2003 Topps Chrome

Description

2003 Topps Chrome is a 440-card chromium-stock partial-parallel of the 2003 Topps set. Series One was released in late January, 2002; while Series Two wasn't released until May. For the first time, all Refractor parallels were serial-numbered.

Distribution

24 packs plus one Uncirculated X-Fractor per box, four cards per pack (MSRP: $3). Ten boxes per case

Insertion Ratios

Series One

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	220	-	4:1	4:1
Refractor	220	699	1:5	1:5
Gold Refractor	220	449	1:8	1:8
Black Refractor	220	199	1:20	1:20
Uncirculated X-Fractor	220	50	one-per-box	N/A
Record Breaker Relics	20	-	varies	varies
Blue Back Relics	20	-	varies	varies

Series Two

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	220	-	4:1	4:1
Refractor	220	699	1:5	1:5
Silver Refractor	220	-	N/A	?
Gold Refractor	220	449	1:4	1:4
Black Refractor	220	199	1:17	1:17
Uncirculated X-Fractor	220	57	one-per-box	N/A
Record Breaker Relics	20	-	varies	varies
Red Back Relics	20	-	varies	varies

Checklist

Base Set

Series One

• 1 Alex Rodriguez
• 2 Eddie Guardado
• 3 Curt Schilling
• 4 Andruw Jones
• 5 Magglio Ordonez
• 6 Todd Helton
• 7 Odalis Perez
• 8 Edgardo Alfonzo
• 9 Eric Hinske
• 10 Danny Bautista
• 11 Sammy Sosa
• 12 Roberto Alomar
• 13 Roger Clemens
• 14 Austin Kearns
• 15 Luis Gonzalez
• 16 Mo Vaughn
• 17 Alfonso Soriano
• 18 Orlando Cabrera
• 19 Hideo Nomo
• 20 Omar Vizquel
• 21 Greg Maddux
• 22 Fred McGriff
• 23 Frank Thomas
• 24 Shawn Green
• 25 Jacque Jones
• 26 Bernie Williams
• 27 Corey Patterson
• 28 Cesar Izturis
• 29 Larry Walker
• 30 Darren Dreifort
• 31 Al Leiter
• 32 Jason Marquis
• 33 Sean Casey
• 34 Craig Counsell
• 35 Albert Pujols
• 36 Kyle Lohse
• 37 Paul Lo Duca
• 38 Roy Oswalt
• 39 Danny Graves
• 40 Kevin Millwood
• 41 Lance Berkman
• 42 Denny Hocking
• 43 Jose Valentin
• 44 Josh Beckett
• 45 Nomar Garciaparra
• 46 Craig Biggio
• 47 Omar Daal
• 48 Jimmy Rollins
• 49 Jermaine Dye
• 50 Edgar Renteria
• 51 Brandon Duckworth
• 52 Luis Castillo
• 53 Andy Ashby
• 54 Mike Williams
• 55 Benito Santiago
• 56 Bret Boone
• 57 Randy Wolf
• 58 Ivan Rodriguez
• 59 Shannon Stewart
• 60 Jose Cruz
• 61 Billy Wagner
• 62 Alex Gonzalez
• 63 Ichiro
• 64 Joe McEwing
• 65 Mark Mulder
• 66 Mike Cameron
• 67 Corey Koskie
• 68 Marlon Anderson
• 69 Jason Kendall
• 70 J.T. Snow
• 71 Edgar Martinez
• 72 Vernon Wells
• 73 Vladimir Guerrero
• 74 Adam Dunn
• 75 Barry Zito
• 76 Jeff Kent
• 77 Russ Ortiz
• 78 Phil Nevin
• 79 Carlos Beltran
• 80 Mike Lowell
• 81 Bob Wickman
• 82 Junior Spivey
• 83 Melvin Mora
• 84 Derrek Lee
• 85 Chuck Knoblauch
• 86 Eric Gagne
• 87 Orlando Hernandez
• 88 Robert Person
• 89 Elmer Dessens
• 90 Wade Miller
• 91 Adrian Beltre
• 92 Kazuhiro Sasaki
• 93 Timo Perez
• 94 Jose Vidro
• 95 Geronimo Gil
• 96 Trot Nixon
• 97 Denny Neagle
• 98 Roberto Hernandez
• 99 David Ortiz
• 100 Robb Nen
• 101 Sidney Ponson
• 102 Kevin Appier
• 103 Javy Lopez
• 104 Jeff Conine
• 105 Mark Buehrle
• 106 Jason Simontacchi
• 107 Jose Jimenez
• 108 Brian Jordan
• 109 Brad Wilkerson
• 110 Scott Hatteberg
• 111 Matt Morris
• 112 Miguel Tejada
• 113 Rafael Furcal
• 114 Steve Cox
• 115 Roy Halladay
• 116 David Eckstein
• 117 Tomo Ohka
• 118 Jack Wilson
• 119 Randall Simon
• 120 Jamie Moyer
• 121 Andy Benes
• 122 Tino Martinez
• 123 Esteban Yan
• 124 Jason Isringhausen
• 125 Chris Carpenter
• 126 Aaron Rowand
• 127 Brandon Inge
• 128 Jose Vizcaino
• 129 Jose Mesa
• 130 Troy Percival
• 131 Jon Lieber
• 132 Brian Giles
• 133 Aaron Boone
• 134 Bobby Higginson
• 135 Luis Rivas
• 136 Troy Glaus
• 137 Jim Thome
• 138 Ramon Martinez
• 139 Jay Gibbons
• 140 Mike Lieberthal
• 141 Juan Uribe
• 142 Gary Sheffield
• 143 Ramon Santiago
• 144 Ben Sheets
• 145 Tony Armas
• 146 Kazuhisa Ishii
• 147 Erubiel Durazo
• 148 Jerry Hairston
• 149 Byung-Hyun Kim
• 150 Marcus Giles
• 151 Johnny Damon
• 152 Terrence Long
• 153 Juan Pierre
• 154 Aramis Ramirez
• 155 Brent Abernathy
• 156 Ismael Valdes
• 157 Mike Mussina
• 158 Ramon Hernandez
• 159 Adam Kennedy
• 160 Tony Womack
• 161 Tony Batista
• 162 Kip Wells
• 163 Jeromy Burnitz
• 164 Todd Hundley
• 165 Tim Wakefield
• 166 Derek Lowe
• 167 Jorge Posada
• 168 Ramon Ortiz
• 169 Brent Butler
• 170 Shane Halter
• 171 Matt Lawton
• 172 Alex Sanchez
• 173 Eric Milton
• 174 Vicente Padilla
• 175 Steve Karsay
• 176 Mark Prior
• 177 Kerry Wood
• 178 Jason LaRue
• 179 Danys Baez
• 180 Nick Neugebauer
• 181 Andres Galarraga
• 182 Jason Giambi
• 183 Aubrey Huff
• 184 Juan Gonzalez
• 185 Ugueth Urbina
• 186 Rickey Henderson
• 187 Brad Fullmer
• 188 Todd Zeile
• 189 Jason Jennings
• 190 Vladimir Nunez
• 191 David Justice
• 192 Brian Lawrence
• 193 Pat Burrell
• 194 Pokey Reese
• 195 Robert Fick
• 196 C.C. Sabathia
• 197 Fernando Vina
• 198 Sean Burroughs
• 199 Ellis Burks
• 200 Joe Randa

First-Year Players

• 201 Chris Duncan RC
• 202 Franklin Gutierrez RC
• 203 Adam LaRoche
• 204 Manuel Ramirez RC*
• 205 Il Kim RC*
• 206 Daryl Clark RC*
• 207 Sean Pierce
• 208 Andy Marte RC
• 209 Bernie Castro RC
• 210 Jason Perry RC
• 211 Jaime Bubela RC
• 212 Alexis Rios
• 213 Brendan Harris RC
• 214 Ramon Nivar RC
• 215 Terry Tiffee RC
• 216 Kevin Youkilis RC
• 217 Derell McCall RC
• 218 Scott Tyler RC
• 219 Craig Brazell RC
• 220 Walter Young

Series Two

• 221 Francisco Rodriguez
• 222 Chipper Jones
• 223 Chris Singleton
• 224 Cliff Floyd
• 225 Bobby Hill
• 226 Antonio Osuna
• 227 Barry Larkin
• 228 Dean Palmer
• 229 Eric Owens
• 230 Randy Johnson
• 231 Jeff Suppan
• 232 Eric Karros
• 233 Johan Santana
• 234 Javier Vazquez
• 235 John Thomson
• 236 Nick Johnson
• 237 Mark Ellis
• 238 Doug Glanville
• 239 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 240 Bubba Trammell
• 241 Livan Hernandez
• 242 Desi Relaford
• 243 Eli Marrero
• 244 Jared Sandberg
• 245 Barry Bonds
• 246 Aaron Sele
• 247 Derek Jeter
• 248 Eric Byrnes
• 249 Rich Aurilia
• 250 Joel Pineiro
• 251 Chuck Finley
• 252 Bengie Molina
• 253 Steve Finley
• 254 Marty Cordova
• 255 Shea Hillenbrand
• 256 Milton Bradley
• 257 Carlos Pena
• 258 Brad Ausmus
• 259 Carlos Delgado
• 260 Kevin Mench
• 261 Joe Kennedy
• 262 Mark McLemore
• 263 Bill Mueller
• 264 Ricky Ledee
• 265 Ted Lilly
• 266 Sterling Hitchcock
• 267 Scott Strickland
• 268 Damion Easley
• 269 Torii Hunter
• 270 Brad Radke
• 271 Geoff Jenkins
• 272 Paul Byrd
• 273 Morgan Ensberg
• 274 Mike Maroth
• 275 Mike Hampton
• 276 Flash Gordon
• 277 John Burkett
• 278 Rodrigo Lopez
• 279 Tim Spooneybarger
• 280 Quinton McCracken
• 281 Tim Salmon
• 282 Jarrod Washburn
• 283 Pedro Martinez
• 284 Julio Lugo
• 285 Armando Benitez
• 286 Raul Mondesi
• 287 Robin Ventura
• 288 Bob Abreu
• 289 Josh Fogg
• 290 Ryan Klesko
• 291 Tsuyoshi Shinjo
• 292 Jim Edmonds
• 293 Chan Ho Park
• 294 John Mabry
• 295 Woody Williams
• 296 Scott Schoeneweis
• 297 Brian Anderson
• 298 Brett Tomko
• 299 Scott Erickson
• 300 Kevin Millar
• 301 Dan Wright
• 302 Jason Schmidt
• 303 Scott Williamson
• 304 Einar Diaz
• 305 Jay Payton
• 306 Juan Acevedo
• 307 Ben Grieve
• 308 Raul Ibanez
• 309 Richie Sexson
• 310 Rick Reed
• 311 Pedro Astacio
• 312 Bud Smith
• 313 Tomas Perez
• 314 Rafael Palmeiro
• 315 Jason Tyner
• 316 Scott Rolen
• 317 Randy Winn
• 318 Ryan Jensen
• 319 Trevor Hoffman
• 320 Craig Wilson
• 321 Jeremy Giambi
• 322 Andy Pettitte
• 323 John Franco
• 324 Felipe Lopez
• 325 Mike Piazza
• 326 Cristian Guzman
• 327 Jose Hernandez
• 328 Octavio Dotel
• 329 Brad Penny
• 330 Dave Veres
• 331 Ryan Dempster
• 332 Joe Crede
• 333 Chad Hermansen
• 334 Gary Matthews
• 335 Frank Catalanotto
• 336 Darin Erstad
• 337 Matt Williams
• 338 B.J. Surhoff
• 339 Kerry Ligtenberg
• 340 Mike Bordick
• 341 Joe Girardi
• 342 D'Angelo Jimenez
• 343 Paul Konerko
• 344 Joe Mays
• 345 Marquis Grissom
• 346 Neifi Perez
• 347 Preston Wilson
• 348 Jeff Weaver
• 349 Eric Chavez
• 350 Placido Polanco
• 351 Matt Mantei
• 352 James Baldwin
• 353 Toby Hall
• 354 Benji Gil
• 355 Damian Moss
• 356 Jorge Julio
• 357 Matt Clement
• 358 Lee Stevens
• 359 Dave Roberts
• 360 J.C. Romero
• 361 Bartolo Colon
• 362 Roger Cedeno
• 363 Mariano Rivera
• 364 Billy Koch
• 365 Manny Ramirez
• 366 Travis Lee
• 367 Oliver Perez
• 368 Tim Worrell
• 369 Damian Miller
• 370 John Smoltz
• 371 Willis Roberts
• 372 Tim Hudson
• 373 Moises Alou
• 374 Corky Miller
• 375 Ben Broussard
• 376 Gabe Kapler
• 377 Chris Woodward
• 378 Todd Hollandsworth
• 379 So Taguchi
• 380 John Olerud
• 381 Reggie Sanders
• 382 Jake Peavy
• 383 Kris Benson
• 384 Ray Durham
• 385 Boomer Wells
• 386 Tom Glavine
• 387 Antonio Alfonseca
• 388 Keith Foulke
• 389 Shawn Estes
• 390 Mark Grace
• 391 Dmitri Young
• 392 A.J. Burnett
• 393 Richard Hidalgo
• 394 Mike Sweeney
• 395 Doug Mientkiewicz
• 396 Cory Lidle
• 397 Jeff Bagwell
• 398 Steve Sparks
• 399 Sandy Alomar
• 400 John Lackey
• 401 Rick Helling
• 402 Carlos Lee
• 403 Garret Anderson
• 404 Vinny Castilla
• 405 David Bell
• 406 Freddy Garcia
• 407 Scott Spiezio
• 408 Russell Branyan
• 409 Jose Contreras RC
• 410 Kevin Brown
• 411 Tyler Houston
• 412 A.J. Pierzynski
• 413 Peter Bergeron
• 414 Brett Myers
• 415 Kenny Lofton
• 416 Ben Davis
• 417 J.D. Drew
• 418 Ricky Gutierrez
• 419 Mark Redman
• 420 Juan Encarnacion

Draft Picks

• 421 Bryan Bullington RC
• 422 Jeremy Guthrie
• 423 Joey Gomes RC*
• 424 Evel Bastida-Martinez RC*
• 425 Brian Wright RC*
• 426 B.J. Upton
• 427 Jeff Francis
• 428 Jeremy Hermida
• 429 Khalil Greene
• 430 Darrell Rasner RC

Prospects

• 431 Brandon Phillips / Victor Martinez
• 432 Hee Seop Choi / Nic Jackson
• 433 Dontrelle Willis / Jason Stokes
• 434 Chad Tracy / Lyle Overbay
• 435 Joe Borchard / Corwin Malone
• 436 Joe Mauer / Justin Morneau
• 437 Drew Henson / Brandon Claussen
• 438 Chase Utley / Gavin Floyd
• 439 Taggert Bozied / Xavier Nady
• 440 Aaron Heilman / Jose Reyes

Parallels

All 440 base cards are available in the following Refractor parallels.

• Refractor (serial-numbered to 699 copies)
• Gold Refractors (serial-numbered to 449 copies)
• Black Refractors (serial-numbered to 199 copies)

Silver Refractors

All 220 Series Two base cards are available in a retail-exclusive Silver Refractor.

Uncirculated X-Fractor

Each sealed Hobby box contained one Uncirculated X-Fractor. Available for all 440 base cards, each X-Fractor came uncased in a plastic holder (not unlike an eTopps card) and was serial-numbered. Series One X-Fractors are serial-numbered to 50 copies; while Series Two cards are numbered to 57 copies.

Game-Used

Record Breakers Relics

Series One

The stated odds of finding a Record Breakers Relics is as follows.

• BAT 1: 1:364/packs
• UNI A1: 1:413/packs
• UNI B1: 1:50/packs

• AR1 Alex Rodriguez UNI B1
• CB Craig Biggio UNI B1
• CD Carlos Delgado UNI B1
• CF Cliff Floyd BAT 1
• FT Frank Thomas UNI B1
• HK Harmon Killebrew UNI B1
• JB1 Jeff Bagwell UNI B1
• JG Juan Gonzalez UNI B1
• JM Joe Morgan BAT 1
• KS Kazuhiro Sasaki UNI B1
• LB Lou Brock BAT 1
• LG1 Luis Gonzalez BAT 1
• LW Larry Walker BAT 1
• MP Mike Piazza UNI B1
• MS Mike Schmidt UNI A1
• RH1 Rickey Henderson BAT 1
• RJ1 Randy Johnson UNI B1
• RY Robin Yount UNI B1
• SM Stan Musial UNI A1
• TH Todd Helton BAT 1

Series Two

The stated odds of finding a Record Breakers Relics is as follows.

• BAT 2: 1:131/packs
• UNI A2: 1:1707/packs
• UNI B2: 1:127/packs

• AR Alex Rodriguez BAT 2
• BB Barry Bonds UNI B2
• BB2 Barry Bonds UNI B2
• BB3 Barry Bonds BAT 2
• DE Darin Erstad BAT 2
• DLE Dennis Eckersley UNI A2
• DM Don Mattingly BAT 2
• HR Harold Reynolds BAT 2
• JB2 Jeff Bagwell UNI B2
• JC Jose Canseco BAT 2
• JS John Smoltz UNI B2
• LG2 Luis Gonzalez BAT 2
• MR Manny Ramirez BAT 2
• PM Paul Molitor BAT 2
• RC Rod Carew BAT 2
• RC2 Rod Carew BAT 2
• RH2 Rickey Henderson BAT 2
• RJ2 Randy Johnson UNI B2
• SS Sammy Sosa BAT 2
• TS Tom Seaver UNI B2

Blue Backs Relics

The odds of finding a Blue Back Relic are as follows.

• BAT: 1:236/packs
• UNI A: 1:69/packs
• UNI B: 1:662/packs

• AD Adam Dunn UNI B
• AP Albert Pujols UNI A
• AR Alex Rodriguez BAT
• AS Alfonso Soriano BAT
• BW Bernie Williams BAT
• EC Eric Chavez UNI A
• FT Frank Thomas UNI A
• JB Josh Beckett UNI A
• JBA Jeff Bagwell UNI A
• JR Jimmy Rollins UNI A
• KW Kerry Wood UNI A
• LB Lance Berkman BAT
• MO Magglio Ordonez UNI A
• MP Mike Piazza UNI A
• NG Nomar Garciaparra BAT
• NJ Nick Johnson BAT
• PK Paul Konerko UNI A
• RA Roberto Alomar BAT
• SG Shawn Green UNI A
• TS Tsuyoshi Shinjo BAT

Red Backs Relics

Odds of finding a Red Back Relic are as follows.

• BAT A: 1:342/packs
• BAT B: 1:383/packs
• JSY: 1:49/packs

• AD Adam Dunn JSY
• AJ Andruw Jones JSY
• AP Albert Pujols BAT B
• AR Alex Rodriguez JSY
• AS Alfonso Soriano BAT A
• CJ Chipper Jones JSY
• CS Curt Schilling JSY
• GA Garrett Anderson BAT A
• JB Jeff Bagwell JSY
• MP Mike Piazza JSY
• MR Manny Ramirez BAT B
• MS Mike Sweeney JSY
• NG Nomar Garciaparra BAT A
• PB Pat Burrell BAT A
• PM Pedro Martinez JSY
• RA Roberto Alomar JSY
• RJ Randy Johnson JSY
• SR Scott Rolen BAT A
• TH Todd Helton JSY
• TKH Torii Hunter JSY

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