Description

2002 Bowman Heritage is a 440-card baseball card set based on the 1954 Bowman set, and released by Topps in August 2002. Like with the previous year's product and it's sister set Topps Heritage, 110 cards were short-printed and scattered throughout the base set.

Each 24-pack Hobby box should yield a Relic and an autograph.

Distribution

24 packs per box, ten cards per pack (MSRP: $3). 16 boxes per case. Hobby only.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	440	-	?
short set	330	-	?
SPs	110	-	1:2
Black Box	55	-	1:2
Chrome Refractor	110	350	1:16
Chrome Gold Refractor	110	175	1:32
1954 Reprints	20	-	1:12
Jersey Relics	14	-	1:47 R
Uniform Relics	12	-	1:75 R
Autographs	13	-	1:45 AU
1954 Reprints Autographs	6	-	1:126 AU
1954 Reprints Special Edition Autographs	6	54	1:1910 AU

R: Odds of finding a Relic: 1:29/packs
AU: Odds of finding an autograph: 1:32/packs

Checklist

Base Set

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A full color, grainy photograph is surrounded by a white border is displayed on the front of the card with either the player’s name in block letters or a facsimile signature on the bottom of the card. The back of the card features player biographical information and some 2001 and career statistics. The main change from the original 1954 Bowman design was a resizing from the original 2 5/8" X 3 3/4" card dimensions to the modern standard-sized of 2 1/2" X 3 1/2". Additionally the Bowman Heritage logo printed on the card front.

Although the set saddled with "rookie cards" of players who never played an inning in the Major Leagues (as noted by the "RC*" designation), 2002 Bowman Heritage includes rookie cards of David Wright, Jose Bautista and Joe Mauer.

NOTE: Two versions of the card number 66 exist, one of Pedro Martinez and the other of Nomar Garciaparra. This was done on purpose as homage to the original 1954 set that also had two versions of card #66 (Ted Williams and Jimmy Piersall).

1 Brent Abernathy
2 Jermaine Dye
3 James Shanks RC*
4 Chris Flinn RC*
5 Mike Peeples SP RC*
6 Gary Sheffield
7 Livan Hernandez SP
8 Jeff Austin RC
9 Jeremy Giambi
10 Adam Roller RC*
11 Sandy Alomar, Jr. SP
12 Matt Williams SP
13 Hee Seop Choi
14 Jose Offerman
15 Robin Ventura
16 Craig Biggio
17 David Wells
18 Rob Henkel RC*
19 Edgar Martinez
20 Matt Morris SP
21 Jose Valentin
22 Barry Bonds
23 Justin Schuda RC*
24 Josh Phelps
25 John Rodriguez RC
26 Angel Pagan RC
27 Aramis Ramirez
28 Jack Wilson
29 Roger Clemens
30 Kazuhisa Ishii RC
31 Carlos Beltran
32 Drew Henson SP
33 Kevin Young SP
34 Juan Cruz SP
35 Curtis Legendre RC*
36 Jose Morban RC
37 Ricardo Cordova SP RC*
38 Adam Everett
39 Mark Prior
40 Jose Bautista RC
41 Travis Foley RC*
42 Kerry Wood
43 B.J. Surhoff
44 Moises Alou
45 Joey Hammond RC
46 Eric Bruntlett RC
47 Carlos Guillen
48 Joe Crede
49 Dan Phillips RC*
50 Jason LaRue
51 Javy Lopez
52 Larry Bigbie SP
53 Chris Baker RC*
54 Marty Cordova
55 C.C. Sabathia
56 Mike Piazza
57 Brian Giles
58 Mike Bordick SP
59 Tyler Houston SP
60 Gabe Kapler
61 Ben Broussard
62 Steve Finley SP
63 Koyie Hill
64 Jeff D'Amico
65 Edwin Almonte RC
66a Pedro Martinez
66b Nomar Garciaparra
67 Travis Fryman SP
68 Brady Clark SP
69 Reed Johnson SP RC
70 Mark Grace SP
71 Tony Batista SP
72 Roy Oswalt
73 Pat Burrell SP
74 Dennis Tankersley
75 Ramon Ortiz
76 Neal Frendling SP RC*
77 Omar Vizquel SP
78 Hideo Nomo
79 Orlando Hernandez SP
80 Andy Pettitte
81 Cole Barthel RC*
82 Bret Boone
83 Alfonso Soriano
84 Brandon Duckworth
85 Ben Grieve
86 Mike Rosamond SP RC*
87 Luke Prokopec
88 Chone Figgins RC
89 Rick Ankiel SP
90 David Eckstein
91 Corey Koskie
92 Dave Justice
93 Jimmy Alvarez RC*
94 Jason Schmidt
95 Reggie Sanders
96 Victor Alvarez RC
97 Brett Roneberg RC*
98 D'Angelo Jimenez
99 Hank Blalock
100 Juan Rivera
101 Mark Buehrle SP
102 Juan Uribe
103 Royce Clayton SP
104 Brett Kay RC*
105 John Olerud
106 Richie Sexson
107 Chipper Jones
108 Adam Dunn
109 Tim Salmon SP
110 Eric Karros
111 Jose Vidro
112 Jerry Hairston, Jr.
113 Anastacio Martinez RC
114 Robert Fick SP
115 Randy Johnson
116 Trot Nixon SP
117 Nick Bierbrodt SP
118 Jim Edmonds
119 Rafael Palmeiro
120 Jose Macias
121 Josh Beckett
122 Sean Douglass
123 Jeff Kent
124 Tim Redding
125 Xavier Nady
126 Carl Everett
127 Joe Randa
128 Luke Hudson SP
129 Eric Miller RC*
130 Melvin Mora
131 Adrian Gonzalez
132 Larry Walker SP
133 Nic Jackson SP RC*
134 Mike Lowell SP
135 Jim Thome
136 Eric Milton
137 Rich Thompson SP RC
138 Placido Polanco SP
139 Juan Pierre
140 David Segui
141 Chuck Finley
142 Felipe Lopez
143 Toby Hall
144 Fred Bastardo RC*
145 Troy Glaus
146 Todd Helton
147 Ruben Gotay SP RC
148 Darin Erstad
149 Ryan Gripp SP RC*
150 Orlando Cabrera
151 Jason Young RC
152 Sterling Hitchcock SP
153 Miguel Tejada
154 Al Leiter
155 Taylor Buchholz RC
156 Juan M. Gonzalez RC*
157 Damion Easley
158 Jimmy Gobble RC
159 Dennis Ulacia SP RC*
160 Shane Reynolds SP
161 Javier Colina
162 Frank Thomas
163 Chuck Knoblauch
164 Sean Burroughs
165 Greg Maddux
166 Jason Ellison RC*
167 Tony Womack
168 Randall Shelley SP RC*
169 Jason Marquis
170 Brian Jordan
171 Vicente Padilla
172 Barry Zito
173 Matt Allegra SP RC*
174 Ralph Santana SP RC*
175 Carlos Lee
176 Richard Hidalgo SP
177 Kevin Deaton RC*
178 Juan Encarnacion
179 Mark Quinn
180 Rafael Furcal
181 Garret Anderson ERR (Photo is Chone Figgins)
182 David Wright RC
183 Jose Reyes
184 Mario Ramos SP RC
185 J.D. Drew
186 Juan Gonzalez
187 Nick Neugebauer
188 Alejandro Giron RC*
189 John Burkett
190 Ben Sheets
191 Vinny Castilla SP
192 Cory Lidle
193 Fernando Vina
194 Russell Branyan SP
195 Ben Davis
196 Angel Berroa
197 Alex Gonzalez
198 Jared Sandberg
199 Travis Lee SP
200 Luis DePaula SP RC*
201 Ramon Hernandez SP
202 Brandon Inge
203 Aubrey Huff
204 Mike Rivera
205 Brad Nelson RC
206 Colt Griffin SP RC*
207 Joel Pineiro
208 Adam Pettyjohn
209 Mark Redman
210 Roberto Alomar SP
211 Denny Neagle
212 Adam Kennedy
213 Jason Arnold SP RC*
214 Jamie Moyer
215 Aaron Boone
216 Doug Glanville
217 Nick Johnson SP
218 Mike Cameron SP
219 Tim Wakefield SP
220 Todd Stottlemyre SP
221 Mo Vaughn SP
222 Vladimir Guerrero
223 Bill Ortega
224 Kevin Brown
225 Peter Bergeron SP
226 Shannon Stewart SP
227 Eric Chavez
228 Clint Weibl RC*
229 Todd Hollandsworth SP
230 Jeff Bagwell
231 Chad Qualls RC
232 Ben Howard RC
233 Rondell White SP
234 Fred McGriff
235 Steve Cox SP
236 Chris Tritle RC*
237 Eric Valent
238 Joe Mauer RC
239 Shawn Green
240 Jimmy Rollins
241 Edgar Renteria
242 Edwin Yan RC*
243 Noochie Varner RC*
244 Kris Benson SP
245 Mike Hampton
246 So Taguchi RC
247 Sammy Sosa
248 Terrence Long
249 Jason Bay RC
250 Kevin Millar SP
251 Albert Pujols
252 Chris Latham RC
253 Eric Byrnes
254 Napoleon Calzado SP RC
255 Bob Higginson
256 Ben Molina
257 Torii Hunter SP
258 Jason Giambi
259 Bartolo Colon
260 Benito Baez
261 Ichiro Suzuki
262 Mike Sweeney
263 Brian West RC*
264 Brad Penny
265 Kevin Millwood SP
266 Orlando Hudson
267 Doug Mientkiewicz
268 Luis Gonzalez SP
269 Jay Caligiuri RC*
270 Nate Cornejo SP
271 Lee Stevens
272 Eric Hinske
273 Antwon Rollins RC*
274 Bobby Jenks RC
275 Joe Mays
276 Josh Shaffer RC
277 Jonny Gomes RC
278 Bernie Williams
279 Ed Rogers
280 Carlos Delgado
281 Raul Mondesi SP
282 Jose Ortiz
283 Cesar Izturis
284 Ryan Dempster SP
285 Brian Daubach
286 Hansel Izquierdo RC
287 Mike Lieberthal SP
288 Marcus Thames
289 Nomar Garciaparra
290 Brad Fullmer
291 Tino Martinez
292 James Barrett RC*
293 Jacque Jones
294 Nick Alvarez SP RC*
295 Jason Grove SP RC*
296 Mike Wilson SP RC
297 J.T. Snow
298 Cliff Floyd
299 Todd Hundley SP
300 Tony Clark SP
301 Demetrius Heath RC*
302 Morgan Ensberg
303 Cristian Guzman
304 Frank Catalanotto
305 Jeff Weaver
306 Tim Hudson
307 Scott Wiggins SP RC
308 Shea Hillenbrand SP
309 Todd Walker SP
310 Tsuyoshi Shinjo
311 Adrian Beltre
312 Craig Kuzmic RC*
313 Paul Konerko
314 Scott Hairston RC
315 Chan Ho Park
316 Jorge Posada
317 Chris Snelling RC
318 Keith Foulke
319 John Smoltz
320 Ryan Church SP RC
321 Mike Mussina
322 Tony Armas, Jr. SP
323 Craig Counsell
324 Marcus Giles
325 Greg Vaughn
326 Curt Schilling
327 Jeromy Burnitz
328 Eric Byrnes
329 Johnny Damon
330 Michael Floyd SP RC*
331 Edgardo Alfonzo
332 Jeremy Hill RC
333 Josh Bonifay RC*
334 Byung-Hyun Kim
335 Keith Ginter
336 Ronald Acuña, Sr. SP RC*
337 Mike Hill SP RC*
338 Sean Casey
339 Matt Anderson SP
340 Dan Wright
341 Ben Petrick
342 Mike Sirotka SP
343 Alex Rodriguez
344 Einar Diaz
345 Derek Jeter
346 Jeff Conine
347 Ray Durham SP
348 Wilson Betemit SP
349 Jeffrey Hammonds
350 Dan Trumble RC*
351 Phil Nevin SP
352 A.J. Burnett
353 Bill Mueller
354 Charles Nagy
355 Rusty Greer SP
356 Jason Botts RC
357 Magglio Ordonez
358 Kevin Appier
359 Brad Radke
360 Chris George
361 Chris Piersoll RC
362 Ivan Rodriguez
363 Jim Kavourias RC*
364 Rick Helling SP
365 Dean Palmer
366 Rich Aurilia SP
367 Ryan Vogelsong
368 Matt Lawton
369 Wade Miller
370 Dustin Hermanson
371 Craig Wilson
372 Todd Zeile SP
373 Jon Guzman RC*
374 Ellis Burks
375 Robert Cosby SP RC*
376 Jason Kendall
377 Scott Rolen SP
378 Andruw Jones
379 Greg Sain RC
380 Paul LoDuca
381 Scotty Layfield RC*
382 Tomo Ohka
383 Garrett Guzman RC*
384 Jack Cust SP
385 Shayne Wright RC*
386 Derrek Lee
387 Jesus Medrano RC*
388 Javier Vazquez
389 Preston Wilson SP
390 Gavin Floyd RC
391 Sidney Ponson SP
392 Jose Hernandez
393 Scott Erickson SP
394 Jose Valverde RC
395 Mark Hamilton SP RC*
396 Brad Cresse
397 Danny Bautista
398 Ray Lankford SP
399 Miguel Batista SP
400 Brent Butler
401 Manny Delcarmen SP RC
402 Kyle Farnsworth SP
403 Freddy Garcia
404 Joe Jiannetti RC*
405 Josh Barfield RC
406 Corey Patterson
407 Josh Towers
408 Carlos Pena
409 Jeff Cirillo
410 Jon Lieber
411 Woody Williams SP
412 Richard Lane SP RC*
413 Alex Gonzalez
414 Wilkin Ruan
415 Geoff Jenkins
416 Carlos Hernandez
417 Matt Clement SP
418 Jose Cruz, Jr.
419 Jake Mauer RC*
420 Matt Childers RC
421 Tom Glavine SP
422 Ken Griffey, Jr.
423 Anderson Hernandez RC
424 John Suomi RC*
425 Doug Sessions RC*
426 Jaret Wright
427 Rolando Viera SP RC*
428 Aaron Sele
429 Dmitri Young
430 Ryan Klesko
431 Kevin Tapani SP
432 Joe Kennedy
433 Austin Kearns
434 Roger Cedeno SP
435 Lance Berkman
436 Frank Menechino
437 Brett Myers
438 Bob Abreu
439 Shawn Estes SP

Parallels

There were two partial parallel sets inserted into packs: Black Box and Chrome Refractor. On average a single box will yield 12 Black Box and 2 Chrome Refractors.

Black Box

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Black Box is a 55-card partial parallel set inserted every-other pack. Every pack would contain either a Black Box or a short-printed base card. The card front differ from the base set with the black box containing the "signature" of the player. But the card backs are identical to the base set.

13 Hee Seop Choi
22 Barry Bonds
23 Justin Schuda
27 Aramis Ramirez
30 Kazuhisa Ishii
39 Mark Prior
41 Travis Foley
56 Mike Piazza
66 Nomar Garciaparra
72 Roy Oswalt
96 Victor Alvarez
99 Hank Blalock
107 Chipper Jones
108 Adam Dunn
120 Jose Macias
121 Josh Beckett
139 Juan Pierre
143 Toby Hall
145 Troy Glaus
146 Todd Helton
153 Miguel Tejada
167 Tony Womack
180 Rafael Furcal
182 David Wright
185 J.D. Drew
222 Vladimir Guerrero
227 Eric Chavez
238 Joe Mauer
240 Jimmy Rollins
246 So Taguchi
247 Sammy Sosa
251 Albert Pujols
258 Jason Giambi
261 Ichiro Suzuki
266 Orlando Hudson
269 Jay Caligiuri
274 Bobby Jenks
275 Joe Mays
277 Jonny Gomes
310 Tsuyoshi Shinjo
314 Scott Hairston
316 Jorge Posada
317 Chris Snelling
335 Keith Ginter
343 Alex Rodriguez
345 Derek Jeter
362 Ivan Rodriguez
390 Gavin Floyd
396 Brad Cresse
405 Josh Barfield
414 Wilkin Ruan
416 Carlos Hernandez
418 Jose Cruz
422 Ken Griffey, Jr.
433 Austin Kearns

Chrome Refractors

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Chrome Refractor is a 110-card partial-parallel. The Chrome Refractors were seeded at 1:16/packs and are serial-numbered to 350 copies. A Gold Chrome Refractor parallel was also produced, seeded at half the rate and half the print run: 1:32/packs and serial-numbered to 175 copies.

1BHC Edwin Almonte
2BHC Moises Alou
3BHC Benito Baez
4BHC Lance Berkman
5BHC Bret Boone
6BHC Taylor Buchholz
7BHC Pat Burrell
8BHC Sean Burroughs
9BHC Orlando Cabrera
10BHC Sean Casey
11BHC Matt Childers
12BHC Brady Clark
13BHC Roger Clemens
14BHC Marty Cordova
15BHC Craig Counsell
16BHC Juan Cruz
17BHC Jack Cust
18BHC Ben Davis
19BHC Sean Douglass
20BHC Brandon Duckworth
21BHC David Eckstein
22BHC Morgan Ensberg
23BHC Darin Erstad
24BHC Carl Everett
25BHC Nomar Garciaparra
26BHC Marcus Giles
27BHC Alex Gonzalez
28BHC Juan M. Gonzalez
29BHC Shawn Green
30BHC Cristian Guzman
31BHC Mike Hampton
32BHC Rob Henkel
33BHC David Wells
34BHC Brad Fullmer
35BHC Jeremy Giambi
36BHC Koyie Hill
37BHC Tim Hudson
38BHC Hansel Izquierdo
39BHC Geoff Jenkins
40BHC D'Angelo Jimenez
41BHC Andruw Jones
42BHC Brian Jordan
43BHC Jason Kendall
44BHC Ryan Klesko
45BHC Paul Konerko
46BHC Matt Lawton
47BHC Scotty Layfield
48BHC Paul Lo Duca
49BHC Terrence Long
50BHC Pedro Martinez
51BHC Tino Martinez
52BHC Jake Mauer
53BHC Fred McGriff
54BHC Doug Mientkiewicz
55BHC Wade Miller
56BHC Melvin Mora
57BHC Mike Mussina
58BHC Hideo Nomo
59BHC Tomo Ohka
60BHC Magglio Ordonez
61BHC Rafael Palmeiro
62BHC Corey Patterson
63BHC Carlos Pena
64BHC Josh Phelps
65BHC Joel Pineiro
66BHC Luke Prokopec
67BHC Mark Quinn
68BHC Joe Randa
69BHC Tim Redding
70BHC Mark Redman
71BHC Jose Reyes
72BHC Juan Rivera
73BHC John Rodriguez
74BHC Antwon Rollins
75BHC C.C. Sabathia
76BHC Reggie Sanders
77BHC Curt Schilling
78BHC Jason Schmidt
79BHC David Segui
80BHC Richie Sexson
81BHC Doug Sessions
82BHC John Smoltz
83BHC Alfonso Soriano
84BHC Lee Stevens
85BHC Mike Sweeney
86BHC Dennis Tankersley
87BHC Marcus Thames
88BHC Frank Thomas
89BHC Josh Towers
90BHC Brent Abernathy
91BHC Eric Valent
92BHC Jose Valverde
93BHC Mo Vaughn
94BHC Robin Ventura
95BHC Jack Wilson
96BHC Dan Wright
97BHC Dmitri Young
98BHC Barry Zito
99BHC Shayne Wright
100BHC Ryan Vogelsong
101BHC Noochie Varner
102BHC Ben Sheets
103BHC Ed Rogers
104BHC Mike Rivera
105BHC Edgar Renteria
106BHC Brad Penny
107BHC Ramon Ortiz
108BHC Nick Neugebauer
109BHC Xavier Nady
110BHC Randy Johnson

Inserts

1954 Reprints

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The only insert set was a series of 20 reprints from the original 1954 Bowman Set. Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Yogi Berra, Duke Snider, Whitey Ford, Eddie Mathews are the main highlights. The cards were resized to standard size otherwise they would have been oversized for the packs. The card number shown in the biographical box on the back of the card is the original card number from the 1954 Bowman set. The actual card number (which is actually the player's initials and not a "number") can be found along the edge of the card, beginning with the prefix BHR-.

BHR-AR Allie Reynolds
BHR-BF Bob Feller
BHR-CL Clem Labine
BHR-DC Del Crandall
BHR-DL Don Larsen
BHR-DM Don Mueller
BHR-DS Duke Snider
BHR-DW Dave Williams
BHR-ES Enos Slaughter
BHR-GM Gil McDougald
BHR-HW Hoyt Wilhelm
BHR-JL Johnny Logan
BHR-JP Jim Piersall
BHR-NF Nellie Fox
BHR-PR Phil Rizzuto
BHR-RA Richie Ashburn
BHR-WF Whitey Ford
BHR-WM Willie Mays
BHR-WW Wes Westrum
BHR-YB Yogi Berra

Autographs & Game-Used

Relics

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As would be standard to come in all future Bowman Heritage releases, a game used Relics set was included in 2002 Bowman Heritage. A number of current players (veterans) were featured with Jersey and Uniform (i.e. pants) swatches inserted into packs at overall rates of 1:47 and 1:75/packs respectively. There were four different Uniform and seven different Jersey groups at differing rates. Most of these jersey and uniform swatches are single color swatches, but occasionally one is discovered with a pinstripe. No known patch cards have emerged.

The odds of finding a specific Relic are as follows.

Group A JSY: 1:1910
Group B JSY: 1:1551
Group C JSY: 1:138
Group D JSY: 1:207
Group E JSY: 1:165
Group F JSY: 1:2072
Group G JSY: 1:653
Group A UNI: 1:1551
Group B UNI: 1:855
Group C UNI: 1:124
Group D UNI: 1:284

BH-AP Albert Pujols UNI C
BH-BB Barry Bonds UNI D
BH-CD Carlos Delgado JSY G
BH-CJ Chipper Jones JSY C
BH-DE Darin Erstad UNI C
BH-EA Edgardo Alfonzo JSY C
BH-EC Eric Chavez JSY C
BH-EM Edgar Martinez JSY C
BH-FT Frank Thomas JSY F
BH-GM Greg Maddux JSY C
BH-IR Ivan Rodriguez UNI B
BH-JB Josh Beckett JSY E
BH-JE Jim Edmonds JSY D
BH-JS John Smoltz JSY C
BH-JT Jim Thome JSY E
BH-KS Kazuhiro Sasaki JSY C
BH-LW Larry Walker JSY C
BH-MP Mike Piazza UNI A
BH-MR Mariano Rivera UNI C
BH-NG Nomar Garciaparra JSY A
BH-PK Paul Konerko JSY E
BH-PW Preston Wilson JSY B
BH-SR Scott Rolen JSY C
BH-TG Tony Gwynn JSY D
BH-TH Todd Helton JSY D
BH-TS Tim Salmon UNI C

Autographs

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The Autograph set in 2002 Bowman Heritage featured all on-card autographs. Overall odds of pulling an autographed card were 1:45/packs or approximately every other Hobby box. The cards were split into three groups, A, B and C with each group being inserted at slightly different odds.

Group A: 1:620
Group B: 1:89
Group C: 1:103

BHA-AP Albert Pujols A

BHA-CB Chad Billingsley ?

BHA-CI Cesar Izturis B

BHA-DH Drew Henson B

BHA-HB Hank Blalock C

BHA-JM Joe Mauer C

BHA-JR Juan Rivera C

BHA-KG Keith Ginter B

BHA-KI Kazuhisa Ishii A

BHA-LB Lance Berkman B

BHA-MP Mark Prior B

BHA-PL Paul LoDuca C

BHA-RO Roy Oswalt B

BHA-TH Toby Hall B

1954 Reprint Autographs

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Following in the tradition of the 2001 Bowman Heritage set, six players featured in the 1954 Reprint insert set (see above) signed some copies of cards for insertion. The base 1954 Reprint Autographs were signed in blue ink and were seeded at the rate of 1:126/packs. Approximately 819 copies of each card were printed, but were not serial-numbered.

Similar to the Real One Autographs in Topps Heritage, a Special Edition Autograph parallel (signed in red ink) was also released. Each Special Edition Autograph was hand-numbered to 54 copies and seeded at the rate of 1:1910/packs.

NOTE: The Don Mueller and Dave Williams autographs in this set are their only certified autograph cards.

BHRA-CL Clem Labine
BHRA-DC Del Crandall
BHRA-DM Don Mueller
BHRA-DW Dave Williams
BHRA-JL Johnny Logan
BHRA-YB Yogi Berra