2005 Topps Rookie Cup

Description

2005 Topps Rookie Cup is a 160-card set released January 10, 2006. As the name of the product suggests, the checklist features players who were previous winners of Topps' annual All-Star Rookie Team. The final ten cards in the set feature 2005 Draft Picks and all come autographed.

Distribution

Hobby: 24 packs per box, seven cards per pack.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	160	-	?	?
short set	150	-	?	?
First Year Autographs	10	-	1:62	1:155
Red	150	499	?	?
Red First Year Autographs	10	399	1:68	1:174
Orange	150	399	1:5	1:21
Orange First Year Autographs	10	299	1:91	1:232
Yellow	150	299	1:4	1:18
Yellow First Year Autographs	10	199	1:137	1:349
Green	150	199	1:8	1:33
Green First Year Autographs	10	99	1:274	1:703
Blue	150	50	1:29	1:130
Blue First Year Autographs	10	50	1:548	1:1385
Silver	150	5	1:300	1:1200
Silver First Year Autographs	10	5	1:5483	1:13,400
Gold	150	one-of-one	1:1004	N/A
Gold First Year Autographs	10	one-of-one	1:15,840	N/A
Printing Plates	160	four for each	1:251	?
Reprints	150	-	two-per-pack	one-per-pack
Chrome Reprints	150	25	1:2/boxes	N/A
Chrome Refractor Reprints	150	15	1:3/boxes	N/A
Chrome Gold Refractor Reprints	150	one-of-one	1:42/boxes	N/A
Original Relics	428	varies	?	?
Autographs	29	-	?	?
Silver Autographs	29	5	1:2458	1:3622
Gold Autographs	29	one-of-one	1:5281	N/A
Dual Autographs	13	-	1:118	N/A

Checklist

Base Set

1 Pat Corrales

2 Ron Santo

3 Joe Torre

4 Boog Powell

5 Tom Tresh

6 Jonny Gomes

7 Rico Carty

8 Bert Campaneris

9 Tony Oliva

10 Ron Swoboda

11 Tony Perez

12 Joe Morgan

13 Davey Johnson

14 Cleon Jones

15 Tom Seaver

16 Rod Carew

17 Rick Monday

18 Johnny Bench

19 Bobby Cox

20 Jerry Koosman

21 Al Oliver

22 Lou Piniella

23 Larry Bowa

24 Chris Chambliss

25 Bill Buckner

26 Don Baylor

27 Buddy Bell

28 Carlton Fisk

29 Gary Matthews

30 Dave Lopes

31 Bob Boone

32 Bill Madlock

33 Claudell Washington

34 Jim Rice

35 Gary Carter

36 Willie Randolph

37 Chet Lemon

38 Andre Dawson

39 Eddie Murray

40 Paul Molitor

41 Ozzie Smith

42 Jeffrey Leonard

43 Lonnie Smith

44 Mookie Wilson

45 Tim Wallach

46 Tim Raines

47 Fernando Valenzuela

48 Cal Ripken, Jr.

49 Ryne Sandberg

50 Willie McGee

51 Darryl Strawberry

52 Julio Franco

53 Brook Jacoby

54 Dwight Gooden

55 Roger McDowell

56 Ozzie Guillen

57 Vince Coleman

58 Pete Incaviglia

59 Wally Joyner

60 Jose Canseco

61 Cory Snyder

62 Devon White

63 Walt Weiss

64 Mark Grace

65 Ron Gant

66 Chris Sabo

67 Jay Buhner

68 Gary Sheffield

69 Gregg Jefferies

70 Ken Griffey, Jr.

71 Tom Gordon

72 Jim Abbott

73 Dave Justice

74 Larry Walker

75 Sandy Alomar

76 Chuck Knoblauch

77 Jeff Bagwell

78 Luis Gonzalez

79 Ivan Rodriguez

80 Eric Karros

81 Jeff Kent

82 Kenny Lofton

83 Moises Alou

84 Reggie Sanders

85 Jeff Conine

86 J.T. Snow

87 Tim Salmon

88 Mike Piazza

89 Manny Ramirez

90 Ryan Klesko

91 Javy Lopez

92 Chipper Jones

93 Ray Durham

94 Garret Anderson

95 Shawn Green

96 Hideo Nomo

97 Jermaine Dye

98 Tony Clark

99 Joe Randa

100 Derek Jeter

101 Jason Kendall

102 Billy Wagner

103 Andruw Jones

104 Dmitri Young

105 Scott Rolen

106 Nomar Garciaparra

107 Jose Cruz

108 Scott Hatteberg

109 Mark Kotsay

110 Todd Helton

111 Miguel Cairo

112 Magglio Ordonez

113 Kerry Wood

114 Preston Wilson

115 Alex Gonzalez

116 Carlos Beltran

117 Rafael Furcal

118 Pat Burrell

119 Adam Kennedy

120 Terrence Long

121 Jay Payton

122 Bengie Molina

123 Albert Pujols

124 Craig Wilson

125 Alfonso Soriano

126 Jimmy Rollins

127 Adam Dunn

128 Ichiro Suzuki

129 Roy Oswalt

130 C.C. Sabathia

131 Brad Wilkerson

132 Nick Johnson

133 Eric Hinske

134 Austin Kearns

135 Dontrelle Willis

136 Mark Teixeira

137 Rocco Baldelli

138 Scott Podsednik

139 Brandon Webb

140 Jason Bay

141 Adam LaRoche

142 Khalil Greene

143 Joe Mauer

144 Matt Holliday

145 Chad Tracy

146 Garrett Atkins

147 Tadahito Iguchi

148 Russ Adams

149 Huston Street

150 Dan Johnson

First Year Autographs

151 Brent Cox

152 John Drennen

153 Ryan Tucker

154 Yunel Escobar

155 Jacob Marceaux

156 Mark Pawelek

157 Brandon Snyder

158 Wade Townsend

159 Troy Tulowitzki

160 Kevin Whelan

Parallels

All 160 base cards are available in the following parallels.

• Red (serial-numbered to 499 copies; First Year Autographs numbered to 399)
• Orange (serial-numbered to 399 copies; First Year Autographs numbered to 299)
• Yellow (serial-numbered to 299 copies; First Year Autographs numbered to 199)
• Green (serial-numbered to 199 copies; First Year Autographs numbered to 99)
• Blue (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
• Silver (serial-numbered to five)
• Gold (one-of-one)

Inserts

Rookie Cup Reprints

This set serves as a pseudo-parallel of the first 150 cards of the base set, featuring reprints of their original Topps Rookie Cup-bearing card. Please refer to the base set checklist for a full checklist. Each Hobby pack contained two reprints, while retail packs had one.

A Chrome edition was exclusive to Hobby boxes, and was packaged in it's own wrapper and inserted as a box topper. Each Chrome Rookie Cup Reprint was serial-numbered to 25 copies and available in the following Refractor parallels.

• Refractor (serial-numbered to 15 copies)
• Gold Refractor (one-of-one)