As many of you know, Jason Varitek didn't sign a Topps contract until 2007, and thus didn't appear on any Topps cards before then, with the exception of his 1992 Traded issue in his Team USA uniform. (The story I heard years ago was that he was so put off by the photographer in '92, he refused to sign a Topps contract, but who knows.)
This is the first of a number of Varitek Heritage cards I have "in the can." You know what's weird about the '01 Heritage set, at least from a Sox standpoint? The "base" team set -- that is, the non-short prints -- weighs in at a whopping two cards, Manny Ramirez and the immortal Wilton Veras (or I called him, Wiltin' Badly). The other 16 Boston cards are jammed into the short-printed high number series, which is 16 more than the number of Yankee SPs. (On the other hand, the Mets base team set is one card -- Timo Perez -- and the other 17 cards are SPs.) Sounds like someone at Topps reallllly liked the Red Sox, huh?
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