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1999 Black Diamond hobby box

Description

1999 Black Diamond is a 120-card set released by Upper Deck in December, 1998. The last 30 cards in the base set make up a "Diamond Debuts" subset, which is short-printed. There are no rookie cards in the set.

Distribution

Hobby: 30 packs per box, six cards per pack (MSRP: $3.99).

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	120	-	?	?
short set	90	-	?	?
Diamond Debut	30	-	1:4	?
Double Diamond short set	90	3000	?	?
Double Diamond Debut Debut	30	2500	?	?
Triple Diamond short set	90	1500	?	?
Triple Diamond Debut	30	1000	?	?
Quadruple Diamond short set	90	150	?	?
Quadruple Diamond Debut	30	100	?	?
Diamond Dominance	30	1500	?	?
Diamond Dominance Emerald	30	one-of-one	?	?
Mystery Numbers	30	varies	?	?
Mystery Numbers Emerald	30	varies	?	?
A Piece of History	6	350	?	?

Checklist

Base Set

1 Darin Erstad
2 Tim Salmon
3 Jim Edmonds
4 Matt Williams
5 David Dellucci
6 Jay Bell
7 Andres Galarraga
8 Chipper Jones
9 Greg Maddux
10 Andruw Jones
11 Cal Ripken, Jr.
12 Rafael Palmeiro
13 Brady Anderson
14 Mike Mussina
15 Nomar Garciaparra
16 Mo Vaughn
17 Pedro Martinez
18 Sammy Sosa
19 Henry Rodriguez
20 Frank Thomas
21 Magglio Ordonez
22 Albert Belle
23 Paul Konerko
24 Sean Casey
25 Jim Thome
26 Kenny Lofton
27 Sandy Alomar
28 Jaret Wright
29 Larry Walker
30 Todd Helton
31 Vinny Castilla
32 Tony Clark
33 Damion Easley
34 Mark Kotsay
35 Derrek Lee
36 Moises Alou
37 Jeff Bagwell
38 Craig Biggio
39 Randy Johnson
40 Dean Palmer
41 Johnny Damon
42 Chan Ho Park
43 Raul Mondesi
44 Gary Sheffield
45 Jeromy Burnitz
46 Marquis Grissom
47 Jeff Cirillo
48 Paul Molitor
49 Todd Walker
50 Vladimir Guerrero
51 Brad Fullmer
52 Mike Piazza
53 Hideo Nomo
54 Carlos Baerga
55 John Olerud
56 Derek Jeter
57 Hideki Irabu
58 Tino Martinez
59 Bernie Williams
60 Miguel Tejada
61 Ben Grieve
62 Jason Giambi
63 Scott Rolen
64 Doug Glanville
65 Desi Relaford
66 Tony Womack
67 Jason Kendall
68 Jose Guillen
69 Tony Gwynn
70 Ken Caminiti
71 Greg Vaughn
72 Kevin Brown
73 Barry Bonds
74 J.T. Snow
75 Jeff Kent
76 Ken Griffey, Jr.
77 Alex Rodriguez
78 Edgar Martinez
79 Jay Buhner
80 Mark McGwire
81 Delino DeShields
82 Brian Jordan
83 Quinton McCracken
84 Fred McGriff
85 Juan Gonzalez
86 Ivan Rodriguez
87 Will Clark
88 Roger Clemens
89 Jose Cruz
90 Babe Ruth

Diamond Debut

91 Troy Glaus
92 Jarrod Washburn
93 Travis Lee
94 Bruce Chen
95 Mike Caruso
96 Jim Parque
97 Kerry Wood
98 Jeremy Giambi
99 Matt Anderson
100 Seth Greisinger
101 Gabe Alvarez
102 Rafael Medina
103 Daryle Ward
104 Alex Cora
105 Adrian Beltre
106 Geoff Jenkins
107 Eric Milton
108 Carl Pavano
109 Eric Chavez
110 Orlando Hernandez
111 A.J. Hinch
112 Carlton Loewer
113 Aramis Ramirez
114 Cliff Politte
115 Matt Clement
116 Alex Gonzalez
117 J.D. Drew
118 Shane Monahan
119 Rolando Arrojo
120 George Lombard

Parallels

Each base card is available in one of three "Diamond" parallels: Double, Triple, and Quadruple. Each is serial-numbered to the following production figures EXCEPT the cards of Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey, Jr., and Mark McGwire.

Double (Red foil): short set, 3000; Debuts, 2500
Triple (Yellow foil): short set, 1500; Debuts, 1000
Quadruple (Green foil): short set, 150; Debuts, 100

For Sosa, Griffey, and McGwire their Double, Triple, and Quadruple Diamond parallels are as follows.

Double (serial-numbered to 1998)
Triple (Sosa: 273 copies, Griffey: 350, McGwire: 457)
Quadruple (Sosa: 66 copies, Griffey: 56, McGwire: 70)

The Triple Diamonds were serial-numbered to their career home run total after the 1998 season. The Quadruple Diamonds were numbered to their 1998 season home run total.

Inserts

Diamond Dominance

Each Diamond Dominance card is serial-numbered to 1500 copies, with a one-of-one Emerald parallel also available.

D1 Kerry Wood
D2 Derek Jeter
D3 Alex Rodriguez
D4 Frank Thomas
D5 Jeff Bagwell
D6 Mo Vaughn
D7 Ivan Rodriguez
D8 Cal Ripken, Jr.
D9 Rolando Arrojo
D10 Chipper Jones
D11 Kenny Lofton
D12 Paul Konerko
D13 Mike Piazza
D14 Ben Grieve
D15 Nomar Garciaparra
D16 Travis Lee
D17 Scott Rolen
D18 Juan Gonzalez
D19 Tony Gwynn
D20 Tony Clark
D21 Roger Clemens
D22 Sammy Sosa
D23 Larry Walker
D24 Ken Griffey, Jr.
D25 Mark McGwire
D26 Barry Bonds
D27 Vladimir Guerrero
D28 Tino Martinez
D29 Greg Maddux
D30 Babe Ruth

Mystery Numbers

Each Mystery Numbers card is serial-numbered based on its sequential number in the set multiplied by 100. For example card #M1 is serial-numbered to 100 copies, card #M14 is numbered to 1400, et al. Each card is also available in an Emerald parallel which is serial-numbered to its set sequential number.

M1 Babe Ruth 100
M2 Ken Griffey, Jr. 200
M3 Kerry Wood 300
M4 Mark McGwire 400
M5 Alex Rodriguez 500
M6 Chipper Jones 600
M7 Nomar Garciaparra 700
M8 Derek Jeter 800
M9 Mike Piazza 900
M10 Roger Clemens 1000
M11 Greg Maddux 1100
M12 Scott Rolen 1200
M13 Cal Ripken, Jr. 1300
M14 Ben Grieve 1400
M15 Troy Glaus 1500
M16 Sammy Sosa 1600
M17 Darin Erstad 1700
M18 Juan Gonzalez 1800
M19 Pedro Martinez 1900
M20 Larry Walker 2000
M21 Vladimir Guerrero 2100
M22 Jeff Bagwell 2200
M23 Jaret Wright 2300
M24 Travis Lee 2400
M25 Barry Bonds 2500
M26 Orlando Hernandez 2600
M27 Frank Thomas 2700
M28 Tony Gwynn 2800
M29 Andres Galarraga 2900
M30 Craig Biggio 3000

Autographs & Game-Used

A Piece of History

Although each A Piece of History bat card is not serial-numbered, Upper Deck stated that only 350 copies of each were produced. Shortly before this product's release, Mark McGwire publicly stated his disapproval with Upper Deck cutting up one of his bats for this set. It would be years before another McGwire game-used card would be produced.

BW Bernie Williams
JG Juan Gonzalez
MM Mark McGwire
MV Mo Vaughn
SS Sammy Sosa
TG Tony Gwynn