2008 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards
2008 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards were released by The Topps
Company, Inc. on February 26, 2008. The collection recreates the vintage
design of the 1959 Topps Baseball series.
Hobby and retail boxes contain 24 with 8 cards per pack. Blaster boxes
contain 7 packs with 8 cards per pack, plus an extra 4-card pack. Each
8-card pack contains an individually wrapped piece of bubble gum.
Insert odds vary for each release. The odds of finding a "News Flashbacks
1959" insert are approximately 1:12 hobby/retail packs.
The ten-card subset includes a photograph of astronaut John
Glenn inside of a Project Mercury boilerplate. The photograph was taken by
Ralph Morse for Life magazine in 1959. The original image has been flipped horizontally and recolored on the card.
They were poked, prodded, scrutinized and subjected to round after round
of intense interviews. But when Project Mercury introduced America's first
seven astronauts on April 9, 1959, their rigorous qualifying and training
ordeals during the program's first year seemed eminently worth it. The
"Mercury 7" accomplished six human- tended space flights during the
five-year program and became national heroes.
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (Луна 2) is the first man-made object to reach the surface of the Moon. The photograph of the Moon that appears on the card front was not imaged by Luna 2.
It wasn't that impressive to the eye. In fact, Luna 2 looked like a cheap
set prop in a low-budget sci-fi film. But the 860-pound, Soviet-made orb
made history on September 14, 1959. That was when, after separating from
the third stage of its SS-6 rocket, Luna 2 crashed into the moon some 33
1/2 hours after leaving earth. Luna 2's lunar impact made it the first
man-made object on the moon.
| News Flashbacks 1959 | |
|---|---|
| NF1 | Alaska Becomes the 49th State |
| NF2 | The Day the Music Died |
| NF3 | Fidel Castro Becomes Prime Minister of Cuba |
| NF4 | The Dalai Lama Flees to India |
| NF5 | NASA Introduces the First Seven Astronauts |
| NF6 | Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev |
| NF7 | Hawaii Becomes the 50th State |
| NF8 | USSR's Luna 2 Becomes the First Man-made Object on the Moon |
| NF9 | In Cold Blood Murders Committed |
| NF10 | Antarctic Treaty Signed |