2009 Finest

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2009 Finest Hobby box

Description

2009 Finest Baseball is a 164-card set released by Topps, exclusively to Hobby outlets, on April 20th, 2009. The last 14 cards in the base set make up an Autographed Rookie Letter Patch subset, with each card being serial-numbered to various levels. While Finest has had autographed rookies before, this was the first time Finest had used manufactured letter patches for the autographs -- which was not well received by collectors.

Each Hobby box consists of two six-pack mini boxes, with five cards per pack. Each mini-box will contains five Refractor parallels and an autograph.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	164	-	?
short set	150	-	?
Autographed Rookie Letter Patches	14	varies	1:2/mini boxes
Refractors	150	-	?
Autographed Rookie Letter Patches Refractors	14	varies	1:4/mini boxes
Blue Refractors	150	399	?
Autographed Rookie Letter Patches Blue Refractors	14	varies	1:12/mini boxes
Green Refractors	150	99	1:2/mini boxes
Gold Refractors	150	50	1:4/mini boxes
Autographed Rookie Letter Patches Gold Refractors	14	varies	1:30/mini boxes
Red Refractors	150	25	1:8/mini boxes
Autographed Rookie Letter Patches Red Refractors	14	varies	1:60/mini boxes
X-Fractors	150	one-of-one	1:180/mini-boxes
Autographed Rookie Letter Patches X-Fractors	14	varies	1:298/mini boxes
Printing Plates	150	four for each	1:45/mini boxes
Rookie Redemptions	10	-	1:3/mini boxes
Rookie Redemptions Refractors	10	199	1:14/mini boxes
Rookie Redemptions Gold Refractors	10	50	1:54/mini boxes
Moments Autographs "A"	10	-	1:10/mini boxes
Moments Autographs "B"	6	-	1:10/mini boxes
Moments Autographs Red Refractors	16	25	1:68/mini boxes
Moments Autographs X-Fractors	16	one-of-one	1:1797/mini boxes

Checklist

Base Set

1 Kosuke Fukudome

2 Derek Jeter

3 Evan Longoria

4 Alex Gordon

5 David Wright

6 Ryan Howard

7 Jose Reyes

8 Ryan Braun

9 Hunter Pence

10 Chipper Jones

11 Jimmy Rollins

12 Alfonso Soriano

13 Alex Rodriguez

14 Paul Konerko

15 Dustin Pedroia

16 Brian McCann

17 Ken Griffey

18 Daisuke Matsuzaka

19 Josh Beckett

20 Jorge Posada

21 Nick Markakis

22 Xavier Nady

23 Carlos Pena

24 Grady Sizemore

25 Mark Teixeira

26 Chase Utley

27 Vladimir Guerrero

28 Prince Fielder

29 Brian Roberts

30 Magglio Ordonez

31 Cliff Lee

32 Josh Hamilton

33 Justin Morneau

34 David Ortiz

35 Cole Hamels

36 Edinson Volquez

37 Hanley Ramirez

38 Carlos Zambrano

39 Brett Myers

40 Chien-Ming Wang

41 John Lackey

42 B.J. Upton

43 Gary Sheffield

44 Jake Peavy

45 Carlos Lee

46 Jacoby Ellsbury

47 Francisco Liriano

48 Torii Hunter

49 Eric Chavez

50 Jamie Moyer

51 Ichiro

52 CC Sabathia

53 Matt Holliday

54 Ervin Santana

55 Hideki Matsui

56 Mark Buehrle

57 Johan Santana

58 Francisco Rodriguez

59 Jorge Cantu

60 Joe Mauer

61 Ian Kinsler

62 Joba Chamberlain

63 Stephen Drew

64 J.D. Drew

65 Justin Upton

66 Troy Glaus

67 Chone Figgins

68 David DeJesus

69 Joey Votto

70 Alex Rios

71 Adam Jones

72 Miguel Tejada

73 Michael Young

74 Vernon Wells

75 Tim Lincecum

76 Ryan Zimmerman

77 Nate McLouth

78 Carl Crawford

79 Dan Haren

80 Brandon Webb

81 Tim Hudson

82 Rafael Furcal

83 Ryan Dempster

84 Carlos Beltran

85 Lance Berkman

86 Jhonny Peralta

87 Aramis Ramirez

88 Aubrey Huff

89 Johnny Damon

90 Carlos Quentin

91 Yunel Escobar

92 Scott Kazmir

93 Delmon Young

94 Jermaine Dye

95 Miguel Cabrera

96 Zack Greinke

97 Chris Young

98 Derrek Lee

99 Orlando Hudson

100 Jay Bruce

101 Garrett Atkins

102 Curtis Granderson

103 Adrian Gonzalez

104 Raul Ibanez

105 Roy Halladay

106 Jon Lester

107 Adam Dunn

108 A.J. Burnett

109 Gavin Floyd

110 Russ Martin

111 Dan Uggla

112 Andre Ethier

113 Casey Kotchman

114 Matt Garza

115 Kevin Youkilis

116 Felix Hernandez

117 Rich Harden

118 Roy Oswalt

119 Jason Bay

120 Geovany Soto

121 Ryan Ludwick

122 Joe Saunders

123 Gil Meche

124 Jim Thome

125 Albert Pujols

126 Andrew Carpenter

127 Aaron Cunningham

128 Phil Coke

129 Alcides Escobar

130 Dexter Fowler

131 Michael Hinckley

132 Brad Nelson

133 Scott Lewis

134 Juan Miranda

135 Jason Motte

136 Travis Snider

137 Wade LeBlanc

138 Matt Tuiasosopo

139 Humberto Sanchez

140 Freddy Sandoval

141 Chris Lambert

142 John Jaso

143 James McDonald

144 Luis Valbuena

145 Rich Rundles

146 Josh Whitesell

147 Jeff Baisley

148 Ramon Ramirez

149 Jason Bourgeois

150 Jesus Delgado

Rookie Letter Autographed Patch

Each player in the Autographed Rookie Letter Patch set has one different serial-numbered manufactured patch card for each letter of his last name. The production figures listed below are the aggregate totals for ALL letters signed by the player.

For example, each Mat Gamel card (#151) is serial-numbered to 285 copies, but there are five different versions of this card (G-A-M-E-L) which when totaled together come to the 1425 figure listed below.

NOTES:

• Cards #152 and #163 packed out as redemption cards which expired April 30, 2012.
• Since the Boston Red Sox do not put player nameplates on the back of their Home jerseys, card #155 spells out "R-E-D-S-O-X".

151 Mat Gamel

152 Travis Snider

153 Angel Solome

154 Will Venable

155 Michael Bowden

156 Conor Gillaspie

157 Matt Antonelli

158 Greg Golson

159

160 Bobby Parnell

161 Gaby Sanchez

162 Jonathon Niese

163 Dexter Fowler

164 David Price

Parallels

All 150 non-autographed base cards are available in the following Refractor parallels.

• Refractor
• Blue Refractor (serial-numbered to 399 copies)
• Green Refractor (serial-numbered to 99 copies)
• Gold Refractor (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
• Red Refractor (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
• X-Fractor (one-of-one)
• Printing Plates (set of four for each card)

Autographed Rookie Letter Patch Refractors

All 14 Autographed Rookie Letter Patch Refractors are available in the following Refractor parallels.

Refractor

Each individual Refractor is serial-numbered to 75 copies. Production figures listed below are the aggregate of all Refractors.

Blue Refractor

Each individual Blue Refractor is serial-numbered to 50 copies. Production figures listed below are the aggregate of all Refractors.

Gold Refractor

Each individual Gold Refractor is serial-numbered to 10 copies. Production figures listed below are the aggregate of all Refractors.

Red Refractor

Each individual Red Refractor is serial-numbered to five. Production figures listed below are the aggregate of all Refractors.

X-Fractor

Each individual X-Fractor is a one-of-one. Production figures listed below are the aggregate of all Refractors.

Inserts

Rookie Redemptions

Randomly inserted into packs at the rate of one per Master Hobby box were 10 Rookie Redemption cards, each numbered 1-10. Similar to the "Red Hot Rookies" from flagship, Topps would announce over the course of the 2009 season who each Rookie Redemption was good for.

NOTES:

• Although these cards share the same design as the base set, and have the "RC" icon, none of these cards are "true" rookie cards.
• Card #10 was autographed.
• All Rookie Redemptions expired April 30, 2010.

These cards are also available in the following parallels.

• Refractor (serial-numbered to 199 copies)
• Gold Refractor (serial-numbered to 50 copies)

Autographs & Game-Used

Moments Autograph

Each Moments Autograph is also available in the following parallels.

• Red Refractor (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
• X-Fractor (one-of-one)

(1) FMA-AC Asdrubal Cabrera

(2) FMA-AI Akinori Iwamura

(3) FMA-AR Alex Rodriguez

(4) FMA-DO David Ortiz

(5) FMA-DW David Wright

(6) FMA-EV Evan Longoria

(7) FMA-HP Hunter Pence

(8) FMA-JB Jay Bruce

(9) FMA-JBA Jason Bay

(10) FMA-JC Joba Chamberlain

(11) FMA-JL Jon Lester

(12) FMA-JR Jose Reyes

(13) FMA-JT Jim Thome

(14) FMA-JV Joey Votto

(15) FMA-RC Robinson Cano

(16) FMA-RH Ryan Howard