Topps released its checklist for 2020 Allen & Ginter earlier today. The set hits store shelves next week. Traditionally my favorite release of the year -- well, between 2008 and 2015 anyway -- I ran to the checklist and poured over the contents and ... felt discouraged. The checklist contained mostly baseball players, old and new, with seemingly the fewest selection of non-baseball players ever (I'll have to do a more careful review later). And the non-ball players that were featured contained almost none of what I loved so much about A&G for years: historic figures, wacky inventions or famous landmarks and notable celebrities that you don't need social media to decipher. You may not care about this because you only care about cards with baseball players on them. I know. I hear it every time I bring up A&G, but that's not the point. A&G's switch from history lesson to publicity shill has been going on for about the past five years and, frankl...
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