Strange Lineups Plague 2022 Topps Heritage High Number Release
Topps Heritage is back with its annual update set, Topps Heritage High Number. The High Number update features players that changed teams prior to and during the season in their new uniform, as well as some rookies that have made their major league debut.
Unlike the Topps Update Series, Topps Heritage High Number is a true continuation of the Topps Heritage set released earlier in the year. Topps Heritage. Printed using the same 1973 design, Topps Heritage High Number is a 225-card set numbered from 501 to 725, picking up where the 500-card Topps Heritage set left off. Topps has found a winning formula with the Topps Heritage and Topps Heritage High Number sets by utilizing vintage card designs and inserts that include retired legends. This is a product that collectors flock to and purchase year after year without thought.
As with every other Topps release, you will find relics and autographs randomly inserted and parallel versions in Black & White and Chrome for some cards in the set. Also included are cards from the original 1973 Topps set that include a buyback stamp on each card.
Numerous Mets cards can be found in this product, including one of the first Mets cards of Gosuke Katoh. Looking at some of the cards included in the base team set, Topps certainly made some odd decisions. Max Scherzer and Mark Canha, held back from the Topps Heritage release, were included in the High Number release. Strangely enough, the only trade deadline acquisition included is Daniel Vogelbach. Even stranger, was the inclusion of Eduardo Escobar. Escobar was included in the original Topps Heritage release as card number 254 and then again in High Number as card number 538. The oddities of Escobar’s inclusion doesn’t end there.
(L-R) 2022 Topps Heritage Eduardo Escobar, 2022 Topps Heritage High Number Eduardo Escobar.
No, those aren’t the same card and you are not seeing double. Topps used the exact same picture of Escobar on both cards…but that isn’t the only Mets player Topps did this with. Starling Marte got the same treatment. Makes you wonder how many players from other teams Topps did this with.
I’ve seen Topps use the same picture numerous times across different products, but nothing like this before. Although Francisco Alvarez, Brett Baty, and Mark Vientos made their debuts too late in the season to have been included, Topps could have at least had a card of Adam Ottavino, Luis Guillorme, Adonis Medina, Tommy Hunter, Trevor Williams, or even trade deadline acquisitions like Darin, Ruf, Tyler Naquin, or Mychal Givens.
The duplicates Eduardo Escobar and Starling Marie were truly an error that Topps could have prevented.
Below you will find a full checklist of the Mets cards included in 2022 Topps Heritage High Number.
2022 Topps Heritage High Number Mark Canha and Daniel Vogelbach.
Base
538 Eduardo Escobar
624 Nick Plummer
641 Max Scherzer
661 Gosuke Katoh (rookie card)
669 Mark Canha
671 Starling Marte
685 Carlos Carrasco
698 David Peterson
699 Daniel Vogelbach
1973 Baseball Pin-ups
73PU-29 Starling Marte
73PU-32 Tom Seaver
73PU-37 Max Scherzer
73PU-40 Francisco Lindor
1973 MLB All-Star Game Highlights
ASGH-9 Willie Mays
ASGH-15 Tom Seaver
1973 Topps Candy Lids
HN8 Max Scherzer
HN18 Tom Seaver
1973 Topps Comics
73TC-27 Max Scherzer
73TC-33 Francisco Lindor
73TC-42 Tom Seaver
1973 Topps Oversized
OB-MSZ Max Scherzer
OB-SM Starling Marte
OB-TS Tom Seaver
1973 Topps Venezuela
33 Max Scherzer
41 Pete Alonso
Action Image Variations
641 Max Scherzer
Black and White
641 Max Scherzer
669 Mark Canha
685 Carlos Carrasco
699 Daniel Vogelbach
Chrome
641 Max Scherzer
669 Mark Canha
685 Carlos Carrasco
Clubhouse Collection Dual Relics
CCD-ML Willie Mays/Francisco Lindor (numbered to 73)
Clubhouse Collection Relics
CCR-FL Francisco Lindor
CCR-MS Max Scherzer
CCR-SM Starling Marte
Mini (numbered to 100)
641 Max Scherzer
685 Carlos Carrasco
Nickname Variations
641 Max Scherzer
Now and The
NAT-8 Francisco Lindor
Player Icon Swap Variations
641 Max Scherzer
Real One Autographs
ROA-TM Tylor Megill
Team Name Color Swap Variations
641 Max Scherzer
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