Revision as of 15:13, 16 November 2018

Description

2001 MLB Showdown 1st Edition is a 462-card trading card game released in Mid-April. The product was released by Wizards of the Coast, the same company behind the popular Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon trading card games. The 1st Edition cards were released with a silver stamp on front of the card indicating the first print run. The set features 400-player cards and 62 foil superstar cards that were short printed at one in three packs.

Distribution

1st Edition: 24 packs per box, nine cards per pack (MSRP: $2.99).

Starter Packs: 12 starter decks per box, 75 cards per deck.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Booster Pack Odds	Starter Deck Odds
Base	462	-	?	?
short set	400	-	?	?
Foil	62	-	1:3	?
Strategy Cards	75	-	1:2	40:1

Checklist

Promos

To promote the upcoming 2001 MLB Showdown set, WotC released three promo sets: Ace Pitcher, Diamond Star, and Future Star. The front of each card is marked with the respective set's name.

Ace Pitcher

1 Kris Benson
2 Kevin Brown
3 Roger Clemens
4 Bartolo Colon
5 Jeff D'Amico
6 Ryan Dempster
7 Adam Eaton
8 Scott Elarton
9 Livan Hernandez
10 Tim Hudson
11 Randy Johnson
12 Darryl Kile
13 Al Leiter
14 Jon Lieber
15 Greg Maddux
16 Pedro Martinez
17 Brad Radke
18 Javier Vazquez
19 Jeff Weaver
20 David Wells

Base Set

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1 Garret Anderson
2 Darin Erstad FOIL
3 Ron Gant
4 Troy Glaus FOIL
5 Shigetoshi Hasegawa
6 Adam Kennedy
7 Al Levine RC
8 Ben Molina
9 Troy Percival
10 Mark Petkovsek
11 Tim Salmon
12 Scott Schoeneweis
13 Scott Spiezio
14 Mo Vaughn
15 Jarrod Washburn
16 Brian Anderson
17 Danny Bautista
18 Jay Bell
19 Greg Colbrunn
20 Steve Finley
21 Luis Gonzalez
22 Randy Johnson FOIL
23 Byung-Hyun Kim
24 Matt Mantei
25 Mike Morgan
26 Curt Schilling
27 Kelly Stinnett
28 Greg Swindell
29 Matt Williams
30 Tony Womack
31 Andy Ashby
32 Bobby Bonilla
33 Rafael Furcal FOIL
34 Andres Galarraga
35 Tom Glavine FOIL
36 Andruw Jones
37 Chipper Jones FOIL
38 Brian Jordan
39 Wally Joyner
40 Keith Lockhart
41 Javy Lopez
42 Greg Maddux
43 Kevin Millwood
44 Mike Remlinger
45 John Rocker
46 B.J. Surhoff
47 Quilvio Veras
48 Brady Anderson
49 Albert Belle
50 Jeff Conine
51 Delino DeShields
52 Buddy Groom
53 Trenidad Hubbard
54 Luis Matos
55 Jose Mercedes
56 Melvin Mora
57 Mike Mussina
58 Sidney Ponson
59 Pat Rapp
60 Chris Richard
61 Cal Ripken, Jr. FOIL
62 Mike Trombley
63 Rolando Arrojo
64 Dante Bichette
65 Rheal Cormier
66 Carl Everett
67 Rich Garces
68 Nomar Garciaparra FOIL
69 Mike Lansing
70 Darren Lewis
71 Derek Lowe
72 Pedro Martinez FOIL
73 Ramon Martinez
74 Trot Nixon
75 Jose Offerman
76 Troy O'Leary
77 Jason Varitek
78 Rick Aguilera
79 Damon Buford
80 Joe Girardi
81 Mark Grace
82 Willie Greene
83 Ricky Gutierrez
84 Felix Heredia
85 Jon Lieber
86 Jeff Reed
87 Sammy Sosa FOIL
88 Kevin Tapani
89 Todd Van Poppel
90 Rondell White
91 Kerry Wood
92 Eric Young
93 James Baldwin
94 Ray Durham
95 Keith Foulke FOIL
96 Bob Howry
97 Charles Johnson FOIL
98 Mark Johnson
99 Paul Konerko
100 Carlos Lee
101 Magglio Ordonez
102 Jim Parque
103 Herbert Perry
104 Bill Simas
105 Chris Singleton
106 Mike Sirotka
107 Frank Thomas FOIL
108 Jose Valentin
109 Kelly Wunsch
110 Aaron Boone
111 Sean Casey
112 Danny Graves
113 Ken Griffey, Jr. FOIL
114 Pete Harnisch
115 Barry Larkin FOIL
116 Alex Ochoa
117 Steve Parris
118 Pokey Reese
119 Chris Stynes
120 Scott Sullivan
121 Eddie Taubensee
122 Michael Tucker
123 Ron Villone
124 Dmitri Young
125 Roberto Alomar FOIL
126 Sandy Alomar, Jr.
127 Jason Bere
128 Dave Burba
129 Bartolo Colon
130 Wil Cordero
131 Chuck Finley
132 Travis Fryman
133 Steve Karsay
134 Kenny Lofton
135 Manny Ramirez FOIL
136 David Segui
137 Jim Thome
138 Omar Vizquel
139 Bob Wickman
140 Pedro Astacio
141 Brian Bohanon
142 Jeff Cirillo
143 Jeff Frye
144 Jeffrey Hammonds
145 Todd Helton FOIL
146 Todd Hollandsworth
147 Butch Huskey
148 Jose Jimenez
149 Brent Mayne
150 Neifi Perez
151 Terry Shumpert
152 Larry Walker
153 Gabriel White FOIL
154 Masato Yoshii
155 Matt Anderson
156 Brad Ausmus
157 Rich Becker
158 Tony Clark
159 Deivi Cruz
160 Damion Easley
161 Juan Encarnacion
162 Juan Gonzalez
163 Shane Halter
164 Bob Higginson
165 Todd Jones FOIL
166 Brian Moehler
167 Hideo Nomo
168 Dean Palmer
169 Jeff Weaver
170 Antonio Alfonseca
171 Luis Castillo FOIL
172 Ryan Dempster FOIL
173 Cliff Floyd
174 Alex Gonzalez
175 Mark Kotsay
176 Derrek Lee
177 Braden Looper
178 Mike Lowell
179 Brad Penny
180 Mike Redmond
181 Henry Rodriguez
182 Jesus Sanchez
183 Mark Smith
184 Preston Wilson
185 Moises Alou
186 Jeff Bagwell FOIL
187 Lance Berkman
188 Craig Biggio
189 Tim Bogar
190 Jose Cabrera
191 Octavio Dotel
192 Scott Elarton FOIL
193 Richard Hidalgo
194 Chris Holt
195 Jose Lima
196 Julio Lugo
197 Mitch Meluskey
198 Bill Spiers
199 Daryle Ward
200 Carlos Beltran
201 Ricky Bottalico
202 Johnny Damon FOIL
203 Jermaine Dye
204 Carlos Febles
205 Dave McCarty
206 Mark Quinn
207 Joe Randa
208 Dan Reichert
209 Rey Sanchez
210 Jose Santiago
211 Jeff Suppan
212 Mac Suzuki
213 Mike Sweeney
214 Greg Zaun
215 Terry Adams
216 Adrian Beltre
217 Kevin Brown FOIL
218 Alex Cora
219 Darren Dreifort
220 Tom Goodwin
221 Shawn Green
222 Mark Grudzielanek
223 Dave Hansen
224 Todd Hundley
225 Eric Karros
226 Chad Kreuter
227 Chan Ho Park
228 Jeff Shaw
229 Gary Sheffield FOIL
230 Juan Acevedo
231 Ron Belliard
232 Henry Blanco
233 Jeromy Burnitz
234 Jeff D'Amico FOIL
235 Valerio De Los Santos
236 Marquis Grissom
237 Charlie Hayes
238 Jimmy Haynes
239 Jose Hernandez
240 Geoff Jenkins
241 Curtis Leskanic
242 Mark Loretta
243 Richie Sexson
244 David Weathers
245 Jay Canizaro
246 Ron Coomer
247 Cristian Guzman
248 LaTroy Hawkins
249 Denny Hocking
250 Torii Hunter
251 Jacque Jones
252 Corey Koskie
253 Matt Lawton
254 Matt LeCroy
255 Eric Milton
256 David Ortiz
257 Brad Radke FOIL
258 Mark Redman
259 Bob Wells
260 Michael Barrett
261 Peter Bergeron
262 Milton Bradley
263 Orlando Cabrera
264 Vladimir Guerrero FOIL
265 Wilton Guerrero
266 Dustin Hermanson
267 Terry Jones
268 Steve Kline
269 Felipe Lira
270 Mike Mordecai
271 Lee Stevens
272 Anthony Telford
273 Javier Vazquez
274 Jose Vidro FOIL
275 Edgardo Alfonzo FOIL
276 Derek Bell
277 Armando Benitez
278 Mike Bordick
279 Mike Hampton FOIL
280 Lenny Harris
281 Al Leiter
282 Jay Payton
283 Mike Piazza FOIL
284 Todd Pratt
285 Glendon Rusch
286 Bubba Trammell
287 Robin Ventura
288 Turk Wendell
289 Rick White
290 Todd Zeile
291 Scott Brosius
292 Roger Clemens FOIL
293 Jason Grimsley
294 Orlando Hernandez
295 Derek Jeter FOIL
296 Dave Justice
297 Chuck Knoblauch
298 Tino Martinez
299 Denny Neagle
300 Jeff Nelson
301 Paul O'Neill
302 Andy Pettitte
303 Jorge Posada
304 Mariano Rivera FOIL
305 Jose Vizcaino
306 Bernie Williams FOIL
307 Kevin Appier
308 Eric Chavez
309 Ryan Christenson
310 Jason Giambi FOIL
311 Jeremy Giambi
312 Ben Grieve
313 Gil Heredia
314 Ramon Hernandez
315 Tim Hudson FOIL
316 Jason Isringhausen
317 Terrence Long FOIL
318 Jim Mecir
319 Mark Mulder
320 Matt Stairs
321 Miguel Tejada
322 Randy Velarde
323 Bob Abreu
324 Jeff Brantley
325 Pat Burrell
326 Omar Daal
327 Rob Ducey
328 Doug Glanville
329 Wayne Gomes
330 Kevin Jordan
331 Travis Lee
332 Mike Lieberthal
333 Vicente Padilla
334 Robert Person
335 Scott Rolen FOIL
336 Kevin Sefcik
337 Randy Wolf
338 Jimmy Anderson
339 Mike Benjamin
340 Kris Benson
341 Adrian Brown
342 Brian Giles FOIL
343 Jason Kendall FOIL
344 Pat Meares
345 Warren Morris
346 Aramis Ramirez
347 Todd Ritchie
348 Scott Sauerbeck
349 Jose Silva
350 John Vander Wal
351 Mike Williams
352 Kevin Young
353 Carlos Almanzar
354 Bret Boone
355 Matt Clement
356 Adam Eaton
357 Wiki Gonzalez
358 Trevor Hoffman FOIL
359 Damian Jackson
360 Ryan Klesko
361 Phil Nevin FOIL
362 Eric Owens
363 Desi Relaford
364 Ruben Rivera
365 Kevin Walker
366 Woody Williams
367 Jay Witasick
368 Rich Aurilia
369 Marvin Benard
370 Barry Bonds FOIL
371 Ellis Burks
372 Bobby Estalella
373 Doug Henry
374 Livan Hernandez
375 Jeff Kent FOIL
376 Doug Mirabelli
377 Bill Mueller
378 Calvin Murray
379 Robb Nen FOIL
380 Russ Ortiz
381 Armando Rios
382 Felix Rodriguez
383 Kirk Rueter
384 J.T. Snow
385 Paul Abbott
386 David Bell
387 Jay Buhner
388 Mike Cameron
389 John Halama
390 Rickey Henderson
391 Al Martin
392 Edgar Martinez FOIL
393 Mark McLemore
394 John Olerud
395 Jose Paniagua
396 Arthur Rhodes
397 Alex Rodriguez FOIL
398 Kazuhiro Sasaki FOIL
399 Aaron Sele
400 Dan Wilson
401 Rick Ankiel FOIL
402 Will Clark
403 J.D. Drew
404 Jim Edmonds FOIL
405 Pat Hentgen
406 Darryl Kile
407 Ray Lankford
408 Mike Matheny
409 Mark McGwire FOIL
410 Craig Paquette
411 Placido Polanco
412 Edgar Renteria
413 Garrett Stephenson
414 Fernando Tatis
415 Mike Timlin
416 Dave Veres
417 Fernando Vina
418 Miguel Cairo
419 Vinny Castilla
420 Steve Cox
421 Doug Creek
422 John Flaherty
423 Jose Guillen
424 Roberto Hernandez FOIL
425 Russ Johnson
426 Albie Lopez
427 Felix Martinez
428 Fred McGriff
429 Bryan Rekar
430 Greg Vaughn
431 Gerald Williams
432 Esteban Yan
433 Luis Alicea
434 Frank Catalanotto
435 Royce Clayton
436 Tim Crabtree
437 Chad Curtis
438 Rusty Greer
439 Rick Helling
440 Gabe Kapler
441 Mike Lamb
442 Ricky Ledee
443 Rafael Palmeiro
444 Ivan Rodriguez FOIL
445 Kenny Rogers
446 Mike Venafro
447 John Wetteland
448 Tony Batista FOIL
449 Jose Cruz, Jr.
450 Carlos Delgado FOIL
451 Kelvim Escobar
452 Darrin Fletcher
453 Brad Fullmer
454 Alex Gonzalez
455 Mark Guthrie
456 Billy Koch
457 Esteban Loaiza
458 Raul Mondesi
459 Mickey Morandini
460 Paul Quantrill
461 Shannon Stewart
462 David Wells FOIL

Parallels

1st Edition

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Cards inserted into Booster Packs were all hit with a "1st Edition" foil stamp; whereas cards coming out of the Starter Decks do not.

Inserts

Strategy

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S1 Jorge Posada
S2 Nomar Garciaparra
S3 Manny Ramirez
S4 Bernie Williams / Derek Jeter
S5 Sammy Sosa
S6 Brian Buchanon
S7 Jay Canizaro
S8 Michael Tucker
S9 Turk Wendell
S10 Luis Castillo
S11 Carl Everett
S12 Carlos Delgado
S13 Nomar Garciaparra
S14 Bengie Molina
S15 Eric Young
S16 Chris Carpenter
S17 Nomar Garciaparra
S18 Alex Ochoa
S19 Reds Player
S20 Rickey Henderson
S21 Alex Gonzalez
S22 Hideo Nomo
S23 Sean Casey
S24 Angels Player
S25 New York Yankees
S26 Chuck Knoblauch
S27 Todd Helton
S28 Tim Salmon
S29 Randy Johnson
S30 Johnny Damon
S31 Cincinnati Reds
S32 Alex Rodriguez
S33 Pokey Reese
S34 Mark McGwire
S35 Pittsburgh Pirates
S36 Homer Bush
S37 Chicago Cubs
S38 Minnesota Twins
S39 Johnny Damon
S40 Brian Giles
S41 Shawon Dunston
S42 Curtis Leskanic
S43 Texas Rangers
S44 Bob Higginson
S45 Baltimore Orioles
S46 Greg Maddux
S47 "Fans Flamethrower"
S48 Kevin Brown
S49 Omar Vizquel
S50 Tom Glavine
S51 Neifi Perez
S52 Mike Lamb
S53 Pokey Reese
S54 New York Yankees
S55 Randy Johnson
S56 Boston Red Sox
S57 "Fans Just Foul"
S58 Bernie Williams
S59 Barry Bonds
S60 Jason Christiansen
S61 Eddie Taubensee
S62 Chicago White Sox
S63 Todd Jones
S64 Pitchout
S65 Brian Moehler
S66 Livan Hernandez
S67 Omar Vizquel
S68 Byung-Hyun Kim
S69 New York Mets
S70 Benito Santiago
S71 Kevin Brown
S72 Pedro Martinez
S73 Bobby Cox
S74 Dmitri Young
S75 Moises Alou

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 =Checklist=
+==Promos==
+To promote the upcoming 2001 MLB Showdown set, WotC released three promo sets: Ace Pitcher, Diamond Star, and Future Star.  The front of each card is marked with the respective set's name.
+===Ace Pitcher===
+<sql2wiki database="carddb">
+SELECT num,player,info FROM cards WHERE (year = 2001) AND (setname LIKE 'MLB Showdown Ace Pitcher Promos');
+</sql2wiki>
+===Diamond Star===
+https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/2001/MLB-Showdown-Diamond-Star-Promos---Base/FRTH/Frank-Thomas.jpg?id=60c7d689-a584-4596-b5b6-1b119041e795&size=original&side=front&.jpg
+https://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/2001/MLB-Showdown-Diamond-Star-Promos---Base/FRTH/Frank-Thomas.jpg?id=60c7d689-a584-4596-b5b6-1b119041e795&size=original&side=back&.jpg
+<sql2wiki database="carddb">
+SELECT num,player,info FROM cards WHERE (year = 2001) AND (setname LIKE 'MLB Showdown Diamond Star Promos');
+</sql2wiki>
+===Future Star===
+<sql2wiki database="carddb">
+SELECT num,player,info FROM cards WHERE (year = 2001) AND (setname LIKE 'MLB Showdown Future Star Promos');
+</sql2wiki>
 ==Base Set==