2000 Black Diamond Rookie Edition

Description

2000 Black Diamond Rookie Edition is a 154-card set released exclusively to Hobby outlets by Upper Deck in December, 2000 -- almost a full year after 2000 Black Diamond -- and would be the final Black Diamond baseball set. The set includes a 30-card Rookie Gems subset (with each card serial-numbered to 1000 copies), a 16-card "Rookie Jerseys" subset, and 18 jersey cards of the Gold Medal winning 2000 USA Baseball team. This set marked the first time game-used jersey cards were included in a base set.

Notable rookie cards include: Mark Buehrle, Roy Oswalt, Ben Sheets and Barry Zito.

Distribution

24 packs per box, six cards per pack (MSRP: $2.99). Hobby only.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Base	154	-	?
short set	90	-	?
Rookie Gems	30	1000	?
Rookie Jerseys	16	-	1:24
USA Olympic Team Jerseys	18	-	1:96
Gold	90	1000	?
Rookie Treasures	30	500	?
Rookie Jerseys Treasures	16	100	?
Diamonation	9	-	1:12
Diamond Might	9	-	1:12
Diamond Gallery	6	-	1:20
Diamond Skills	6	-	1:20
Authentic Pinstripes	9	varies	?

Checklist

Base Set

• 1 Troy Glaus
• 2 Mo Vaughn
• 3 Darin Erstad
• 4 Jason Giambi
• 5 Tim Hudson
• 6 Ben Grieve
• 7 Eric Chavez
• 8 Tony Batista
• 9 Carlos Delgado
• 10 David Wells
• 11 Greg Vaughn
• 12 Fred McGriff
• 13 Manny Ramirez
• 14 Roberto Alomar
• 15 Jim Thome
• 16 Alex Rodriguez
• 17 Edgar Martinez
• 18 John Olerud
• 19 Albert Belle
• 20 Mike Mussina
• 21 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 22 Ivan Rodriguez
• 23 Rafael Palmeiro
• 24 Pedro Martinez
• 25 Nomar Garciaparra
• 26 Carl Everett
• 27 Jermaine Dye
• 28 Mike Sweeney
• 29 Juan Gonzalez
• 30 Bob Higginson
• 31 Dean Palmer
• 32 Jacque Jones
• 33 Eric Milton
• 34 Matt Lawton
• 35 Magglio Ordonez
• 36 Paul Konerko
• 37 Frank Thomas
• 38 Ray Durham
• 39 Roger Clemens
• 40 Derek Jeter
• 41 Bernie Williams
• 42 Jose Canseco
• 43 Craig Biggio
• 44 Richard Hidalgo
• 45 Jeff Bagwell
• 46 Greg Maddux
• 47 Chipper Jones
• 48 Rafael Furcal
• 49 Andruw Jones
• 50 Geoff Jenkins
• 51 Jeromy Burnitz
• 52 Mark McGwire
• 53 Rick Ankiel
• 54 Jim Edmonds
• 55 Kerry Wood
• 56 Sammy Sosa
• 57 Matt Williams
• 58 Randy Johnson
• 59 Steve Finley
• 60 Curt Schilling
• 61 Kevin Brown
• 62 Gary Sheffield
• 63 Shawn Green
• 64 Jose Vidro
• 65 Vladimir Guerrero
• 66 Jeff Kent
• 67 Barry Bonds
• 68 Ryan Dempster
• 69 Cliff Floyd
• 70 Preston Wilson
• 71 Mike Piazza
• 72 Al Leiter
• 73 Edgardo Alfonzo
• 74 Derek Bell
• 75 Ryan Klesko
• 76 Tony Gwynn
• 77 Bob Abreu
• 78 Pat Burrell
• 79 Scott Rolen
• 80 Mike Lieberthal
• 81 Jason Kendall
• 82 Brian Giles
• 83 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 84 Pokey Reese
• 85 Dmitri Young
• 86 Sean Casey
• 87 Jeff Cirillo
• 88 Todd Helton
• 89 Jeffrey Hammonds
• 90 Larry Walker

Rookie Gems

Each Rookie Gem is serial-numbered to 1000 copies, however some copies have surfaced with the serial number missing.

• 91 Barry Zito RC
• 92 Keith Ginter RC
• 93 Dane Sardinha RC
• 94 Kenny Kelly RC
• 95 Ryan Kohlmeier
• 96 Leo Estrella
• 97 Danys Baez RC
• 98 Paul Rigdon
• 99 Mike Lamb RC
• 100 Aaron McNeal RC*
• 101 Juan Pierre RC
• 102 Rico Washington RC
• 103 Luis Matos RC
• 104 Adam Bernero
• 105 Wascar Serrano RC
• 106 Chris Richard RC
• 107 Justin Miller
• 108 Julio Zuleta RC
• 109 Alex Cabrera RC
• 110 Gene Stechschulte
• 111 Tony Mota
• 112 Tomo Ohka
• 113 Geraldo Guzman RC
• 114 Scott Downs RC
• 115 Timo Perez RC
• 116 Chad Durbin
• 117 Sun Woo Kim RC
• 118 Tomas De La Rosa
• 119 Javier Cardona
• 120 Kazuhiro Sasaki RC

Rookie Jersey Gems

• 121 Brad Cresse
• 122 Matt Wheatland RC*
• 123 Joe Torres RC*
• 124 Dave Krynzel RC
• 125 Ben Diggins RC
• 126 Sean Burnett RC
• 127 David Espinosa RC*
• 128 Scott Heard RC*
• 129 Daylan Holt RC*
• 130 Koyie Hill RC JSY USA
• 131 Mark Buehrle
• 132 Xavier Nady RC
• 133 Mike Tonis RC
• 134 Matt Ginter RC JSY USA
• 135 Lorenzo Barcelo RC JSY
• 136 Cory Vance RC

USA Olympic Team Jerseys

This subset features game-used jersey cards of the Gold Medal winning 2000 USA Olympic baseball team.

• 137 Sean Burroughs USA JSY
• 138 Todd Williams USA JSY
• 139 Brad Wilkerson USA JSY RC
• 140 Ben Sheets USA JSY RC
• 141 Kurt Ainsworth USA JSY RC
• 142 Anthony Sanders USA JSY
• 143 Ryan Franklin USA JSY RC
• 144 Shane Heams USA JSY RC
• 145 Roy Oswalt USA JSY RC
• 146 Jon Rauch USA JSY RC
• 147 Brent Abernathy USA JSY RC
• 148 Ernie Young USA JSY
• 149 Chris George USA JSY
• 150 Gookie Dawkins USA JSY
• 151 Adam Everett USA JSY
• 152 John Cotton USA JSY RC
• 153 Pat Borders USA JSY
• 154 Doug Mientkiewicz USA JSY

Parallels

Gold

Cards #1-90 are available in a Gold parallel, which is serial-numbered to 1000 copies.

Treasures

The Rookie (cards #91-120) and Rookie Jersey (#121-136) are available in a Treasures parallel. The Rookies are serial-numbered to 500 copies, while the Rookie Jerseys are numbered to 100.

Inserts

Diamonation

• D1 Pedro Martinez
• D2 Derek Jeter
• D3 Jason Giambi
• D4 Todd Helton
• D5 Nomar Garciaparra
• D6 Randy Johnson
• D7 Jeff Bagwell
• D8 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• D9 Ivan Rodriguez

Diamond Gallery

• G1 Sammy Sosa
• G2 Barry Bonds
• G3 Vladimir Guerrero
• G4 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• G5 Mike Piazza
• G6 Mark McGwire

Diamond Might

• M1 Mark McGwire
• M2 Mike Piazza
• M3 Frank Thomas
• M4 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• M5 Sammy Sosa
• M6 Alex Rodriguez
• M7 Carlos Delgado
• M8 Vladimir Guerrero
• M9 Barry Bonds

Diamond Skills

• S1 Alex Rodriguez
• S2 Chipper Jones
• S3 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• S4 Pedro Martinez
• S5 Ivan Rodriguez
• S6 Derek Jeter

Game-Used

Authentic Pinstripes

• APB Derek Jeter BAT 1000
• APC Derek Jeter CAP 200
• APG Derek Jeter GLOVE 200
• APJ Derek Jeter JRSY 1000
• DJJD Derek Jeter / Joe DiMaggio BAT 25
• DJMM Derek Jeter / Mickey Mantle BAT 25
• DJRM Derek Jeter / Roger Maris BAT 25
• JDMB Derek Jeter / Joe DiMaggio / Mickey Mantle BAT 25
• JWOJ Derek Jeter / Bernie Williams / Paul O'Neill JRSY 100

Black Diamond
1999 - 2000 - 2000 Rookie Edition