1999 Ultra

Description

1999 Ultra is a 250-card set released by Fleer in November, 1998. As was custom, it was Fleer's first release of the 1999 baseball card season. For the first time since the inaugural set in 1991, Ultra was released as a single series.

The last 35 cards in the base set are short-printed, and each Hobby pack contains an exclusive Gold Medallion parallel.

Distribution

Hobby: 24 pack per box, ten cards per pack (MSRP: $2.69).

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	250	-	?	?
short-set	215	-	?	?
Season Crowns	10	-	1:8	1:8
Prospects	25	-	1:4	1:4
Gold Medallion short set	215	-	one-per-pack	N/A
Gold Medallion Season Crowns	10	-	1:80	N/A
Gold Medallion Prospects	25	-	1:40	N/A
Platinum Medallion short set	215	99	?	N/A
Platinum Medallion Season Crowns	10	50	?	N/A
Platinum Medallion Prospects	25	65	?	N/A
Masterpiece	250	one-of-one	?	N/A
RBI Kings	30	-	N/A	one-per-pack
The Book On	20	-	1:6	1:6
World Premiere	15	-	1:18	1:18
Thunderclap	15	-	1:36	1:36
Damage Inc.	15	-	1:72	1:72
Diamond Producers	10	-	1:288	1:288

Checklist

Promos

A six-card Promo set was issued to The Hobby Media and in Hobby dealer order forms. The set was distributed both as a 7" X 7 1/2" uncut sheet, and as individual cards. On both the cards and the uncut sheet, each card has "PROMOTIONAL SAMPLE" printed on both sides.

Kerry Wood / Mark McGwire / Nomar Garciaparra / Andruw Jones / Alex Rodriguez / Kenny Lofton

Base Set

• 1 Greg Maddux
• 2 Greg Vaughn
• 3 John Wetteland
• 4 Tino Martinez
• 5 Todd Walker
• 6 Troy O'Leary
• 7 Barry Larkin
• 8 Mike Lansing
• 9 Delino DeShields
• 10 Brett Tomko
• 11 Carlos Perez
• 12 Mark Langston
• 13 Jamie Moyer
• 14 Jose Guillen
• 15 Bartolo Colon
• 16 Brady Anderson
• 17 Walt Weiss
• 18 Shane Reynolds
• 19 David Segui
• 20 Vladimir Guerrero
• 21 Freddy A. Garcia
• 22 Carl Everett
• 23 Jose Cruz, Jr.
• 24 David Ortiz
• 25 Andruw Jones
• 26 Darren Lewis
• 27 Ray Lankford
• 28 Wally Joyner
• 29 Charles Johnson
• 30 Derek Jeter
• 31 Sean Casey
• 32 Bobby Bonilla
• 33 Todd Zeile
• 34 Todd Helton
• 35 David Wells
• 36 Darin Erstad
• 37 Ivan Rodriguez
• 38 Antonio Osuna
• 39 Mickey Morandini
• 40 Rusty Greer
• 41 Rod Beck
• 42 Larry Sutton
• 43 Edgar Renteria
• 44 Otis Nixon
• 45 Eli Marrero
• 46 Reggie Jefferson
• 47 Trevor Hoffman
• 48 Andres Galarraga
• 49 Scott Brosius
• 50 Vinny Castilla
• 51 Bret Boone
• 52 Masato Yoshii
• 53 Matt Williams
• 54 Robin Ventura
• 55 Jay Powell
• 56 Dean Palmer
• 57 Eric Milton
• 58 Willie McGee
• 59 Tony Gwynn
• 60 Tom Gordon
• 61 Dante Bichette
• 62 Jaret Wright
• 63 Devon White
• 64 Frank Thomas
• 65 Mike Piazza
• 66 Jose Offerman
• 67 Pat Meares
• 68 Brian Meadows
• 69 Nomar Garciaparra
• 70 Mark McGwire
• 71 Tony Graffanino
• 72 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 73 Ken Caminiti
• 74 Todd Jones
• 75 A.J. Hinch
• 76 Marquis Grissom
• 77 Jay Buhner
• 78 Albert Belle
• 79 Brian Anderson
• 80 Quinton McCracken
• 81 Omar Vizquel
• 82 Todd Stottlemyre
• 83 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 84 Magglio Ordonez
• 85 John Olerud
• 86 Hal Morris
• 87 Derrek Lee
• 88 Doug Glanville
• 89 Marty Cordova
• 90 Kevin Brown
• 91 Kevin Young
• 92 Rico Brogna
• 93 Wilson Alvarez
• 94 Bob Wickman
• 95 Jim Thome
• 96 Mike Mussina
• 97 Al Leiter
• 98 Travis Lee
• 99 Jeff King
• 100 Kerry Wood
• 101 Cliff Floyd
• 102 Jose Valentin
• 103 Manny Ramirez
• 104 Butch Huskey
• 105 Scott Erickson
• 106 Ray Durham
• 107 Johnny Damon
• 108 Craig Counsell
• 109 Rolando Arrojo
• 110 Bob Abreu
• 111 Tony Womack
• 112 Mike Stanley
• 113 Kenny Lofton
• 114 Eric Davis
• 115 Jeff Conine
• 116 Carlos Baerga
• 117 Rondell White
• 118 Billy Wagner
• 119 Ed Sprague
• 120 Jason Schmidt
• 121 Edgar Martinez
• 122 Travis Fryman
• 123 Armando Benitez
• 124 Matt Stairs
• 125 Roberto Hernandez
• 126 Jay Bell
• 127 Justin Thompson
• 128 John Jaha
• 129 Mike Caruso
• 130 Miguel Tejada
• 131 Geoff Jenkins
• 132 Wade Boggs
• 133 Andy Benes
• 134 Aaron Sele
• 135 Bret Saberhagen
• 136 Mariano Rivera
• 137 Neifi Perez
• 138 Paul Konerko
• 139 Barry Bonds
• 140 Garret Anderson
• 141 Bernie Williams
• 142 Gary Sheffield
• 143 Rafael Palmeiro
• 144 Orel Hershiser
• 145 Craig Biggio
• 146 Dmitri Young
• 147 Damion Easley
• 148 Henry Rodriguez
• 149 Brad Radke
• 150 Pedro Martinez
• 151 Mike Lieberthal
• 152 Jim Leyritz
• 153 Chuck Knoblauch
• 154 Darryl Kile
• 155 Brian Jordan
• 156 Chipper Jones
• 157 Pete Harnisch
• 158 Moises Alou
• 159 Ismael Valdes
• 160 Stan Javier
• 161 Mark Grace
• 162 Jason Giambi
• 163 Chuck Finley
• 164 Juan Encarnacion
• 165 Chan Ho Park
• 166 Randy Johnson
• 167 J.T. Snow
• 168 Tim Salmon
• 169 Brian L. Hunter
• 170 Rickey Henderson
• 171 Cal Eldred
• 172 Curt Schilling
• 173 Alex Rodriguez
• 174 Dustin Hermanson
• 175 Mike Hampton
• 176 Shawn Green
• 177 Roberto Alomar
• 178 Sandy Alomar
• 179 Larry Walker
• 180 Mo Vaughn
• 181 Raul Mondesi
• 182 Hideki Irabu
• 183 Jim Edmonds
• 184 Shawn Estes
• 185 Tony Clark
• 186 Dan Wilson
• 187 Michael Tucker
• 188 Jeff Shaw
• 189 Mark Grudzielanek
• 190 Roger Clemens
• 191 Juan Gonzalez
• 192 Sammy Sosa
• 193 Troy Percival
• 194 Robb Nen
• 195 Bill Mueller
• 196 Ben Grieve
• 197 Luis Gonzalez
• 198 Will Clark
• 199 Jeff Cirillo
• 200 Scott Rolen
• 201 Reggie Sanders
• 202 Fred McGriff
• 203 Denny Neagle
• 204 Brad Fullmer
• 205 Royce Clayton
• 206 Jose Canseco
• 207 Jeff Bagwell
• 208 Hideo Nomo
• 209 Karim Garcia
• 210 Kenny Rogers

Checklists

NOTE: Unlike the Season Crowns and Prospects, the five Checklists are NOT short-printed.

• 211 Kerry Wood
• 212 Alex Rodriguez
• 213 Cal Ripken
• 214 Frank Thomas
• 215 Ken Griffey

Season Crowns

• 216 Alex Rodriguez
• 217 Greg Maddux
• 218 Juan Gonzalez
• 219 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 220 Kerry Wood
• 221 Mark McGwire
• 222 Mike Piazza
• 223 Rickey Henderson
• 224 Sammy Sosa
• 225 Travis Lee

Prospects

• 226 Gabe Alvarez
• 227 Matt Anderson
• 228 Adrian Beltre
• 229 Orlando Cabrera
• 230 Orlando Hernandez
• 231 Aramis Ramirez
• 232 Troy Glaus
• 233 Gabe Kapler
• 234 Jeremy Giambi
• 235 Derrick Gibson
• 236 Carlton Loewer
• 237 Mike Frank
• 238 Carlos Guillen
• 239 Alex Gonzalez
• 240 Enrique Wilson
• 241 J.D. Drew
• 242 Bruce Chen
• 243 Ryan Minor
• 244 Preston Wilson
• 245 Josh Booty
• 246 Luis Ordaz
• 247 George Lombard
• 248 Matt Clement
• 249 Eric Chavez
• 250 Corey Koskie

Parallels

NOTE: All parallels are exclusive to Hobby packs.

Gold Medallion

All 250 base cards were available in a one-per-pack Gold Medallion parallel. These Gold Medallion parallels featured a gold-colored matte foil finish on the front. Like in the base set, the 10-card Season Crowns and 25-card Prospects subsets were short-printed.

NOTE: Each Gold Medallion parallel is sequentially-numbered with a "G" suffix.

Platinum Medallion

All 250 base cards were available in a serial-numbered Platinum Medallion parallel. These Platinum Medallion parallels featured a metallic grey-colored matte foil finish on the front and serial-numbered stamp on the back.

The production of each Platinum Medallion varied:

• short set (serial-numbered to 99 copies)
• Season Crowns (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
• Prospects (serial-numbered to 65 copies)

NOTE: Each Platinum Medallion parallel is sequentially-numbered with a "P" suffix.

Masterpiece

All 250 base cards were available in a one-of-one Masterpiece parallel. These Masterpiece parallels featured a dark royal purple-colored matte foil finish on the front and a “The Only 1 of 1 Masterpiece Edition” stamp on the back.

Possibly due to Fleer’s bankruptcy and subsequent liquidation of assets and cards (e.g., proofs, unnumbered copies, and stamped damage replacements) in 2005, two copies of some players’ Masterpiece parallel exist. Both copies are “finished products” and feature the purple-foil finish on the front and correct sequential number + suffix and Masterpiece Edition stamp on the back. Due to this, provenance of which version was packed-out is not possible without anecdotal evidence from the person that pulled the card. Not surprisingly the list of confirmed cards with multiple copies that have surfaced feature superstar players:

30 Derek Jeter

64 Frank Thomas

65 Mike Piazza

72 Ken Griffey, Jr.

150 Pedro Martinez

170 Rickey Henderson

207 Jeff Bagwell

213 Cal Ripken, Jr. Checklist

219 Ken Griffey, Jr. Season Crowns

NOTE: Similar to the Platinum parallels, each Masterpiece parallel is sequentially-numbered with an "P” suffix.

Inserts

RBI Kings

One RBI King was inserted into each retail pack.

• 1 RK Rafael Palmeiro
• 2 RK Mo Vaughn
• 3 RK Ivan Rodriguez
• 4 RK Barry Bonds
• 5 RK Albert Belle
• 6 RK Jeff Bagwell
• 7 RK Mark McGwire
• 8 RK Darin Erstad
• 9 RK Manny Ramirez
• 10 RK Chipper Jones
• 11 RK Jim Thome
• 12 RK Scott Rolen
• 13 RK Tony Gwynn
• 14 RK Juan Gonzalez
• 15 RK Mike Piazza
• 16 RK Sammy Sosa
• 17 RK Andruw Jones
• 18 RK Derek Jeter
• 19 RK Nomar Garciaparra
• 20 RK Alex Rodriguez
• 21 RK Frank Thomas
• 22 RK Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 23 RK Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 24 RK Travis Lee
• 25 RK Paul O'Neill
• 26 RK Greg Vaughn
• 27 RK Andres Galarraga
• 28 RK Tino Martinez
• 29 RK Jose Canseco
• 30 RK Ben Grieve

The Book On

• 1 BO Kerry Wood
• 2 BO Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 3 BO Frank Thomas
• 4 BO Albert Belle
• 5 BO Juan Gonzalez
• 6 BO Jeff Bagwell
• 7 BO Mark McGwire
• 8 BO Barry Bonds
• 9 BO Andruw Jones
• 10 BO Mo Vaughn
• 11 BO Scott Rolen
• 12 BO Travis Lee
• 13 BO Tony Gwynn
• 14 BO Greg Maddux
• 15 BO Mike Piazza
• 16 BO Chipper Jones
• 17 BO Nomar Garciaparra
• 18 BO Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 19 BO Derek Jeter
• 20 BO Alex Rodriguez

World Premiere

• 1 Gabe Alvarez
• 2 Kerry Wood
• 3 Orlando Hernandez
• 4 Mike Caruso
• 5 Matt Anderson
• 6 Randall Simon
• 7 Adrian Beltre
• 8 Scott Elarton
• 9 Karim Garcia
• 10 Mike Frank
• 11 Richard Hidalgo
• 12 Paul Konerko
• 13 Travis Lee
• 14 J.D. Drew
• 15 Miguel Tejada

Thunderclap

• 1 TC Alex Rodriguez
• 2 TC Andruw Jones
• 3 TC Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 4 TC Chipper Jones
• 5 TC Darin Erstad
• 6 TC Derek Jeter
• 7 TC Frank Thomas
• 8 TC Jeff Bagwell
• 9 TC Juan Gonzalez
• 10 TC Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 11 TC Mark McGwire
• 12 TC Mike Piazza
• 13 TC Travis Lee
• 14 TC Nomar Garciaparra
• 15 TC Scott Rolen

Damage Inc.

• 1 DI Alex Rodriguez
• 2 DI Greg Maddux
• 3 DI Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 4 DI Chipper Jones
• 5 DI Derek Jeter
• 6 DI Frank Thomas
• 7 DI Juan Gonzalez
• 8 DI Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 9 DI Kerry Wood
• 10 DI Mark McGwire
• 11 DI Mike Piazza
• 12 DI Nomar Garciaparra
• 13 DI Scott Rolen
• 14 DI Tony Gwynn
• 15 DI Travis Lee

Diamond Producers

• 1 DP Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 2 DP Frank Thomas
• 3 DP Alex Rodriguez
• 4 DP Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 5 DP Mike Piazza
• 6 DP Mark McGwire
• 7 DP Greg Maddux
• 8 DP Kerry Wood
• 9 DP Chipper Jones
• 10 DP Derek Jeter

Ultra
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Other Ultra sets: 1991 Ultra Update - 1993 Ultra Performers