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Topps is offering collectors the ultimate prize.

By being the first person to “Crack the Ginter Code,” one lucky collector will appear on a card in the 2009 Allen & Ginter base set.

Inserted one in every 24 packs of 2008 Allen & Ginter Baseball -- due out in late July -- is a World’s Greatest Victories insert card; there are 20 cards in all. Once all 20 cards have been collected, they can be formatted as a group to reveal a secret message. The message has a call to action and the first colector to take that action correctly will appear in next year’s set as the “Champion Code Breaker.”

2008 Allen & Ginter Baseball ships in mid-July, with each hobby box guaranteeing two hits (either an autograph, relic, printing plate or original) and each case guaranteeing a Rip Card.

Stay tuned to beckett.com for more information on 2008 Allen & Ginter Baseball.