A&G Auto and Relic Short Prints

Well, there's still no sign of the base set SP's out there as far as I can tell. Topps did announce a list of the short printed relics and autographs though for the benefit of the case busters.

AUTOS:

Albert Pujols 25
Johan Santana 100
Jim Thome 100
Brian Cashman 100
Miguel Cabrera 100
Ryan Howard 100
Joe Frazier 120
Augie Garrido 200
Cael Sanderson 200
Bob Baffert 200
Chien-Ming Wang 200
Dan O'Brien 200
Dennis Rodman 200
Freddy Adu 200
Gary Hall Jr. 200
Greg Louganis 200
Jamie Fischer 200
Jason McElwain 200
Joe B. Scott 200
John "Mule" Miles 200
Julio Juarez 200
Ken Jennings 200
Kerri Walsh 200
Laila Ali 200
Mario Andretti 200
Mark Selby 200
Mark Zupan 200
Mia Hamm 200
Mike Aponte 200
Misty May-Treanor 200
Stanley "Doc" Glenn 200
Ted Toles 200
Tommie Smith 200
David Wright 200
Alex Rodriguez 225

PAWPRINTS:

Diamond Jim 50


RELICS:

Arthur Shorin 50
Keith Olbermann 100
Alex Rodriguez 250
Barry Bonds 250
Brian Cashman 250
Bruce Lee 250
Dan O'Brien 250
David Ortiz 250
Gary Hall Jr. 250
Jamie Fischer 250
Joe Frazier 250
Julio Juarez 250
Ken Jennings 250
Kerri Walsh 250
Laila Ali 250
Mia Hamm 250
Mickey Mantle 250
Tommie Smith 250

Autographs also have a red ink variety that is numbered out of 10. I'm not sure if this is true for the dog autograph. In today's climate, I'm not sure how wise it would be to be caught forcing a dog with red, dripping paws to stomp all over trading cards for profit. I wonder what PETA's take is on all this.

Topps has the colossal swinging stones to put a relic card for their CEO in the set with all the buyout drama going on. I'm sure Upper deck has bought hundreds of cases of Allen & Ginter and have a Voodoo Priestess on call just in case.

I want the Keith Olbermann relic card. Yeah, I know, he's an annoying liberal loudmouth who is trying in vain to channel the poltergeist of Edward R. Murrow for a third-rate cable news channel. I don't care, he's funny and I like him. Besides, I have fond memories of watching Keith and Dan on SportsCenter with by buddy Jon back in my college days. The only fond memory of Bill O'Reilly that I have is the time my father in law had the family all watch his show one evening so we could see for ourselves how good it was. Unfortunately it was the night he had a porn star peddling her new sex book on as a guest. Good times, good times...

There is one massive omission on this short print relic list that I'm not sure how to interpret. The sell sheet shows a George Washington DNA relic card and the checklist actually lists three different varieties of GW relics. So wha hoppen? Did Topps simply forget to add GW to the short print list? Did they get caught trying to pass off an Aaron Burr pube as a Washington nose hair and have to yank the insert? Did they find Washington's barber's heirs and end up with a bushel of DNA for the cards? Inquiring minds want to know!

Finally, I'd love to get one of the Negro Leaguers' autographs but it looks like they are all short printed. It looks like they are in the base set though, so that's good enough for me.