After finding 2017 Allen and Ginter on the shelves of my local Walmart early this afternoon, I had intended to give the usual exhaustive blaster-breaking rundown. A&G is always interesting and I think this year it might be particularly so. But I can't give it the attention it deserves because I pulled the biggest card I am going to pull all year from one of the two blasters that I bought. My luck with A&G has been pretty surprising the last couple of years. I seem to be pulling hits quite easily and of decent players, too. (You old-timers remember my Jeff Clement Years). I don't know if that's sudden good fortune or Topps seeding its blasters more liberally than in previous years. But whatever the case, today was the first time that I had bought two blasters of anything at the same time and pulled hits from both of them. The first blaster yielded this hit: This is the second time this year I have pulled an Anthony Rizzo relic out of an Allen & Gi...
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