2009 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards



2009 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards were released by The Topps Company, Inc. on February 25, 2009. The collection recreates the vintage design of the 1960 Topps Baseball series. Hobby and retail boxes contain 24 with 8 cards per pack. Blaster boxes contain 8 packs with 8 cards per pack. Retail rack packs contain 14 cards. Each pack contains an individually wrapped piece of bubble gum.

Insert odds vary for each release. The odds of finding a "News Flashbacks 1960" insert are approximately 1:12 hobby/retail packs and 1:6 rack packs.

 The ten-card "News Flashbacks 1960" subset includes a diagram of the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.

2009 Topps Heritage Baseball NF3 - Weather Satellite - Tiros-1

Weather forecasting was revolutionized on April Fool's Day 1960, when the U.S. government launched the first weather satellite. TIROS-1, designed to test techniques for shooting television weather footage from the earth's orbit, left Cape Canaveral with two TV cameras and two tape recorders on board. Previously, weather monitoring was done from gauges aboard planes, balloons and ships.

2009 Topps Heritage Baseball NF3 - Weather Satellite - Tiros-1


The insert set includes a photograph of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. On September 8, 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicated the center, named in honor of his wartime colleague.

2009 Topps Heritage Baseball NF7 - Marshall Space Flight Center

Named in honor of the acclaimed U.S. Army Chief of Staff, Secretary of State and Nobel Prize winner, the Gen. George C. Marshall Space Flight Center was dedicated on September 8, 1960, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Huntsville, AL. The original home of NASA, which had been created months earlier, the Marshall Center became central to many of the greatest breakthroughs in space exploration.

2009 Topps Heritage Baseball NF7 - Marshall Space Flight Center


News Flashbacks 1960
NF1 Aswan High Dam Begins Construction
NF2 Bathyscaphe Trieste
NF3 Weather Satellite - Tiros-1
NF4 Civil Rights Act of 1960
NF5 Fifty-Star Flag
NF6 USS Seadragon
NF7 Marshall Space Flight Center
NF8 Presidential Debate
NF9 John F. Kennedy
NF10 Polaris Missile