2000 Topps Tek

Description

2000 Topps TEK is a 45-card set released in July, 2000. This would be the final Topps TEK set for 14 years.

The set features 40 player cards (1-40), and five short-printed rookie cards (41-45), and each card has 20 different background variations. A master base set, which contains 20 different patterns for each of the 40 players, is 900 total cards making it the smallest TEK master base set ever made. Variations 16-20 feature an assortment of colors (purple, red, yellow, green and blue) and are short-printed in comparison to the other 15. Each rookie card is serial-numbered to 2000 copies for each variations for an aggregate total of 40,000. The only notable Rookie Card is that of Brett Myers.

Distribution

20 packs per box, four cards per pack. Hobby only.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	45	-	?
short set	40	-	?
Rookies	5	2000	1:2
Color Variations 1-40	40	-	1:10
Rookie Color Variations 41-45	5	2000	1:10
Gold	45	10 (but 200 actually exist)	1:42
ArchiTEKs	18	-	1:5
DramaTEK Performers	9	-	1:10
TEKtonics	9	-	1:30

Checklist

Base Set

Each card has four different photos with five distinct background patterns per photo for a total of 20. Patterns #16-#20 are short-printed.

Patterns #1-#5: MLB Logo (1); Players Inc. Logo (2); American/National League (3); Wordmark (4); Hat Logo (5)

Patterns #6-#10: Team Logo (6); Hometown (7); Signature (8); Winning/Slugging Percentage (9); Position (10)

Patterns #11-#15: ERA/BA (11); Batting Hand (12); Date of Birth (13); Roster Status (14); Topps HTA Logo (15)

Patterns #16-#20: Purple Team Name (16); Red Jersey Number {17); Yellow Last Name (18); Green Home Runs/Strikeouts (19); Blue Topps Tek Logo (20)

• 1 Mike Piazza
• 2 Chipper Jones
• 3 Juan Gonzalez
• 4 Ivan Rodriguez
• 5 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 6 A.J. Burnett
• 7 Jim Thome
• 8 Mo Vaughn
• 9 Andruw Jones
• 10 Mark McGwire
• 11 Jose Canseco
• 12 Shawn Green
• 13 Barry Bonds
• 14 Bernie Williams
• 15 Manny Ramirez
• 16 Greg Maddux
• 17 Carlos Beltran
• 18 Pedro Martinez
• 19 Jeff Bagwell
• 20 Sammy Sosa
• 21 J.D. Drew
• 22 Randy Johnson
• 23 Larry Walker
• 24 Frank Thomas
• 25 Orlando Hernandez
• 26 Scott Rolen
• 27 Tony Gwynn
• 28 Rick Ankiel
• 29 Roberto Alomar
• 30 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 31 Vladimir Guerrero
• 32 Derek Jeter
• 33 Nomar Garciaparra
• 34 Alex Rodriguez
• 35 Sean Casey
• 36 Adam Piatt
• 37 Corey Patterson
• 38 Josh Hamilton
• 39 Pat Burrell
• 40 Eric Munson

Rookies

Each Rookie is serial-numbered to 2000 copies for each individual pattern. The aggregate number of Rookie cards issued for each player is 40,000 (2000 cards X 20 patterns) -- which has depressed the long-run value of these cards. The fact that three of the five players featured (Salazar, Sneed, and Asadoorian) never played in a Major League game and only one (Myers) had a solid Major League career was also a factor.

On the original sell-sheet solicited by Topps, only the five "colored" patterns (#16-#20) were to have been serial-numbered, while patterns #1-#15 were to have been seeded at the rate every other pack.

• 41 Ruben Salazar
• 42 John Sneed
• 43 Josh Girdley
• 44 Brett Myers
• 45 Rick Asadoorian

Parallels

Die-Cut Gold

Each base card's background variation has a Die-Cut Gold parallel that is serial-numbered to ten. Collectively, each individual player has 200 Gold cards.

Inserts

ArchiTEKs

We estimate the production of each ArchiTEKs insert at 4200 copies.

• A1 Nomar Garciaparra
• A2 Derek Jeter
• A3 Chipper Jones
• A4 Vladimir Guerrero
• A5 Mark McGwire
• A6 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• A7 Mike Piazza
• A8 Jeff Bagwell
• A9 Larry Walker
• A10 Manny Ramirez
• A11 Alex Rodriguez
• A12 Sammy Sosa
• A13 Shawn Green
• A14 Juan Gonzalez
• A15 Barry Bonds
• A16 Pedro Martinez
• A17 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• A18 Ivan Rodriguez

DramaTEK Performers

We estimate the production of each DramaTEK Performers insert at 4200 copies.

• DP1 Mark McGwire
• DP2 Sammy Sosa
• DP3 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• DP4 Nomar Garciaparra
• DP5 Chipper Jones
• DP6 Mike Piazza
• DP7 Alex Rodriguez
• DP8 Derek Jeter
• DP9 Vladimir Guerrero

TEKtonics

We estimate the production of each TEKtonics insert at 1400 copies.

• TT1 Derek Jeter
• TT2 Mark McGwire
• TT3 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• TT4 Mike Piazza
• TT5 Alex Rodriguez
• TT6 Chipper Jones
• TT7 Nomar Garciaparra
• TT8 Sammy Sosa
• TT9 Cal Ripken, Jr.