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2000 Black Diamond Edition hobby box

Description

2000 Black Diamond Rookie Edition is a 154-card set released exclusively to Hobby outlets by Upper Deck in December, 2000 -- almost a full year after 2000 Black Diamond -- and would be the final Black Diamond baseball set. The set includes a 30-card Rookie Gems subset (with each card serial-numbered to 1000 copies), a 16-card "Rookie Jerseys" subset, and 18 jersey cards of the Gold Medal winning 2000 USA Baseball team. This set marked the first time game-used jersey cards were included in a base set.

Notable rookie cards include: Mark Buehrle, Roy Oswalt, Ben Sheets and Barry Zito.

Distribution

24 packs per box, six cards per pack (MSRP: $2.99). Hobby only.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Base	154	-	?
short set	90	-	?
Rookie Gems	30	1000	?
Rookie Jerseys	16	-	1:24
USA Olympic Team Jerseys	18	-	1:96
Gold short set	90	1000	?
Gold Rookie Gems	30	500	?
Gold Rookie Jerseys	16	100	?
Diamonation	9	-	1:12
Diamond Might	9	-	1:12
Diamond Gallery	6	-	1:20
Diamond Skills	6	-	1:20
Authentic Pinstripes	9	varies	?

Checklist

Base Set

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2000 Black Diamond Rookie Edition #15 Jim Thome

1 Troy Glaus
2 Mo Vaughn
3 Darin Erstad
4 Jason Giambi
5 Tim Hudson
6 Ben Grieve
7 Eric Chavez
8 Tony Batista
9 Carlos Delgado
10 David Wells
11 Greg Vaughn
12 Fred McGriff
13 Manny Ramirez
14 Roberto Alomar
15 Jim Thome
16 Alex Rodriguez
17 Edgar Martinez
18 John Olerud
19 Albert Belle
20 Mike Mussina
21 Cal Ripken, Jr.
22 Ivan Rodriguez
23 Rafael Palmeiro
24 Pedro Martinez
25 Nomar Garciaparra
26 Carl Everett
27 Jermaine Dye
28 Mike Sweeney
29 Juan Gonzalez
30 Bob Higginson
31 Dean Palmer
32 Jacque Jones
33 Eric Milton
34 Matt Lawton
35 Magglio Ordonez
36 Paul Konerko
37 Frank Thomas
38 Ray Durham
39 Roger Clemens
40 Derek Jeter
41 Bernie Williams
42 Jose Canseco
43 Craig Biggio
44 Richard Hidalgo
45 Jeff Bagwell
46 Greg Maddux
47 Chipper Jones
48 Rafael Furcal
49 Andruw Jones
50 Geoff Jenkins
51 Jeromy Burnitz
52 Mark McGwire
53 Rick Ankiel
54 Jim Edmonds
55 Kerry Wood
56 Sammy Sosa
57 Matt Williams
58 Randy Johnson
59 Steve Finley
60 Curt Schilling
61 Kevin Brown
62 Gary Sheffield
63 Shawn Green
64 Jose Vidro
65 Vladimir Guerrero
66 Jeff Kent
67 Barry Bonds
68 Ryan Dempster
69 Cliff Floyd
70 Preston Wilson
71 Mike Piazza
72 Al Leiter
73 Edgardo Alfonzo
74 Derek Bell
75 Ryan Klesko
76 Tony Gwynn
77 Bob Abreu
78 Pat Burrell
79 Scott Rolen
80 Mike Lieberthal
81 Jason Kendall
82 Brian Giles
83 Ken Griffey, Jr.
84 Pokey Reese
85 Dmitri Young
86 Sean Casey
87 Jeff Cirillo
88 Todd Helton
89 Jeffrey Hammonds
90 Larry Walker

Rookies Gems

Each Rookie Gem is serial-numbered to 1000 copies.

91 Barry Zito RC
92 Keith Ginter RC
93 Dane Sardinha RC
94 Kenny Kelly RC
95 Ryan Kohlmeier
96 Leo Estrella
97 Danys Baez RC
98 Paul Rigdon
99 Mike Lamb RC
100 Aaron McNeal RC*
101 Juan Pierre RC
102 Rico Washington RC
103 Luis Matos RC
104 Adam Bernero
105 Wascar Serrano RC
106 Chris Richard RC
107 Justin Miller
108 Julio Zuleta RC
109 Alex Cabrera RC
110 Gene Stechschulte
111 Tony Mota
112 Tomo Ohka
113 Geraldo Guzman RC
114 Scott Downs RC
115 Timo Perez RC
116 Chad Durbin
117 Sun Woo Kim RC
118 Tomas De La Rosa
119 Javier Cardona
120 Kazuhiro Sasaki RC

Rookie Jerseys

121 Brad Cresse
122 Matt Wheatland RC*
123 Joe Torres RC*
124 Dave Krynzel RC
125 Ben Diggins RC
126 Sean Burnett RC
127 David Espinosa RC*
128 Scott Heard RC*
129 Daylan Holt RC*
130 Koyie Hill RC JSY USA
131 Mark Buehrle
132 Xavier Nady RC
133 Mike Tonis RC
134 Matt Ginter RC JSY USA
135 Lorenzo Barcelo RC JSY
136 Cory Vance RC

USA Olympic Team Jerseys

137 Sean Burroughs USA JSY
138 Todd Williams USA JSY
139 Brad Wilkerson USA JSY RC
140 Ben Sheets USA JSY RC
141 Kurt Ainsworth USA JSY RC
142 Anthony Sanders USA JSY
143 Ryan Franklin USA JSY RC
144 Shane Heams USA JSY RC
145 Roy Oswalt USA JSY RC
146 Jon Rauch USA JSY RC
147 Brent Abernathy USA JSY RC
148 Ernie Young USA JSY
149 Chris George USA JSY
150 Gookie Dawkins USA JSY
151 Adam Everett USA JSY
152 John Cotton USA JSY RC
153 Pat Borders USA JSY
154 Doug Mientkiewicz USA JSY

Parallels

With the exception of the USA Olympic Team Jersey subset, each base card is available in a serial-numbered Gold parallel. The production figures are listed below.

short set: (cards #1-#90) serial-numbered to 1000 copies
Rookie Gems: (cards #91-#120) serial-numbered to 500 copies
Rookie Jerseys: (cards #121-#136) serial-numbered to 100 copies

Inserts

Diamonation

D1 Pedro Martinez
D2 Derek Jeter
D3 Jason Giambi
D4 Todd Helton
D5 Nomar Garciaparra
D6 Randy Johnson
D7 Jeff Bagwell
D8 Cal Ripken, Jr.
D9 Ivan Rodriguez

Diamond Gallery

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2000 Black Diamond Rookie Edition Diamond Gallery #G4 Cal Ripken, Jr.

G1 Sammy Sosa
G2 Barry Bonds
G3 Vladimir Guerrero
G4 Cal Ripken, Jr.
G5 Mike Piazza
G6 Mark McGwire

Diamond Might

M1 Mark McGwire
M2 Mike Piazza
M3 Frank Thomas
M4 Ken Griffey, Jr.
M5 Sammy Sosa
M6 Alex Rodriguez
M7 Carlos Delgado
M8 Vladimir Guerrero
M9 Barry Bonds

Diamond Skills

S1 Alex Rodriguez
S2 Chipper Jones
S3 Ken Griffey, Jr.
S4 Pedro Martinez
S5 Ivan Rodriguez
S6 Derek Jeter

Autographs & Game-Used

Authentic Pinstripes

APB Derek Jeter BAT 1000
APC Derek Jeter CAP 200
APG Derek Jeter GLOVE 200
APJ Derek Jeter JRSY 1000
DJJD Derek Jeter / Joe DiMaggio BAT 25
DJMM Derek Jeter / Mickey Mantle BAT 25
DJRM Derek Jeter / Roger Maris BAT 25
JDMB Derek Jeter / Joe DiMaggio / Mickey Mantle BAT 25
JWOJ Derek Jeter / Bernie Williams / Paul O'Neill JRSY 100

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