Revision as of 05:56, 11 March 2011

Description

1999 Finest is a 300-card set (produced by Topps) released in two series of 150 cards each. The set includes the following subsets: Gems (101-120), Sensations (121-130) Rookies (131-150/277-299), Sterling (251-265) and Gamers (266-276). Card number 300 is a special Hank Aaron/Mark McGwire tribute. Cards numbered from 101 through 150 and 251 through 300 were short printed and seeded at a rate of one per hobby, one per retail and two per Home Team Advantage pack.

Notable Rookie Cards include Pat Burrell, C.C. Sabathia and Alfonso Soriano.

Distribution

Hobby: 24 packs per box, six cards per pack (MSRP: $5.00)

HTA: 10 packs per box, 13 cards per pack (MSRP: $10)

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	HTA Odds
Base	300	-	?	?
short set	200	-	?	?
Short-Prints	100	-	1:1	2:1
Refractors	300	-	1:12	1:5
Gold Refractors	300	100	varies	varies
Split Screen Half Refractor (S1)	14	-	1:28	1:13
Split Screen Full Refractor (S1)	14	-	1:82	1:42
Prominent Figures (S1)	50	varies	varies	varies
Leading Indicators (S1)	10	-	1:24	1:10
Team Finest Blue (S1)	10	1500	1:82	1:38
Team Finest Blue (S2)	10	1500	1:57	1:26
Team Finest Red (S1)	10	500	N/A	1:25
Team Finest Red (S2)	10	500	N/A	1:18
Team Finest Gold (S1)	10	250	N/A	1:51
Team Finest Gold (S2)	10	250	N/A	1:37
Team Finest Blue Refractor (S1)	10	150	1:816	1:377
Team Finest Blue Refractor (S2)	10	150	1:571	1:263
Team Finest Red Refractor (S1)	10	50	N/A	1:254
Team Finest Red Refractor (S2)	10	50	N/A	1:182
Team Finest Gold Refractor (S1)	10	25	N/A	1:510
Team Finest Gold Refractor (S2)	10	25	N/A	1:369
Peel and Reveal Sparkle (S2)	20	-	1:30	1:15
Peel and Reveal Hyperplaid (S2)	20	-	1:60	1:30
Peel and Reveal Stadium Stars (S2)	20	-	1:120	1:60
Future's Finest (S2)	10	500	1:171	?
Aaron Award Contenders (S2)	9	-	varies	varies
Aaron Award Contenders Refractor (S2)	9	-	varies	varies
Complements Half Refractor (S2)	7	-	1:56	1:27
Complements Full Refractor (S2)	7	-	1:168	1:81
Double Feature Half Refractor (S2)	7	-	1:56	1:27
Double Feature Full Refractor (S2)	7	-	1:168	1:81
Franchise Records (S2)	10	-	1:129	1:63
Franchise Records Refractor (S2)	10	-	1:378	1:189
Milestones (S2)	40	varies	1:29	?

Checklist

Base Set

Series One

1 Darin Erstad
2 Javy Lopez
3 Vinny Castilla
4 Jim Thome
5 Tino Martinez
6 Mark Grace
7 Shawn Green
8 Dustin Hermanson
9 Kevin Young
10 Tony Clark
11 Scott Brosius
12 Craig Biggio
13 Brian McRae
14 Chan Ho Park
15 Manny Ramirez
16 Chipper Jones
17 Rico Brogna
18 Quinton McCracken
19 J.T. Snow
20 Tony Gwynn
21 Juan Guzman
22 John Valentin
23 Rick Helling
24 Sandy Alomar, Jr.
25 Frank Thomas
26 Jorge Posada
27 Dmitri Young
28 Rick Reed
29 Kevin Tapani
30 Troy Glaus
31 Kenny Rogers
32 Jeromy Burnitz
33 Mark Grudzielanek
34 Mike Mussina
35 Scott Rolen
36 Neifi Perez
37 Brad Radke
38 Darryl Strawberry
39 Robb Nen
40 Moises Alou
41 Eric Young
42 Livan Hernandez
43 John Wetteland
44 Matt Lawton
45 Ben Grieve
46 Fernando Tatis
47 Travis Fryman
48 David Segui
49 Bobby Abreu
50 Nomar Garciaparra
51 Paul O'Neill
52 Jeff King
53 Francisco Cordova
54 John Olerud
55 Vladimir Guerrero
56 Fernando Vina
57 Shane Reynolds
58 Chuck Finley
59 Rondell White
60 Greg Vaughn
61 Ryan Minor
62 Tom Gordon
63 Damion Easley
64 Ray Durham
65 Orlando Hernandez
66 Bartolo Colon
67 Jaret Wright
68 Royce Clayton
69 Tim Salmon
70 Mark McGwire
71 Alex Gonzalez
72 Tom Glavine
73 Dave Justice
74 Omar Vizquel
75 Juan Gonzalez
76 Bob Higginson
77 Todd Walker
78 Dante Bichette
79 Kevin Millwood
80 Roger Clemens
81 Kerry Wood
82 Cal Ripken, Jr.
83 Jay Bell
84 Barry Bonds
85 Alex Rodriguez
86 Doug Glanville
87 Jason Kendall
88 Sean Casey
89 Aaron Sele
90 Derek Jeter
91 Andy Ashby
92 Rusty Greer
93 Rod Beck
94 Matt Williams
95 Mike Piazza
96 Wally Joyner
97 Barry Larkin
98 Eric Milton
99 Gary Sheffield
100 Greg Maddux
101 Ken Griffey, Jr. GEM
102 Frank Thomas GEM
103 Nomar Garciaparra GEM
104 Mark McGwire GEM
105 Alex Rodriguez GEM
106 Tony Gwynn GEM
107 Juan Gonzalez GEM
108 Jeff Bagwell GEM
109 Sammy Sosa GEM
110 Vladimir Guerrero GEM
111 Roger Clemens GEM
112 Barry Bonds GEM
113 Darin Erstad GEM
114 Mike Piazza GEM
115 Derek Jeter GEM
116 Chipper Jones GEM
117 Larry Walker GEM
118 Scott Rolen GEM
119 Cal Ripken, Jr. GEM
120 Greg Maddux GEM
121 Troy Glaus SENS
122 Ben Grieve SENS
123 Ryan Minor SENS
124 Kerry Wood SENS
125 Travis Lee SENS
126 Adrian Beltre SENS
127 Brad Fullmer SENS
128 Aramis Ramirez SENS
129 Eric Chavez SENS
130 Todd Helton SENS
131 Pat Burrell ROOK RC
132 Ryan Mills ROOK RC*
133 Austin Kearns ROOK RC
134 Josh McKinley ROOK RC*
135 Adam Everett ROOK RC
136 Marlon Anderson ROOK
137 Bruce Chen ROOK
138 Matt Clement ROOK
139 Alex Gonzalez ROOK
140 Roy Halladay ROOK
141 Calvin Pickering ROOK
142 Randy Wolf ROOK
143 Ryan Anderson ROOK
144 Ruben Mateo ROOK
145 Alex Escobar ROOK RC
146 Jeremy Giambi ROOK
147 Lance Berkman ROOK
148 Michael Barrett ROOK
149 Preston Wilson ROOK
150 Gabe Kapler ROOK

Series Two

151 Roger Clemens
152 Jay Buhner
153 Brad Fullmer
154 Ray Lankford
155 Jim Edmonds
156 Jason Giambi
157 Bret Boone
158 Jeff Cirillo
159 Rickey Henderson
160 Edgar Martinez
161 Ron Gant
162 Mark Kotsay
163 Trevor Hoffman
164 Jason Schmidt
165 Brett Tomko
166 David Ortiz
167 Dean Palmer
168 Hideki Irabu
169 Mike Cameron
170 Pedro Martinez
171 Tom Goodwin
172 Brian Hunter
173 Al Leiter
174 Charles Johnson
175 Curt Schilling
176 Robin Ventura
177 Travis Lee
178 Jeff Shaw
179 Ugueth Urbina
180 Roberto Alomar
181 Cliff Floyd
182 Adrian Beltre
183 Tony Womack
184 Brian Jordan
185 Randy Johnson
186 Mickey Morandini
187 Todd Hundley
188 Jose Valentin
189 Eric Davis
190 Ken Caminiti
191 David Wells
192 Ryan Klesko
193 Garret Anderson
194 Eric Karros
195 Ivan Rodriguez
196 Aramis Ramirez
197 Mike Lieberthal
198 Will Clark
199 Rey Ordonez
200 Ken Griffey, Jr.
201 Jose Guillen
202 Scott Erickson
203 Paul Konerko
204 Johnny Damon
205 Larry Walker
206 Denny Neagle
207 Jose Offerman
208 Andy Pettitte
209 Bobby Jones
210 Kevin Brown
211 John Smoltz
212 Henry Rodriguez
213 Tim Belcher
214 Carlos Delgado
215 Andruw Jones
216 Andy Benes
217 Fred McGriff
218 Edgar Renteria
219 Miguel Tejada
220 Bernie Williams
221 Justin Thompson
222 Marty Cordova
223 Delino DeShields
224 Ellis Burks
225 Kenny Lofton
226 Steve Finley
227 Eric Chavez
228 Jose Cruz, Jr.
229 Marquis Grissom
230 Jeff Bagwell
231 Jose Canseco
232 Edgardo Alfonzo
233 Richie Sexson
234 Jeff Kent
235 Rafael Palmeiro
236 David Cone
237 Gregg Jefferies
238 Mike Lansing
239 Mariano Rivera
240 Albert Belle
241 Chuck Knoblauch
242 Derek Bell
243 Pat Hentgen
244 Andres Galarraga
245 Mo Vaughn
246 Wade Boggs
247 Devon White
248 Todd Helton
249 Raul Mondesi
250 Sammy Sosa
251 Nomar Garciaparra STER
252 Mark McGwire STER
253 Alex Rodriguez STER
254 Juan Gonzalez STER
255 Vladimir Guerrero STER
256 Ken Griffey, Jr. STER
257 Mike Piazza STER
258 Derek Jeter STER
259 Albert Belle STER
260 Greg Vaughn STER
261 Sammy Sosa STER
262 Greg Maddux STER
263 Frank Thomas STER
264 Mark Grace STER
265 Ivan Rodriguez STER
266 Roger Clemens GEM
267 Mo Vaughn GEM
268 Jim Thome GEM
269 Darin Erstad GEM
270 Chipper Jones GEM
271 Larry Walker GEM
272 Cal Ripken, Jr. GEM
273 Scott Rolen GEM
274 Randy Johnson GEM
275 Tony Gwynn GEM
276 Barry Bonds GEM
277 Sean Burroughs ROOK RC
278 J.M. Gold ROOK RC*
279 Carlos Lee ROOK
280 George Lombard ROOK
281 Carlos Beltran ROOK
282 Fernando Seguignol ROOK
283 Eric Chavez ROOK
284 Carlos Pena ROOK RC
285 Corey Patterson ROOK RC
286 Alfonso Soriano ROOK RC
287 Nick Johnson ROOK RC
288 Jorge Toca ROOK RC
289 A.J. Burnett ROOK RC
290 Andy Brown ROOK RC*
291 Doug Mientkiewicz ROOK RC
292 Bobby Seay ROOK RC*
293 Chip Ambres ROOK RC
294 C.C. Sabathia ROOK RC
295 Choo Freeman ROOK RC
296 Eric Valent ROOK RC
297 Matt Belisle ROOK RC
298 Jason Tyner ROOK RC
299 Masao Kida ROOK RC
300 Hank Aaron / Mark McGwire

Parallels

All 300 cards are available in the following parallels.

Refractors

Gold Refractors (serial-numbered to 100 copies)

Inserts

Split Screen

This 14-card set features two players paired together on the same card and printed using a "split Refractor" technology. On half the cards, the player on the left is refracting and the player on the right is not; the opposite for the other half. There are no "plain vanilla" non-refracting cards.

In addition there is also a "full Refractor" parallel.

Prominent Figures

This 50-card, Series One set features ten superstars in each of five statistical categories and printed with Refractor technology. Each card is serial-numbered to the single season record in that particular category. The categories are: Home Runs (with an insertion rate of 1:1,749) and serial-numbered to 70, Slugging Percentage (1:145) numbered to 847, Batting Average (1:289) numbered to 424, Runs Batted In (1:644) numbered to 190, and Total Bases (1:268) numbered to 457.

PF1 Mark McGwire HR 70
PF2 Sammy Sosa HR 70
PF3 Ken Griffey, Jr. HR 70
PF4 Mike Piazza HR 70
PF5 Juan Gonzalez HR 70
PF6 Greg Vaughn HR 70
PF7 Alex Rodriguez HR 70
PF8 Manny Ramirez HR 70
PF9 Jeff Bagwell HR 70
PF10 Andres Galarraga HR 70
PF11 Mark McGwire SLG 847
PF12 Sammy Sosa SLG 847
PF13 Juan Gonzalez SLG 847
PF14 Ken Griffey, Jr. SLG 847
PF15 Barry Bonds SLG 847
PF16 Greg Vaughn SLG 847
PF17 Larry Walker SLG 847
PF18 Andres Galarraga SLG 847
PF19 Jeff Bagwell SLG 847
PF20 Albert Belle SLG 847
PF21 Tony Gwynn BAT 424
PF22 Mike Piazza BAT 424
PF23 Larry Walker BAT 424
PF24 Alex Rodriguez BAT 424
PF25 John Olerud BAT 424
PF26 Frank Thomas BAT 424
PF27 Bernie Williams BAT 424
PF28 Chipper Jones BAT 424
PF29 Jim Thome BAT 424
PF30 Barry Bonds BAT 424
PF31 Juan Gonzalez RBI 190
PF32 Sammy Sosa RBI 190
PF33 Mark McGwire RBI 190
PF34 Albert Belle RBI 190
PF35 Ken Griffey, Jr. RBI 190
PF36 Jeff Bagwell RBI 190
PF37 Chipper Jones RBI 190
PF38 Vinny Castilla RBI 190
PF39 Alex Rodriguez RBI 190
PF40 Andres Galarraga RBI 190
PF41 Sammy Sosa TB 457
PF42 Mark McGwire TB 457
PF43 Albert Belle TB 457
PF44 Ken Griffey, Jr. TB 457
PF45 Jeff Bagwell TB 457
PF46 Juan Gonzalez TB 457
PF47 Barry Bonds TB 457
PF48 Vladimir Guerrero TB 457
PF49 Larry Walker TB 457
PF50 Alex Rodriguez TB 457

Leading Indicators

Inserted into Series One packs, this 10-card set highlights the 1998 home run totals of superstar players and printed on cards using a heat-sensitive, thermal-ink technology. When a collector touched the baseball field background in left, center, or right field, the heat from his finger revealed the pictured player's '98 home run totals in that direction.

L1 Mark McGwire
L2 Sammy Sosa
L3 Ken Griffey, Jr.
L4 Greg Vaughn
L5 Albert Belle
L6 Juan Gonzalez
L7 Andres Galarraga
L8 Alex Rodriguez
L9 Barry Bonds
L10 Jeff Bagwell

Team Finest

The first 10 cards were distributed in first series packs and 11-20 in second series packs, and are available in the following parallels.

Blue (serial-numbered to 1500 copies)

Red (serial-numbered to 500)

Gold (serial-numbered to 250)

Blue Refractor (serial-numbered to 150)

Red Refractor (serial-numbered to 50)

Gold Refractor (serial-numbered to 25)

The Red, Red Refractor, Gold, and Gold Refractors are exclusive to Jumbo packs.

TF1 Greg Maddux
TF2 Mark McGwire
TF3 Sammy Sosa
TF4 Juan Gonzalez
TF5 Alex Rodriguez
TF6 Travis Lee
TF7 Roger Clemens
TF8 Darin Erstad
TF9 Todd Helton
TF10 Mike Piazza
TF11 Kerry Wood
TF12 Ken Griffey, Jr.
TF13 Frank Thomas
TF14 Jeff Bagwell
TF15 Nomar Garciaparra
TF16 Derek Jeter
TF17 Chipper Jones
TF18 Barry Bonds
TF19 Tony Gwynn
TF20 Ben Grieve

Peel and Reveal

All cards in this acetate set came covered with an opaque coating on both sides of the card that must be peeled off. Each card is available in the following parallels.

Sparkle (common)

Hyperplaid (uncommon)

Stadium Star (rare)

PR1 Kerry Wood
PR2 Mark McGwire
PR3 Sammy Sosa
PR4 Ken Griffey, Jr.
PR5 Nomar Garciaparra
PR6 Greg Maddux
PR7 Derek Jeter
PR8 Andres Galarraga
PR9 Alex Rodriguez
PR10 Frank Thomas
PR11 Roger Clemens
PR12 Juan Gonzalez
PR13 Ben Grieve
PR14 Jeff Bagwell
PR15 Todd Helton
PR16 Chipper Jones
PR17 Barry Bonds
PR18 Travis Lee
PR19 Vladimir Guerrero
PR20 Pat Burrell

Future's Finest

Each of these Series Two cards is serial-numbered to 500 copies.

FF1 Pat Burrell 500
FF2 Troy Glaus 500
FF3 Eric Chavez 500
FF4 Ryan Anderson 500
FF5 Ruben Mateo 500
FF6 Gabe Kapler 500
FF7 Alex Gonzalez 500
FF8 Michael Barrett 500
FF9 Adrian Beltre 500
FF10 Fernando Seguignol 500

Aaron Award Contenders

Randomly inserted into Series two packs at different rates depending on the player, this nine-card set features players vying for the Hank Aaron Award. Card #1 is the toughest to pull and each card gets progressively easier to pull as you go down the checklist. These cards are also available as a Refractor, which is also structured the same as the regular inserts.

HA1 Juan Gonzalez
HA2 Vladimir Guerrero
HA3 Nomar Garciaparra
HA4 Albert Belle
HA5 Frank Thomas
HA6 Sammy Sosa
HA7 Alex Rodriguez
HA8 Ken Griffey, Jr.
HA9 Mark McGwire

Complements

This seven-card set features two players paired together on the same card and printed using a "split Refractor" technology. On half the cards, the player on the left is refracting and the player on the right is not; the opposite for the other half. There are no "plain vanilla" non-refracting cards.

In addition there is also a "full Refractor" parallel.

Double Feature

This seven-card set features two players paired together on the same card and printed using a "split Refractor" technology. On half the cards, the player on the left is refracting and the player on the right is not; the opposite for the other half. There are no "plain vanilla" non-refracting cards.

In addition there is also a "full Refractor" parallel.

Franchise Records

This ten-card set features all-time and single-season franchise statistic holders. Also available as a Refractor.

FR1 Frank Thomas
FR2 Ken Griffey, Jr.
FR3 Mark McGwire
FR4 Juan Gonzalez
FR5 Nomar Garciaparra
FR6 Mike Piazza
FR7 Cal Ripken, Jr.
FR8 Sammy Sosa
FR9 Barry Bonds
FR10 Tony Gwynn

Milestones

Similar to the Prominent Figures insert in Series One, this 40-card set features the players who have the highest statistics in four categories: Hits, Home Runs, RBI and Doubles. The cards are printed with Refractor technology and are serial-numbered based on the category as follows: Hits to 3000, Home Runs to 500, RBI to 1400, and Doubles to 500.

M1 Tony Gwynn H 3000
M2 Cal Ripken, Jr. H 3000
M3 Wade Boggs H 3000
M4 Ken Griffey, Jr. H 3000
M5 Frank Thomas H 3000
M6 Barry Bonds H 3000
M7 Travis Lee H 3000
M8 Alex Rodriguez H 3000
M9 Derek Jeter H 3000
M10 Vladimir Guerrero H 3000
M11 Mark McGwire HR 500
M12 Ken Griffey, Jr. HR 500
M13 Vladimir Guerrero HR 500
M14 Alex Rodriguez HR 500
M15 Barry Bonds HR 500
M16 Sammy Sosa HR 500
M17 Albert Belle HR 500
M18 Frank Thomas HR 500
M19 Jose Canseco HR 500
M20 Mike Piazza HR 500
M21 Jeff Bagwell RBI 1400
M22 Barry Bonds RBI 1400
M23 Ken Griffey, Jr. RBI 1400
M24 Albert Belle RBI 1400
M25 Juan Gonzalez RBI 1400
M26 Vinny Castilla RBI 1400
M27 Mark McGwire RBI 1400
M28 Alex Rodriguez RBI 1400
M29 Nomar Garciaparra RBI 1400
M30 Frank Thomas RBI 1400
M31 Barry Bonds 2B 500
M32 Albert Belle 2B 500
M33 Ben Grieve 2B 500
M34 Craig Biggio 2B 500
M35 Vladimir Guerrero 2B 500
M36 Nomar Garciaparra 2B 500
M37 Alex Rodriguez 2B 500
M38 Derek Jeter 2B 500
M39 Ken Griffey, Jr. 2B 500
M40 Brad Fullmer 2B 500

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 ===Aaron Award Contenders===
-Randomly inserted into Series two packs at different rates depending on the player, this nine-card set features color action photos of players vying for the Hank Aaron Award.  Card #1 is the toughest to pull and each card gets progressively easier to pull as you go down the checklist.  These cards are also available as a Refractor, which is also seeded the same as the regular inserts.
+Randomly inserted into Series two packs at different rates depending on the player, this nine-card set features players vying for the Hank Aaron Award.  Card #1 is the toughest to pull and each card gets progressively easier to pull as you go down the checklist.  These cards are also available as a Refractor, which is also structured the same as the regular inserts.
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