General Forum

Personally, I would lean towards GQ. All baseball and I love the framed parallels. I almost always prefer the GQ design over the A&G design. Mini's are getting very old to me now, so I'm glad Topps dropped them for GQ. Now if they would drop them for A&G (or at least the ridiculous amount of parallel backs for them), I'd be more interested in A&G. However, there are some things I like about A&G, but they are pretty much all non-sport things. Where else could I have found cards of Actor/Director Kevin Smith, Comic Artist Stan Lee and cards of comets, stars, galaxies and famous astronomers outside of A&G? I have an A&G Roswell card. I like that, but I don't care for most of that insert set. The Upper Deck 20th Anniversary monster set had some of these things, but so much more crap I didn't want also. A&G is the same way. I'll chase some stuff after-market, but none of it makes me want to purchase boxes or even packs. I would purchase a box of GQ though.

Why not start both, and see which one you like better?

I second what billy said.  I would do one of each and by the time you are half in to those, you will know which you like better (or better yet, do both)

I only collect base of my team in these sets, without SP, so both are about the same to me from that limited perspective.

mark 

I can't tell you how many times I've convinced myself of this. Generally I end up trying to complete everything.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I think I'm going to start with GQ, and then do A&G if I still have a collecting itch (and cash to burn). I feel like A&G has too many subsets. I really like the look of some them (like the Revolutionary Battles and World's Fair), but not enough to go through boxes of cards in search of 10 or 20 specific ones.