Topps Allen & Ginter's 7 Year Club

2006 Allen & Ginter Chase Utley

A few weeks ago Topps Released the 7th edition of the Allen & Ginter product.  This coupled with the upcoming retirement of Chipper Jones and the recent move of Ichiro Suzuki got me thinking about the players that have been featured in Allen & Ginter.

The set is good size but at 350 cards it is not nearly as big as Flagship or Heritage.  Therefore most stars get included, but not all of them.  350 cards would average out to less than 12 players per team.  In addition slots are lost to non-baseball celebs, subjects, and retired players so the number of cards per team averages closer to 10.

Ichiro and Chipper are among the players that have appeared in all seven Allen & Ginter releases.  And up unitl this point they have always appeared for the same team.  If Ichiro sticks around to play in 2013, he very possibly could appear in that set as a Yankee or with another organization. 

I did a little resarch and found that there were 48 players that appared in every set from 2006-2012.  Of those 26 made all 7 appearances representing a single team.  The Cover Card for this post features Chase Utley who is among those 26 players to make 7 A&G appearances all for one club.   

48 Players to appear in every year of Topps Allen & Ginter's 2006-2012: 

	Player	Team			Player	Team
1	Adam Dunn			25	Johan Santana
2	Adrian Beltre			26	Jonthan Papelbon
3	Albert Pujols			27	Jose Reyes
4	Alex Rodriguez	Yankees		28	Josh Beckett	Red Sox
5	Alfonso Soriano			29	Justin Morneau	Twins
6	Aramis Ramirez			30	Justin Verlander	Tigers
7	Brian McCann	Braves		31	Lance Berkman
8	CC Sabathia			32	Mariano Rivera	Yankees
9	Carl Crawford			33	Mark Teixeira
10	Carlos Beltran			34	Matt Cain	Giants
11	Carlos Lee			35	Michael Young	Rangers
12	Carlos Zambrano			36	Miguel Cabrera
13	Chase Utley	Phillies		37	Nick Markakis	Orioles
14	Chipper Jones	Braves		38	Nick Swisher
15	David Wright	Mets		39	Paul Konerko	White Sox
16	Ervin Santana	Angels		40	Prince Fielder
17	Felix Hernandez	Mariners		41	Rickie Weeks	Brewers
18	Grady Sizemore	Indians		42	Robinson Cano	Yankees
19	Hanley Ramirez	Marlins		43	Roy Halladay
20	Ian Kinsler	Rangers		44	Ryan Howard	Phillies
21	Ichiro	Mariners		45	Ryan Zimmerman	Nationals
22	Jason Bay			46	Todd Helton	Rockies
23	Jimmy Rollins	Phillies		47	Torii Hunter
24	Joe Mauer	Twins		48	Victor Martinez

Some of the 7 timers on 1 team 2006 style:  

2006 Allen & Ginter's Joe Mauer
2006 Allen & Ginter's Brian McCann


A couple of catchers.  Both of which should stick in A&G for a while.     

2006 Allen & Ginter Justin Verlander
2006 Allen & Ginter Paul Konerko


AL Central featured here.  Konerko had a couple of seasons outside Chicago, but they were all pre-A&G.  A-Rod and Josh Beckett both fell into the same category - multiple clubs, but were with teams other than their current one prior to the initial A&G release.


Several players missed the 7 by one year.  For whatever Reason Derek Jeter and David Ortiz were not included in 2010 A&G.  I don't recall all of the 6 timers, but Jim Thome was one of them.  I think Huston Street was also in there.   



Sources:    Baseball-Card-Pedia
AllenAndGinter.net

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