Joy of a Completed Insert Set - 2009 Allen & Ginter National Pride

This is the other Ginter insert set I completed last week with the Josh Hamilton card that had eluded me for a while. As you can see, this is a 75 card set as opposed to the 30 card insert set that Allen & Ginter had just 2 years prior. The insert bloat has just gotten worse and now the inserts aren't even numbered properly for easy collecting. Oh well, so it goes.

The National Pride set shows off players with their home country's flag in the background of an ornate frame. A little pompous, but it's pretty colorful and well done. I'm guessing this set was done more or less in honor of The World Baseball Classic, but I can't remember what year that was played because the WBC is just so memorable. Enjoy the unbridled Nationalism.

Threw in all my funky border code cards to fill out the page because what else can you do with them?

Here's a scan of the backs. Unlike the 2006 and 2007 Ginter insert sets, there is actual text on the backs of these things which is nice. I scanned Chipper because Chipper. I didn't scan all nine page backs because Lazy.

Joy of a Complete Insert Set - 2006 Allen & Ginter Dick Perez Sketches

Yeah so everyone's posting Ginter right now... BUT ARE THEY POSTING SEVEN YEAR OLD GINTER??!?!?

I think not.

I'm really in the mood to drool over Ginter on the blog but this blog doesn't do ads and I'm not handing out free advertising to companies who hide their cards in the trash and don't bother to tell anyone. This ain't Pokemans, people. Don't hide cards in the trash. While the 2013 Ginter set is completely bloated with crap and has become ridiculous, the original 2006 set was quite spartan in comparison. Basically just the base set, minis, some parallels, autogamers, rip cards and this little set that was used as hit decoys. The cards are about the same thickness as the framed relics and autos. There's even a decoy card for the decoy cards that has an ad on it. Dick Perez painted one portrait for each team in the league for this set, and each one was done actual mini tobacco card size to add a degree of difficulty. They came out rather nice for being so small. I recently found the Huston Street card that had eluded me all these years so it's time to show off the complete set. I added some goodies at the end to fill out the page.

Some people like scans of the backs of the cards for some reason. Well, with this set, if you've seen one back you've seen 'em all.

Now you've seen 'em all.

Joy of a complete set: 2007 Goudey base set

After years of searching the Shawn Green green back card that had eluded me for years popped up in a dime box. I don't have all the short prints yet, but I'm so happy to finish off the base that I'm going to murder all you dial up readers and spam the whole base set for ya. Enjoy.

2013 Allen & Ginter Wantlist

does the pope do TTMs?

Allen & Ginter has gotten entirely too preposterous but when I get tired of this stuff I'm officially tired of collecting so may as well put up a wantlist. The set just dropped so I don't have a whole lotta cards yet but if you bought multiple cases and your wife wants all that card crap out of the dining room and you want to send me a pile I won't complain.

compleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeete

Short Prints:
complete

The sheer number of inserts is annoying but I'm gonna collect some some 'em I just don't know which ones yet. The planets, definitely. Also I REALLY want the Zodiac Killer mini because creepy. Zodiac captured! Thanks Duane!


One Little Corner
OLC-MN Moon
OLC-MS Mars

Curious Cases
CC-UVB UVB-76

Putting these here since I've accumulated so many

ATY-AB Adrian Beltre
ATY-AC Aroldis Chapman
ATY-AE Andre Ethier
ATY-AG Adrian Gonzalez
ATY-AJ Adam Jones
ATY-AR Anthony Rizzo
ATY-BG Bob Gibson
ATY-BH Bryce Harper
ATY-BJU B.J. Upton
ATY-BR Brooks Robinson
ATY-BRT Babe Ruth
ATY-CB Carlos Beltran
ATY-CGR Curtis Granderson
ATY-CJW C.J. Wilson
ATY-CKW Clayton Kershaw
ATY-CL Cliff Lee
ATY-CRJ Cal Ripken Jr.
ATY-DB Dylan Bundy
ATY-DJ Derek Jeter
ATY-DM Don Mattingly
ATY-DO David Ortiz
ATY-DP Dustin Pedroia
ATY-DW David Wright
ATY-EL Evan Longoria
ATY-FH Felix Hernandez
ATY-FT Frank Thomas
ATY-GG Gio Gonzalez
ATY-GS Giancarlo Stanton
ATY-IK Ian Kinsler
ATY-JBR Jay Bruce
ATY-JC Johnny Cueto
ATY-JE Jacoby Ellsbury
ATY-JH Josh Hamilton
ATY-JHY Jason Heyward
ATY-JMT Jesus Montero
ATY-JP Jurickson Profar
ATY-JRB Jackie Robinson
ATY-JRD Josh Reddick
ATY-JU Justin Upton
ATY-JWR Jayson Werth
ATY-KGR Ken Griffey Jr.
ATY-KM Kris Medlen
ATY-LG Lou Gehrig
ATY-MC Miguel Cabrera
ATY-MM Manny Machado
ATY-MR Mariano Rivera
ATY-MS Mike Schmidt
ATY-MT Mike Trout
ATY-NS Nick Swisher
ATY-PF Prince Fielder
ATY-PG Paul Goldschmidt
ATY-RB Ryan Braun
ATY-RC Robinson Cano
ATY-RHO Ryan Howard
ATY-SKX Sandy Koufax
ATY-SMU Stan Musial
ATY-TB Trevor Bauer
ATY-TG Tony Gwynn
ATY-TL Tim Lincecum
ATY-TSV Tom Seaver
ATY-TT Troy Tulowitzki
ATY-TW Ted Williams
ATY-WM Will Middlebrooks
ATY-WS Willie Stargell
ATY-YC Yoenis Cespedes
ATY-YD Yu Darvish

CAP-AZ Aztecs
CAP-BYZ Byzantine
CAP-MES Mesopotamians
CAP-PER Persians
CAP-PH Phoenicians

PS-LC Leeds Castle
PS-MP Mysore Palace
PS-NC Neuschwanstein Castle
PS-PNP Pena National Palace
PS-VSL Palace of Versailles

2012 Allen & Ginter Wantlist

Made ya look. Here's the cards I need for 2012 Allen & Ginter.

compleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeete
Short Prints
COMPLETE

No clue what, if any, insert sets I'm going to bother to collect from this mess.

HAPPY GINTER DAY

 IT'S HERE

YAAAAAAAAAAY

WOOOOOOOOOO

wait what

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Oh well, every silver lining has a touch of gray