Dodgers Baseball Playing cards: 2024 Topps Heritage set

There may be one other new baseball card set this yr, and it's additionally an outdated set, in a row. That is the Topps Heritage 2024 set, which makes use of the type of an outdated Topps set from 49 years earlier. Just a few weeks in the past we additionally checked out Collection 1 of this yr's common Topps set.

This yr's outdated set is 1975 Topps, with the two-tone technicolor borders and block lettering on the high. Right here's a have a look at Shohei Ohtani's first Dodgers card in a Heritage set:

The 2024 heritage base set has 500 playing cards, of which there are 15 common Dodgers playing cards, plus 5 different Dodgers-related playing cards (with season highlights or former award winners).

The backs of the Topps 1975 set and, by extension, the Topps Heritage 2024 set, are specified by portrait mode reasonably than the normal panorama view we often see for baseball playing cards. It's a reasonably easy set of statistics – at-bats, hits, doubles, triples, residence runs, RBI, and batting common for hitters; video games, innings, wins, losses, strikeouts, walks, and ERA for the pitchers – however there's additionally a kind of trivia query that's introduced with basic Topps cartoon art work.

Gavin Lux had the glory of getting a trivia query about him: “Who led the NL in triples in 2022?”

The again of Bobby Miller's card poses a trivia query involving Don Sutton as an alternative.

One factor I love to do with these Heritage units is have a look at the playing cards from the unique Topps set that that is copied from, to match and distinction. I attempted to match just a few pairs of playing cards primarily based on some commonalities:

Smiling All-Stars and MVP candidates (Jim Wynn, a model of whose 1975 card continues to be on show on the membership stage at Dodger Stadium; and Mookie Betts)
Dodgers catchers in motion: Joe Ferguson and Will Smith, every throughout a sport

Two Dodgers Cy Younger Award profitable pitchers: Mike Marshall and Clayton Kershaw
A pair of beginning pitchers rehabbing from Tommy John surgical procedure: the unique affected person on this case, plus Walker Buehler