First Buzz: 2022 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards

What: 2022 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 16
Box basics: Three hits in every 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Allen & Ginter drops once again with all the eccentricities, plenty of baseball players and a new retro design meant to emulate the 1880s tobacco cards that helped bring some of the first baseball cards to the masses.

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The Basics: The base set will once again be the familiar 300 cards capped by 50 short-prints -- all with an array of mini and full-size parallels. There will be Hot Boxes again, too, with Silver Hot Box parallels inside and 1/1 Glossy parallels for the full-size cards (but not for SPs). For the minis, which are one per pack, there will be the standard lineup of A&G backs (1:5), Black (1:10), no-numbers (/50), Brooklyn (/25), Wood (/1; hobby-only), Glossy (/1), Metal (/3 hobby-only for 150 players), Cloth cards (/10 for 150 players) and 1/1 printing plates just like last year. Also back will be the Mini Stained Glass (/25) variations for 150 players. SP minis will start at one in 13 packs and have most parallels.

The Relics are again back with a few design types as in past years. There will be full-size Relics and framed mini Relics and joining them will be DNA Relics (fossils /25), and new Pitching a Gem Relics with birth-month gems attached. There also will be 100 1/1 framed Ginter buyback cards. ... On the autograph front, there will be 1/1 cut autos cards as well as the standard framed mini autos with Black Frame parallels (/25) and Red-ink versions. Joining them once again will be autographed Relic books and dual-auto Relic books (/10 for both). Rip Cards are back two per case once again with standard and double Rips as well as Boxloader Rips. Inside these will be original art, mini exclusives (351-400), mini Metal exclusives (/3), 1/1 mini Wood exclusives and 1/1 Stained Glass variation minis -- those also found one per box-topper Rips.

Standard inserts are again a totally new lineup this year. There will be Pitching a Gem, Banner Seasons, Famous Rivals, What's Cookin'? (a recipe puzzle set of sorts), It's Your Special Day! (notable days) and Get That Bread! ("Highlighting sandwiches and bread/meat combos.") Also in there will be mini inserts that include Ducks, Baseball Lexicon, What a Steal!, Time Out!, Inside The Park and Bearing Fruit. ... Rounding things out will be box-toppers, including jumbo standard cards, topper autos (/15), Inside The Park Boxloader (/500) and then N43s, N43 autos (/15) and the box-loader Rip Cards as usual.

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