2025 Heritage: Salvador Perez has struggled this season but he's a five-time Gold Glove winner, 9X All-Star, 5X Silver Slugger, Clemente Award winner, and World Series MVP. He also led the league in home runs and runs batted in in 2021. His work behind the plate and as a hitting catcher may well put him in the Hall of Fame someday.
We revisit the '76 Topps design in this year's set. I like it here. I'm not necessarily a big fan of the designs from the 70s and prior but this one isn't too bad on new wax.
We get our young players including Darren Baker on a hanger box exclusive Light Purple Parallel.
I pulled two record breakers. I like them. They and other subsets within the 500-card base set are nods to some of the same subsets seen in the '76 set.
I like these cards. Fun, and as a longtime fan of the sport I see more and more sons of players I watched 20+ years ago every year.
Three Chrome inserts including a Burgundy Sparkle Parallel. I like the look of that parallel. Sonny Gray is a Holo Foil Parallel.
Fernando Tatis Jr. is having a great start to the 2025 season. The backs of the cards are fun but without proper lighting they are hard to read.
Three League Leader cards which are great. I like the photos, layout and stats. The backs give us the leaders in the stat for each year. I love that.
Fun box of cards. Not sure if I grab more of these from retail but I can see myself picking off singles.BREAKDOWN:
35 – Total Cards
3 – Chrome
3 – League Leaders
2 – Record Breakers
1 – Father and Son
1 – Holo Foil Parallel
1 – Light Purple Parallel
1 – Burgundy Sparkle Chrome Parallel
I do like this year's Heritage but 1976 is a special year since it is when I was born. There are nice subsets that I think I am going to try to tackle; All Time All Stars and Father and Sons plus the players I collect. That Tatis Jr is a great looking card!
ReplyDeleteI really like the Tatis Jr. And with it being your birth year, heck yeah you should go after some of the cards.
DeleteI had given thought to pursuing the set but for now I will stick to cards of my team and player collections and the two subsets.
DeletePerez wins it.
ReplyDeleteGood looking card which is why he leads off.
DeleteSo many parallels!
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