2010 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards
2010 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards were released by The Topps
Company, Inc. on February 22, 2010. The collection recreates the vintage
design of the 1961 Topps Baseball series.
Hobby and retail boxes contain 24 with 8 cards per pack. Retail half-boxes
contain 12 packs with 8 cards pack. Retail gravity boxes contain 36 packs
with 8 cards per pack. Blaster boxes contain 8 packs with 8 cards per pack.
Retail rack packs contain 14 cards. Insert odds vary for each release.
The odds of finding a "News Flashbacks 1961" insert are approximately 1:12
hobby/retail packs and 1:6 rack packs.
In the early days of space travel, "Ham" was chosen out of a pool of 40
chimpanzees to be the first hominid to leave the earth. On January 31, 1961,
he was launched inside a Project Mercury capsule for a trip of less than 17
minutes before returning safely for an ocean landing. The mission helped
clear the way for the first manned U.S. space flight, which followed three
months later. Ham lived to the age of 26.
Once a remote frontier, the planet Venus became a little more accessible to
Earthlings with the launch of Venera 1 by the Soviet Union on February 12,
1961. The first planetary probe dispatched to Venus, it was equipped with
instrumentation to conduct a variety of experiments. wealth of scientific
intelligence was collected during its "fly by" before Venera 1 ultimately
failed due to technical problems.
NASA, accepting a challenge from President John F. Kennedy issued in a
Special Message to Congress on May 25, 1961, set upon a mission of landing a
man on the Moon before the end of the decade. Dubbed the Apollo Program, it
was the United States' third human space flight program, succeeding Mercury
and Gemini. Its goal was realized on July 20, 1969, then was followed by
five subsequent manned Moon landings.
The first manned space flight, Vostok 1, was launched by the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961. "My whole life is now before me as a single breathtaking moment," uttered Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin minutes before departing. Gagarin made a single orbit around the Earth in a journey with a duration of 108 minutes, then ejected from an altitude of about four miles and parachuted to the ground.
| News Flashbacks 1961 | |
|---|---|
| NF1 | Peace Corps |
| NF2 | John F. Kennedy |
| NF3 | Ham the Chimp |
| NF4 | Venera 1 |
| NF5 | Mohammed Hassan II |
| NF6 | Twenty-Third Amendment |
| NF7 | Apollo Program Announced |
| NF8 | Berlin Wall |
| NF9 | Vostok 1 |
| NF10 | Ty Cobb |