<h4>Previous Sets of the Month</h4>
Each eight-card pack will yield one tiered base card and an insert.
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...ssing Mays card. Collectors had until October 24, 2001, to complete their sets and receive their Mays card.
For the third consecutive year, Topps Gallery featured an insert of 10 players done in the style of a classic Topps set; in this case [[1965
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'''Baseball Heroes:''' A series of [[insert]] sets, and later a stand-alone product, issued by Upper Deck.
...96 with another set of Future Heroes, and Ken Griffey, Jr. in 1997 SP. The sets issued in the SP brands were decidedly tougher to pull (the '97 Griffey's w
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...larity increased further in 1996, when Donruss made them a serial numbered insert as "completists" wanted to keep their set runs alive.
Playoff revived the Diamond Kings as an insert in 2001, and issued a stand-alone DK product in 2002.
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...with a Dufex finish and the amount of players in these parallel or insert sets, the amount of Dufex cards ordered for a set was high. This is a possible
...the first time since Pinnacle's bankruptcy for their 2000 Finest Dreamcast insert. Further, Donruss-Playoff (which bought Pinnacle Brands' assets in 1998 af
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...s [[Baseball Heroes]]. Since then, almost every brand has had some sort of insert to add value to the product.
...et, and Nolan Ryan in the [[high-Number]] series, again with [[autographed Insert]]s both random and rare. Other brands quickly followed suit with varying de
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...food issues (1970s era Burger King), regional issues, team issues, police sets, test issues, non-traditional card-like items (1989 Topps Heads Ups), redem
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'''Parallel:''' An [[insert]] set that is almost identical to the [[Base Set|base set,]] except for som
...ly the very first parallel set in the current sense were the Topps Tiffany sets of the 80s. Another example is the 1991 Topps Desert Shield baseball. The D
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...ou could make a case that the first parallel brands were the Topps Tiffany sets of the 1980s, the first such product as we now know them was 1996 Topps Chr
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...n current Major League players. It must be a base card and cannot be an [[insert]], [[parallel]], or [[Redemption Card|redemption card]]. A player may only
...the respective leagues and teams. This is why many of the players in such sets are still pictured in their college and high school uniforms. It should be
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...Lombardi Trophy Hologram card. In 1991, Donruss combined numbering with [[insert]]s on their [[Elite]] set (numbered to 10,000) with great success, with the
Naturally, with dozens more serial numbered sets coming out every year, the attraction has worn off, but a numbered card is
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...SPx. Billed as "SP to the X degree," SPx was marketed as a base set with "insert quality" cards, and sold in one-card packs for $2.99. Although the set was
...Deck created a product in which every single card (base set, parallel and insert alike) would come out of the pack serial numbered. The second series of '98
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'''SSPC:''' With the exception of some regional and oddball sets, baseball card collectors in the 1970s had the choice of collecting cards f
...league sets, but also some special team sets and reprints of some classic sets. His company was called TCMA, which stood for The Card Memorabilia Associat
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...nsive words with a black box (this was the version included in all factory sets). Both the original card and many of the corrected versions have become col
==Key Trading Card sets==
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...ach six-card Hobby pack will yield one die-cut parallel and one Xpoenetial insert. Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield one game-used card. Each 20-box case w
...randomly inserted for the 100-card base set and all six Xponential insert sets.<br />
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...iations. Each Hobby pack will contain a card from one of seventeen insert sets. In addition, each 12-pack Hobby box will yield four parallels, one game-u
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...eld day with the Retail release as the 2000 Retro (pack in a pack) 90-card sets were selling easily for $100.00 a set on eBay making all the other cards pu
...Baseball and 2000 Donruss Football sets are uncanny to say the least. Both sets have roughly the same number of cards (220 in baseball versus 250 in footba
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...er, Upper Deck lost their MLB license after 2009. Unlike the OPC baseball sets of yore, this set is exclusively in English.
This 33-card insert is done in the style of the 1979-80 OPC/Topps Hockey set. The first ten ca
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...ll yield nine 20th Anniversary inserts, four Joe DiMaggio Career Highlight insert cards numbered to 425, four jersey cards, two which will be multi-swatch, a
Similar to sets for [[2007 SPx#Iron Man|Cal Ripken, Jr. in 2007]] and [[2008 SPx|Ken Griffe
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...en in the production of this product. The only difference between the two sets are the words "EXTRA EDITION" stamped in foil on the front of each card. T
'''NOTE:''' All four insert sets are serial-numbered to 500 copies.
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As with past standard Topps sets, there are Silk, Platinum, Black and Gold parallels. New inserts for 2010 i
...on the Million Card Giveaway site) would be included in all Topps factory sets, and in 2010 Topps Update.
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...OTE:''' Each six-pack mini box should yield one card from the three insert sets below. All inserts are also available in the following Refractor parallels
...hit" (1:12 mini boxes). The set is essentially a parallel of the Moments insert set featuring a [[Sticker Autograph | sticker autograph]] coupled with a re
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...graphs, while other none at all. New this year are three different insert sets: "1992 Bowman Throwbacks," "Topps 100 Prospects," and "Bowman Expectations.
...ps, Strasburg, Chapman, and Cashner did not appear in the Bowman Prospects insert set; however, all three were added at the last minute.
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...red to only 15 copies, making them one of the toughest non-parallel insert sets to put together.
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Both insert sets are available in the following parallels.
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...minor league players and prospects who could no longer be included in base sets into Prospect "inserts" in all their Bowman brands.
==New Sets==
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...ets that utilize the same design but are sequentially-numbered as distinct sets (e.g. each set has cards #SS1-#SS6). Each Series One card has a 2001 copyr
...of a Mickey Mantle or Joe DiMaggio game-used memorabilia card (see below). Sets could be redeemed between May 17, 2002 and May 16, 2003. The set that was s
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...he set is divided into "nine innings" and arranged chronologically. Three insert cards were included with the set. A Michael Jordan card was available for d
...seball card set -- although he has appeared in numerous partially-licensed sets (e.g. [[2013 Panini Prizm]]).
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...ve Jumbo box will yield one autograph, a Relic, and a manufactured "Relic" insert. Like recent Topps flagship releases, short-print variations and super shor
...ory sets was a pack of five Update Series Orange parallels. These factory sets, which were issued late in 2012, contain no Update Series base cards -- jus
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...umber of cards per box can vary widely among the types below, as can the [[insert]] card ratios, so be sure to review your options carefully before making a
...ure very favorable insert ratios. As well, many manufacturers issue insert sets or parallels that are "jumbo exclusive."
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Both insert sets are available in a President's Edition parallel, which is limited (but not
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.... A more rare red ink version was also printed, hand serial numbered to 55 sets and inserted at a rate of 1:2019 hobby and 1:3961 retail packs.
[[Category:2004 Bowman Heritage Insert Sets]]
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...Greatness''' is an insert set in [[2004 Bowman Heritage]]. This game used insert set was divided into six different groups and each one was inserted with sl
[[Category:2004 Bowman Heritage Insert Sets]]
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[[Category:2004 Bowman Heritage Insert Sets]]
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[[Category:2007 SP Authentic Insert Sets]]
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<nowiki>** </nowiki> Odds of finding either an insert or parallel: 1:4/packs
==Parallel Sets==
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...s Two.]] There are five different insert sets, and each pack promises one insert.
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...rd Prospects "insert" set, released in December, 2005. The design of both sets is based on the [[1949 Bowman]] set. Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield one
Cards #BHP76-#BHP100 in the Prospects insert are of players selected in the 2006 MLB Draft. Each sealed Hobby box contai
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...ts include five Archive Future Rookie cards inserted specifically in those sets.
...antage (HTA) network were entitled to purchase a special factory-set. The sets were packaged in attractive gold foil boxes and each card features a distin
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...er sports -- all in keeping with the spirit of the original Allen & Ginter sets.
...e the original sketches drawn by Dick Perez that were used for the regular insert. Each one is completely unique and serial-numbered as a one-of-one.
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Donruss-Playoff also greatly increased the number of base set parallels and insert parallels.
...ese cards is serial-numbered to 1250 copies. This is the only non-parallel insert, that does not have a parallel version.
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Each card in the Debuts insert features the box score from the player's Major League debut, as printed in
...has a bat chip instead. Thome does NOT appear in the Dual Swatch or Patch sets.
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This would be the first in a series of Donruss-Playoff/Beckett promo sets that would be issued throughout 2002-03.
...are serial-numbered to 50 while cards 101-300 have only 25 serial-numbered sets.
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...of candy and gum products. In the early 1960s, the company began to issue sets of trading cards, one of the first of which was "Idiot Cards" from 1961, wh
...g entertainment properties for new series of cards. Some of the first such sets were based on the hit 1964 television shows The Addams Family and Voyage to
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...ookie card in a product like Bowman Draft were relegated to the two insert sets.
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Includes the base set and the Futures Game and Draft Picks sets.
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+ = Each eight-card Hobby and retail pack yields one insert.
...ht-card Hobby and retail pack contains an insert from one of the following sets below, except Star. The Star's were exclusive to 32-card Fat Packs.
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...geant. Both of the Palin cards can be considered part of the Campaign '08 insert set.
* Ray Knight appears in both the 1986 Mets and World Series Champions sets.
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...o League greats like Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige. This is one of the few sets of the modern era featuring these players depicted as members of Negro Leag
This seven-card insert set features authentic autographs from Negro League legends. Willie Mays a
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...the [[1998_Fleer_Tradition#Mickey_Mantle_Monumental_Moments|Mickey Mantle insert set]] from the [[1998 Fleer Tradition|previous year]]. The base set includ
...radition factory set had been issued in seven years. Limited to only 5000 sets, the Millennium Edition featured all 600 cards from the Fleer Tradition bas
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...er flagship set contained short-printed subsets (some of which were insert sets used in previous 1990's Fleer products):
...be exchanged for a framed, uncut press sheet from one of Fleer's baseball sets dating anywhere from 1981 to 1993.
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