2015 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball Checklist

2015 Topps Allen & Ginter: a 300-card base set with 50 short prints, Mini Metal and Cloth parallels, 16 inserts, framed mini and Tenth Anniversary autographs, relics, book cards and Rip Cards

2015 Topps Allen & Ginter marked the tenth anniversary of Topps's revival of the tobacco-era brand, mixing MLB players with athletes, personalities and offbeat subjects. It was released July 22, 2015. Hobby boxes promised three hits plus mini and full-size buybacks.

What's in the checklist

• Base: 300 cards plus short prints 301-350, with a 10th Anniversary /10 parallel, Glossy 1/1 box toppers and a mini run: A&G Back (1 in 5 packs), Black Border (1 in 10), No Number /50, Red /40 (mini packs), Flag Back /25, Wood 1/1 and Printing Plates
• Partial parallels: Mini Metal (200 subjects, hobby only) and Mini Cloth (150 subjects)
• Inserts: Starting Points (100), Ancient Armory, Menagerie of the Mind, What Once Would Be, What Once Was Believed, Great Scott!, Keys to the City, mini sets (First Ladies, Hoist the Black Flag, Magnates Barons and Tycoons, Birds of Prey, Mythological Menaces, A World Beneath Our Feet) and three box loader sets
• Autographs: 93 Framed Mini Autographs (Framed Red Ink /10 parallel), 120 Tenth Anniversary Autographs (12 signers in 10 yearly designs, /10), box loader autographs and 1/1 Cut Signatures
• Relics: two Full-Size Relic designs, Framed Mini Relics, Allen & Ginter production-material relics, Cabinet and Cabinet Book Relics, box loader relics and a single Select Pick relic
• Book cards and Rip Cards: single- and dual-subject Book Cards /10 (hobby only), Rip, Double Rip and Mini Rip Cards hiding Mini Exclusives (351-400), Mini Mini Glossy parallels and 1/1 Artist's Originals

Key subjects

The base set has 32 Rookie Cards, including Kris Bryant, Javier Baez, Addison Russell, Joc Pederson, Jorge Soler, Carlos Rodon and Jung Ho Kang.

Grading considerations

The Kris Bryant Rookie Card, the short prints and the low-numbered minis are the cards most worth grading. Allen & Ginter's matte stock chips at the edges and softens at the corners easily, and minis can pick up marks from their frames, so check edges and the surface first.