2000 Upper Deck Ovation

Description

2000 Upper Deck Ovation is an 89-card set released in March, 2000. Like the previous year's well-received Ovation set, each card is embossed to look and feel like a baseball. Ovation featured the first Upper Deck card of longtime UD spokesman Ken Griffey, Jr. as a Cincinnati Red -- albeit a photo of Griffey holding a Reds jersey at a post-trade press conference. The last 29 cards in the base set are short-printed.

Ryan Anderson card

Ryan "The Space Needle" Anderson (Card #70 in the Ovation set) was a highly-regarded pitching prospect in the Mariners organization who retired without ever throwing an inning in the Majors due to injuries. After the 1999 season, Anderson was placed on the Mariners 40-man roster allowing Upper Deck to produce a card of him. However before the 2000 season, Anderson was taken off of the 40-man roster forcing Upper Deck to pull his card from Ovation. Some Anderson cards did make their way into packs -- usually with a "gear" embossed on it. Anderson's card is not considered part of a complete set, and was not included in the Standing Ovation parallel.

Distribution

20 packs per box, five cards per pack (MSRP: $3.99). Hobby only.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	89	-	?
short set	60	-	5:1
World Premiere	19	-	1:4
Superstars	10	-	1:6
Standing Ovation	89	50	?
Curtain Calls	20	-	1:3
Diamond Futures	10	-	1:6
Center Stage Silver	10	-	1:9
Center Stage Gold	10	-	1:39
Center Stage Rainbow	10	-	1:99
Lead Performers	10	-	1:19
Superstar Theater	20	-	1:19
A Piece of History	12	400	?
A Piece of History Autographed	4	varies	?
Super Signatures Silver	2	100	?
Super Signatures Gold	2	50	?
Super Signatures Rainbow	2	10	?
Willie Mays A Piece of History 3000 Hit Club Bat	1	350	?
Willie Mays A Piece of History 3000 Hit Club Jersey	1	350	?
Willie Mays A Piece of History 3000 Hit Club Bat and Jersey	1	100	?
Willie Mays A Piece of History 3000 Hit Club Bat and Jersey Auto	1	24	?

Checklist

Base Set

• 1 Mo Vaughn
• 2 Troy Glaus
• 3 Jeff Bagwell
• 4 Craig Biggio
• 5 Mike Hampton
• 6 Jason Giambi
• 7 Tim Hudson
• 8 Chipper Jones
• 9 Greg Maddux
• 10 Kevin Millwood
• 11 Brian Jordan
• 12 Jeromy Burnitz
• 13 David Wells
• 14 Carlos Delgado
• 15 Sammy Sosa
• 16 Mark McGwire
• 17 Matt Williams
• 18 Randy Johnson
• 19 Erubiel Durazo
• 20 Kevin Brown
• 21 Shawn Green
• 22 Gary Sheffield
• 23 Jose Canseco
• 24 Vladimir Guerrero
• 25 Barry Bonds
• 26 Manny Ramirez
• 27 Roberto Alomar
• 28 Richie Sexson
• 29 Jim Thome
• 30 Alex Rodriguez
• 31 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 32 Preston Wilson
• 33 Mike Piazza
• 34 Al Leiter
• 35 Robin Ventura
• 36 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 37 Albert Belle
• 38 Tony Gwynn
• 39 Brian Giles
• 40 Jason Kendall
• 41 Scott Rolen
• 42 Bob Abreu
• 43 Ken Griffey, Jr. CIN
• 44 Sean Casey
• 45 Carlos Beltran
• 46 Gabe Kapler
• 47 Ivan Rodriguez
• 48 Rafael Palmeiro
• 49 Larry Walker
• 50 Nomar Garciaparra
• 51 Pedro Martinez
• 52 Eric Milton
• 53 Juan Gonzalez
• 54 Tony Clark
• 55 Frank Thomas
• 56 Magglio Ordonez
• 57 Roger Clemens
• 58 Derek Jeter
• 59 Bernie Williams
• 60 Orlando Hernandez

World Premiere

NOTE: Card #70 is not considered part of a complete set.

• 61 Rick Ankiel WP
• 62 Josh Beckett WP
• 63 Vernon Wells WP
• 64 Alfonso Soriano WP
• 65 Pat Burrell WP
• 66 Eric Munson WP
• 67 Chad Hutchinson WP
• 68 Eric Gagne WP
• 69 Peter Bergeron WP
• 70 Ryan Anderson WP (pulled from production)
• 71 A.J. Burnett WP
• 72 Jorge Toca WP
• 73 Matt Riley WP
• 74 Chad Hermansen WP
• 75 Doug Davis WP
• 76 Jim Morris WP
• 77 Ben Petrick WP
• 78 Mark Quinn WP
• 79 Ed Yarnall WP
• 80 Ramon Ortiz WP

Superstar Spotlight

• 81 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 82 Mark McGwire
• 83 Derek Jeter
• 84 Jeff Bagwell
• 85 Nomar Garciaparra
• 86 Sammy Sosa
• 87 Mike Piazza
• 88 Alex Rodriguez
• 89 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 90 Pedro Martinez

Parallels

Each base card (EXCEPT for the Ryan Anderson) is available in a "Standing Ovation" parallel, which is serial-numbered to 50 copies.

Inserts

Curtain Calls

• CC1 David Cone
• CC2 Mark McGwire
• CC3 Sammy Sosa
• CC4 Eric Milton
• CC5 Bernie Williams
• CC6 Tony Gwynn
• CC7 Nomar Garciaparra
• CC8 Manny Ramirez
• CC9 Wade Boggs
• CC10 Randy Johnson
• CC11 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• CC12 Pedro Martinez
• CC13 Alex Rodriguez
• CC14 Fernando Tatis
• CC15 Vladimir Guerrero
• CC16 Robin Ventura
• CC17 Larry Walker
• CC18 Carlos Beltran
• CC19 Jose Canseco
• CC20 Ken Griffey, Jr.

Diamond Futures

• DM1 J.D. Drew
• DM2 Alfonso Soriano
• DM3 Preston Wilson
• DM4 Erubiel Durazo
• DM5 Rick Ankiel
• DM6 Octavio Dotel
• DM7 A.J. Burnett
• DM8 Carlos Beltran
• DM9 Vernon Wells
• DM10 Troy Glaus

Center Stage

Each Center Stage insert is available in the following parallels.

• Gold
• Rainbow

• CS1 Jeff Bagwell
• CS2 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• CS3 Nomar Garciaparra
• CS4 Mike Piazza
• CS5 Mark McGwire
• CS6 Alex Rodriguez
• CS7 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• CS8 Derek Jeter
• CS9 Chipper Jones
• CS10 Sammy Sosa

Lead Performers

• LP1 Mark McGwire
• LP2 Derek Jeter
• LP3 Vladimir Guerrero
• LP4 Mike Piazza
• LP5 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• LP6 Sammy Sosa
• LP7 Jeff Bagwell
• LP8 Nomar Garciaparra
• LP9 Chipper Jones
• LP10 Ken Griffey, Jr.

Superstar Theatre

• ST1 Ivan Rodriguez
• ST2 Brian Giles
• ST3 Bernie Williams
• ST4 Greg Maddux
• ST5 Frank Thomas
• ST6 Sean Casey
• ST7 Mo Vaughn
• ST8 Carlos Delgado
• ST9 Tony Gwynn
• ST10 Pedro Martinez
• ST11 Scott Rolen
• ST12 Mark McGwire
• ST13 Manny Ramirez
• ST14 Rafael Palmeiro
• ST15 Jose Canseco
• ST16 Randy Johnson
• ST17 Gary Sheffield
• ST18 Larry Walker
• ST19 Barry Bonds
• ST20 Roger Clemens

Upper Deck Collection Sweepstakes

See 2000 Upper Deck Collection Sweepstakes.

Autographs & Game-Used

A Piece of History

Each A Piece of History card is limited, but not serial-numbered, to 400 copies.

• AR Alex Rodriguez
• CJ Chipper Jones
• CR Cal Ripken, Jr.
• DJ Derek Jeter
• IR Ivan Rodriguez
• JC Jose Canseco
• KG Ken Griffey, Jr.
• MR Manny Ramirez
• PB Pat Burrell
• SR Scott Rolen
• TG Tony Gwynn
• VG Vladimir Guerrero

A Piece of History Autographed

This set is an autographed partial-parallel with each card serial-numbered to the player's uniform number.

NOTE: Ken Griffey, Jr. was traded in the off-season from Seattle to Cincinnati, and while Upper Deck was able to depict him as a Red in the Ovation base set, they were not able to for the A Piece of History Autographed set. With his familiar uniform number 24 already retired by the Reds, Griffey was forced to change to #30. But because Griffey had already signed his allotment of cards for the Ovation product before his trade, he is still depicted as a Mariner in the A Piece of History Autographed set and it is still hand-numbered to only 24 copies.

• ARA Alex Rodriguez 3
• CRA Cal Ripken, Jr. 8
• DJA Derek Jeter 2
• KGA Ken Griffey, Jr. 24

Super Signatures

Each Super Signatures card is serial numbered (either machine- or hand-numbered) and there are three different versions:

• Silver (machine-numbered to 100 copies)
• Gold (hand-numbered to 50 copies)
• Rainbow (hand-numbered to ten copies)

NOTE 1: All of Mike Piazza's cards packed out as redemptions which expired December 9th, 2000.

NOTE 2: There have been some unnumbered, authentically autographed versions of some players (e.g., Griffey) surface on the secondary market. These are not part of the pack-issued set as each Super Signatures card was intended to be serial-numbered in some way. These unnumbered versions likely were damage replacement copies and were not "base” autograph versions.

• SSKGS Ken Griffey, Jr.
• SSMPS Mike Piazza

Willie Mays A Piece of History 3000 Hit Club

See 2000 Upper Deck A Piece of History 3000 Hit Club.

Ovation
1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 Upper Deck Standing O - 2006
Other Ovation Sets: 2000 Upper Deck Ovation Japan