Many readers have probably been bracing for this year. They know my love for 1975 Topps and that I have been looking forward to 2024 Heritage for that reason for as long as the blog has been going. For the rest of you? I apologize for my behavior in the months ahead. This is the first of many obsession posts about 2024 Heritage. The checklist was released yesterday and, well, I absolutely have to pick that apart. This is the perfect thing for a blog, no other social media outlet can handle breakdowns of a set checklist, other than, "hey, the checklist is out!" So, I will begin. 1. Let's start with the SPs. I've referred to these already, discussing the clamor about the SPs being moved to the first 100 cards of the set rather than the back 100. Where they show up in the set doesn't bother me. The fact that there are SPs, when 1975 Topps had absolutely none -- it was not a set broken up into series -- is what's irksome and exposes Topps as squeezing us for ...
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