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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)!
The year 2012 in Allen & Ginter brought us four different full-sized insert sets (and special thanks to COMC once again for the images so that I didn't have to dig out my own binders and do a lot of scanning)!
The largest of the full-sized insert sets is the What's in a Name? set which features a baseball player on the card front and then a bit of history/trivia about that player's name on the card back.
The set's checklist is 100 cards in total meaning this is the largest of the full-sized sets for 2012. Here's a look at Uggla's card back so you can see what sort of thing Topps did with the set.
For those that like history with their baseball cards, Topps made a 20-card Historical Turning Points set which contained (you guessed it), twenty historical moments from history.
The checklist for this set is all over the place (example cards include: The Battle Of Waterloo, Sputnik I, The Fall Of the Roman Empire, and The First Flight At Kitty Hawk).
The third insert set to chase from the 2012 Ginter set is the 10-card World's Tallest Buildings set.
This particular set harkens back to the Allen & Ginter sets of the 1800s in that it celebrates the "world's best" at something (in this case, being really, really tall).
Finally, we round out with another edition of Baseball Highlight Sketches, a set that's been part of the A&G brand for a number of years at this point.
The Baseball Highlight Sketches set strangely contains only 24 cards rather than the more expected 20 or 25 cards, or even the more set collector friendly number of 27 cards.
So there you have it, four sets vying for the title of "best in 2012" but at this point the ball is in your court. Leave a comment below with your vote for the best set of 2012!
Your options:
- What's in a Name?
- Historical Turning Points
- World's Tallest Buildings
- Baseball Highlight Sketches
I vote for "World's Tallest Buildings". I always enjoy the A&G non-baseball inserts over baseball but I do like the "What's in a Name" set.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a really good lineup, but I have to go with What's In A Name. I do prefer the baseball inserts and that's a really clever one with actually interesting text!
ReplyDeleteInteresting that the World's Tallest Buildings isn't the tallest ones when the set came out, but buildings which were number one when they opened. Hence more than half the set being New York City buildings! I can say I've seen 8 of the ten buildings in person, the only exceptions being the Petronas Tower and Taipei 101. (And maybe I'll get to Kuala Lumpur at some point, although it's pretty unlikely I'll ever be in Taiwan.)
Strong group (except for the sketches). I went back and forth between What's In A Name and Historical Turning Points... before settling on Historical Turning Points.
ReplyDeleteNeed some more votes here! All tied up!
ReplyDeletei vote for historical turning points
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