Random Card of the Day

 I too do not like the heritage sets.   Bottom line is that it is not a 1960 or 1965.   What's the point?

I don't mind the heritage and I think it is kind of cool that they have been going year by year, but now with Archives there is too much retro rebranding. Topps needs to dump either Heritage or better yet Archives, even though I liked archives in 2012. Or they need to change Archives drastically to stop all this old design repetition.

 Topps just needs to stop making 15 different baseball sets... each having like 10-20 different parallels. 

@ThemightyOx:

 I wouldnt mind if Topps had a little more than 2. Maybe something like this.

Hated the '59 Topps set.  Way too much border and not enuf pic.

I like the card stock of Heritage better, but I like the design of Archives more.  I also agree there are too many sets and subsets and variations and parallels that it is so much to keep count of (luckily we have this site).

  I agree that they should be limited to 2 or maybe 3 sets per company.  Topps could stick to a main set and an update set later in the year, then have an Archives set.  They should limit their subsets to 50 or less with a max of 5 per set.  While I like the minors cards, I would prefer if they just did that under the Bowman banner.  Its not like they are considered true rookie cards.

I wish they would go back to putting more emphasis on collecting the base set as opposed to getting all the variations and such.  I also wish the base set would have one card for one number (no more 2a, 2b, 2c and such).   It's a shame I started collecting just as the card industry started to stray from this concept (1991-1992)), though it wasn't near as bad as it is now.

And since I'm ranting, I wish that if Panini is going to sell cards under the Donruss umbrella and whatever other brand, they wouldn't putthe Panini logo on the cards too. That's just me though.