Product Preview: 2026 Topps Heritage Baseball

About a monthly earlier than last year, 2026 Topps Heritage is set to release on March 18th. This set features the 1977 Topps design, which is a really good looking design, in my opinion. Let's get into some details.

Formats: 

Fat Packs

• 20 Cards per pack; 108 packs per case
• Exclusive Dark Yellow & Aqua Sparkle Parallels

Hanger Boxes

• 35 cards per box; 64 boxes per case
• Exclusive Light Purple & Burgundy Sparkle Parallels

Blaster Boxes

• 8 cards per pack; 8 packs per box; 40 boxes per case
• Exclusive Dark Green & Pink Sparkle parallels 

Mega Boxes

• 8 cards per pack; 17 packs per box; 20 boxes per case
• Exclusive Red & Silver Sparkle Parallels 

Hobby Boxes

• 8 cards per pack; 20 packs per box; 12 boxes per case
• 1 auto or relic per box
• 8 Dark Grey
• 8 Light Blue Sparkle

Key Rookies

We're chasing many of the same rookies from 2026 Topps Series 1 and some new ones!

The following rookies have base cards (few are are only quad base) and Real One Autos:

• Roman Anthony, Red Sox
• Connelly Early, Red Sox
• Payton Tolle, Red Sox
• Jhostynxon Garcia, Red Sox
• Bubba Chandler, Pirates
• Chase Burns, Reds
• Sal Stewart, Reds
• Carter Jenson, Royals
• Jac Caglianone, Royals
• Jonah Tong, Mets
  
• Nolan McLean, Mets
  
• Colson Montgomery, White Sox (Quad Base)
• Kyle Teel, White Sox
• Christian Moore, Angels
• Cam Schlittler, Yankees
• Colby Thomas, Athletics (Quad Base)
• Carson Williams, Rays
• Drew Gilbert, Giants (Quad Base)
• Harry Ford, Mariners
  
• Jacob Misiorowski, Brewers
• Jakob Marsee, Marlins
• Owen Caissie, Cubs
  
• Samuel Basallo, Orioles
  
• Warming Bernabel, Rockies (Quad Base)
• Bryce Eldridge, Giants
• Brice Matthews, Astros (Quad Base)

The following Rookies have Base Cards, but NO AUTOS:

• Trey Yesavage, Blue Jays
• Cole Young, Mariners
• Brandon Sproat, Mets

Base Set

The 2026 Topps Heritage feature a base set of 400, which includes record breakers, league leaders, AL/NL Champions, World Series Highlights, Turn back the clock, and some quad-rookie cards. 

Base Parallels: 

• Dark Grey (Hobby)
  
• Red (Mega)
• Dark Green (Blaster)
  
• Light Purple (Hanger)
• Dark Yellow (Fat pack)
• Deckle Edge (SSP)
• Color of the year - Orange (/77)

All 400 base cards have a chrome variation.

Chrome Parallels:

• Refractor
• Light Blue Sparkle (Hobby)
• Silver Sparkle (Mega)
• Pink Sparkle (Blaster)
• Burgundy Sparkle (Hanger)
• Aqua Sparkle (Fat Pack)
• Blue Bordered - /150
• Green Bordered - /99
• Black Bordered - /77
• Gold Bordered - /50
• Orange Bordered - /25
• Red Bordered - /5
• Superfractor - 1/1

Variations

• All-Star Logo Variation 
• Image Variation
• Alternate Banner Variation
• Nickname Variation
• Throwback Jersey Variation
• Black & White Image Variation

Inserts

• 1977 Topps Originals Buybacks
• Ready & Action

• The Enterprise - Referencing NASA's 1977 inaugural flight of the Enterprise shuttle.
• Raw Power - Referencing the creation of the Department of Energy in 1977

Relics

• Clubhouse Collection Relic (also dual & quad relics)
• Real One Relic
• Flashbacks Relic

Autographs

• Real One Auto (also dual & quad autos)

• Red Ink Real One Auto variation /77

• Expansion Auto - From the Mariners & Blue Jays, the two new expansion teams in 1977
• Turn Back the Clock Auto
• Chrome Auto

Autograph Relics

• Clubhouse Collection Auto Relic (also dual auto relic)
• Flashbacks Auto Relic
• There was was a man Auto Relic

What Does My Team Have?

Note: Dual and quad cards show up as 4 different items in the chart.