Night Owl Cards

I purchased an achingly boring rack pack of Heritage about a week or so ago. Ever since then, I've been attempting to figure out a way to make the cards relevant so as to justify blowing 6 bucks. Normally, I dispense with relevance and throw them in a stack or a box and never think about them again. But this time I started thinking about how Heritage works very hard to match the set to the one from 49 years prior, right down to design, player poses, types of photos, card back, etc. One thing that I've heard that Heritage does, but never tested it out myself, is match corresponding card numbers. For example, if 1964 Topps #200 features a Dodger pitcher, then 2013 Topps Heritage #200 features a Dodger pitcher. The above example holds true because #200 in '64 Topps is Sandy Koufax, and #200 in 2013 Heritage is Clayton Kershaw. But is that the case for every card in the set? That always seemed to be a lot of unnecessary work on Topps' part. All that effort could ...