2020 Heritage and Topps 1971 Side By Side

Each year I like to compare the Heritage cards with their Topps counterparts.  I realize that they will never match up exactly.  I don't know why, but that's just the way it is.

I'll take each Heritage card and try to match it with a comparable 1971 card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Rest of the 2020 Heritage Cubs Inserts

Cub players were included in most of the insert sets, though the overall number of Cubs is down from the past few years.

I'm happy to see that Topps used era-appropriate pictures of Fergie.  They both look to be from 1970 or 1971.

 

The Baez card is from the Bazooka insert set.  The Billy Williams is from 1971.

 

Here's another side by side the the Heritage Scratch Off for Kris Bryant and the real deal from 1971. 

 

 The 1971 Super set was pretty easy to duplicate for Heritage.  How hard is it to have a picture and an autograph.

I get two Cubs on one sheet or Tattoos.  I mirrored the scan so you can see what it would look like if you stuck it on your arm.  The Williams tattoo is from the 1971 set.

Two Cubs made the Heritage set.  Billy Williams was one of three Cubs in the 1971 set. I don't have any of the 1971 cards as they run for around $100 each.  The picture is borrowed from Ebay.

The Complete Cubs Clubhouse Collection

As I said yesterday, I try to get all of the Cubs single player Clubhouse Collection cards from Heritage. With the five from 2020, the complete Cubs Clubhouse Collection consists of 68 cards.

Of the 68, 37 come from just the last five seasons. Good teams and the addition of the high set would be the main reason for the increased numbers. Here's how the number of cards has varied over the years.

0 cards - 2001, 2007, 2011, 2014
1 card - 2005, 2006
2 cards - 2002, 2003, 2004, 2013, 2015
4 cards - 2008, 2010, 2012
5 cards - 2009, 2020
6 cards - 2016, 2018
10 cards - 2017, 2019

I've made two tiles to show the collection. The horizontal tile has cards from 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019. The vertical years were 2008, 2009, 2017, and 2020