2002 Bowman Heritage Baseball Black Box Variations are simple to spot. They also make completing a full master base set that much tougher.
Inserted 1:2 packs, variations have a black box on the front for the name plate. It also means that the facsimile signature inside the box is white. Regular cards have a black facsimile autograph.
If that wasn’t excitement enough, 20 cards don’t carry facsimile signatures at all. Instead the names are written with a computer font. These 20 cards are not variations, but rather an homage to one of the odd happenings in the 1954 Bowman set that 2002 Bowman Heritage takes its inspiration from.
Another quirk of 1954 Bowman is that two #66 cards produced, one of Ted Williams and another of Jimmy Piersall. This time it’s Pedro Martinez and Nomar Garciaparra who share the infamous number.
2002 Bowman Heritage Baseball Black Box Varitations Checklist
13 Hee Seop Choi
22 Barry Bonds
23 Justin Schuda
27 Aramis Ramirez
30 Kazuhisa Ishii
39 Mark Prior
41 Travis Foley
56 Mike Piazza
66 Nomar Garciaparra
72 Roy Oswalt
96 Victor Alvarez
99 Hank Blalock
107 Chipper Jones
108 Adam Dunn
120 Jose Macias
121 Josh Beckett
139 Juan Pierre
143 Toby Hall
145 Troy Glaus
146 Todd Helton
153 Miguel Tejada
167 Tony Womack
180 Rafael Furcal
182 David Wright
185 J.D. Drew
222 Vladimir Guerrero
227 Eric Chavez
238 Joe Mauer
240 Jimmy Rollins
246 So Taguchi
247 Sammy Sosa
251 Albert Pujols
258 Jason Giambi
261 Ichiro Suzuki
266 Orlando Hudson
269 Jay Caligiuri
274 Bobby Jenks
275 Joe Mays
277 Jonny Gomes
310 Tsuyoshi Shinjo
314 Scott Hairston
316 Jorge Posada
317 Chris Snelling
335 Keith Ginter
343 Alex Rodriguez
345 Derek Jeter
362 Ivan Rodriguez
390 Gavin Floyd
396 Brad Cresse
405 Josh Barfield
414 Wilkin Ruan
416 Carlos Hernandez
418 Jose Cruz Jr.
422 Ken Griffey Jr.
433 Austin Kearns
