I don’t really have much to say about Archives. It doesn’t really feel to me like it’s needed, when there is a Heritage release. In recent years with all the tributes to sets from the 80s showing up in the flagship release, it feels like reusing old designs is getting overdone.

Archives usually focuses on three designs. This year, the main designs are 1958, 1975, and 1993. We also see 1978 Record Breakers, as well as 1994 Future Stars. The base set features 300 cards, with an additional 30 Short Prints. Unlike some of the other releases, the SPs seem to be pretty achievable.

Over the years, we’ve seen Archives including tributes to movies like Major League and The Sandlot. There’s no movie this year. Rather, we see a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Montreal Expos, as both inserts and autographs. This does get us some fun names as a team that only exists as memories at this point.

A box contains 24 packs of 8 cards, including 2 on-card autographs.

This box contained:

170 Base (56.7% of 300 card base set)
9 Base SP (30% of 30 card base SP set)
1 Base Purple Parallel
1 Base Silver Parallel
2 1994 Future Stars
2 Ichiro Reprints
1 50th Anniversary Montreal Expos
4 Topps Magazine
1 Fan Favorites Autographs Joe Pepitone
1 50th Anniversary Expos Autographs Bill Gullickson