Does the Fanatics deal mean Topps Heritage is done?

[bpw09]

Originally Posted by base set

Heritage has been getting boring. It has been long past time to mix up the photos much more historical-like, instead of standing 8 players a year in the same spot for each team for over ten years running. By the 70s, Topps was using a lot of photos from MLB stadiums.

But Topps today doesn’t do that in Heritage. They don’t care, because they don’t have to. Oh, wait.

I agree with Kyle that Fanatics putting this much money in to the licensing may become regretful. For all parties. I don’t want to see baseball cards become similar to the price of a beer in a stadium, but that now seems inevitable. Salaries and revenues must increase, always, for all players. More money must be squeezed from ever less people. Now baseball cards will become part of that process I think.

I completely agree. 1973 Topps was notorious/infamous for its peculiar action photos (Rudi, Garvey, Blue, Marichal, Alvarado, Norman, Montanez, Stargell & Beckert just to name a few). I felt that if Topps was gonna stay true to the original, they would need to include a good number of similar shots in the 73 Heritage. A prime example: this year's Cubs/Pirates matinee at PNC with the bizarre play involving Javier Baez. How cool would a card (or even two) be immortalizing some of the players, namely Baez and/or the Pirates catcher and Cubs baserunner who scored in that fiasco? heck, you could even do a crude airbrush of Baez in whatever team's uniform he'll be wearing next year! Alas, it wouldn't happen, because modern photoshop trickery can place players in uniforms they've never even worn on a baseball field, and you can't even tell that they are digitally enhanced. Of course they use posed photos in spring training because they are so easy to alter.

[rcmb3220]

Originally Posted by bpw09

I completely agree. 1973 Topps was notorious/infamous for its peculiar action photos (Rudi, Garvey, Blue, Marichal, Alvarado, Norman, Montanez, Stargell & Beckert just to name a few). I felt that if Topps was gonna stay true to the original, they would need to include a good number of similar shots in the 73 Heritage. A prime example: this year's Cubs/Pirates matinee at PNC with the bizarre play involving Javier Baez. How cool would a card (or even two) be immortalizing some of the players, namely Baez and/or the Pirates catcher and Cubs baserunner who scored in that fiasco? heck, you could even do a crude airbrush of Baez in whatever team's uniform he'll be wearing next year! Alas, it wouldn't happen, because modern photoshop trickery can place players in uniforms they've never even worn on a baseball field, and you can't even tell that they are digitally enhanced. Of course they use posed photos in spring training because they are so easy to alter.

If they don’t do a “cars in the background” subset, I will be disappointed.

[MoreToppsPlease]

Originally Posted by bpw09

I completely agree. 1973 Topps was notorious/infamous for its peculiar action photos (Rudi, Garvey, Blue, Marichal, Alvarado, Norman, Montanez, Stargell & Beckert just to name a few). I felt that if Topps was gonna stay true to the original, they would need to include a good number of similar shots in the 73 Heritage. A prime example: this year's Cubs/Pirates matinee at PNC with the bizarre play involving Javier Baez. How cool would a card (or even two) be immortalizing some of the players, namely Baez and/or the Pirates catcher and Cubs baserunner who scored in that fiasco? heck, you could even do a crude airbrush of Baez in whatever team's uniform he'll be wearing next year! Alas, it wouldn't happen, because modern photoshop trickery can place players in uniforms they've never even worn on a baseball field, and you can't even tell that they are digitally enhanced. Of course they use posed photos in spring training because they are so easy to alter.

Definitely a good point. The one that immediately comes to my mind is:

[base set]

They have been re-creating the memorable cards just as you would hope. There were several re-dos in 71/20, not just the Munson/Sanchez card.

And there are only so many ways to pose a baseball player, and original sets used a lot of Spring Training photos. What gets old is the repetition in a team set - repeats within each year’s set, and then repeats from year to year after year.

Even the smallest team set this year was largely all the same backdrop:

https://www.comc.com/Teams/Baseball/...,vDetails,i100

Nevertheless, they sold the entire print run, and quickly. I do hope High Numbers will be a little easier to purchase.