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2025 Topps Heritage High Number Baseball essentially serves as the update series for the Heritage line, bringing collectors looks at rookies and new faces in new places on a retro design. But instead of standalone numbering like Topps Update, the Heritage High Number series continues where the main set left off in the spring.
Inspired by the design of the 1976 Topps flagship set, which later continued in the company’s second-ever Topps Traded edition, collectors will recall America’s bicentennial throughout the product. Boxes of the hobby-exclusive product will contain one autograph or relic card.
2025 Topps Heritage High Number Baseball Checklist Overview
The base set runs 225 cards, with 25 short prints at the tail end. The set picks up where the flagship Heritage stopped, meaning the first high-number card will be #501.
As is standard, there will parallels and short-print variations. The SPs include returning Image and Nickname variants and new Alternate Cartoons and Flipped Bat versions.
Parallels include:
- Dark Blue Border
- Black Border
- Flip Stock
- Bicentennial /200
- Color of the Year /76
Chrome versions of cards will also be in play, with several colorful parallels to chase.
- Refractors
- Light Blue Sparkles
- Blue Bordered /150
- Green Bordered /99
- Black Bordered /76
- Gold Bordered /50
- Orange Bordered /25
- Red Bordered /5
- Superfractor 1/1
As a salute to the bicentennial, Topps has created new parallels, inserts, and relic cards to recognize the legacy of America’s 200th birthday celebration.
Outside of Bicentennial Stars and Bicentennial Relics, collectors will also look for 1976 Retirees, which look back on legends like Henry Aaron, who retired after the ’76 season. Another ’76-themed set is Undefeated, which features highlights from the 1976 Reds and their seven straight playoff wins, and collectors can also find original 1976 Topps cards as foil-stamped buybacks.
Inserts focused on current players are Perfect 10s, Rookie Performers and Award Winners, featuring the 2024 honorees.
Real One Autographs lead the way for the product’s signatures. As has become standard, these cards will feature on-card signatures on the same retro design as the base set and feature a mix of current and retired players.
In addition to the base versions, collectors will look for Red Ink and Black and White Variations.
The High Number series will also have Wax Pack Autographs, which are designed to look like a signed 1976 Topps wax pack.
Clubhouse Collection relics include single player, and dual-player versions put together a current player and a past star from the same franchise. Collectors can also find 1976 Baseball and 1976 Celebrity 1/1 Cut Signatures.
2025 Topps Heritage High Number Baseball cards at a glance:
Cards per pack: Hobby – 8
Packs per box: Hobby – 24
Boxes per case: Hobby – 12
Set size: 225 cards
Release date (subject to change): December 17, 2025
What to expect in a hobby box:
- Autograph or Relic Cards – 1
- Short Prints or Inserts – 8 Total
- Dark Blue Border Parallels – 8
- Chrome Cards – 6
- Chrome Refractors – 2
- Light Blue Sparkle Parallels – 8
- Holographic Insert – 1