Some 2020 Topps Heritage High Numbers Just Arrived

My most-satisfying collecting endeavor of late has been my goal of pulling together every Topps Heritage San Francisco Giants card from the time Heritage started - from the series' 2001 debut to last year's awesome 1971 tribute cards in the Heritage 2020 set. Twenty team base sets, all laid out lovely in a binder, with a few Chromes and parallels and extras thrown in for good measure. I'm getting there.

What I hadn't been counting on was that that 2020 set was going to have a high number version, coming out recently. I had put the Heritage 2020 set to bed already, or so I'd thought. It's never really over until the year turns, is it? (2021 Topps Heritage comes out on March 3rd). These high number cards are #501 through #725, and it's something I'll get used to waiting around for as I continue to build these team sets each year.

A few of these San Francisco Giants - like Hunter Pence - weren't on the team when the initial 2020 set was put together. Pence, in fact, is no longer on the team now. CardBarrel has a good selection of these high number 2020s for a good price, so that's where I picked up my remaining Giants.

Another Little Piece Of My Uniform

I'll admit it - I'm already suckered into collecting bits of used player uniform stuck into insert cards. They got me. Assuming that it's all real, it's the most tangible connection any of us are going to have to the professional ballfield aside from our yearly visits to our respective FanFests. "Game-used" - and hopefully "post-game washed"?

When I bought my 2017 and 2020 Topps Heritage hobby boxes - the latter just a few weeks ago now - I was anticipating the moment in which I'd tear open a pack and find a Trout or a Betts or even an Otani game-worn uniform insert. Perhaps it would be autographed. Maybe I'd be sunning myself in Bora Bora right about now with that autographed Trout uni.

Hell, I'd even take a Dodger - Bellinger, Kershaw, whomever. Yet with all due respect to these guys, my two respective uniform inserts were probably the two lamest in the entire collection. Victor Martinez? Rhys Hoskins? Hoskins hit .226 last year. Martinez is now retired, but was total dogmeat in 2017 & 2018 before he bowed out. Hoskins may end up being a superstar - they say the kid's got talent - but man, I'll admit I was hoping to do a little better than this.

That said, having some lower-tier stars in these series is good for me overall. It's how I've accumulated a few Pablo Sandoval uniform pieces, even one during his infamous Red Sox days (not that there were very many of those). Pablo's my hero, and you'll be hearing a bunch more about him in posts to come. If Martinez or Hoskins is your hero, get in touch and we'll work something out.