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Cracking The Topps Allen & Ginter Grading Code!

6/1/2012

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When taking a look at the baseball card products available each year in the market, it is hard to find a more unique product line than Topps Allen & Ginter.  As a result of their interesting checklist of cards and painted-portrait theme, it’s natural that their base cards would be considered a good choice to submit for grading with BGS.  If you look closer at the numbers, it might be hard to find a better product to submit in the hopes of receiving a top-level grade.

By looking at the BGS Population Reports (as of 4/21/11), the Allen & Ginter submissions have historically graded very high throughout their five-year history.  With a decent sample size of 1,118 base cards submitted, 80% of the base cards have been returned to their owner with a 9.5 or 10.0 overall grade.  The largest sample sizes were in 2006 and 2007, and those years measured at a 79% and 85% rate, respectively.  With a relatively weak base set compared to other years, it’s no surprise that the 2009 set has the lowest level of submission (72) and the lowest level of BGS 9.5/10 return rate (63%).

The bulk of the base cards don’t command a high value, so the set provides you with the opportunity to add some unique graded rookie cards to your collection at a manageable cost.  The 2007 set included rookie cards of Tim Lincecum and Daisuke Matsuzaka, and both cards carry a low ungraded book cost with very high return rates (93% and 84%, respectively).  The most recent release of Allen & Ginter contained rookie cards for two NL studs in Jason Heyward and Buster Posey, who have put up staggering numbers on the field and in the BGS grading rates (87% and 98%, respectively).

As a collector of BGS graded cards, I know that it often helps to look at the numbers to determine what non-graded cards to purchase in the hope of getting them graded at a high level.  Based on my analysis, it’d be difficult to find a more consistent and unique product set to add to your BGS graded collection than the Topps Allen & Ginter cards.

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    I live in Southern NJ, originally from NY.  I have collected cards for most of my life, currently focused on PSA-graded cards, rookie cards and Boston Red Sox cards.  

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