Latest revision as of 16:35, 20 January 2019

Description

2001 Upper Deck Evolution is a one-off, 120-card set released in October, 2001. The last 30 cards make up a Prospects subset with each card serial-numbered to 2250 copies.

The product was intended to showoff the upperdeckdigital.com website, and features inserts that can "evolve" into game-used cards when a code is entered. This was not received well by collections and the upperdeckdigital.com website went dark a year later.

Distribution

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

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	120	-	?
short set	90	-	5:1
Prospects	30	2250	?
e-card Classics	15	-	1:4
Ichiro Suzuki All-Star Game Bronze	1	-	?
Ichiro Suzuki All-Star Game Silver	1	2001	?
Ichiro Suzuki All-Star Game Gold	1	51	?
Game Jersey	15	-	1:120
e-card Game Bat	10	-	1:120

Checklist

Base Set

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1 Darin Erstad
2 Troy Glaus
3 Jason Giambi
4 Tim Hudson
5 Jermaine Dye
6 Barry Zito
7 Carlos Delgado
8 Shannon Stewart
9 Jose Cruz
10 Greg Vaughn
11 Juan Gonzalez
12 Roberto Alomar
13 Omar Vizquel
14 Jim Thome
15 Edgar Martinez
16 John Olerud
17 Kazuhiro Sasaki
18 Cal Ripken, Jr.
19 Alex Rodriguez
20 Ivan Rodriguez
21 Rafael Palmeiro
22 Pedro Martinez
23 Nomar Garciaparra
24 Manny Ramirez
25 Carl Everett
26 Mark Quinn
27 Mike Sweeney
28 Neifi Perez
29 Tony Clark
30 Eric Milton
31 Doug Mientkiewicz
32 Corey Koskie
33 Frank Thomas
34 David Wells
35 Magglio Ordonez
36 Derek Jeter
37 Mike Mussina
38 Bernie Williams
39 Roger Clemens
40 Dave Justice
41 Jeff Bagwell
42 Richard Hidalgo
43 Wade Miller
44 Chipper Jones
45 Greg Maddux
46 Andruw Jones
47 Rafael Furcal
48 Geoff Jenkins
49 Jeromy Burnitz
50 Ben Sheets
51 Richie Sexson
52 Mark McGwire
53 Jim Edmonds
54 Darryl Kile
55 J.D. Drew
56 Sammy Sosa
57 Kerry Wood
58 Randy Johnson
59 Luis Gonzalez
60 Matt Williams
61 Kevin Brown
62 Gary Sheffield
63 Shawn Green
64 Chan Ho Park
65 Vladimir Guerrero
66 Jose Vidro
67 Fernando Tatis
68 Barry Bonds
69 Jeff Kent
70 Russ Ortiz
71 Preston Wilson
72 Ryan Dempster
73 Charles Johnson
74 Mike Piazza
75 Edgardo Alfonzo
76 Robin Ventura
77 Jay Payton
78 Tony Gwynn
79 Phil Nevin
80 Pat Burrell
81 Scott Rolen
82 Bob Abreu
83 Brian Giles
84 Jason Kendall
85 Ken Griffey, Jr.
86 Barry Larkin
87 Sean Casey
88 Todd Helton
89 Larry Walker
90 Mike Hampton

Prospects

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Each Prospect is serial-numbered to 2250 copies.

91 Ichiro Suzuki RC
92 Albert Pujols RC
93 Wilson Betemit RC
94 Jay Gibbons RC
95 Juan Uribe RC
96 Morgan Ensberg RC
97 Christian Parker RC
98 Tsuyoshi Shinjo RC
99 Jack Wilson RC
100 Donaldo Mendez RC
101 Ryan Freel RC
102 Juan Diaz RC
103 Horacio Ramirez RC
104 Ricardo Rodriguez RC
105 Erick Almonte RC
106 Josh Towers RC
107 Adrian Hernandez RC
108 Brandon Duckworth RC
109 Travis Hafner RC
110 Martin Vargas RC*
111 Kris Keller RC
112 Brian Lawrence RC
113 Esix Snead RC
114 Wilkin Ruan RC
115 Jose Mieses RC*
116 Johnny Estrada RC
117 Elpidio Guzman RC*
118 Sean Douglass RC
119 Billy Sylvester RC*
120 Bret Prinz RC

Inserts

e-card Classics

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This 15-card set features reprints of classic Upper Deck baseball cards. The reverse side has a scratch-off bar concealing a code that, when entered onto a special Upper Deck website, can see their e-card "evolve" into a game jersey card (see below).

EC1 Ken Griffey, Jr.
EC2 Gary Sheffield
EC3 Randy Johnson
EC4 Sammy Sosa
EC5 Carlos Delgado
EC6 Ichiro Suzuki
EC7 Andruw Jones
EC8 Chipper Jones
EC9 Kazuhiro Sasaki
EC10 Shawn Green
EC11 Alex Rodriguez
EC12 Brian Giles
EC13 J.D. Drew
EC14 Pat Burrell
EC15 Ivan Rodriguez

Ichiro Suzuki All-Star Game

This card of Mariners rookie sensation Ichiro Suzuki was intended to be distributed at the 2001 All-Star Game FanFest, which happened to be in Seattle. The card is done in the style of the 2001 Upper Deck Baseball flagship, but with the 2001 All-Star Game logo on the front stamped in either bronze, silver, or gold foil. All three cards are sequentially-numbered "UD51" on the reverse.

It is believed that, since Fleer "won" the right to produce an Ichiro card for the 2001 FanFest, Upper Deck was not allowed to distribute this card at that event and saved it for a weaker product that it felt could use a rookie-year Ichiro insert.

Each card is also available in the following parallels.

Silver (serial-numbered to 2001 copies)
Gold (serial-numbered to 51 copies)

Autographs & Game-Used

Game Jersey

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J-AJ Andruw Jones
J-AR Alex Rodriguez
J-BG Brian Giles
J-CJ Chipper Jones
J-CR Cal Ripken, Jr.
J-GS Gary Sheffield
J-JaG Jason Giambi
J-JD J.D. Drew
J-JK Jason Kendall
J-KG Ken Griffey, Jr.
J-PB Pat Burrell
J-RB Russell Branyan
J-SG Shawn Green
J-SS Sammy Sosa
J-TG Troy Glaus

e-card Game Bat

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Each e-card Game Bat has a scratch-off bar on the reverse side concealing a code that, when entered, can see their e-card "evolve" into an autographed game bat and jersey combo card (see below).

B-AJ Andruw Jones
B-AR Alex Rodriguez
B-CD Carlos Delgado
B-GS Gary Sheffield
B-JaG Jason Giambi
B-JD J.D. Drew
B-JK Jason Kendall
B-KG Ken Griffey, Jr.
B-PB Pat Burrell
B-RB Russell Branyan

e-card Classics Game Jersey

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These cards were NOT available in packs. Rather, the only way to receive an e-card Classics Game Jersey is to redeem a winning e-card Classics insert card (see above). Each card is serial-numbered to 300 copies.

ECJ1 Ken Griffey, Jr.
ECJ2 Gary Sheffield
ECJ3 Randy Johnson
ECJ4 Sammy Sosa
ECJ5 Carlos Delgado
ECJ6 Ichiro Suzuki
ECJ7 Andruw Jones
ECJ8 Chipper Jones
ECJ9 Kazuhiro Sasaki
ECJ10 Shawn Green
ECJ11 Alex Rodriguez
ECJ12 Brian Giles
ECJ13 J.D. Drew
ECJ14 Pat Burrell
ECJ15 Ivan Rodriguez

e-card Game Bat-Jersey Autograph

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These cards were NOT available in packs. Rather, the only way to receive an e-card Game Bat-Jersey Autograph is to redeem a winning e-card Game Bat card (see above).

JB-AJ Andruw Jones
JB-AR Alex Rodriguez
JB-CD Carlos Delgado
JB-CJ Chipper Jones
JB-CR Cal Ripken, Jr.
JB-GS Gary Sheffield
JB-IS Ichiro Suzuki
JB-JD J.D. Drew
JB-JK Jason Kendall
JB-JaG Jason Giambi
JB-KG Ken Griffey, Jr.
JB-PB Pat Burrell
JB-RB Russell Branyan
JB-SG Shawn Green
JB-SS Sammy Sosa

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-This card of Mariners rookie sensation Ichiro Suzuki was intended to be distributed at the 2001 All-Star Game FanFest, which happened to be in Seattle.  The card is done in the style of the ''[[2001 Upper Deck|2001 Upper Deck Baseball]]'' flagship, but with the 2001 All-Star Game logo on the front stamped in either bronze, silver, or gold foil.  The Silver card is serial-numbered to 2001 copies, while the Gold card is numbered to 51.  All three cards are sequentially-numbered "UD51" on the reverse.
+This card of Mariners rookie sensation Ichiro Suzuki was intended to be distributed at the 2001 All-Star Game FanFest, which happened to be in Seattle.  The card is done in the style of the ''[[2001 Upper Deck|2001 Upper Deck Baseball]]'' flagship, but with the 2001 All-Star Game logo on the front stamped in either bronze, silver, or gold foil.  All three cards are sequentially-numbered "UD51" on the reverse.
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+Each card is also available in the following parallels.
+* Silver (serial-numbered to 2001 copies)
+* Gold (serial-numbered to 51 copies)
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-Each e-card Game Bat has a scratch-off bar on the reverse side concealing a code that, when entered, can see their e-card "evolved" into an autographed game bat and jersey combo card (see below).
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 [[Category:2001]]