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At last, some people who can't play baseball

After opening my first 2012 Allen & Ginter blaster and failing to pull a single base card of someone who was NOT a baseball player, I knew I would have to buy some more A&G almost right away. Having a stack of A&G cards in which every single person on them knows how to play baseball is a little disconcerting. It's like the universe is off by a couple of degrees. I mean, A&G isn't supposed to be THAT way. A majority of players? Sure. But not ALL. So, on a much needed break from work Saturday night, I bought a rack pack and another blaster. The rack pack yielded more baseball players. Thirteen base cards of ball players, two mini cards of ball players. Even the three special minis were baseball players. Fortunately, one of the cards was Mr. Kemp here, so I applaud this particular rack pack's selection. But I turned to the blaster for consolation. Surely, there had to be even one base card of a non-baseball player, someone man or woman enough to send ...