Topps screwed us again - They have Short printed 100 of the 400 2026 (1977) Heritage cards

 That is the first reports I am hearing/seeing

When I saw basically all the stars in the initial checklist of 400 (and no short prints listed)- I thought this might be the year I buy some boxes and put together the set. 

Well it appears that Topps has short printed cards throughout the 400 card checklist. They did this more than 10 years ago but the checklist were 500 cards. So no one saw this coming until......

Until collectors starting opening the packs and started getting 2 cards of the same player in a pack. A comment on Becket revealed some one bought 2 boxes and got 33% of the set.

It appears there are only 8 short print cards per box (better than the 25 cards they short printed in 2025 Heritage update - I dont want to pay $50 for a Nick Kurtz rookie).

To complete the 400 card set - you might have to buy 20 boxes. 

Growing up as a kid in the 1970s - the 1977 and 1979 set may have been the last 2 sets to give me that nostalgia feeling.  Really like the 1983 set but I was in college and that was the beginning of Baseball cards were about the Rookies. 

If this will be what Heritage is for now on - Good bye Heritage - the Nostalgia is over.

The Baseball Hall of Fame is BROKEN

 Jeff Kent, Andruw Jones, and Carlos Beltran were fine players. They were very good players But truly when they were active did anyone think they were watching a Hall of Famer. I doubt it.

I thought Dick Allen and Dave Parker were borderline choices last year. They won MVP and seemed to be the best players in the league for about a year or two.

Harold Baines got in. Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio (ok he got 3000 hits) were borderline. 

The problem with the hall of fame began years ago when they put all of those players in from the 1920s and 1930s who did not really deserve it - but when the 1960s and 1970s were happening those batting averages from those players in the 20s and 30s, made them look like gods. Of course the NL hit .300 in 1930.

Who is not in

Joe Jackson - 2nd highest batting average all time

Pete Rose - All time hit King

Barry Bonds - let me see Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron steal 500 bases.

Roger Clemens - 7 Cy Youngs

A-Rod - are you kidding me there is not a pill that can make you hit

Manny Rameriz - He was baseball for 10 years - Dominate

Mark McGuire - When you saw him play - he was greatness

Rafael Palmerio - To me he was borderline and like some of the players from the 1920s and 1930s who had inflated stats but he probably should be in.