Topps Heritage Cards to Feature Chrome Autographs For First Time
For the first time ever, Topps Heritage will feature chrome autographs. The 2025 product is set to drop April 23rd and will feature the 1976 Topps design.
FIRST LOOK: For the first time ever, Topps Heritage Baseball will feature Chrome Autographs. pic.twitter.com/jWYYUhzaaG
— Topps (@Topps) April 19, 2025
In each hobby box there is a guaranteed relic or autograph. Printed in larger quantities, collectors will likely find a relic, when it is an autograph is it always on-card, the Real One Autograph. The classic look of the throwback designs blend well with the red or blue ink used by the player.
And while Heritage boxes include chrome parallels, they have never included chrome parallels with autographs until this release. In the post to X (formerly Twitter) Topps also included the list of just 10 players who will have on-card, chrome autographs.
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10 players have Chrome on-card autographs in 2025 Heritage:
— Topps (@Topps) April 19, 2025
Brooks Lee
Ben Rice
Heston Kjerstad
Jackson Jobe
J.T. Realmuto
James Wood
Luisangel Acuña
Paul Skenes
Ronald Acuña Jr.
Rafael Devers
Topps is clearly trying to remake their Heritage product to generate more interest and get collectors reinvigorated with the set. While historically this product tailored to the set builders, 2024 Heritage High Number showed they are expanding with the inclusion of a few more chrome parallels included per box than in years past.
By including chrome autographs, Topps is still making small modifications to the set, and by limiting the checklist for chrome autographs to just 10 names of both vets and rookies, demand and resale value will skyrocket.
After graduating from the University of North Dakota in 2008, Cole worked as an advertising copywriter until shifting to print journalism a few years later. Managing three weekly newspapers in the Dakotas, Cole won numerous awards from the North Dakota Newspaper Association including Best of the Dakotas and, their top award, General Excellence. He returned to collecting in 2021 and has since combined his passion for writing with his love of cards. Cole also writes for the Sports Cards Nonsense newsletter and has made guest appearances on multiple sports card collecting podcasts including Sports Cards Nonsense, and the Eephus Baseball Cards Podcast. IG: coleryan411 X: @colebenz