1997 Pinnacle

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1997 Pinnacle hobby box

Description

1997 Pinnacle is a 200-card, single-series, set released in February 1997. There were plans for a second series, but a Series Two was replaced by 1997 New Pinnacle. Because of this, many star players appear in the "Clout" subset, but not on a basic player card.

Distribution

Hobby/Retail: 24 packs per box, 10 cards per pack (MSRP: $2.49).

Magazine: 24 packs per box, seven cards per pack (MSRP: $1.99)

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds	Magazine Odds
Base	200	-	?	?	?
Museum Collection	200	-	1:9	1:9	1:13
Artist's Proof	200	-	1:47	1:47	1:55
Team Pinnacle	10	-	1:90	1:90	?
Passport to the Majors	25	-	1:36	1:36	?
Cardfrontations	20	-	1:23	N/A	N/A
Shades	10	-	N/A	1:23	N/A
Home/Away	24	-	N/A	N/A	1:33

Checklist

• PP1 Cecil Fielder B
• PP2 Garret Anderson B
• PP3 Charles Nagy B
• PP4 Darryl Hamilton B
• PP5 Greg Myers B
• PP6 Eric Davis B
• PP7 Jeff Frye B
• PP8 Marquis Grissom S
• PP9 Curt Schilling B
• PP10 Jeff Fassero B
• PP11 Alan Benes S
• PP12 Orlando Miller B
• PP13 Alex Fernandez B
• PP14 Andy Pettitte G
• PP15 Andre Dawson B
• PP16 Mark Grudzielanek B
• PP17 Joe Vitiello B
• PP18 Juan Gonzalez G
• PP19 Mark Whiten B
• PP20 Lance Johnson B
• PP21 Trevor Hoffman B
• PP22 Marc Newfield B
• PP23 Jim Eisenreich B
• PP24 Joe Carter S
• PP25 Jose Canseco S
• PP26 Bill Swift B
• PP27 Ellis Burks B
• PP28 Ben McDonald B
• PP29 Edgar Martinez S
• PP30 Jamie Moyer B
• PP31 Chan Ho Park S
• PP32 Carlos Delgado S
• PP33 Kevin Mitchell B
• PP34 Carlos Garcia B
• PP35 Darryl Strawberry G
• PP36 Jim Thome G
• PP37 Jose Offerman B
• PP38 Ryan Klesko S
• PP39 Ruben Sierra B
• PP40 Devon White B
• PP41 Brian Jordan G
• PP42 Tony Gwynn S
• PP43 Rafael Palmeiro S
• PP44 Dante Bichette B
• PP45 Scott Stahoviak B
• PP46 Roger Cedeno B
• PP47 Ivan Rodriguez G
• PP48 Bob Abreu S
• PP49 Darryl Kile B
• PP50 Darren Dreifort B
• PP51 Shawon Dunston B
• PP52 Mark McGwire S
• PP53 Tim Salmon S
• PP54 Gene Schall B
• PP55 Roger Clemens B
• PP56 Rondell White S
• PP57 Ed Sprague B
• PP58 Craig Paquette B
• PP59 David Segui B
• PP60 Jaime Navarro B
• PP61 Tom Glavine S
• PP62 Jeff Brantley B
• PP63 Kimera Bartee B
• PP64 Fernando Vina B
• PP65 Eddie Murray S
• PP66 Lenny Dykstra B
• PP67 Kevin Elster B
• PP68 Vinny Castilla B
• PP69 Mike Fetters S
• PP70 Brett Butler B
• PP71 Robby Thompson B
• PP72 Reggie Jefferson B
• PP73 Todd Hundley S
• PP74 Jeff King B
• PP75 Ernie Young S
• PP76 Jeff Bagwell G
• PP77 Dan Wilson B
• PP78 Paul Molitor G
• PP79 Kevin Seitzer B
• PP80 Kevin Brown S
• PP81 Ron Gant S
• PP82 Dwight Gooden S
• PP83 Todd Stottlemyre B
• PP84 Ken Caminiti G
• PP85 James Baldwin B
• PP86 Jermaine Dye S
• PP87 Harold Baines B
• PP88 Pat Hentgen B
• PP89 Frank Rodriguez B
• PP90 Mark Johnson B
• PP91 Jason Kendall S
• PP92 Alex Rodriguez G
• PP93 Alan Trammell B
• PP94 Scott Brosius B
• PP95 Delino DeShields B
• PP96 Chipper Jones S
• PP97 Barry Bonds S
• PP98 Brady Anderson S
• PP99 Ryne Sandberg S
• PP100 Albert Belle G
• PP101 Jeff Cirillo B
• PP102 Frank Thomas G
• PP103 Mike Piazza S
• PP104 Rickey Henderson B
• PP105 Rey Ordonez S
• PP106 Mark Grace S
• PP107 Terry Steinbach B
• PP108 Ray Durham B
• PP109 Barry Larkin S
• PP110 Tony Clark S
• PP111 Bernie Williams G
• PP112 John Smoltz G
• PP113 Moises Alou B
• PP114 Alex Gonzalez B
• PP115 Rico Brogna B
• PP116 Eric Karros B
• PP117 Jeff Conine S
• PP118 Todd Hollandsworth G
• PP119 Troy Percival S
• PP120 Paul Wilson S
• PP121 Orel Hershiser B
• PP122 Ozzie Smith S
• PP123 Dave Hollins B
• PP124 Ken Hill B
• PP125 Rick Wilkins B
• PP126 Scott Servais B
• PP127 Fernando Valenzuela B
• PP128 Mariano Rivera G
• PP129 Mark Loretta B
• PP130 Shane Reynolds S
• PP131 Darren Oliver B
• PP132 Steve Trachsel B
• PP133 Darren Bragg B
• PP134 Jason Dickson B
• PP135 Darren Fletcher B
• PP136 Gary Gaetti B
• PP137 Joey Cora B
• PP138 Terry Pendleton B
• PP139 Derek Jeter G
• PP140 Danny Tartabull B
• PP141 John Flaherty B
• PP142 B.J. Surhoff B
• PP143 Mike Sweeney B
• PP144 Chad Mottola B
• PP145 Andujar Cedeno B
• PP146 Tim Belcher B
• PP147 Mark Thompson B
• PP148 Rafael Bournigal B
• PP149 Marty Cordova S
• PP150 Osvaldo Fernandez B
• PP151 Mike Stanley B
• PP152 Ricky Bottalico B
• PP153 Donne Wall B
• PP154 Omar Vizquel B
• PP155 Mike Mussina S
• PP156 Brant Brown B
• PP157 F.P. Santangelo S
• PP158 Ryan Hancock B
• PP159 Jeff D'Amico B
• PP160 Luis Castillo B
• PP161 Darin Erstad G
• PP162 Ugueth Urbina B
• PP163 Andruw Jones G
• PP164 Steve Gibralter B
• PP165 Robin Jennings S
• PP166 Mike Cameron B
• PP167 George Arias S
• PP168 Chris Stynes B
• PP169 Justin Thompson B
• PP170 Jamey Wright B
• PP171 Todd Walker G
• PP172 Nomar Garciaparra B
• PP173 Jose Paniagua B
• PP174 Marvin Benard B
• PP175 Rocky Coppinger B
• PP176 Quinton McCracken B
• PP177 Amaury Telemaco B
• PP178 Neifi Perez B
• PP179 Todd Greene B
• PP180 Jason Thompson B
• PP181 Wilton Guerrero B
• PP182 Edgar Renteria S
• PP183 Billy Wagner S
• PP184 Alex Ochoa G
• PP185 Dmitri Young B
• PP186 Kenny Lofton B
• PP187 Andres Galarraga B
• PP188 Chuck Knoblauch G
• PP189 Greg Maddux S
• PP190 Mo Vaughn S
• PP191 Cal Ripken, Jr. G
• PP192 Hideo Nomo S
• PP193 Ken Griffey, Jr. G
• PP194 Sammy Sosa S
• PP195 Jay Buhner S
• PP196 Manny Ramirez G
• PP197 Matt Williams B
• PP198 Andruw Jones B
• PP199 Darin Erstad B
• PP200 Trey Beamon CL

Parallels

All 200 case cards are available in the following Dufex parallels.

• Museum Collection

• Artist's Proof

Following a similar structure to the 1996 Finest brand, the Artist's Proof parallel was "fractured" into three different groups of cards; 125 Bronze, 50 Silver and 25 Gold. The Bold cards are scarcest (only 300 of each were produced), and silver cards are scarcer than bronze cards. Print runs for the bronze and silver cards were never announced. Each group of cards is easy to identify by their bold color-specific backgrounds (i.e. gold cards have gold backgrounds). All three groups share the same Artist's Proof logo on front.

For brevity's sake, rather than repeat the same checklist, we have denoted in the base set checklist the color of each player's Artist's Proof.

Inserts

Team Pinnacle

For the sixth consecutive year, Pinnacle Brands selected an All-Star team of the best players in each league at each position on a ten-card, dual-fronted, all-Dufex set. The tenth card is a mosaic of all 18 players.

• 8 Juan Gonzalez / Gary Sheffield
• 7 Ken Griffey, Jr. / Ellis Burks
• 3 Ken Caminiti / Jim Thome
• 2 Chuck Knoblauch / Eric Young
• 1 Frank Thomas / Jeff Bagwell
• 4 Alex Rodriguez / Chipper Jones
• 5 Mike Piazza / Ivan Rodriguez
• 6 Barry Bonds / Albert Belle
• 9 John Smoltz / Andy Pettitte
• 10 All 18 players

Passport to the Majors

This 25-card set features players on a folding miniature passport card design and honors the rise to fame of some of the League's most high profile superstars.

• 1 Greg Maddux
• 2 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 3 Frank Thomas
• 4 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 5 Mike Piazza
• 6 Alex Rodriguez
• 7 Mo Vaughn
• 8 Chipper Jones
• 9 Roberto Alomar
• 10 Edgar Martinez
• 11 Javy Lopez
• 12 Ivan Rodriguez
• 13 Juan Gonzalez
• 14 Carlos Baerga
• 15 Sammy Sosa
• 16 Manny Ramirez
• 17 Raul Mondesi
• 18 Henry Rodriguez
• 19 Rafael Palmeiro
• 20 Rey Ordonez
• 21 Hideo Nomo
• 22 Mac Suzuki
• 23 Chan Ho Park
• 24 Larry Walker
• 25 Ruben Rivera

Cardfrontations

Exclusive to Hobby packs, this 20-card set features a top pitcher one side with a top home run hitter on the flip side. Both sides are covered with an opaque "peel and reveal" protective cover that must be removed.

• 20 Charles Nagy / Bernie Williams
• 19 Alex Rodriguez / Jack McDowell
• 18 Jeff Bagwell / Kevin Brown
• 16 Darin Erstad / John Wetteland
• 17 John Smoltz / Brian Jordan
• 15 Frank Thomas / Dwight Gooden
• 14 Ken Griffey, Jr. / Mariano Rivera
• 13 Ivan Rodriguez / Roger Clemens
• 12 Barry Bonds / Andy Benes
• 11 Mark Wohlers / Gary Sheffield
• 10 Jay Buhner / David Cone
• 8 Sammy Sosa / Ismael Valdes
• 7 Chipper Jones / Hideo Nomo
• 6 Albert Belle / Pat Hentgen
• 5 Juan Gonzalez / Andy Pettitte
• 4 Mark McGwire / Kevin Appier
• 3 Cal Ripken, Jr. / Randy Johnson
• 2 Tom Glavine / Ken Caminiti
• 1 Mike Piazza / Greg Maddux
• 9 Mike Mussina / Manny Ramirez

Shades

Exclusive to retail packs, this 10-card, die-cut, "mirror mylar" set feature the player's picture appearing in the lens of a pair of sunglasses.

• 1 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 2 Juan Gonzalez
• 3 John Smoltz
• 4 Gary Sheffield
• 5 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 6 Mo Vaughn
• 7 Brian Jordan
• 8 Mike Piazza
• 9 Frank Thomas
• 10 Alex Rodriguez

Home/Away

Exclusive to magazine packs, this 24-card set features 12 players on a card die-cut into the shape of the player's home of away jersey. The odd numbered cards represent the Away jersey, while the evens the Home.

• 1 Chipper Jones
• 2 Chipper Jones
• 3 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 4 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 5 Mike Piazza
• 6 Mike Piazza
• 7 Frank Thomas
• 8 Frank Thomas
• 9 Jeff Bagwell
• 10 Jeff Bagwell
• 11 Alex Rodriguez
• 12 Alex Rodriguez
• 13 Barry Bonds
• 14 Barry Bonds
• 15 Mo Vaughn
• 16 Mo Vaughn
• 17 Derek Jeter
• 18 Derek Jeter
• 19 Mark McGwire
• 20 Mark McGwire
• 21 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 22 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 23 Albert Belle
• 24 Albert Belle