2009 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards
2009 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards were released by The Topps
Company, Inc. on February 25, 2009. The collection recreates the vintage
design of the 1960 Topps Baseball series. Hobby and retail boxes contain 24 with 8 cards per pack. Blaster boxes
contain 8 packs with 8 cards per pack. Retail rack packs contain 14 cards.
Each pack contains an individually wrapped piece of bubble gum.
Insert odds vary for each release. The odds of finding a "News Flashbacks
1960" insert are approximately 1:12 hobby/retail packs and 1:6 rack packs.
The ten-card "News Flashbacks 1960" subset includes a diagram of the first weather satellite,
TIROS-1.
Weather forecasting was revolutionized on April Fool's Day 1960, when the
U.S. government launched the first weather satellite. TIROS-1, designed to
test techniques for shooting television weather footage from the earth's
orbit, left Cape Canaveral with two TV cameras and two tape recorders on
board. Previously, weather monitoring was done from gauges aboard planes,
balloons and ships.
The insert set includes a photograph of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. On September 8, 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicated the center, named in honor of his wartime colleague.
Named in honor of the acclaimed U.S. Army Chief of Staff, Secretary of
State and Nobel Prize winner, the Gen. George C. Marshall Space Flight
Center was dedicated on September 8, 1960, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
in Huntsville, AL. The original home of NASA, which had been created months
earlier, the Marshall Center became central to many of the greatest
breakthroughs in space exploration.
| News Flashbacks 1960 | |
|---|---|
| NF1 | Aswan High Dam Begins Construction |
| NF2 | Bathyscaphe Trieste |
| NF3 | Weather Satellite - Tiros-1 |
| NF4 | Civil Rights Act of 1960 |
| NF5 | Fifty-Star Flag |
| NF6 | USS Seadragon |
| NF7 | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| NF8 | Presidential Debate |
| NF9 | John F. Kennedy |
| NF10 | Polaris Missile |