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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.

The set features 40 player cards (1-40), and five short-printed rookie cards (41-45), and each card has 20 different background variations. Variations 16-20 feature an assortment of colors and are short-printed in comparison to the other 15.

Each rookie card is serial-numbered to 2000 copies with 100 copies for each background variation. The only notable Rookie Card is that of Brett Myers.

Distribution

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	45	-	?
short set	40	-	?
Rookies	5	2,000	1:2
Colored Variations 1-40	40	-	1:10
Colored Variations 41-45	5	2,000	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

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 cumulatively serial-numbered to 2000 copies; however, for each of the 20 different background variations, there are 100 copies each.

Unlike the regular base cards, Topps used different photographs for each variation. Background variations 1-5, 6-10, 11-15 and 16-20 all use the same picture.

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

Parallels

Colored

There are 20 different background variations for each player card. Variations 16-20, which are serial-numbered to 2,000, feature an assortment of colors and were produced in smaller quantities. Pattern 16 cards are purple, pattern 17 are red, pattern 18 are yellow, pattern 19 are green, and pattern 20 are blue.

Gold

Each base card's background variaiton 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.