2000 Fleer Tradition

Description

2000 Fleer Tradition is a 450-card, single-series set, released in February, 2000. Printed on a gray cardstock and a design reminiscent of the 1954 Topps baseball set, 2000 Fleer Tradition ushered-in the wave of "Retro"-themed products like Topps Heritage and Allen & Ginter that drove The Hobby in the 2000s. Subsets are as follows: League Leaders (1-10), Award Winners (435-440), Division Playoffs-World Series Highlights (441-450). Dual-player prospect cards, team cards and six checklist cards (featuring a floating head image of several of the game's top stars) are also sprinkled throughout the set.

Glossy Factory Set

In addition to the non-glossy cards found in packs, Fleer issued a factory set that contained 500 glossy cards. Released in December, 2000, each Glossy set included an additional 50 "Prospect" cards; however, each set only included five of these cards. Each of the Prospects are serial-numbered to 1000 copies. It's assumed a total of 10,000 sets were issued based upon the insertion rate of the "high series" cards. Each Glossy Factory Set also came with one of 45 serial-numbered Lumberjacks game-bat card.

Glossy Hawaii Trade Conference

Fleer stamped all 500 base cards and all 45 Lumberjacks bat cards from one, and only one, Glossy set with the logo of the annual Hawaii Trade Conference. Each attendee of the 2001 Hawaii Trade Conference received one randomly selected card.

Distribution

36 pcaks per box, Ten-cards per pack (MSRP: $1.59).

10,000 Glossy Factory Sets.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	450	-	?	?
Who to Watch	15	-	1:3	1:3
Dividends	10	-	1:6	1:6
Ten-4	10	-	1:18	1:18
Grasskickers	10	-	1:30	1:30
Hall's Well	10	-	1:30	1:30
Ripken Collection	10	-	1:30	1:30
Club 3000	3	-	1:36	1:36
Fresh Ink	37	-	1:144	N/A
Club 3000 Memorabilia	15	varies	?	?

Checklist

Promos

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Japan Promo Sheet

An 9" X 10" sheet featuring 8 cards from the 2000 Fleer Tradition set was passed out to attendees of the 2000 MLB Season Opening Series between the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets in Tokyo, Japan.

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Sammy Sosa / Mike Piazza / Chipper Jones / Ivan Rodriguez

Diamond Skills

These cards were given away to Diamond Skills contestants. They were not found in packs and do not have card numbers.

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Diamond Skills Sheet

Base Set

League Leaders

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1999 Award Winners

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1999 Postseason Highlights

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Glossy Exclusive Prospects

Each Glossy Factory Set came with five of 50 Glossy exclusive Prospects. (Which begs the question, if it's missing 45 cards, is it really a "factory set?") The Prospects are sequentially-numbered as an extension of the base set and each card is serial-numbered to 1000 copies. Since most of these players appeared in 2000 Fleer Tradition Update (which was released before the Glossy Factory Set), very few are considered "true" rookie cards.

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Inserts

Who to Watch

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Dividends

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Ten-4

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Grasskickers

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Hall's Well

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Ripken Collection

This 10-card set features images of Cal Ripken, Jr. in the style of vintage Fleer cards.

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Club 3000

See 2000 Fleer Club 3000.

Autographs & Game-Used

Fresh Ink

Each Fresh Ink features an autograph signed on a sticker affixed to the card, making it one of The Hobby's first examples of a "sticker" autograph. Unlike later sticker autographs, each sticker was unsigned when it was attached to the card. Fleer resorted to this method as the ink from a signature would never fully dry on the card's glossy surface. The stickered area of the card is embossed with a Fleer seal for authenticity. The set is not sequentially-numbered.

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Lumberjacks

One of these 45 game-used bat cards were randomly inserted into each Glossy Factory set. Just like with the Glossy base cards, one copy of each Lumberjack was foil-stamped and distributed to attendees of the 2001 Hawaii Trade Conference.

Each card is serial-numbered on the reverse side. Unlike most serial-numbered cards the serial number is embossed and not foil-stamped.

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Club 3000 Memorabilia

See 2000 Fleer Club 3000.