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.
