2001 Absolute Memorabilia

Description

2001 Absolute Memorabilia is a 200-card set. Each 18-pack Hobby box will yield one Rookie Premiere Materials game-used card serial-numbered to 700 copies and one Home Opener Souvenirs game-used card. In addition, each Hobby box contains an Signing Bonus autographed baseball as a box topper.

Distribution

The cards were distributed primarily in hobby boxes that came 6 cards per pack and 18 packs per box. Cards were also distributed in retail packs with significantly worse insert odds. A hobby box sold on eBay in June 2009 for $142.

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  Hobby Box

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  Hobby Pack

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	200	-	?
short set	150	-	?
Rookie Premiere Materials	50	700	1:18
Spectrum short set	150	10	SP
Spectrum Rookie Premiere Materials	50	25	SP
RPM Autographs	41	25	?
Ball Hoggs	46	varies	BH
Boss Hoggs	50	25	BH
Home Opener Souvenirs	50	400	HOS
Home Opener Souvenirs Double	50	200	HOS
Home Opener Souvenirs Triple	50	100	HOS
Home Opener Souvenirs Home Run	50	25	HOS
Home Opener Souvenirs Autographs	10	25	HOS
Tools of the Trade	50	varies	1:72
Tools of the Trade Autographs	10	25	?
Signing Bonus Baseballs	89	varies	one per box

SP: Odds of finding a Spectrum parallel: 1:230/packs.
BH: Odds of finding a Ball Hoggs/Boss Hoggs: 1:126/packs.
HOS: One Home Opener Souvenir per Hobby box.

Checklist

Base Set

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Rookie Premiere Materials

Each Rookie Premiere Materials card is serial-numbered to 700 copies and have a piece of memorabilia embedded into the card. A number of cards packed out as redemptions which expired June 1st, 2003.

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Parallels

Spectrum

All 200 cards are available in a Spectrum parallel. Spectrum cards #1-#150 are serial-numbered to ten, while the 50 RPMs (#151-#200) were numbered to 25.

RPM Autographs

RPM Autographs is a 41-card autographed partial-parallel of the Rookie Premiere Materials subset. Each card is serial-numbered to 25 copies. A number of cards packed out as redemptions which expired June 1st, 2003.

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2002 Chicago Collection

Collectors who purchased a box of 2001 Absolute Memorabilia and opened it at Donruss-Playoff's corporate booth at the March 2002 Chicago Sun-Times card show would receive a special "Chicago Collection" parallel. Each card is foil-stamped and serial-numbered to five copies. Only cards #1-#150 were produced for this set.

Autographs & Game-Used

Ball Hoggs

Ball Hoggs is a set featuring a piece of a game-used baseball on each card. Each card is serial-numbered to the figures listed below with the first 25 copies part of the Boss Hoggs parallel (see below).

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Boss Hoggs

The first 25 serial-numbered copies of the Ball Hoggs is set are labelled the "Boss Hoggs" set. Each card has a holographic foil stamp. A number of cards are autographed. Some cards packed out as redemptions which expired June 1st, 2003.

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Home Opener Souvenirs

The bases and baseballs from the opening day of the 2001 season were purchased by Donruss and swatches of these items were the basis for the Home Opener Souvenirs sets. Some players had two different cards in this set. Five different sets: Single (1 swatch), Double (2 swatches), Triple (3 swatches), Homerun (4 swatches- 3 base, 1 baseball), and Autographed (1 swatch) were inserted into packs. Each was serial numberd to 400, 200, 100, 25 and 25 copies respectively. Just the Homerun (4 swatch) cards had multi-colored surface swatches. Only ten of the fifty cards were paralleled with an autograph. The Troy Glaus autograph card was packed out as a redemption card that expired in 2003.

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  Single

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  Double

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  Homerun

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Autographs

The first 25 serial-numbered copies of ten Home Opener Souvenirs Single are available in an autographed parallel. Three cards packed out as redemptions which expired July 1st, 2003.

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Tools of the Trade

The first of the famous Tools of the Trade sets. The fifty card set features game used jerseys (/300), bats (/100), batting gloves (/50) and hats(/100) of many of baseball's current superstars. Fifteen of the fifty were packed out as redemption cards that expired in 2003. Ten of the cards were also paralleled with an autographed version that was serial numbered to 25 copies.

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  5 - Scott Rolen

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  25 - Greg Maddux

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  27 - Vlad

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  44 Sean Casey

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Autographs

Each Tools of the Trade autograph is serial-numbered to 25 copies.

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Autographed Baseballs

Signing Bonus Baseballs

In each hobby box of 2001 Absolute Memorabilia, an autographed baseball was inserted as a box topper. Most of the balls were signed by either Hall of Fame players or current stars/superstars. Each baseball features a light brown 2001 Playoff Absolute large logo on the panel above the autograph, with the name of the player in print, and the actual Serial number of the ball. Making these Certified Autograph Baseballs.

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