2025 Topps Heritage Rack Pack

Greetings!

Hope everyone is doing well.  We're in the unofficial second half of the baseball season, after the interesting ending to the All-Star Game in Atlanta.  

I was fine with the swing-off, but I thought they were going to play a 10th inning.  I also think the fans should be able to vote for at least 1 of the 3 participants for each side.  Sure, every year they'd vote for Ohtani and Judge, so MLB can make a sure that says the fan vote winner cannot be the same player 2 years in a row.  So if Judge is chosen, he can stay loose in case he's needed for the end of the game, knowing he can't be chosen the following year (and Aaron Boone won't get stuck with Jonathan Aranda as his last chance player...nothing against Aranda, but I'm not too sure Boone really wanted to have him be the 3rd player when he submitted his line-up).

Topps Heritage was released back in April.  I figured someone like the legendary Night Owl would have posted a pack celebrating the 1976 set over here, but oh well.  Here's the pack given to me for Father's Day; let's see if the boys chose wisely:

#148 - Shohei Ohtani

#112 - Jung Hoo Lee

Starting off strong with the chubby All-Star icon.  Lee has spent some time on my Fantasy Team (I'm still kinda bummed the blogosphere couldn't get a Fantasy League going).

#205 - Emmanuel Clase / Ryan Helsley – League Leaders

#152 - Marcell Ozuna

Clase is not gonna lead the league in saves this year.  MLB better make some changes.

#57 - David Peterson

#34 - Nathan Eovaldi

#157 - Geraldo Perdomo

#49 - Josh Naylor

There's 500 cards in the set, with cards 401-500 short printed.  Unlike last year, it's better to have the short prints at the end of the checklist, as opposed to the start.

#374 - Pete Alonso

#163 - Keibert Ruiz

#306 - Luis Guerrero (RC)

#109 - Tyler Gentry (RC)

Guerrero has pitched in 13 games so far this year (9 last year), while Gentry has only played a total of 3 games so far, all last year.

#272 - Ha-Seong Kim

#68 - Craig Biggio / Cavan Biggio – Father and Son

There's 5 cards in the Father and Son subset.  Ha-Seong Kim's in Tampa Bay now.

#288 - Michael Kopech (Chrome)

Not every Rack Pack comes with the shiny card, so you'll have to believe me that this is a shiny card.

#291 - Rhys Hoskins (Light Blue Sparkle Chrome)

#259 - Dylan Cease (Color Match)

I'm pretty sure I got the names of these parallels down right, but don't quote me on it!

#351 - Bradley Blalock (RC)

#212 - Giancarlo Stanton

#38 - José Berríos

3 more cards to end the pack.  I thought Bradley would be related to Hank Blalock, but apparently not.

Here's the backs because 1976:

Anyway, that's the pack.  Heritage is usually a solid release so you can't go wrong with trying it out.  Hope everyone has a good week, and thanks for reading!