Who's Been Sleeping on 2021 Heritage?

When it became clear to me and anyone who can add numbers numerically that the 2021 Topps Heritage baseball design was set to recognize the landmark 1972 Topps template - the art deco design that is one of the finest card designs of all time - I was like, yeah, this is going to be a smash hit. There are enough middle-agers out there (me being one of them) who remembers at least the remnants of original 1972 cards in kids' collections, if they didn't outright collect them themselves, and aside from the glories of the 1975 set, it was by far the best flagship Topps baseball design they'd ever again create.

Naturally Topps Heritage 2021 was going to be blockbuster, right? Well, judging from the lack of enthusiasm I've seen out there in the card blog universe, I reckon that either it didn't make quite the impact I thought it would, or it's just, you know - ho-hum, another year of Topps Heritage.

I suppose that leaves it to me - who loves this set and plans to complete the whole thing (here's what I'm missing) - to crow about the set as new 2021 Heritage cards trickle into my collection. I love how it looks, smells, feels etc. There are many quibbles with it that have been documented in the early blog posts of others that I've read - right when these were first released a few months ago - but nothing that put me off the trail of trying to get the 500 base cards and all the extras into my hands.

A recent CardBarrel order netted me another 15 or so that I needed. Here are 9 of them.