2000 Black Diamond Rookie Edition

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2000 Black Diamond Edition hobby box

Description

2000 Black Diamond Rookie Edition is a 154-card set released in December, 2000 -- almost a full year after 2000 Black Diamond -- and would be the final Black Diamond baseball set. The set includes a 30-card Rookie Gems subset (with each card serial-numbered to 1000 copies), a 16-card "Rookie Jerseys" subset, and 18 jersey cards of the Gold Medal winning 2000 USA Baseball team. This set marked the first time game-used jersey cards were included in a base set.

Notable rookie cards include: Mark Buehrle, Roy Oswalt, Ben Sheets and Barry Zito.

Distribution

24 packs per box, six cards per pack (MSRP: $2.99). Hobby only.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards Total Cards Numbered To Odds
Base 154 - ?
short set 90 - ?
Rookie Gems 30 1000 ?
Rookie Jerseys 16 - 1:24
USA Olympic Team Jerseys 18 - 1:96
Gold short set 90 1000 ?
Gold Rookie Gems 30 500 ?
Gold Rookie Jerseys 16 100 ?
Diamonation 9 - 1:12
Diamond Might 9 - 1:12
Diamond Gallery 6 - 1:20
Diamond Skills 6 - 1:20
Authentic Pinstripes 9 varies ?

Checklist

Base Set

  • 1 Troy Glaus
  • 2 Mo Vaughn
  • 3 Darin Erstad
  • 4 Jason Giambi
  • 5 Tim Hudson
  • 6 Ben Grieve
  • 7 Eric Chavez
  • 8 Tony Batista
  • 9 Carlos Delgado
  • 10 David Wells
  • 11 Greg Vaughn
  • 12 Fred McGriff
  • 13 Manny Ramirez
  • 14 Roberto Alomar
  • 15 Jim Thome
  • 16 Alex Rodriguez
  • 17 Edgar Martinez
  • 18 John Olerud
  • 19 Albert Belle
  • 20 Mike Mussina
  • 21 Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • 22 Ivan Rodriguez
  • 23 Rafael Palmeiro
  • 24 Pedro Martinez
  • 25 Nomar Garciaparra
  • 26 Carl Everett
  • 27 Jermaine Dye
  • 28 Mike Sweeney
  • 29 Juan Gonzalez
  • 30 Bob Higginson
  • 31 Dean Palmer
  • 32 Jacque Jones
  • 33 Eric Milton
  • 34 Matt Lawton
  • 35 Magglio Ordonez
  • 36 Paul Konerko
  • 37 Frank Thomas
  • 38 Ray Durham
  • 39 Roger Clemens
  • 40 Derek Jeter
  • 41 Bernie Williams
  • 42 Jose Canseco
  • 43 Craig Biggio
  • 44 Richard Hidalgo
  • 45 Jeff Bagwell
  • 46 Greg Maddux
  • 47 Chipper Jones
  • 48 Rafael Furcal
  • 49 Andruw Jones
  • 50 Geoff Jenkins
  • 51 Jeromy Burnitz
  • 52 Mark McGwire
  • 53 Rick Ankiel
  • 54 Jim Edmonds
  • 55 Kerry Wood
  • 56 Sammy Sosa
  • 57 Matt Williams
  • 58 Randy Johnson
  • 59 Steve Finley
  • 60 Curt Schilling
  • 61 Kevin Brown
  • 62 Gary Sheffield
  • 63 Shawn Green
  • 64 Jose Vidro
  • 65 Vladimir Guerrero
  • 66 Jeff Kent
  • 67 Barry Bonds
  • 68 Ryan Dempster
  • 69 Cliff Floyd
  • 70 Preston Wilson
  • 71 Mike Piazza
  • 72 Al Leiter
  • 73 Edgardo Alfonzo
  • 74 Derek Bell
  • 75 Ryan Klesko
  • 76 Tony Gwynn
  • 77 Bob Abreu
  • 78 Pat Burrell
  • 79 Scott Rolen
  • 80 Mike Lieberthal
  • 81 Jason Kendall
  • 82 Brian Giles
  • 83 Ken Griffey, Jr.
  • 84 Pokey Reese
  • 85 Dmitri Young
  • 86 Sean Casey
  • 87 Jeff Cirillo
  • 88 Todd Helton
  • 89 Jeffrey Hammonds
  • 90 Larry Walker

Rookies Gems

Each Rookie Gem is serial-numbered to 1000 copies.

  • 91 Barry Zito RC
  • 92 Keith Ginter RC
  • 93 Dane Sardinha RC
  • 94 Kenny Kelly RC
  • 95 Ryan Kohlmeier
  • 96 Leo Estrella
  • 97 Danys Baez RC
  • 98 Paul Rigdon
  • 99 Mike Lamb RC
  • 100 Aaron McNeal RC*
  • 101 Juan Pierre RC
  • 102 Rico Washington RC
  • 103 Luis Matos RC
  • 104 Adam Bernero
  • 105 Wascar Serrano RC
  • 106 Chris Richard RC
  • 107 Justin Miller
  • 108 Julio Zuleta RC
  • 109 Alex Cabrera RC
  • 110 Gene Stechschulte
  • 111 Tony Mota
  • 112 Tomo Ohka
  • 113 Geraldo Guzman RC
  • 114 Scott Downs RC
  • 115 Timo Perez RC
  • 116 Chad Durbin
  • 117 Sun Woo Kim RC
  • 118 Tomas De La Rosa
  • 119 Javier Cardona
  • 120 Kazuhiro Sasaki RC

Rookie Jerseys

  • 121 Brad Cresse
  • 122 Matt Wheatland RC*
  • 123 Joe Torres RC*
  • 124 Dave Krynzel RC
  • 125 Ben Diggins RC
  • 126 Sean Burnett RC
  • 127 David Espinosa RC*
  • 128 Scott Heard RC*
  • 129 Daylan Holt RC*
  • 130 Koyie Hill RC JSY USA
  • 131 Mark Buehrle
  • 132 Xavier Nady RC
  • 133 Mike Tonis RC
  • 134 Matt Ginter RC JSY USA
  • 135 Lorenzo Barcelo RC JSY
  • 136 Cory Vance RC

USA Olympic Team Jerseys

  • 137 Sean Burroughs USA JSY
  • 138 Todd Williams USA JSY
  • 139 Brad Wilkerson USA JSY RC
  • 140 Ben Sheets USA JSY RC
  • 141 Kurt Ainsworth USA JSY RC
  • 142 Anthony Sanders USA JSY
  • 143 Ryan Franklin USA JSY RC
  • 144 Shane Heams USA JSY RC
  • 145 Roy Oswalt USA JSY RC
  • 146 Jon Rauch USA JSY RC
  • 147 Brent Abernathy USA JSY RC
  • 148 Ernie Young USA JSY
  • 149 Chris George USA JSY
  • 150 Gookie Dawkins USA JSY
  • 151 Adam Everett USA JSY
  • 152 John Cotton USA JSY RC
  • 153 Pat Borders USA JSY
  • 154 Doug Mientkiewicz USA JSY

Parallels

With the exception of the USA Olympic Team Jersey subset, each base card is available in a serial-numbered Gold parallel. The production figures are listed below.

  • short set: (cards #1-#90) serial-numbered to 1000 copies
  • Rookie Gems: (cards #91-#120) serial-numbered to 500 copies
  • Rookie Jerseys: (cards #121-#136) serial-numbered to 100 copies

Inserts

Diamonation

D1 Pedro Martinez

D2 Derek Jeter

D3 Jason Giambi

D4 Todd Helton

D5 Nomar Garciaparra

D6 Randy Johnson

D7 Jeff Bagwell

D8 Cal Ripken Jr.

D9 Ivan Rodriguez

Diamond Gallery

G1 Sammy Sosa

G2 Barry Bonds

G3 Vladimir Guerrero

G4 Cal Ripken Jr.

G5 Mike Piazza

G6 Mark McGwire

Diamond Might

M1 Mark McGwire

M2 Mike Piazza

M3 Frank Thomas

M4 Ken Griffey Jr.

M5 Sammy Sosa

M6 Alex Rodriguez

M7 Carlos Delgado

M8 Vladimir Guerrero

M9 Barry Bonds

Diamond Skills

S1 Alex Rodriguez

S2 Chipper Jones

S3 Ken Griffey Jr.

S4 Pedro Martinez

S5 Ivan Rodriguez

S6 Derek Jeter

Autographs & Game-Used

Authentic Pinstripes

AP-B Derek Jeter

AP-C Derek Jeter

AP-G Derek Jeter

AP-J Derek Jeter

DJ-JD Derek Jeter

DJ-JD Joe DiMaggio

DJ-MM Mickey Mantle

DJ-MM Derek Jeter

DJ-RM Derek Jeter

DJ-RM Roger Maris

JDM-B Derek Jeter

JDM-B Mickey Mantle

JDM-B Joe DiMaggio

JWO-J Derek Jeter

JWO-J Bernine Williams

JWO-J Paul O'Neill