2001 MLB Showdown

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Description[edit]

2001 MLB Showdown is a 462-card trading card game released in Mid-April. The product was released by Wizards of the Coast, the same company behind the popular Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon trading card games. The 1st Edition cards were released with a silver stamp on front of the card indicating the first print run. The set features 400-player cards and 62 foil superstar cards that were short printed at one in three packs.

Distribution[edit]

1st Edition: 24 packs per box, nine cards per pack (MSRP: $2.99).

Starter Packs: 12 starter decks per box, 75 cards per deck.

Reviews[edit]

Insertion Ratios[edit]

Cards Total Cards Numbered To Booster Pack Odds Starter Deck Odds
Base 462 - ? ?
short set 400 - ? ?
Foil 62 - 1:3 ?
Strategy Cards 75 - 1:2 40:1

Checklist[edit]

Promos[edit]

To promote the upcoming 2001 MLB Showdown set, WotC released three promo sets: Ace Pitcher, Diamond Star, and Future Star. The front of each card is marked with the respective set's name.

Ace Pitcher[edit]

  • 1 Kris Benson
  • 2 Kevin Brown
  • 3 Roger Clemens
  • 4 Bartolo Colon
  • 5 Jeff D'Amico
  • 6 Ryan Dempster
  • 7 Adam Eaton
  • 8 Scott Elarton
  • 9 Livan Hernandez
  • 10 Tim Hudson
  • 11 Randy Johnson
  • 12 Darryl Kile
  • 13 Al Leiter
  • 14 Jon Lieber
  • 15 Greg Maddux
  • 16 Pedro Martinez
  • 17 Brad Radke
  • 18 Javier Vazquez
  • 19 Jeff Weaver
  • 20 David Wells

Diamond Star[edit]

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  • 1 Roberto Alomar
  • 2 Carlos Delgado
  • 3 Jason Giambi
  • 4 Troy Glaus
  • 5 Luis Gonzalez
  • 6 Tony Gwynn
  • 7 Todd Helton
  • 8 Richard Hidalgo
  • 9 Bob Higginson
  • 10 Andruw Jones
  • 11 Dave Justice
  • 12 Jeff Kent
  • 13 Ivan Rodriguez
  • 14 Gary Sheffield
  • 15 Mike Sweeney
  • 16 Miguel Tejada
  • 17 Frank Thomas
  • 18 Greg Vaughn
  • 19 Robin Ventura
  • 20 Rondell White

Future Star[edit]

  • 1 Peter Bergeron
  • 2 Pat Burrell
  • 3 Mike Cameron
  • 4 Sean Casey
  • 5 J.D. Drew
  • 6 Corey Koskie
  • 7 Melvin Mora
  • 8 Trot Nixon
  • 9 Eric Owens
  • 10 Jay Payton
  • 11 Aramis Ramirez
  • 12 Richie Sexson
  • 13 Preston Wilson

Base Set[edit]

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  • 1 Garret Anderson
  • 2 Darin Erstad FOIL
  • 3 Ron Gant
  • 4 Troy Glaus FOIL
  • 5 Shigetoshi Hasegawa
  • 6 Adam Kennedy
  • 7 Al Levine RC
  • 8 Ben Molina
  • 9 Troy Percival
  • 10 Mark Petkovsek
  • 11 Tim Salmon
  • 12 Scott Schoeneweis
  • 13 Scott Spiezio
  • 14 Mo Vaughn
  • 15 Jarrod Washburn
  • 16 Brian Anderson
  • 17 Danny Bautista
  • 18 Jay Bell
  • 19 Greg Colbrunn
  • 20 Steve Finley
  • 21 Luis Gonzalez
  • 22 Randy Johnson FOIL
  • 23 Byung-Hyun Kim
  • 24 Matt Mantei
  • 25 Mike Morgan
  • 26 Curt Schilling
  • 27 Kelly Stinnett
  • 28 Greg Swindell
  • 29 Matt Williams
  • 30 Tony Womack
  • 31 Andy Ashby
  • 32 Bobby Bonilla
  • 33 Rafael Furcal FOIL
  • 34 Andres Galarraga
  • 35 Tom Glavine FOIL
  • 36 Andruw Jones
  • 37 Chipper Jones FOIL
  • 38 Brian Jordan
  • 39 Wally Joyner
  • 40 Keith Lockhart
  • 41 Javy Lopez
  • 42 Greg Maddux
  • 43 Kevin Millwood
  • 44 Mike Remlinger
  • 45 John Rocker
  • 46 B.J. Surhoff
  • 47 Quilvio Veras
  • 48 Brady Anderson
  • 49 Albert Belle
  • 50 Jeff Conine
  • 51 Delino DeShields
  • 52 Buddy Groom
  • 53 Trenidad Hubbard
  • 54 Luis Matos
  • 55 Jose Mercedes
  • 56 Melvin Mora
  • 57 Mike Mussina
  • 58 Sidney Ponson
  • 59 Pat Rapp
  • 60 Chris Richard
  • 61 Cal Ripken, Jr. FOIL
  • 62 Mike Trombley
  • 63 Rolando Arrojo
  • 64 Dante Bichette
  • 65 Rheal Cormier
  • 66 Carl Everett
  • 67 Rich Garces
  • 68 Nomar Garciaparra FOIL
  • 69 Mike Lansing
  • 70 Darren Lewis
  • 71 Derek Lowe
  • 72 Pedro Martinez FOIL
  • 73 Ramon Martinez
  • 74 Trot Nixon
  • 75 Jose Offerman
  • 76 Troy O'Leary
  • 77 Jason Varitek
  • 78 Rick Aguilera
  • 79 Damon Buford
  • 80 Joe Girardi
  • 81 Mark Grace
  • 82 Willie Greene
  • 83 Ricky Gutierrez
  • 84 Felix Heredia
  • 85 Jon Lieber
  • 86 Jeff Reed
  • 87 Sammy Sosa FOIL
  • 88 Kevin Tapani
  • 89 Todd Van Poppel
  • 90 Rondell White
  • 91 Kerry Wood
  • 92 Eric Young
  • 93 James Baldwin
  • 94 Ray Durham
  • 95 Keith Foulke FOIL
  • 96 Bob Howry
  • 97 Charles Johnson FOIL
  • 98 Mark Johnson
  • 99 Paul Konerko
  • 100 Carlos Lee
  • 101 Magglio Ordonez
  • 102 Jim Parque
  • 103 Herbert Perry
  • 104 Bill Simas
  • 105 Chris Singleton
  • 106 Mike Sirotka
  • 107 Frank Thomas FOIL
  • 108 Jose Valentin
  • 109 Kelly Wunsch
  • 110 Aaron Boone
  • 111 Sean Casey
  • 112 Danny Graves
  • 113 Ken Griffey, Jr. FOIL
  • 114 Pete Harnisch
  • 115 Barry Larkin FOIL
  • 116 Alex Ochoa
  • 117 Steve Parris
  • 118 Pokey Reese
  • 119 Chris Stynes
  • 120 Scott Sullivan
  • 121 Eddie Taubensee
  • 122 Michael Tucker
  • 123 Ron Villone
  • 124 Dmitri Young
  • 125 Roberto Alomar FOIL
  • 126 Sandy Alomar, Jr.
  • 127 Jason Bere
  • 128 Dave Burba
  • 129 Bartolo Colon
  • 130 Wil Cordero
  • 131 Chuck Finley
  • 132 Travis Fryman
  • 133 Steve Karsay
  • 134 Kenny Lofton
  • 135 Manny Ramirez FOIL
  • 136 David Segui
  • 137 Jim Thome
  • 138 Omar Vizquel
  • 139 Bob Wickman
  • 140 Pedro Astacio
  • 141 Brian Bohanon
  • 142 Jeff Cirillo
  • 143 Jeff Frye
  • 144 Jeffrey Hammonds
  • 145 Todd Helton FOIL
  • 146 Todd Hollandsworth
  • 147 Butch Huskey
  • 148 Jose Jimenez
  • 149 Brent Mayne
  • 150 Neifi Perez
  • 151 Terry Shumpert
  • 152 Larry Walker
  • 153 Gabriel White FOIL
  • 154 Masato Yoshii
  • 155 Matt Anderson
  • 156 Brad Ausmus
  • 157 Rich Becker
  • 158 Tony Clark
  • 159 Deivi Cruz
  • 160 Damion Easley
  • 161 Juan Encarnacion
  • 162 Juan Gonzalez
  • 163 Shane Halter
  • 164 Bob Higginson
  • 165 Todd Jones FOIL
  • 166 Brian Moehler
  • 167 Hideo Nomo
  • 168 Dean Palmer
  • 169 Jeff Weaver
  • 170 Antonio Alfonseca
  • 171 Luis Castillo FOIL
  • 172 Ryan Dempster FOIL
  • 173 Cliff Floyd
  • 174 Alex Gonzalez
  • 175 Mark Kotsay
  • 176 Derrek Lee
  • 177 Braden Looper
  • 178 Mike Lowell
  • 179 Brad Penny
  • 180 Mike Redmond
  • 181 Henry Rodriguez
  • 182 Jesus Sanchez
  • 183 Mark Smith
  • 184 Preston Wilson
  • 185 Moises Alou
  • 186 Jeff Bagwell FOIL
  • 187 Lance Berkman
  • 188 Craig Biggio
  • 189 Tim Bogar
  • 190 Jose Cabrera
  • 191 Octavio Dotel
  • 192 Scott Elarton FOIL
  • 193 Richard Hidalgo
  • 194 Chris Holt
  • 195 Jose Lima
  • 196 Julio Lugo
  • 197 Mitch Meluskey
  • 198 Bill Spiers
  • 199 Daryle Ward
  • 200 Carlos Beltran
  • 201 Ricky Bottalico
  • 202 Johnny Damon FOIL
  • 203 Jermaine Dye
  • 204 Carlos Febles
  • 205 Dave McCarty
  • 206 Mark Quinn
  • 207 Joe Randa
  • 208 Dan Reichert
  • 209 Rey Sanchez
  • 210 Jose Santiago
  • 211 Jeff Suppan
  • 212 Mac Suzuki
  • 213 Mike Sweeney
  • 214 Greg Zaun
  • 215 Terry Adams
  • 216 Adrian Beltre
  • 217 Kevin Brown FOIL
  • 218 Alex Cora
  • 219 Darren Dreifort
  • 220 Tom Goodwin
  • 221 Shawn Green
  • 222 Mark Grudzielanek
  • 223 Dave Hansen
  • 224 Todd Hundley
  • 225 Eric Karros
  • 226 Chad Kreuter
  • 227 Chan Ho Park
  • 228 Jeff Shaw
  • 229 Gary Sheffield FOIL
  • 230 Juan Acevedo
  • 231 Ron Belliard
  • 232 Henry Blanco
  • 233 Jeromy Burnitz
  • 234 Jeff D'Amico FOIL
  • 235 Valerio De Los Santos
  • 236 Marquis Grissom
  • 237 Charlie Hayes
  • 238 Jimmy Haynes
  • 239 Jose Hernandez
  • 240 Geoff Jenkins
  • 241 Curtis Leskanic
  • 242 Mark Loretta
  • 243 Richie Sexson
  • 244 David Weathers
  • 245 Jay Canizaro
  • 246 Ron Coomer
  • 247 Cristian Guzman
  • 248 LaTroy Hawkins
  • 249 Denny Hocking
  • 250 Torii Hunter
  • 251 Jacque Jones
  • 252 Corey Koskie
  • 253 Matt Lawton
  • 254 Matt LeCroy
  • 255 Eric Milton
  • 256 David Ortiz
  • 257 Brad Radke FOIL
  • 258 Mark Redman
  • 259 Bob Wells
  • 260 Michael Barrett
  • 261 Peter Bergeron
  • 262 Milton Bradley
  • 263 Orlando Cabrera
  • 264 Vladimir Guerrero FOIL
  • 265 Wilton Guerrero
  • 266 Dustin Hermanson
  • 267 Terry Jones
  • 268 Steve Kline
  • 269 Felipe Lira
  • 270 Mike Mordecai
  • 271 Lee Stevens
  • 272 Anthony Telford
  • 273 Javier Vazquez
  • 274 Jose Vidro FOIL
  • 275 Edgardo Alfonzo FOIL
  • 276 Derek Bell
  • 277 Armando Benitez
  • 278 Mike Bordick
  • 279 Mike Hampton FOIL
  • 280 Lenny Harris
  • 281 Al Leiter
  • 282 Jay Payton
  • 283 Mike Piazza FOIL
  • 284 Todd Pratt
  • 285 Glendon Rusch
  • 286 Bubba Trammell
  • 287 Robin Ventura
  • 288 Turk Wendell
  • 289 Rick White
  • 290 Todd Zeile
  • 291 Scott Brosius
  • 292 Roger Clemens FOIL
  • 293 Jason Grimsley
  • 294 Orlando Hernandez
  • 295 Derek Jeter FOIL
  • 296 Dave Justice
  • 297 Chuck Knoblauch
  • 298 Tino Martinez
  • 299 Denny Neagle
  • 300 Jeff Nelson
  • 301 Paul O'Neill
  • 302 Andy Pettitte
  • 303 Jorge Posada
  • 304 Mariano Rivera FOIL
  • 305 Jose Vizcaino
  • 306 Bernie Williams FOIL
  • 307 Kevin Appier
  • 308 Eric Chavez
  • 309 Ryan Christenson
  • 310 Jason Giambi FOIL
  • 311 Jeremy Giambi
  • 312 Ben Grieve
  • 313 Gil Heredia
  • 314 Ramon Hernandez
  • 315 Tim Hudson FOIL
  • 316 Jason Isringhausen
  • 317 Terrence Long FOIL
  • 318 Jim Mecir
  • 319 Mark Mulder
  • 320 Matt Stairs
  • 321 Miguel Tejada
  • 322 Randy Velarde
  • 323 Bob Abreu
  • 324 Jeff Brantley
  • 325 Pat Burrell
  • 326 Omar Daal
  • 327 Rob Ducey
  • 328 Doug Glanville
  • 329 Wayne Gomes
  • 330 Kevin Jordan
  • 331 Travis Lee
  • 332 Mike Lieberthal
  • 333 Vicente Padilla
  • 334 Robert Person
  • 335 Scott Rolen FOIL
  • 336 Kevin Sefcik
  • 337 Randy Wolf
  • 338 Jimmy Anderson
  • 339 Mike Benjamin
  • 340 Kris Benson
  • 341 Adrian Brown
  • 342 Brian Giles FOIL
  • 343 Jason Kendall FOIL
  • 344 Pat Meares
  • 345 Warren Morris
  • 346 Aramis Ramirez
  • 347 Todd Ritchie
  • 348 Scott Sauerbeck
  • 349 Jose Silva
  • 350 John Vander Wal
  • 351 Mike Williams
  • 352 Kevin Young
  • 353 Carlos Almanzar
  • 354 Bret Boone
  • 355 Matt Clement
  • 356 Adam Eaton
  • 357 Wiki Gonzalez
  • 358 Trevor Hoffman FOIL
  • 359 Damian Jackson
  • 360 Ryan Klesko
  • 361 Phil Nevin FOIL
  • 362 Eric Owens
  • 363 Desi Relaford
  • 364 Ruben Rivera
  • 365 Kevin Walker
  • 366 Woody Williams
  • 367 Jay Witasick
  • 368 Rich Aurilia
  • 369 Marvin Benard
  • 370 Barry Bonds FOIL
  • 371 Ellis Burks
  • 372 Bobby Estalella
  • 373 Doug Henry
  • 374 Livan Hernandez
  • 375 Jeff Kent FOIL
  • 376 Doug Mirabelli
  • 377 Bill Mueller
  • 378 Calvin Murray
  • 379 Robb Nen FOIL
  • 380 Russ Ortiz
  • 381 Armando Rios
  • 382 Felix Rodriguez
  • 383 Kirk Rueter
  • 384 J.T. Snow
  • 385 Paul Abbott
  • 386 David Bell
  • 387 Jay Buhner
  • 388 Mike Cameron
  • 389 John Halama
  • 390 Rickey Henderson
  • 391 Al Martin
  • 392 Edgar Martinez FOIL
  • 393 Mark McLemore
  • 394 John Olerud
  • 395 Jose Paniagua
  • 396 Arthur Rhodes
  • 397 Alex Rodriguez FOIL
  • 398 Kazuhiro Sasaki FOIL
  • 399 Aaron Sele
  • 400 Dan Wilson
  • 401 Rick Ankiel FOIL
  • 402 Will Clark
  • 403 J.D. Drew
  • 404 Jim Edmonds FOIL
  • 405 Pat Hentgen
  • 406 Darryl Kile
  • 407 Ray Lankford
  • 408 Mike Matheny
  • 409 Mark McGwire FOIL
  • 410 Craig Paquette
  • 411 Placido Polanco
  • 412 Edgar Renteria
  • 413 Garrett Stephenson
  • 414 Fernando Tatis
  • 415 Mike Timlin
  • 416 Dave Veres
  • 417 Fernando Vina
  • 418 Miguel Cairo
  • 419 Vinny Castilla
  • 420 Steve Cox
  • 421 Doug Creek
  • 422 John Flaherty
  • 423 Jose Guillen
  • 424 Roberto Hernandez FOIL
  • 425 Russ Johnson
  • 426 Albie Lopez
  • 427 Felix Martinez
  • 428 Fred McGriff
  • 429 Bryan Rekar
  • 430 Greg Vaughn
  • 431 Gerald Williams
  • 432 Esteban Yan
  • 433 Luis Alicea
  • 434 Frank Catalanotto
  • 435 Royce Clayton
  • 436 Tim Crabtree
  • 437 Chad Curtis
  • 438 Rusty Greer
  • 439 Rick Helling
  • 440 Gabe Kapler
  • 441 Mike Lamb
  • 442 Ricky Ledee
  • 443 Rafael Palmeiro
  • 444 Ivan Rodriguez FOIL
  • 445 Kenny Rogers
  • 446 Mike Venafro
  • 447 John Wetteland
  • 448 Tony Batista FOIL
  • 449 Jose Cruz, Jr.
  • 450 Carlos Delgado FOIL
  • 451 Kelvim Escobar
  • 452 Darrin Fletcher
  • 453 Brad Fullmer
  • 454 Alex Gonzalez
  • 455 Mark Guthrie
  • 456 Billy Koch
  • 457 Esteban Loaiza
  • 458 Raul Mondesi
  • 459 Mickey Morandini
  • 460 Paul Quantrill
  • 461 Shannon Stewart
  • 462 David Wells FOIL

Parallels[edit]

1st Edition[edit]

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Cards inserted into Booster Packs were all hit with a "1st Edition" foil stamp; whereas cards coming out of the Starter Decks do not.

Inserts[edit]

Strategy[edit]

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  • S1 Jorge Posada
  • S2 Nomar Garciaparra
  • S3 Manny Ramirez
  • S4 Bernie Williams / Derek Jeter
  • S5 Sammy Sosa
  • S6 Brian Buchanon
  • S7 Jay Canizaro
  • S8 Michael Tucker
  • S9 Turk Wendell
  • S10 Luis Castillo
  • S11 Carl Everett
  • S12 Carlos Delgado
  • S13 Nomar Garciaparra
  • S14 Bengie Molina
  • S15 Eric Young
  • S16 Chris Carpenter
  • S17 Nomar Garciaparra
  • S18 Alex Ochoa
  • S19 Reds Player
  • S20 Rickey Henderson
  • S21 Alex Gonzalez
  • S22 Hideo Nomo
  • S23 Sean Casey
  • S24 Angels Player
  • S25 New York Yankees
  • S26 Chuck Knoblauch
  • S27 Todd Helton
  • S28 Tim Salmon
  • S29 Randy Johnson
  • S30 Johnny Damon
  • S31 Cincinnati Reds
  • S32 Alex Rodriguez
  • S33 Pokey Reese
  • S34 Mark McGwire
  • S35 Pittsburgh Pirates
  • S36 Homer Bush
  • S37 Chicago Cubs
  • S38 Minnesota Twins
  • S39 Johnny Damon
  • S40 Brian Giles
  • S41 Shawon Dunston
  • S42 Curtis Leskanic
  • S43 Texas Rangers
  • S44 Bob Higginson
  • S45 Baltimore Orioles
  • S46 Greg Maddux
  • S47 "Fans Flamethrower"
  • S48 Kevin Brown
  • S49 Omar Vizquel
  • S50 Tom Glavine
  • S51 Neifi Perez
  • S52 Mike Lamb
  • S53 Pokey Reese
  • S54 New York Yankees
  • S55 Randy Johnson
  • S56 Boston Red Sox
  • S57 "Fans Just Foul"
  • S58 Bernie Williams
  • S59 Barry Bonds
  • S60 Jason Christiansen
  • S61 Eddie Taubensee
  • S62 Chicago White Sox
  • S63 Todd Jones
  • S64 Pitchout
  • S65 Brian Moehler
  • S66 Livan Hernandez
  • S67 Omar Vizquel
  • S68 Byung-Hyun Kim
  • S69 New York Mets
  • S70 Benito Santiago
  • S71 Kevin Brown
  • S72 Pedro Martinez
  • S73 Bobby Cox
  • S74 Dmitri Young
  • S75 Moises Alou