1999 Upper Deck Century Legends

Description

1999 Upper Deck Century Legends is a skip-numbered 131-card set released in June, 1999. One of the more popular and influential products of the era, Century Legends was one of the first products to combine current players with retired Hall of Famers.

Cards 1-50 come from The Sporting News' countdown of the 50 greatest players of the 20th Century, while cards 51-100 are TSN's picks for the best 50 active players. The set winds up with the "21st Century Phenoms" and "Century Memories" subsets.

Cards 11, 25, 26, and 126 do not exist. Players 11, 25, and 26 on The Sporting News' list were Joe DiMaggio, Pete Rose, and Sandy Koufax, respectively. Upper Deck was unable to come to terms with Koufax, so his card (#26) was excluded. The March 8th, 1999 death of Joe DiMaggio triggered a clause in his licensing deal prohibiting anyone from using his image for one year after his death, which forced UD to pull cards #11 and #126 from Century Legends.

Due to his lifetime banishment from baseball, UD could not include a card of Pete Rose, and so cards #25 and #EM1 were pulled. Curiously, despite also being banned for life from baseball, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was included in the set.

Each 24-pack Hobby box yields one "Epic Signatures" autograph.

Distribution

24 packs per box, 5 cards per pack (MSRP: $4.99). Hobby only.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	131	-	?
Century Collection	131	100	?
Century Legends MVPs	100	one-of-one	?
Epic Milestones	9	-	1:12
Memorable Shots	10	-	1:12
All-Century Team	10	-	1:23
Jerseys of the Century	9	-	1:418
Epic Signatures	30	-	1:24
Epic Signatures Century	32	100	?
Artifacts	9	one-of-one	?
Legendary Cuts	9	one-of-one	?

Checklist

Promo

Base Set

NOTE: Thanks to the omissions of Joe DiMaggio, Pete Rose, and Sandy Koufax, this set is missing cards 11, 25, 26, and 126.

The Sporting News' Top 50 Players of All-Time

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Top 50 Contemporaires

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21st Century Phenoms

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Century Memories

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Foil Logo Variations

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At least three of the base cards #4 (Walter Johnson), #35 (Shoeless Joe Jackson) and #58 (Mark McGwire) have foil-stamped logos on their backs. It is unclear how, or why, these cards came into being. It is known that the McGwire is available in both foil-stamped and non-foil-stamped versions; with the foil-stamped logo being the most common. It is unclear if non-foil versions of the Johnson and Jackson exist.

Parallels

Century Collection

Each of the 131 base cards are available in this die-cut, holographic-foil parallel. All cards are serial-numbered to 100 copies with a dot-matrix printer.

MVPs

This is a 100-card partial-parallel of the 1999 Upper Deck MVP set. Each card is a one-of-one.

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Inserts

All-Century Team

NOTE: Card #AC10 features all nine All-Century Team players.

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Epic Milestones

'NOTE: Card EM1 does not exist.

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Memorable Shots

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Autographs & Game-Used

Jerseys of the Century

NOTE: This set was supposed to have ten players featured, with the tenth being Upper Deck spokesman, Ken Griffey, Jr. However, a Jerseys of the Century card for Griffey was never produced, despite it being listed on dealer sell sheets and distributed promotional materials. Thus, this was actually a nine-card set and the Griffey does not exist.

• DW Dave Winfield
• EM Eddie Murray
• GB George Brett
• GM Greg Maddux
• MS Mike Schmidt
• NR Nolan Ryan
• OZ Ozzie Smith
• RC Roger Clemens
• TG Tony Gwynn

Epic Signatures

Each card is available in a "Century" parallel, hand-numbered to 100 copies.

Four players signed only a fraction of their allotted signatures. As a result, some of those players had autographs that were BOTH live in packs AND redemptions. Collectors who pulled a redemption had until December 31st, 1999 to exchange it for an autograph.

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Legendary Cuts

NOTE: Each is a one-of-one

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Artifacts

Each Artifact is a redemption card good for the item(s) listed. Each card is a one-of-one.

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Jimmy Foxx A Piece of History 500 HR Club

See Upper Deck A Piece of History 500 HR Club.

Upper Deck Legends
1999 Century Legends - 2000 - 2001
Other Legends Sets: 2000 Upper Deck Yankees Legends - 2001 Upper Deck Legends of New York