Description

2002 Topps American Pie is a 150-card set released in May, 2002. Dubbed the "Spirit of America Edition," the checklist features a mix of retired baseball players, celebrities, and historical events. There are no active players in the set, and as such, is not licensed by the MLBPA.

Distribution

24 packs per box, seven cards per pack.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	150	-	?	?
Sluggers	25	-	one-per-pack	one-per-pack
Entertainment Buybacks	35	100	1:119	1:308
Through the Years Relics	26	-	1:32	1:58
First Pitch Seat Relics	16	-	1:32	1:56
Piece of American Pie	10	-	varies	varies

Checklist

Base Set

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1 Warren Spahn
2 Reggie Jackson
3 Bill Mazeroski
4 Carl Yastrzemski
5 Whitey Ford
6 Ralph Houk
7 Rod Carew
8 Kirk Gibson
9 Bobby Thomson
10 Don Newcombe
11 Gaylord Perry
12 Bruce Sutter
13 Bob Gibson
14 Brooks Robinson
15 Steve Carlton
16 Robin Yount
17 Ernie Banks
18 Lou Brock
19 Al Kaline
20 Carlton Fisk
21 Frank Robinson
22 Bobby Bonds
23 Andre Dawson
24 Goose Gossage
25 Fred Lynn
26 Keith Hernandez
27 Rollie Fingers
28 Juan Marichal
29 Maury Wills
30 Dave Winfield
31 Frank Howard
32 Tony Gwynn
33 Jim Palmer
34 Mike Schmidt
35 Bo Jackson
36 Fergie Jenkins
37 Bobby Richardson
38 Harmon Killebrew
39 Monte Irvin
40 Jim Abbott
41 Wade Boggs
42 Jackie Robinson
43 Ralph Branca
44 Minnie Minoso
45 Tug McGraw
46 Willie Mays
47 Nolan Ryan
48 Duke Snider
49 Tom Seaver
50 Casey Stengel
51 D-Day
52 Gulf War
53 Vietnam War
54 Korean War
55 Secret Service
56 Crayons
57 Hoover Dam
58 Penicillin
59 Polio Vaccine
60 Empire State Building
61 Television
62 Duke Ellington
63 Voyager Mission
64 Space Shuttle
65 Ellis Island
66 Statue Of Liberty
67 Battle Of The Bulge
68 Battle Of Midway
69 Iwo Jima
70 Panama Canal
71 Spirit Of St. Louis
71 Lindbergh
72 Civil Rights
72 We Shall Overcome
73 Space Race
74 Alaska Pipeline
75 Teddy Bear
76 Seabiscuit
77 Bazooka Joe
78 Mt. Rushmore
79 Yellowstone Park
80 Niagara Falls
81 Grand Canyon
82 Hoola Hoop
83 George Patton
84 Florence Griffith Joyner
85 Amelia Earhart
86 Glen Miller
87 Rick Monday
88 Buzz Aldrin
89 Rosa Parks
90 Edward R. Murrow
91 Susan B. Anthony
92 Bobby Kennedy
93 Gloria Steinem
94 Hank Greenberg
95 Jimmy Doolittle
96 Thurgood Marshall
97 Ernest Hemingway
98 Henry Ford
99 Wright Brothers
100 Thomas Edison
101 Albert Einstein
102 Will Rogers
103 George Gershwin
104 Irving Berlin
105 Frank Lloyd Wright
106 Howard Hughes
107 George M. Cohan
108 Jack Kerouac
109 Harry Houdini
110 Helen Keller
111 John McCain
112 Andrew Carnegie
113 Sandra Day O'Connor
114 Brooklyn Bridge
115 Douglas MacArthur
116 Elvis Presley
117 George Burns
118 Judy Garland
119 Buddy Holly
120 Don McLean
121 Marilyn Monroe
122 Humphrey Bogart
123 Gary Cooper
124 The Andrews Sisters
125 Jim Thorpe
126 Joe Louis
127 Jesse Owens
128 Kate Smith
129 W.C. Fields
130 Bette Davis
131 Jayne Mansfield
132 William McKinley
133 Teddy Roosevelt
134 William Taft
135 Woodrow Wilson
136 Warren Harding
137 Calvin Coolidge
138 Herbert Hoover
139 Franklin D. Roosevelt
140 Harry Truman
141 Dwight Eisenhower
142 John F. Kennedy
143 Lyndon B. Johnson
144 Richard Nixon
145 Gerald Ford
146 Jimmy Carter
147 Ronald Reagan
148 George H.W. Bush
149 Bill Clinton
150 George W. Bush

Inserts

Sluggers

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Each pack contained one Sluggers insert. There are four different color parallels for each card (Blue, Gold, Red, and Silver); however, all four colors were produced in equal quantities.

1 Rod Carew
2 Brooks Robinson
3 Mike Schmidt
4 Carlton Fisk
5 Reggie Jackson
6 Carl Yastrzemski
7 Kirk Gibson
8 Al Kaline
9 Frank Robinson
10 Fred Lynn
11 Dave Winfield
12 Harmon Killebrew
13 Monte Irvin
14 Willie Mays
15 Duke Snider
16 George Foster
17 Joe Carter
18 Eddie Mathews
19 George Brett
20 Frank Howard
21 Andre Dawson
22 Ted Kluszewski
23 Ryne Sandberg
24 Jack Clark
25 Cecil Cooper

Entertainment Buybacks

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Each Entertainment Buyback is a card from a previously-released Topps non-sport set, hit with a special foil stamp, and serial-numbered to 100 copies.