=Description=

2001 Donruss Class of 2001 is a 301-card set released exclusively to Hobby outlets in December, 2001. Designed to take advantage of the early-2000s bobblehead craze, each 24-pack Hobby box contains one such doll packed as a box topper. Each Hobby box will also contain (in packs) either an autograph or a game-used card and up to four serial-numbered rookies..

The last 201 cards in the base set are all short-printed and serial-numbered rookies and prospects -- containing many of the usual suspects that had gimmicked "rookies" in most other 2001 baseball products. The set erroneously has two cards sequentially-numbered 252. Therefore, while the set is numbered 1-300, it has 301 cards.

Contrary to Beckett Baseball's Mike Payne's longstanding statement that "A current year product cannot have the current player year's statistics on the card backs." was broken with this set which included all 2001 statistics on all base player cards. This always puzzled me and Beckett never had an answer that made any sense. This is a key point since all RC's in this set are not rookies as per Beckett's own rules, hence the listed prices are much higher than they should be for "RC's" that are NOT true rookies.

=Distribution=

24 packs plus one bobblehead doll per box, three cards per pack (MSRP: $3.99). Hobby only.

=Reviews=

=Insertion Ratios=

{| class="ratio"
!Cards
!Total Cards
!Numbered To
!Odds
|-
|[[#Base_Set|Base]]||301||-||?
|-
|short set||100||-||?
|-
|Rookies||100||1875||1:8
|-
|Rookie Phenoms||101||625||1:24
|-
|First Class short set||100||100||?
|-
|First Class Rookies/Rookie Phenoms||201||50||?
|-
|Bobbleheads||20||2000||one-per-box
|-
|ROY Bobbleheads||2||1000||?
|-
|Aces||20||-||1:30
|-
|Rookie Team||15||-||1:83
|-
|Dominators||30||-||1:20
|-
|Yearbook||25||-||1:24
|-
|Rewards||10||-||1:212
|-
|Crusade/Rookie Crusade||50||300||?
|-
|Diamond Aces||19||varies||?
|-
|Rookie Team Materials||15||varies||?
|-
|Diamond Dominators||30||varies||?
|-
|Scrapbook||24||varies||?
|-
|Final Rewards||9||varies||?
|-
|First Class Autographs||53||varies||?
|-
|Rookie Autographs||109||varies||?
|-
|Crusade Autographs||39||varies||?
|}

=Checklist=

==Promos==

===Beckett Samples===

Inside each February, 2002 issue of ''Beckett Baseball Card Monthly'' was a Class of 2001 promo. The checklist parallels the first 100 cards of the base set and each card has "SAMPLE" stamped in silver foil on the back. One in every ten issues had "SAMPLE" stamped in Gold foil.

==Base Set==

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===Rookies===

Each Rookie is serial-numbered to 1875 copies.

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===Rookie Phenoms===

Each Rookie Phenom is serial-numbered to 625 copies.

NOTE: There are two card #252s.

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==Parallels==

Each base card is available as a First Class parallel. The 100 short set cards are serial-numbered to 100 copies; while the 201 Rookies and Rookie Phenoms are numbered to 50.

===Chicago Collection===

Collectors who opened a sealed Donruss Class of 2001 box at Donruss-Playoff's corporate booth at the March, 2002 Chicago Sun-Times cardshow would receive a "Chicago Collection" parallel. Chicago Collection parallels the 100 card short set, which each card serial-numbered to five and having a unique foil stamp.

==Inserts==

===Bobbleheads===

Each sealed Hobby box came packaged with a Bobblehead doll and a corresponding trading card. While the dolls were not numbered, the trading cards they came with them are. Each card is serial-numbered to 2000 copies EXCEPT for #21 and #22 which were numbered to 1000.

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===Aces===

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===Rookie Team===

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===Dominators===

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===Yearbook===

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===Rewards===

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===Crusade/Rookie Crusade===

Each Crusade is serial-numbered to 300 copies. The last 25 cards make up a "Rookie Crusade" subset.

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==Autographs & Game-Used==

===Diamond Aces===

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===Rookie Team Materials===

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===Diamond Dominators===

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===Scrapbook===

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===Final Rewards===

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===First Class Autographs===

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===Rookie Autographs===

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===Crusade Autographs===

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[[Category:DLP]]
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