[chrisolds]

Now that a-rod is suspended is Topps allowed to produce cards of him in 2014?

Thanks,

Steve

He is not on baseball's Ineligible List. That would prevent him from being on cards like Joe Jackson, Pete Rose and several others.

As long as he's under contract with Topps, he'll have a card with Topps. As long as he's with the MLBPA, he can have cards with Panini.

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I know Chris doesn't handle the price guide, but I'm hoping he can or someone else can pass this along to them. I'm working on completing the 2013 Gypsy Queen Mini Set and have run into a few cards that are impossible to find. COMC, Beckett Marketplace, Sportlots, Ebay, etc., there are none out there. After cross-checking the mini checklist to the base checklist, I realized that minis I can't find are SP in the base set. I'm positive that the minis in the 2013 GQ checklist are SP'd just like the corresponding cards in the base set. These aren't "short-printed" like the Hobby Mini Box Variations (which seem to have had a higher print rate than the ###A versions), I'm thinking the print run had to be around 100 each. I've resorted to buying green and sepia minis because I can't find the regular version of the SP'd minis anywhere. The worst part is that the BV has them priced just like the non-SP'd minis. For some of these SP's with a BV of $1, I'd gladly pay ten times that if I could get my hands on one.

Send your findings to bfleischer@beckett.com.