2009 Topps Heritage Baseball Pujols Rookie Card Variation

[Tere1071]

Originally Posted by drmiraculous

Heritage are the perfect gateway to vintage cards, even teaching me to get used to impossible-to acquire shortprints! I love em but gave em up after 2008 or so to focus on older stuff. Heritage seems to have gotten even deeper into ssp and alternates, brutal for collecting but fun to see.

When I collected Heritage from 2012-2019, I began simply, but then I had to get the entire run with all of the SSPs. I drew the line at chrome, relic, and autographed cards, they were never a part of my sets. Part of the reason that I started going after the SSPs was a sense of havint to "complete" the sets, plus I wasn't convinced that I could collect the cards of my youth. Well, I was wrong and as a result, my vintage collecting beginning at the tail end of 2019 to the present has cost me far more than if I had begun in 2012. Oh well.

Happy collecting!

Phil aka Tere1071

[frankhardy]

Fortunately, I have the Pujols rookie variation the original poster asked about and Al posted. Mine is not graded. It is in my team set album.

I did not know about the 2011 (1962) Heritage green tints. Looks like I now need a Skip Schumaker and a Ryan Franklin. Urgh!

Speaking of rare Heritage variations, I am STILL looking for a 2014 (1965 design) Topps Heritage Adam Wainwright throwback uniform SSP. I finally acquired a Molina last year and it took years to find. I am also looking for last years 1975 design of Nolan Arenado's SSP throwback. I have the mini, but not the regular size.

Edited to say - I just found a Ryan Franklin for $22.03 including shipping. Now, I need the Skippy. Hoping it is not too difficult!

[ALR-bishop]

Shane---there are red and blue tints too. Not sure if they are consistent with the green in tems of players....but if so you need all 3 versions .


For anyone not familiar Shane's Topps Cardinals collection is amazing. He has a comprehensive thread on CU

https://forums.collectors.com/discus...ditions#latest

[frankhardy]

Al,

Number one - thanks for the Cardinals collection comment. Much appreciated. That is just a thread on my the autograph portion of my collection. I have regular team sets that are not signed that fill up 27 albums.

Number two - not so much thanks on notifying me of TWO MORE variations for Skip Schumaker and Ryan Franklin.

[swarmee]

https://baseballcardpedia.com/index....Topps_Heritage

In the 1962 Topps set, the early press runs of the second series (cards 110-196) were printed with extra green ink. As a result, the backgrounds of a limited number of Series Two cards have a lime-green "tint" to it.

2011 Topps Heritage evokes these "Green Tint" cards with a special variation available in all packs of cards 110-196, EXCEPT for Joba Chamberlain's card #159. Instead, #159 was replaced with Joba Chamberlain's "139 kneeling ball & glove" variation (see below).

In addition, two other color tints were available exclusively in retail packs.

Blue tint: Exclusive to Wal-Mart looseys
Red tint: Exclusive to Target looseys
Like the Green Tints, the checklist on the Blue and Red Tints parallels cards 110-196 in the set.