2021 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards
2021 Topps Heritage Baseball trading cards were released by The Topps Company, Inc. on March 26, 2021. The High Number expansion was
released on December 8, 2021. The collection recreates the vintage design of the
1972 Topps Baseball series.
Each hobby box contains 24 packs with 9 cards per pack. Each blaster box
contains 8 packs. Exclusive Walmart and Target Mega boxes contain 17 packs.
Hanger packs contain 35 cards. Insert odds vary for each release.
The odds of finding a "News Flashbacks" insert are approximately 1:25 hobby packs, 1:25 Mega packs, 1:25 blaster packs, or 1:5 hanger packs.
The 15-card "News Flashbacks" subset includes a photograph of Apollo 17 Lunar Module
pilot Harrison "Jack" Schmitt on the lunar surface. Jack Schmitt is the
twelfth person to walk on the Moon. Schmitt is pictured with
Tracy's Rock, also known as Split Rock or the Station 6 Boulder. The
photograph was taken by Commander Eugene Cernan in the Taurus–Littrow valley
on December 13, 1972. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is visible on the card
image.
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Jack Schmitt landed on the moon at 2:55 p.m.,
to begin a 75-hour stay. The Challenger touched down between mountain ranges
over 7,800-feet high, in a crater called "Camelot." "Absolutely incredible,"
Schmitt said. "The epic moment of my life."
The Pioneer 10 space probe is pictured at NASA Ames Research Center in
Mountain View, California. Pioneer 10 was launched by an Atlas-Centaur rocket
on March 3, 1972. The probe made its closest approach to Jupiter on December
4, 1973, at a range of 81,000 miles (130,354 km). The spacecraft reached a
velocity of approximately 78,000 miles per hour (126,000 kph). The last signal
received from the probe was on January 23, 2003. Pioneer 10 is the third
farthest spacecraft from the Sun.
The Pioneer 10 spacecraft raced beyond the moon in record time, as it
cruised to Jupiter, more than 600 million miles away. The Atlas-Centaur
rocket propelled the 565-pound craft to a speed of 31,413 miles per hour
7,000 mph faster than any other space vehicle had ever flown.
| News Flashbacks | |
|---|---|
| NF-APOL | Apollo 17 Lands on the Moon |
| NF-ARP | Atari Releases Pong |
| NF-BF | Bobby Fischer Wins World Chess Championship |
| NF-CAM | Bilingual Cameroon Unites |
| NF-DJ | Dow Jones Closes Above 1,000 for First Time |
| NF-DWI | Digital Watches Introduced |
| NF-ERA | Equal Rights Admendment Passed |
| NF-GGB | Golden Gate National Recreation Area Opens |
| NF-HT | President Harry Truman Passes Away |
| NF-OLY | 1972 Winter Games Kick Off in Japan |
| NF-PIO | Pioneer 10 Spacecraft Launched |
| NF-PIR | The Price Is Right Airs on CBS |
| NF-POS | The Poseidon Adventure Tops 1972 Box Office |
| NF-RF | Roberta Flack Tops the Billboard Hot 100 |
| NF-RN | Watergate Scandal Begins with Break-In |