搶先看:2017 Topps Allen and Ginter Baseball

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2017 Topps Allen and Ginter Baseball isn’t going to be confused with something from another brand. Keeping what makes it one of the biggest releases each year, it’s all about old-fashioned designs, quirky inserts and the other predictable surprises.
Autographs, memorabilia cards and rip cards continue to fall three per hobby box. Each pack also promises one mini card.



Base Set

The main 2017 Topps Allen and Ginter Baseball set has 350 cards. Joining the veterans, rookies and retired players are champions and other notable figures from outside the sport.




The final 50 cards on the checklist are short prints, although not tough ones. Every other pack has one of the slightly less available cards.

Most of the parallels come in a mini format. In addition to the basic versions, there are Allen & Ginter Back (1:5 packs), Black Bordered (1:10), No Number, Brooklyn Back (/25), hobby-only Framed Cloth (/10), Glossy (1/1), Framed Printing Plates (1/1), and Wood (1/1).

Metal Minis (/3) are hobby exclusives. This is a partial parallel set of 150 cards.

Wood and Framed Cloth cards are also only in hobby packs.

Full-sized parallels come in two forms. Hot Box parallels are only in randomly inserted hot boxes. Glossy cards are all one-of-ones.



Autographs

The bulk of the signatures in 2017 Topps Allen and Ginter Baseball stick with the Frame Mini Autographs format that has been used since the brand returned in 2006. Parallels include hobby-only Red Ink and Black Frame (/25).





On the rare side are Autographed Relic Book cards and Dual Autographed Relic Book cards, which have two players. Both are numbered to 10 or less.




Cut Signatures come from personalities with ties to history and politics. These are all one-of-ones.


Memorabilia Cards

As with other recent Allen and Ginter sets, basic memorabilia cards come with a few different designs. This is, in part, to help break up the potential of getting all the same types of hits in a box. For starters, there are full-sized Allen & Ginter Relics. These come with a pair of designs. Besides baseball players, this is where collectors will find memorabilia from non-baseball subjects as well.

Framed Mini Relics feature only major leaguers.





Getting in on the oddities are hobby-exclusive Framed Gems and Ancient Fossils.

Hearkening back to Ginter sets from a few years ago are Framed Fictional Figures Relics. Past Allen and Ginter releases have included things like “magic beans” from Jack and the Beanstalk and autographs from the Invisible Man.


Rip Cards

Rips Cards return in both single- and dual-formats. These offer the temptation of whether the collector should keep the rare card in tact or wreck it to reveal a potentially better card inside.




Inner Rip Card exclusives include 50 additional Mini Exclusives that expand the main set to 400 cards. These have Metal (/3) and Wood (1/1) parallels are well. Artist Original cards have mini paintings done directly on them.


Inserts

Basic inserts combine to land 1:2 2017 Topps Allen and Ginter Baseball packs. At 100 cards, What a Day! is the easily biggest of these insert sets. Cards highlight career days for veterans, rookies and retired players.

Other inserts explore historical quirky subjects from outside the world of baseball. World’s Fair explores 20 inventions and buildings put on display over the years. Sport Fish & Fishing Lures (20 cards) look at what fishermen seek and the tools they use to catch them. Revolutionary Battles (ten cards) spotlight turning-points from the American Revolution.

In addition to the full-sided inserts are five mini card insert sets that fall at a combined 1:5 packs. World’s Dudes (40 cards) highlight “dudes” in their natural habitat. There’s no word on whether this includes anything from The Big Lebowski.






Magicians & Illusionists go back to ten vintage showmen. Required Reading reminds us of ten novels that are often on high school reading lists. Bust a Move (25 cards) offer dancing lessons with subjects covering popular dance moves. Finally, there are ten Constellations mini cards that look at celestial subjects.

A limited number of original Allen and Ginter cards from the tobacco era are included as Framed Originals. Each is considered a one-of-one and only found in hobby packs.



Box Loaders

Box Loaders are randomly inserted in hobby boxes. The main Box Loader set featured ten cards done to look like vintage pieces.



Autographed (/15), Autographed Relics (/5) and Cut Signatures are also available, albeit in small numbers.




2017 Topps Allen and Ginter Baseball at a glance:

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Boxes per case: 12
Set size: 350 cards
Release date: July 19, 2017


What to expect in a hobby box:

• Autographs, Relics, Original Allen and Ginter Cards, Rip Cards – 3 total
• Mini Parallels – 24
• Mini Inserts – 4-5
• Inserts – 12
• Base Short Prints – 12

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World Baseball Classic Game-Used Jersey Cards to Appear in 2017 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball

  

The World Baseball Classic is a celebration of the great game that people have enjoyed across the globe. Topps is reveling in the World Baseball Classic by creating unique and exclusive trading cards.

While fans worldwide can collect Topps Now cards featuring great moments after WBC games are played, they can also collect game-used jersey cards of the top World Baseball Classic players in the upcoming 2017 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball, which is schedule to release this summer.

There will be two exclusive World Baseball Classic relics with game-used jerseys included in Topps Allen & Ginter hobby boxes only. The hobby-exclusive cards will include Framed Mini Relics, which will feature 10 elite subjects on cards numbered to 10; and Full Size Relics, featuring 30 international superstars numbered to 99 or fewer.

Allen & Ginter will be one of the few places to get relic cards of some of these international stars.

World Baseball Classic relic cards will also appear in Topps Museum Baseball and Topps Dynasty Baseball.

As the World Baseball Classic continues, let Topps know on its social media channels which stars you want to see in your next pack of cards.