2001 Topps Gallery hobby box

Description

2001 Topps Gallery is a 151 card, all-painted, set issued in April 2001. The set consists of a 100-card short set (Cards #1-49 and #51-#101). Cards #102-#141 make up a Prospects and Rookies subset with Prospects issued one every 2.5 packs and rookies 1:3.5 packs. Cards #142-#150 were issued one every five packs.

The only prominent rookie in the set (that was included in packs) was Albert Pujols.

Willie Mays #50

Before the product's release, Topps announced that Willie Mays's card (#50 in the set) would not be available in packs. Instead, the card was given away as part of a promotion with Topps' Home Team Advantage Hobby stores. In order to get the missing Mays card, which shows Mays in a posed shot holding a bat on his shoulder, collectors had to show a complete 149-card Topps Gallery set to their participating HTA dealer, who would then make the collector's set "complete" by issuing them their Mays card. Collectors had until October 24, 2001, to complete their sets and receive their Mays card.

However, in a move that was not announced until after the product's release, randomly seeded into retail packs of 2001 Topps Gallery was a completely different Willie Mays card, also sequentially-numbered as #50. This card, which shows a "head-and-shoulders" portrait, was printed in roughly the same quantities as the other "Legends" short-prints (cards #142-#150), and is actually more valuable than the HTA version. A set is considered complete with either Mays card.

Ichiro Suzuki #151

Randomly inserted into packs as a late addition, was a redemption card good for a rookie card (#151) of Ichiro Suzuki. Half of the cards were produced with English text and the other half in Japanese. A set is considered complete with either one. All Ichiro exchange cards expired June 30th, 2003.

Distribution

Hobby/Retail: 24 packs per box, six cards per pack (MSRP: $3). Eight boxes per Hobby case.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	151	-	?	?
short-set	100	-	5:1	5:1
Prospects	30	-	1:2.5	1:2.5
Rookies	20	-	1:3.5	1:3.5
Legends	9*	-	1:5	1:5
Press Plates	150	four-for-each	1:1347	?
Bucks	1	-	1:102	1:102
Heritage	10	-	1:12	1:12
Star Gallery	10	-	1:8	1:8
Autographs	6	-	1:232	?
Heritage Game Jersey	5	-	1:133	?
Heritage Autograph Game Jersey	2	25	1:16,313	?
Originals Game Bat	15	-	1:133	?
Team Topps Legends Autograph	5	-	1:286	?

* The retail-exclusive Willie Mays #50 card was seeded alongside the Legends.

Checklist

Base Set

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2001 Topps Gallery #13: Pat Burrell

1 Darin Erstad
2 Chipper Jones
3 Nomar Garciaparra
4 Fernando Vina
5 Bartolo Colon
6 Bob Higginson
7 Antonio Alfonseca
8 Mike Sweeney
9 Kevin Brown
10 Jose Vidro
11 Derek Jeter
12 Jason Giambi
13 Pat Burrell
14 Jeff Kent
15 Alex Rodriguez
16 Rafael Palmeiro
17 Garret Anderson
18 Brad Fullmer
19 Doug Glanville
20 Mark Quinn
21 Mo Vaughn
22 Andruw Jones
23 Pedro Martinez
24 Ken Griffey, Jr.
25 Roberto Alomar
26 Dean Palmer
27 Jeff Bagwell
28 Jermaine Dye
29 Chan Ho Park
30 Vladimir Guerrero
31 Bernie Williams
32 Ben Grieve
33 Jason Kendall
34 Barry Bonds
35 Jim Edmonds
36 Ivan Rodriguez
37 Javy Lopez
38 J.T. Snow
39 Erubiel Durazo
40 Terrence Long
41 Tim Salmon
42 Greg Maddux
43 Sammy Sosa
44 Sean Casey
45 Jeff Cirillo
46 Juan Gonzalez
47 Richard Hidalgo
48 Shawn Green
49 Jeromy Burnitz
50h Willie Mays SP HTA (posed w/ bat)
50r Willie Mays RETAIL (portrait)
51 Dave Justice
52 Tim Hudson
53 Brian Giles
54 Robb Nen
55 Fernando Tatis
56 Tony Batista
57 Pokey Reese
58 Ray Durham
59 Greg Vaughn
60 Kazuhiro Sasaki
61 Troy Glaus
62 Rafael Furcal
63 Magglio Ordonez
64 Jim Thome
65 Todd Helton
66 Preston Wilson
67 Moises Alou
68 Gary Sheffield
69 Geoff Jenkins
70 Mike Piazza
71 Jorge Posada
72 Bob Abreu
73 Phil Nevin
74 John Olerud
75 Mark McGwire
76 Jose Cruz
77 David Segui
78 Neifi Perez
79 Omar Vizquel
80 Rick Ankiel
81 Randy Johnson
82 Albert Belle
83 Frank Thomas
84 Manny Ramirez
85 Larry Walker
86 Luis Castillo
87 Johnny Damon
88 Adrian Beltre
89 Cristian Guzman
90 Jay Payton
91 Miguel Tejada
92 Scott Rolen
93 Ryan Klesko
94 Edgar Martinez
95 Fred McGriff
96 Carlos Delgado
97 Barry Zito
98 Mike Lieberthal
99 Trevor Hoffman
100 Gabe Kapler
101 Edgardo Alfonzo

Prospects

102 Corey Patterson
103 Alfonso Soriano
104 Keith Ginter
105 Keith Reed
106 Nick Johnson
107 Carlos Pena
108 Vernon Wells
109 Roy Oswalt
110 Alex Escobar
111 Adam Everett
112 Jimmy Rollins
113 Marcus Giles
114 Jack Cust
115 Chin-Feng Chen
116 Pablo Ozuna
117 Ben Sheets
118 Adrian Gonzalez
119 Ben Davis
120 Eric Valent
121 Scott Heard

Rookies

122 David Parrish RC*
123 Sean Burnett
124 Derek Thompson
125 Tim Christman RC
126 Mike Jacobs RC
127 Luis Montanez RC
128 Chris Bass RC*
129 Will Smith RC*
130 Justin Wayne RC
131 Shawn Fagan RC*
132 Chad Petty RC
133 J.R. House
134 Joel Pineiro
135 Albert Pujols RC
136 Carmen Cali RC
137 Steve Smyth RC
138 John Lackey
139 Bob Keppel RC
140 Dominic Rich RC*
141 Josh Hamilton

Legends

142 Nolan Ryan
143 Tom Seaver
144 Reggie Jackson
145 Johnny Bench
146 Warren Spahn
147 Brooks Robinson
148 Carl Yastrzemski
149 Al Kaline
150 Bob Feller

Ichiro Suzuki Redemption Card

151a Ichiro EXCH RC (English)
151b Ichiro EXCH RC (Japanese)

Parallels

A set of four Press Plates were randomly inserted into packs for all base cards except the Ichiro redemptions. It is unknown if plates were issued for the retail-exclusive Willie Mays card.

Inserts

Bucks

Randomly inserted into packs is a Johnny Bench card done in the style of the 1962 Topps Bucks set. For all intents and purposes, it is a $5 gift certificate good for any purchase at Topps' on-line store. The gift certificate expired November 7, 2001.

Heritage

GH1 Todd Helton
GH2 Greg Maddux
GH3 Pedro Martinez
GH4 Orlando Cepeda
GH5 Willie McCovey
GH6 Ken Griffey, Jr.
GH7 Alex Rodriguez
GH8 Derek Jeter
GH9 Mark McGwire
GH10 Vladimir Guerrero

Autographs & Game-Used