2011 Allen & Ginter Archives

Custom Allen & Ginter Baseball Cards

allen & ginter harry houdini autoHow cool are these Allen & Ginter custom cards?

As many of you know by now, I really like the idea of parody baseball cards or even just well done custom cards.

The 2011 Topps Monopoly set has received about 5000 hits or so on my YouTube page.  That set was created by Beardy of mojobeardy.wordpress.com.

This new set that I am showing you now was created by a member of BlowoutCards forums, Metsfan1121.  To date he has created about 32 versions – each and every one is better than anything that Topps has produced.

Perhaps some day Topps will take the hint and start producing “hit” cards that collectors actually want.  How many Carlos Marmol relics do we really need anyway?  In 25 boxes of Lineage recently, my club pulled 5 Ty Wigginton sticker autographs.  That’s 1:5 – a 20% chance in any given box at a Wigginton sticker auto. Read the rest of this entry

2011 A&G Ryan Howard auto does not exist!

2011 Allen & Ginter Ryan Howard auto

2011 Allen & Ginter Mythical Ryan Howard auto

I know that Topps has done this sort of thing before, but it never fails to infuriate me.  They have been advertising the Ryan Howard auto since the day the 2011 Allen & Ginter sell sheet went live – it is the fourth baseball auto listed #AGA-RHO Ryan Howard

The have the been using the image of this card on both their retail and hobby packaging all along… it is listed in the checklist. Read the rest of this entry