2001 Upper Deck Rookie Update

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Description

2001 Upper Deck Rookie Update was released in December 2001. The product included updated and rookie cards from three previously released 2001 Upper Deck baseball brands: 2001 SP Authentic, 2001 SPx, and 2001 Sweet Spot. Each four-card pack will yield at least one base card from each of the three aforementioned sets. Each 15-pack box will yield at least one rookie card from each of the three sets serial-numbered to 1500 copies, as well as an SPx Winning Materials Update card.

Distribution

15 packs plus one three-card Ichiro Rookie Tribute pack per box, four cards per pack (MSRP: $4.99).

Reviews

Checklist

Please set the entries for the respective products for a checklist.

Inserts

Ichiro Tribute

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Each sealed Hobby box contained a three-card pack from a special 51-card Ichiro set commemorating his ROY & MVP campaign. With the exception of card #51 which is a checklist, since all cards are of the same player, for brevity's sake we are not including a checklist.

Cards are also available in the following parallels.

  • Gold (serial-numbered to 100 copies)
  • Platinum (serial-numbered to 25 copies)

Ichiro Rookie Buybacks

Randomly inserted into Rookie Update packs, are 50 Ichiro rookie cards from four previously released Upper Deck products. In addition to the serial-numbering that was on the original card, each card is hand-numbered to 50 copies. The number purchased by Upper Deck is as follows.

Each card was inserted into packs in a penny sleeve with an accompanying Upper Deck Authenticated Certificate of Authenticity.

NOTE: The 2001 UD Reserve product contained a thirty-card "Prospects" subset, with each Prospect serial-numbered to 2500 copies. The 27 UD Reserve Ichiro cards used for this promotion were from this subset, however, are NOT serial-numbered. It is believed that, rather than buying back cards, UD took excess cards used for replacements. These cards were hand-numbered to 50 -- just not machine-numbered to 2500. Any collector who pulled one of the 27 UD Reserve "Buybacks" could have sent it back to Upper Deck and receive a properly numbered card.

Autographs & Game-Used

Ichiro Tribute

These cards are exclusive to the Ichiro Tribute pack.

Game Bat

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All 20 cards in this set are of Ichiro, and so for brevity's sake, we are not listing a checklist. However, each card was serial-numbered to different production figures.

  • Cards #BI1-#BI12 (serial-numbered to 100 copies)
  • Cards #BI13-#BI17 (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
  • Cards #BI18 and #BI19 (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
  • Card #BI20 (one-of-one)

Game Pants

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Just like with the Game Bat set, all 20 cards in this set are of Ichiro, and so for brevity's sake, we are not listing a checklist. However, each card was serial-numbered to different production figures.

  • Cards #JI1-#JI12 (serial-numbered to 100 copies)
  • Cards #JI13-#JI17 (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
  • Cards #JI18 and #JI19 (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
  • Card #JI20 (one-of-one)

USA Touch of Gold Autographs

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This 24-card set features autographs of the Gold Medal winning 2000 USA Baseball Olympic Team. Each card was randomly inserted into Rookie Update packs and serial-numbered to 500 copies.

  • AE Adam Everett
  • AS Anthony Sanders
  • BA Brent Abernathy
  • BSE Bobby Seay
  • BSH Ben Sheets
  • BW Brad Wilkerson
  • CG Chris George
  • DM Doug Mientkiewicz
  • EY Ernie Young
  • JC John Cotton
  • JR Jon Rauch
  • KU Kurt Ainsworth
  • MJ Marcus Jensen
  • MK Mike Kinkade
  • MN Mike Neill
  • PB Pat Borders
  • RF Ryan Franklin
  • RK Rick Krivda
  • RO Roy Oswalt
  • SB Sean Burroughs
  • SH Shane Heams
  • TD Gookie Dawkins
  • TW Todd Williams
  • TY Tim Young