2019 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards

2019 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards were released by The Topps Company, Inc. on February 27, 2019. The collection recreates the vintage design of the 1970 Topps Baseball series.

Each hobby box contains 24 packs with 9 cards per pack. Each blaster box contains 8 packs with 9 cards per pack. Value packs contain 20 cards. Hanger boxes contain 35 cards. Insert odds vary for each release.

The odds of finding a "New Flashbacks 1970" insert are approximately 1:18 hobby packs, 1:18 retail packs, 1:12 value packs, and 1:6 hanger boxes.

 

The 15-card "New Flashbacks 1970" subset includes a photograph of the Apollo 13 lunar plaque attached to the Lunar Module Aquarius. The plaque was intended to remain on the lunar surface. The Apollo 13 mission was aborted and the Aquarius descent stage was used to return the crew to Earth. Aquarius and the lunar plaque burned during reentry into the Earth atmosphere on April 17, 1970.

"The Apollo 13 mission launched on April 11, 1970 as a planned lunar landing. An oxygen tank explosion forced NASA to abort two days into the flight. Through heroic efforts of the crew and Mission Control, the capsule returned to Earth on April 17."


 

A model of the Soviet Venera 7 spacecraft is pictured on display at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow, Russia. The Naval Imaging Command photograph was taken by Don S. Montgomery on September 18, 1985.

"On December 15, 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to enter the atmosphere of another planet. The Soviet probe landed on Venus following 120 days of travel. It transmitted 53 minutes of information to Earth, including 20 minutes from the surface."