2004 Ultra

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Description

2004 is a 395-card set released in two series. The first 220 cards were issued in November, 2003; while the last 175 cards were released as the "Update Series" in October, 2004. Each series, but especially the Update Series, has a substantial number of short-prints.

Distribution

Series One Retail/Hobby: 24 packs per box, eight cards per pack (MSRP: $2.99). 16 boxes per case.

Update Series Retail: 24 packs per box, eight cards per pack (MSRP: $3). 20 boxes per case.

Update Series Hobby: 12 packs per box, five cards per pack (MSRP: $6). 16 boxes per case.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards Total Cards Numbered To Hobby Odds Retail Odds
Base 395 - ? ?
short set 275 - ? ?
Prospects (S1) 20 - 1:2 ?
Prospects (US) 87 - 2:1 2:1
Lucky 13 (US) 13 500 1:28 1:2000
Gold Medallion short set (S1) 200 - 1:1 1:1
Gold Medallion Prospects (S1) 20 - 1:8 1:8
Gold Medallion short set (US) 75 - 1:1 1:3
Gold Medallion Prospects (US) 100 - 1:4 1:12
Platinum Medallion (S1) 220 66 1:36 1:36
Platinum Medallion (US) 162 100 1:12 ?
Platinum Medallion Lucky 13 (US) 13 13 ? ?
Performers (S1) 15 - 1:6 1:6
HR/K/RBI Kings (S1) 30 - 1:12 1:12
HR/K/RBI Kings Gold Medallion (S1) 10 50 ? ?
Diamond Producers (S1) 10 - 1:144 1:144
Turn Back the Clock (US) 20 - 1:6 1:12
Hitting Machines (US) 10 - 1:12 1:24
Season Crowns Game Used (S1) 50 399 * ?
Season Crowns Game Used Gold (S1) 50 99 * ?
Season Crowns Game Used Platinum (S1) 50 25 * ?
Diamond Producers Game Used (S1) 10 1000 ** ?
Kings Triple Jersey (S1) 10 33 ** ?
Hitting Machines Jersey Silver (US) 10 - *** ?
Hitting Machines Gold (US) 10 50 *** ?
Hitting Machines Platinum (US) 10 10 *** ?
Turn Back the Clock Jersey Copper (US) 20 399 *** ?
Turn Back the Clock Jersey Silver (US) 20 199 *** ?
Turn Back the Clock Jersey Gold (US) 20 99 *** ?
Turn Back the Clock Patch Platinum (US) 20 25 *** ?
Legendary 13 Single Game Used Gold (US) 13 varies **** ?
Legendary 13 Single Game Used Autographed Platinum (US) 13 one-of-one **** ?
Legendary 13 Dual Game Used Gold (US) 13 22 **** ?
Legendary 13 Dual Game Used Autographed Platinum (US) 13 one-of-one **** ?
Legendary 13 Game Used (US) 13 13 **** ?
Legendary 13 Autographed Platinum (US) 13 3 **** ?

* Odds of finding a Season Crowns: 1:24 Series One Hobby Packs

** Odds of finding a game-used card: 1:12/Series One Hobby Packs

*** Odds of finding a game-used card: 1:6/Update Series Hobby Packs

**** Odds of finding a Lucky 13 card: 1:162/Update Series Hobby Packs

Checklist

Base Set

Series One

  • 1 Magglio Ordonez
  • 2 Bobby Abreu
  • 3 Eric Munson
  • 4 Eric Byrnes
  • 5 Bartolo Colon
  • 6 Juan Encarnacion
  • 7 Jody Gerut
  • 8 Eddie Guardado
  • 9 Shea Hillenbrand
  • 10 Andruw Jones
  • 11 Carlos Lee
  • 12 Pedro Martinez
  • 13 Barry Larkin
  • 14 Angel Berroa
  • 15 Edgar Martinez
  • 16 Sidney Ponson
  • 17 Mariano Rivera
  • 18 Richie Sexson
  • 19 Frank Thomas
  • 20 Jerome Williams
  • 21 Barry Zito
  • 22 Roberto Alomar
  • 23 Rocky Biddle
  • 24 Orlando Cabrera
  • 25 Placido Polanco
  • 26 Morgan Ensberg
  • 27 Jason Giambi
  • 28 Jim Thome
  • 29 Vladimir Guerrero
  • 30 Tim Hudson
  • 31 Jacque Jones
  • 32 Derrek Lee
  • 33 Rafael Palmeiro
  • 34 Mike Mussina
  • 35 Corey Patterson
  • 36 Mike Cameron
  • 37 Ivan Rodriguez
  • 38 Ben Sheets
  • 39 Woody Williams
  • 40 Ichiro Suzuki
  • 41 Moises Alou
  • 42 Craig Biggio
  • 43 Jorge Posada
  • 44 Craig Monroe
  • 45 Darin Erstad
  • 46 Jay Gibbons
  • 47 Aaron Guiel
  • 48 Travis Lee
  • 49 Jorge Julio
  • 50 Torii Hunter
  • 51 Luis Matos
  • 52 Brett Myers
  • 53 Sean Casey
  • 54 Mark Prior
  • 55 Alex Rodriguez
  • 56 Gary Sheffield
  • 57 Jason Varitek
  • 58 Dontrelle Willis
  • 59 Garret Anderson
  • 60 Casey Blake
  • 61 Jay Payton
  • 62 Carl Crawford
  • 63 Carl Everett
  • 64 Marcus Giles
  • 65 Jose Guillen
  • 66 Eric Karros
  • 67 Mike Lieberthal
  • 68 Hideki Matsui
  • 69 Xavier Nady
  • 70 Hank Blalock
  • 71 Albert Pujols
  • 72 Jose Cruz
  • 73 Randall Simon
  • 74 Javier Vazquez
  • 75 Preston Wilson
  • 76 Danys Baez
  • 77 Alex Cintron
  • 78 Jake Peavy
  • 79 Scott Rolen
  • 80 Robert Fick
  • 81 Brian Giles
  • 82 Roy Halladay
  • 83 Kazuhisa Ishii
  • 84 Austin Kearns
  • 85 Paul Lo Duca
  • 86 Darrell May
  • 87 Phil Nevin
  • 88 Carlos Pena
  • 89 Manny Ramirez
  • 90 C.C. Sabathia
  • 91 John Smoltz
  • 92 Jose Vidro
  • 93 Randy Wolf
  • 94 Jeff Bagwell
  • 95 Barry Bonds
  • 96 Frank Catalanotto
  • 97 Zach Day
  • 98 David Ortiz
  • 99 Troy Glaus
  • 100 Bo Hart
  • 101 Geoff Jenkins
  • 102 Jason Kendall
  • 103 Esteban Loaiza
  • 104 Doug Mientkiewicz
  • 105 Trot Nixon
  • 106 Troy Percival
  • 107 Aramis Ramirez
  • 108 Alex Sanchez
  • 109 Alfonso Soriano
  • 110 Omar Vizquel
  • 111 Kerry Wood
  • 112 Rocco Baldelli
  • 113 Bret Boone
  • 114 Shawn Chacon
  • 115 Carlos Delgado
  • 116 Shawn Green
  • 117 Tim Worrell
  • 118 Tom Glavine
  • 119 Shigetoshi Hasegawa
  • 120 Derek Jeter
  • 121 Jeff Kent
  • 122 Braden Looper
  • 123 Kevin Millwood
  • 124 Hideo Nomo
  • 125 Jason Phillips
  • 126 Tim Redding
  • 127 Reggie Sanders
  • 128 Sammy Sosa
  • 129 Billy Wagner
  • 130 Miguel Batista
  • 131 Milton Bradley
  • 132 Eric Chavez
  • 133 J.D. Drew
  • 134 Keith Foulke
  • 135 Luis Gonzalez
  • 136 LaTroy Hawkins
  • 137 Randy Johnson
  • 138 Byung-Hyun Kim
  • 139 Javy Lopez
  • 140 Melvin Mora
  • 141 Aubrey Huff
  • 142 Mike Piazza
  • 143 Mark Redman
  • 144 Kazuhiro Sasaki
  • 145 Shannon Stewart
  • 146 Larry Walker
  • 147 Dmitri Young
  • 148 Josh Beckett
  • 149 Jae Weong Seo
  • 150 Hee Seop Choi
  • 151 Adam Dunn
  • 152 Rafael Furcal
  • 153 Juan Gonzalez
  • 154 Todd Helton
  • 155 Carlos Zambrano
  • 156 Ryan Klesko
  • 157 Mike Lowell
  • 158 Jamie Moyer
  • 159 Russ Ortiz
  • 160 Juan Pierre
  • 161 Edgar Renteria
  • 162 Curt Schilling
  • 163 Mike Sweeney
  • 164 Brandon Webb
  • 165 Michael Young
  • 166 Carlos Beltran
  • 167 Sean Burroughs
  • 168 Luis Castillo
  • 169 David Eckstein
  • 170 Eric Gagne
  • 171 Chipper Jones
  • 172 Livan Hernandez
  • 173 Nick Johnson
  • 174 Corey Koskie
  • 175 Jason Schmidt
  • 176 Bill Mueller
  • 177 Steve Finley
  • 178 A.J. Pierzynski
  • 179 Rene Reyes
  • 180 Jason Johnson
  • 181 Mark Teixeira
  • 182 Kip Wells
  • 183 Mike MacDougal
  • 184 Lance Berkman
  • 185 Victor Zambrano
  • 186 Roger Clemens
  • 187 Jim Edmonds
  • 188 Nomar Garciaparra
  • 189 Ken Griffey, Jr.
  • 190 Richard Hidalgo
  • 191 Cliff Floyd
  • 192 Greg Maddux
  • 193 Mark Mulder
  • 194 Roy Oswalt
  • 195 Marlon Byrd
  • 196 Jose Reyes
  • 197 Kevin Brown
  • 198 Miguel Tejada
  • 199 Vernon Wells
  • 200 Joel Pineiro

All-Rookie

  • 201 Rickie Weeks
  • 202 Chad Gaudin
  • 203 Ryan Wagner
  • 204 Chris Bootcheck
  • 205 Koyie Hill
  • 206 Jeff Duncan
  • 207 Rich Harden
  • 208 Edwin Jackson
  • 209 Robby Hammock
  • 210 Khalil Greene
  • 211 Chien-Ming Wang
  • 212 Prentice Redman
  • 213 Todd Wellemeyer
  • 214 Clint Barmes
  • 215 Matt Kata
  • 216 Jon Leicester
  • 217 Jeremy Guthrie
  • 218 Chin-Hui Tsao
  • 219 Dan Haren
  • 220 Delmon Young

Update Series

  • 221 Vladimir Guerrero
  • 222 Andy Pettitte
  • 223 Gary Sheffield
  • 224 Javier Vazquez
  • 225 Alex Rodriguez
  • 226 Billy Wagner
  • 227 Miguel Tejada
  • 228 Greg Maddux
  • 229 Ivan Rodriguez
  • 230 Roger Clemens
  • 231 Alfonso Soriano
  • 232 Miguel Cabrera
  • 233 Javy Lopez
  • 234 David Wells
  • 235 Eric Milton
  • 236 Armando Benitez
  • 237 Mike Cameron
  • 238 J.D. Drew
  • 239 Carlos Beltran
  • 240 Bartolo Colon
  • 241 Jose Guillen
  • 242 Kevin Brown
  • 243 Carlos Guillen
  • 244 Kenny Lofton
  • 245 Pokey Reese
  • 246 Rafael Palmeiro
  • 247 Nomar Garciaparra
  • 248 Hee Seop Choi
  • 249 Juan Uribe
  • 250 Nick Johnson
  • 251 Scott Podsednik
  • 252 Richie Sexson
  • 253 Keith Foulke
  • 254 Jaret Wright
  • 255 Johnny Estrada
  • 256 Michael Barrett
  • 257 Bernie Williams
  • 258 Octavio Dotel
  • 259 Jeromy Burnitz
  • 260 Kevin Youkilis
  • 261 Derrek Lee
  • 262 Jack Wilson
  • 263 Craig Wilson
  • 264 Richard Hidalgo
  • 265 Royce Clayton
  • 266 Curt Schilling
  • 267 Joe Mauer
  • 268 Bobby Crosby
  • 269 Zack Greinke
  • 270 Victor Martinez
  • 271 Pedro Feliz
  • 272 Tony Batista
  • 273 Casey Kotchman
  • 274 Freddy Garcia
  • 275 Adam Everett
  • 276 Alexis Rios
  • 277 Lew Ford
  • 278 Adam LaRoche
  • 279 Lyle Overbay
  • 280 Juan Gonzalez
  • 281 A.J. Pierzynski
  • 282 Scott Hairston
  • 283 Danny Bautista
  • 284 Brad Penny
  • 285 Paul Konerko
  • 286 Matt Lawton
  • 287 Carl Pavano
  • 288 Pat Burrell
  • 289 Kenny Rogers
  • 290 Laynce Nix
  • 291 Johnny Damon
  • 292 Paul Wilson
  • 293 Vinny Castilla
  • 294 Aaron Miles
  • 295 Ken Harvey
  • 296 Onil Joseph RC*
  • 297 Kazuhito Tadano RC
  • 298 Jeff Bennett RC
  • 299 Chad Bentz RC
  • 300 Akinori Otsuka RC
  • 301 Jon Knott RC
  • 302 Ian Snell RC
  • 303 Fernando Nieve RC
  • 304 Mike Rouse RC
  • 305 Dennis Sarfate RC
  • 306 Josh Labandeira RC
  • 307 Chris Oxspring RC
  • 308 Alfredo Simon RC
  • 309 Rusty Tucker RC*
  • 310 Lincoln Holdzkom RC*
  • 311 Justin Leone RC
  • 312 Jorge Sequea RC*
  • 313 Brian Dallimore RC
  • 314 Tim Bittner RC*
  • 315 Ronny Cedeno RC
  • 316 Justin Hampson RC
  • 317 Ryan Wing RC*
  • 318 Mariano Gomez RC*
  • 319 Carlos Vasquez RC*
  • 320 Casey Daigle RC
  • 321 Renyel Pinto RC
  • 322 Chris Shelton RC
  • 323 Mike Gosling RC
  • 324 Aarom Baldiris RC*
  • 325 Ramon Ramirez RC
  • 326 Roberto Novoa RC
  • 327 Sean Henn RC
  • 328 Nick Regilio RC
  • 329 Dave Crouthers RC*
  • 330 Greg Dobbs RC
  • 331 Angel Chavez RC
  • 332 Luis A. Gonzalez RC
  • 333 Justin Knoedler RC
  • 334 Jason Frasor RC
  • 335 Jerry Gil RC
  • 336 Carlos Hines RC*
  • 337 Ivan Ochoa RC
  • 338 Jose Capellan RC
  • 339 Hector Gimenez RC
  • 340 Shawn Hill RC
  • 341 Freddy Guzman RC
  • 342 Scott Proctor RC
  • 343 Frank Francisco RC
  • 344 Brandon Medders RC
  • 345 Andy Green
  • 346 Eddy Rodriguez RC
  • 347 Tim Hamulack RC
  • 348 Mike Wuertz RC
  • 349 Arnie Munoz
  • 350 Enemencio Pacheco RC*
  • 351 Dusty Bergman
  • 352 Charles Thomas
  • 353 William Bergolla RC
  • 354 Ramon Castro
  • 355 Justin Lehr
  • 356 Lino Urdaneta RC
  • 357 Don Kelly RC
  • 358 Kevin Cave RC*
  • 359 Franklyn Gracesqui RC
  • 360 Chris Aguila RC
  • 361 Jorge Vasquez RC
  • 362 Andres Blanco RC
  • 363 Orlando Rodriguez RC*
  • 364 Colby Miller RC*
  • 365 Shawn Camp
  • 366 Jake Woods RC
  • 367 George Sherrill
  • 368 Justin Huisman RC
  • 369 Jimmy Serrano
  • 370 Mike Johnston RC
  • 371 Ryan Meaux RC*
  • 372 Scott Dohmann RC
  • 373 Brad Halsey
  • 374 Joey Gathright RC
  • 375 Yadier Molina RC
  • 376 Travis Blackley
  • 377 Steve Andrade
  • 378 Phil Stockman RC
  • 379 Roman Colon RC
  • 380 Jesse Crain
  • 381 Edwardo Sierra RC*
  • 382 Justin Germano RC

Lucky 13

Each Lucky 13 card is serial-numbered to 500 copies.

  • 383 Kaz Matsui RC 500
  • 384 Shingo Takatsu L13 RC 500
  • 385 John Gall L13 RC 500
  • 386 Chris Saenz L13 RC 500
  • 387 Merkin Valdez L13 RC 500
  • 388 Jamie Brown L13 RC 500
  • 389 Jason Bartlett L13 RC 500
  • 390 David Aardsma L13 RC 500
  • 391 Scott Kazmir L13 RC 500
  • 392 David Wright L13 500
  • 393 Dioner Navarro L13 RC 500
  • 394 B.J. Upton L13 RC 500
  • 395 Gavin Floyd L13 500

Parallels

Each base card is available as a Gold Medallion parallel. The Prospects in both series are noticeably tougher to pull than the short set cards.

Platinum Medallion

Each base card is also available as a Platinum Medallion parallel. Each card is serial-numbered to the production figures listed below.

  • Series One (cards 1-220): 66 copies.
  • Update Series (cards 221-382): 100 copies.
  • Update Series Lucky 13 (cards 383-395): 13 copies.

Inserts

Autographs & Game-Used