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I've encountered an issue with card designations that I believe to be redundant - may be wrong and as my wife will attest, that's very probable. AS (All-Star) and ASG (All-Star Game) are currently used and I'm sure the decision is based on what is written on the card, BUT for what it matters this is not abided consistently.

Take a look at 1997 Upper Deck Baseball and see an example of cards being designated differently (AS & ASG) despite the front of the cards having the same All-Star Game logo. You will see that I"ve added an ASG note (rather reluctantly, but I wish to be consistent with protocol) to Craig Biggio while other cards have AS, instead. 

My belief is that AS suffices. ASG is redundant because all it means is that a player participated in the game. If he played in the All-Star game, then he is an All-Star.

Topps has some wonderful base set All-Star cards going back to the '50s that i'm collecting they're labeled as AS appropriately. Recently Topps has gone to labeling their product with All-Star Game logos, but the focus is still a player, not a situation or a recap as with some of the World Series cards that show player exploits, and they're labeled as ASG.

Anyway, I'd like for us to go simply with AS, but that's based on my understanding, my preference, my selfishness, and my feeble mind.

Your memory is fading...

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I don't doubt that in general, but I recall that particular discussion. My point though is to question whether both are necessary. I'm a libertarian on this, less is best; just say AS!

I think both are needed.  When you have cards of players with an AS designator on it (trophy or whatever) but it's a simple portrait or something not a picture from an All-Star Game.  It's an All-Star (AS) card.  When you have a subset of cards with pictures from the All-Star Game and an All-Star Game designator on the card.  They are ASG cards.  No different than a subset of World Series cards.

Peanut gallery me agrees with C2 on this one. After all, aren't we supposed to input in here what is reflected on the card? Okay, back into my corner with the dunce hat now....

I can see AS for the '88 Topps cards and not ASG. I see that. 

But where I think a distinction exists between ASG and WS is that many show a situation in the WS cards, whereas the All-Star game cards are referring to the player pictured, giving "All-Star Game Creds" as in 2018 Topps and saying nothing about the game. The purpose of the card then, to me, is to show this player is an All-Star, not what he did in the game. So: AS it is!