As Brent Musburger would say "Your Looking live at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia in 1976 where days earlier America celebrated its Bicentential celebration. Tonight's Major League Baseball All-Star Game will take center stage here in the city of Brotherly Love." Sure we celebrate 250 years today & the All-Star Game is in Philadelphia this year. Well its been 30 years since the last All-Star Game was in Philadelphia & sure most of you old school people know who was the MVP of that game 30 years ago it was Philadelphia's native son Mike Piazza. I am not here to talk about that, what I am going to talk about that most people overlooked again on this year's Topps Heritage. I can hear ya already saying what are you going on about now.
Simple the 2026 Heritage set is based on the 1977 design & in that set there were 3 players on the American League squad from the year before that were a shocker to the starting line-up for the American League team that year considering that the team that was featured with the 3 starters were for a team that finished in 17th place out of 24 teams & well that same team had 4 Starters named to the All-Star game last year. What team is that you ask the Detroit Tigers look at the 1976 All-Stars starters Mark Fidrych,Rusty Staub,& Ron LeFlore now last year ya had Tarik Skubal,Riley Greene,Javier Baez,Gleyber Torres as of typing this post the Tigers are in 17th place out of 30 teams now. Its like history repeating itself again now the clincher would be if last years All-Star game MVP repeats as MVP again but it be a 30 year replay again however even though Kyle Schwarber is not a native son like Piazza was but hes playing for the local team & both are catchers. Anyways I just wanted to say to everyone have a safe & enjoy the celebration as for me Ill be busy working tonight gotta make some more $$$$$ to get more stuff I leave you now with a quote that sums up the 250 celebration given by none other than former Soviet Union deportee who's an American citizen now Yakov Smirnoff "America what a great country"
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