{"id":6104,"date":"2019-07-29T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/2019\/07\/29\/inside-the-pack-2019-topps-allen-ginter-review\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T09:00:31","slug":"inside-the-pack-2019-topps-allen-ginter-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/inside-the-pack-2019-topps-allen-ginter-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Pack: 2019 Topps Allen & Ginter Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since its first run in 2006, Topps\u2019s Allen and Ginter product line has been a favorite of collectors. Loaded with baseball stars past and present with a flair for the weird and abnormal, A&G has something for everyone.<\/p>\n

Topps sent me a box of Ginter to review and it did not disappoint. In addition to 3 hits, each box has a box topper of some kind. I received a jumbo Cabinet card of Bryce Harper. The design of these is stellar this year. At the local card shop, we saw a Cabinet autograph of Mike Trout pulled. We also saw a new inclusion this year \u2014 box topper rip cards. These behemoths have 3 special mini cards inside, should you choose to rip them open. There are also N43 cards, cards just slightly larger than a standard card, which have been a staple of the product on and off since its inception.<\/p>\n

From the minute I opened my first pack, I knew there was something special about this box. That\u2019s because my first pack had no base cards. Instead, they were all replaced with gold-border parallels.<\/p>\n

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That meant I got a hot box. There\u2019s no official insertion rate for hot boxes, but they typically have more than the stated 3 hits, and all the base cards contain gold borders. In all, I received 130 gold border parallels. These cards are beautiful and pictures don’t do them justice, because the gold shines when you catch the light correctly.<\/p>\n

Minis are a mainstay of Ginter each year. I didn\u2019t get any exciting variations, but I did get several A&G Ad Backs and a few black borders. This year, the retail version contains gold border minis to match the gold border base cards I got.<\/p>\n

Another feature of Allen and Ginter is the wacky insert sets. I enjoyed the Dreams of Blue Ribbons mini set the most — I got a hot dog eating card, and that’s just plain neat. More standard insert sets include Ginter Greats and Baseball Star Signs, the latter of which combines astrology with baseball.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned earlier, each box is guaranteed to have 3 hits. I got my first 3 hits in rapid succession \u2014 my Justin Verlander framed mini relic, followed by my Ozzie Albies and Chris Archer full-sized jersey relics, all came in the first 10 packs.<\/p>\n

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Because of my hot box, however, I got a few extras. The nicest card I received was a mini framed silk card of future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw numbered to 10. But if that was the nicest card, then the coolest \u2014 or weirdest \u2014 card I received was a \u201cmythical memorabilia\u201d relic card of Robin Hood\u2019s Bow.<\/p>\n

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Ginter is always an enjoyable product to open, and it\u2019s a product that even non-collectors get into. This year\u2019s edition has a lot of neat twists and is loaded with fun inserts to make your box break interesting. Grab a box and hopefully yours, like mine, will be a hot one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since its first run in 2006, Topps\u2019s Allen and Ginter product line has been a favorite of collectors. Loaded with baseball stars past and present with a flair for the weird and abnormal, A&G has something for everyone. Topps sent me a box of Ginter to review and it did not disappoint. In addition to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojobro.com\/bigleaguecards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}