The Ultimate Ginter Full-Sized Insert Set Bracket!: Seeding Vote #5 (2010)

For the first part of the bracket creation, we need to seed the various full-sized insert sets.  I thought it'd be fun to first have a vote for the best insert set within each year and use each year vote winner as a top seed.  From there, I'll fill in the rest of the bracket with the remaining full-sized sets.

I also hope that each of these Seeding Vote posts give you a bit of information about each of the insert sets for a specific year.  That should help with your voting as we move forward into the heart of the Ultimate Ginter Full-Sized Insert Set Bracket.  I laid out the rest of the ground rules in my introductory post so feel free to check that post out as well.  Now, we move on to the good stuff (and remember to vote at the bottom of the post by leaving a comment with your choice)!

Today, we take a look at the 2010 set...a set which had a pair of full-sized inserts that will almost definitely remind you of the 2009 set!  Much like the previous year's set, the 2010 Ginter set features a large baseball themed insert set along with a smaller baseball sketch insert set.  

As usual, let's start with the more common insert set - the 75-card This Day in History set which was seeded one-per-pack.

Based on the set's name, you can probably guess the "gimmick" of this set.  Basically, each card celebrates a specific day and what happened on that day in MLB history.  The extra layer of interest here is that the featured date matches the featured player's birthday.  A nice extra bit of tie-in that helps to push this set firmly into the "okay, that's a bit interesting" camp.

The other full-sized insert set is the return of the Baseball Highlight Sketches, though this year it's only 15 cards in size as compared to the 25-card edition from the previous season.  

The Baseball Highlight Sketch set was fairly challenging to complete in that the cards were seeded 1:10 packs (or slightly less than 2.5 per hobby box).  Even with the relatively small checklist, you'd need a bunch of boxes with perfect collation to build the set in full.  Speaking of the checklist, here's the full checklist for the 2010 Baseball Highlight Sketches set:

• AGHS1 Chase Utley
• AGHS2 Mark Buehrle
• AGHS3 Derek Jeter
• AGHS4 Mariano Rivera
• AGHS5 Ichiro
• AGHS6 Johnny Damon
• AGHS7 Carl Crawford
• AGHS8 Dewayne Wise
• AGHS9 Jimmy Rollins
• AGHS10 Hideki Matsui
• AGHS11 Andre Ethier
• AGHS12 Troy Tulowitzki
• AGHS13 Jonathan Sanchez
• AGHS14 Mark Teixeira
• AGHS15 Daniel Murphy

With only two sets to choose from, this should be another tight vote.  Will the baseball sketches come out ahead this time or will baseball player birthday history reign supreme?  I won't know until you cast your vote in the comment section below!