Product Preview: 2010 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards

Topps unveiled the basic product information and preview images for its fifth installment in one of its most-popular brands — Allen & Ginter Baseball — which will arrive in late-June.

Each 24-pack hobby box will include three autographs, Relics, Rip Cards, Cut Signatures or Printing Plates, while the basic set will consist of 350 cards comprised of baseball players, historic figures or World’s Champions.

Among the insert card offerings are the familiar mini cards — Wood, Framed Cloth, Bazooka Back, Allen & Ginter Backs, Black and standard mini — while a new inclusion for 2010 is the book card, a 10-card checklist that includes dual autographed 1/1 Relics.

Also back for 2010 is the Ginter Code, Rip Cards and the expected framed Relics and autographs, while new inclusions among the inserts include Lords of Olympus, Monsters of the Mesozoic, World’s Greatest Wordsmiths (no word on whether Tracy Hackler is included — but William Shakespeare is), National Animals, Sailors of the Seven Seas, This Day in History and Baseball Highlight Sketch Cards.

Among this year’s notable baseball autographs are Ryan Howard, Evan Longoria, Roy Halladay, David Wright, Tommy Hanson, Rick Porcello, Elvis Andrus and Madison Bumgarner.

See a full gallery and more after the jump.

Meanwhile, the non-baseball autographs include “The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things” (perhaps a preliminary checklist typo?), illusionist David Blaine, Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders, skateboarding icon Tony Hawk, fire eater Hubertus Wawra, dancer Judson Laipply, American Idol contestant Jordin Sparks, pro bowler Kelly Kulick, outdoorsman Preston Pittman, power lifter Ryan Kennelly, professional archer Randy Oitker, Deadliest Catch captain Sig Hansen, kayaker Tyler Bradt, Brazilian guitarist Tiago Della Vega and exhibition shooter Tom Knapp.

Among the new Relics are Monsters of the Mesozoic Relics — fossil cards — while DNA Relics will include Beethoven, Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Jacqueline Kennedy, Charles Dickens, Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln.

Finally, the Cabinet card box-topper checklist includes cards of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore, among others.

Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Graded Card Investor. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.