romero
2010
446 Freddy Sanchez
449 Hank Blalock
2011
434 Carlos Ruiz
443 Brian McCann
446 Carlos Marmol
455 Joe Saunders
459 John Buck
482 Ron Gardenhire
483 Trevor Hoffman
2012
433 Rickie Weeks
440 Jonathan Sanchez
445 Gaby Sanchez
478 Roy Oswalt
486 Josh Hamilton
488 Ryan Adams
2014
491 Yadier Molina
2015
449 Matt Harvey
707 Evan Gattis
2016
457 Nelson Cruz
483 Josh Donaldson
702 Aaron Blair
713 Aledmys Diaz
2017
708 Zack Wheeler
2018
465 Kyle Gibson
466 Mark Trumbo
472 Brandon Phillips
478 Eduardo Rodriguez
481 Lonnie Chisenhall
714 Anthony Banda
2021
455 Jose Osuna
482 Shed Long
485 Pat Valaika
492 Brad Boxberger
2022
405 Austin Hedges
413 Caleb Thielbar
414 Jose Peraza
439 Tommy LaStella
440 Chad Pinder
460 John King
487 Chris Stratton
492 Chad Green
Allen & Ginter sets
2010
323 Angel Pagan
327 Vernon Wells
341 Jon Garland
342 Erik Bedard
344 Derek Holland
2011
303 Jaime Garcia
305 Justin Morneau
311 Ian Stewart
317 Brian Matusz
319 Jon Niese
326 Jason Castro
331 Carlos Gomez
338 Lance Berkman
340 Ryan Zimmerman
Ginter Code border
335 Jason Heyward
That's all the SPs I found. If you see some that you need, reach out to me, and maybe we can get a trade started.
In other card news, I found a decent priced 2022 Topps Rays set, as well as a 2022 Topps Opening Day Wander Franco card. If I am able to find a 2022 Topps complete set at Target in a few weeks, then I'll have a photo variation card of him. I don't know if the complete sets will fly off the shelves due to Wander being in the photo variation pack and the flippers needing to eat. With the accusations of Topps having sham autographs, I'm hoping that it may get the flippers to stop hoarding packs and maybe they'll go back to living in their parents basements collecting welfare checks and eating ramen. At any rate, hopefully I'll get my hands on a retail Topps set. I don't really consider myself a Franco collector, but I'm kind of going after all of his base issues this year (kind of like with Arozarena in 2020). I am just missing his Bowman and Donruss cards, and that should do it for me if I can get that card from the complete set. Not too shabby.
Lastly, I did a post a while back about some former big leaguers who weren't exactly "lookers", but how they still managed to have a little luck with the ladies and have kids (and the kids happened to enter into pro ball). Well, while I was looking through my binders for the SPs, I pulled out a few of the father and son duos, and I'll be making some posts of those guys in the future.
Hope everyone reading this who are going after Heritage (and Allen & Ginter) sets can use some of the SPs I found.
Thanks for checking out my latest post.
-Jeremy
That's a good amount of Heritage SPs, all of mine seem to disappear to traders. I imagine the '09 Rolen and Duke will go quickly as 2009 Heritage SPs seem to be on every want list I check. ... As you know, I only care about those 13 '08 SPs and THAT'S IT.
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