2000 Topps Tek

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Description

2000 Topps TEK is a 45-card set released in July, 2000. This would be the final Topps TEK set for 14 years.

The set features 40 player cards (1-40), and five short-printed rookie cards (41-45), and each card has 20 different background variations. A master base set, which contains 20 different patterns for each of the 40 players, is 900 total cards making it the smallest TEK master base set ever made. Variations 16-20 feature an assortment of colors (purple, red, yellow, green and blue) and are short-printed in comparison to the other 15. Each rookie card is serial-numbered to 2,000 copies with 100 copies of each background variation. The only notable Rookie Card is that of Brett Myers. The color breakdown is listed below:

Pattern 16 Purple

Pattern 17 Red

Pattern 18 Yellow

Pattern 19 Green

Pattern 20 Blue

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	45	-	?
short set	40	-	?
Rookies	5	2000	1:2
Color Variations 1-40	40	approx. 150-200 of each color	1:10
Rookie Color Variations 41-45	5	2000	1:10
Gold	45	10 (but 200 actually exist)	1:42
ArchiTEKs	18	-	1:5
DramaTEK Performers	9	-	1:10
TEKtonics	9	-	1:30

Checklist

Base Set

Each card has four different photos with five distinct background patterns per photo for a total of 20. Patterns #16-#20 are short-printed.

Patterns #1-#5: MLB Logo (1); Players Inc. Logo (2); American/National League (3); Wordmark (4); Hat Logo (5)

Patterns #6-#10: Team Logo (6); Hometown (7); Signature (8); Winning/Slugging Percentage (9); Position (10)
Patterns #11-#15: ERA/BA (11); Batting Hand (12); Date of Birth (13); Status (14); Topps HTA Logo (15)
Patterns #16-#20: Purple Team Name (16); Red Jersey Number {17); Yellow Last Name (18); Green Home Runs/Strikeouts (19); Blue Topps Tek Logo (20)

• 1 Mike Piazza
• 2 Chipper Jones
• 3 Juan Gonzalez
• 4 Ivan Rodriguez
• 5 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 6 A.J. Burnett
• 7 Jim Thome
• 8 Mo Vaughn
• 9 Andruw Jones
• 10 Mark McGwire
• 11 Jose Canseco
• 12 Shawn Green
• 13 Barry Bonds
• 14 Bernie Williams
• 15 Manny Ramirez
• 16 Greg Maddux
• 17 Carlos Beltran
• 18 Pedro Martinez
• 19 Jeff Bagwell
• 20 Sammy Sosa
• 21 J.D. Drew
• 22 Randy Johnson
• 23 Larry Walker
• 24 Frank Thomas
• 25 Orlando Hernandez
• 26 Scott Rolen
• 27 Tony Gwynn
• 28 Rick Ankiel
• 29 Roberto Alomar
• 30 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 31 Vladimir Guerrero
• 32 Derek Jeter
• 33 Nomar Garciaparra
• 34 Alex Rodriguez
• 35 Sean Casey
• 36 Adam Piatt
• 37 Corey Patterson
• 38 Josh Hamilton
• 39 Pat Burrell
• 40 Eric Munson

Rookies

Each Rookie is serial-numbered to 2000 copies, which is the aggregate number of cards among all 20 patterns (e.g. each pattern has 100 cards). Unlike the other base cards, the five "colored" patterns (#16-#20) are NOT short-printed.

• 41 Ruben Salazar
• 42 John Sneed
• 43 Josh Girdley
• 44 Brett Myers
• 45 Rick Asadoorian

Parallels

Gold

Each base card's background variation has a Gold parallel that is serial-numbered to 10 copies. Collectively, each individual player has 200 Gold cards.

Inserts

ArchiTEKs

• A1 Nomar Garciaparra
• A2 Derek Jeter
• A3 Chipper Jones
• A4 Vladimir Guerrero
• A5 Mark McGwire
• A6 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• A7 Mike Piazza
• A8 Jeff Bagwell
• A9 Larry Walker
• A10 Manny Ramirez
• A11 Alex Rodriguez
• A12 Sammy Sosa
• A13 Shawn Green
• A14 Juan Gonzalez
• A15 Barry Bonds
• A16 Pedro Martinez
• A17 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• A18 Ivan Rodriguez

DramaTEK Performers

• DP1 Mark McGwire
• DP2 Sammy Sosa
• DP3 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• DP4 Nomar Garciaparra
• DP5 Chipper Jones
• DP6 Mike Piazza
• DP7 Alex Rodriguez
• DP8 Derek Jeter
• DP9 Vladimir Guerrero

TEKtonics

• TT1 Derek Jeter
• TT2 Mark McGwire
• TT3 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• TT4 Mike Piazza
• TT5 Alex Rodriguez
• TT6 Chipper Jones
• TT7 Nomar Garciaparra
• TT8 Sammy Sosa
• TT9 Cal Ripken, Jr.