2017 Topps Heritage Baseball Forum

I bought a base set of #s 1-400 and short prints of 501-700 . This appears how hey are being sold   How do you get cards 401-500 and 721-725.

Sounds as though you bought a regular base set (1-400) and a high number base set (501-700).  The numbers you ask about are Short Prints and sell at a premium due to supposed scarcity.

I would agree with that statement wackydog. With the amount of inserts, 1/1s, shortprints, etc. these days, a lot of collectors are simply considering a complete set as the regular base set, with no SPs, inserts, or variations.

The short print cards for Heritage can be found in packs of course, and I know they become available online on eBay, COMC, and other sites. I personally have only pulled one high number Heritage SP, but I haven't bought a ton of them so it's hard for me to give an accurate view on how easy they are to pull.

Thanks for the replies. its so hard to get a complete Heritage set nowadays, Topps has gotten very greedy with these fake short prints,

Short prints, variations, inserts...it drives me crazy. I have a very completionist tendency, and when I debated beginning to build some sets, I knew it would need to stay away from modern sets because of it!

The High Number Short prints fell one every three packs, so you'd have to buy at least four boxes to get the complete short print set.  The base set also fell one every three boxes, but with 100 in the set you'd need a case of 12 hobby boxes to still be 4 short of a complete set.

I'm with Jason.  I started collecting Opening Day because it was possible to put together a master set (I'm a completionist as well, kind of like Pokemon, got to catch them all).  Then they added the regular parallel set (first red, then gold, before sticking with blue), then they added the retail purple parallel of Toys R Us (hopefully their bankruptcy will bring an end to this, but most likely another retailer will pick it up) as well as the variations.  At first the variations weren't too bad, only 14 in 2013.  They are now up to 40 variations, 20% of the set, that's ridiculous.  Not to mention all of the SSP insert sets in this years Opening Day.  They are going to price themselves out of the market, as I assume less and less kids are starting into the hobby, 

If I remember right, 1986 Topps didn't have any SPs or errors or variations.  Those were the days.

Actually, 1986 Topps has the famed "blue streak" on the Clemens card, which extended to the Tom Seaver card.  Just sayin'  :)

Seems that Topps just can't stop doing it. The main WWE release had SP/Variations for the first time this year.