Hot Indeed

I generally like Topps Allen & Ginter sets for the design and look, though I do not specifically collect all of the sets, but today does bring more 2018 keepers than I expected.

The base set is comprised of 300 cards plus 50 short prints. For here, I am considering the base set just the 300 cards, as I will keep short prints as they are like inserts to me (same with base card variants). As it turns out, most of the base cards here are short prints.

Not sure why so many short prints but I am not going to complain. Add in the following and this is quite the "set" for me.

These are glossy silver parallels which only appear in "hot boxes" where all the base cards are of the design.

Though I don't think hot boxes need to be a thing, it must be pretty cool if you happen to buy one.

Prices look to have a small premium over the base cards, but nothing to excessive. Too bad there are no Jays today in the bunch.

As with typical A&G, you have the dabbling of non-baseball personalities involved which gives the set a taste of being like a Goodwin Champions set.

Also like the dabbling of former stars that are used in the set too, like Gibson.

Well, asclose to a Jay as we are going to get seems to be the "when they weren't Jays, Jays" like Ryu and Chapman.

Can't go wrong with a solid Eckersly who always looked menacing on the mound. Great bunch of cards today though - definite highlight from the BASEball lot.

Made a couple small updates finally to some of the numbers above - when filing away some of the cards, I noticed a couple minor *thank you Donruss/Panini) small parallel items I hadn't originally. Good news is, it means a couple more keepers than I had expected, bad news is, it means continuing to try and look for small variations I haven't been before....so be it I guess!