2010 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards



2010 Topps Heritage Baseball Trading Cards were released by The Topps Company, Inc. on February 22, 2010. The collection recreates the vintage design of the 1961 Topps Baseball series.

Hobby and retail boxes contain 24 with 8 cards per pack. Retail half-boxes contain 12 packs with 8 cards pack. Retail gravity boxes contain 36 packs with 8 cards per pack. Blaster boxes contain 8 packs with 8 cards per pack. Retail rack packs contain 14 cards. Insert odds vary for each release.

The odds of finding a "News Flashbacks 1961" insert are approximately 1:12 hobby/retail packs and 1:6 rack packs.


2010 Topps Heritage Baseball NF3 - Ham the Chimp 2010 Topps Heritage Baseball NF3 - Ham the Chimp

In the early days of space travel, "Ham" was chosen out of a pool of 40 chimpanzees to be the first hominid to leave the earth. On January 31, 1961, he was launched inside a Project Mercury capsule for a trip of less than 17 minutes before returning safely for an ocean landing. The mission helped clear the way for the first manned U.S. space flight, which followed three months later. Ham lived to the age of 26.


2010 Topps Heritage Baseball NF4 - Venera 1 2010 Topps Heritage Baseball NF4 - Venera 1

Once a remote frontier, the planet Venus became a little more accessible to Earthlings with the launch of Venera 1 by the Soviet Union on February 12, 1961. The first planetary probe dispatched to Venus, it was equipped with instrumentation to conduct a variety of experiments. wealth of scientific intelligence was collected during its "fly by" before Venera 1 ultimately failed due to technical problems.


2010 Topps Heritage Baseball NF7 - Apollo Program Announced 2010 Topps Heritage Baseball NF7 - Apollo Program Announced

NASA, accepting a challenge from President John F. Kennedy issued in a Special Message to Congress on May 25, 1961, set upon a mission of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. Dubbed the Apollo Program, it was the United States' third human space flight program, succeeding Mercury and Gemini. Its goal was realized on July 20, 1969, then was followed by five subsequent manned Moon landings.


2010 Topps Heritage Baseball NF9 - Vostok 12010 Topps Heritage Baseball NF9 - Vostok 1

The first manned space flight, Vostok 1, was launched by the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961. "My whole life is now before me as a single breathtaking moment," uttered Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin minutes before departing. Gagarin made a single orbit around the Earth in a journey with a duration of 108 minutes, then ejected from an altitude of about four miles and parachuted to the ground.


News Flashbacks 1961
NF1 Peace Corps
NF2 John F. Kennedy
NF3 Ham the Chimp
NF4 Venera 1
NF5 Mohammed Hassan II
NF6 Twenty-Third Amendment
NF7 Apollo Program Announced
NF8 Berlin Wall
NF9 Vostok 1
NF10 Ty Cobb