2001 MLB Showdown Pennant Run

Description

2001 MLB Showdown Pennant Run is a 175-card expansion of the 2001 MLB Showdown trading card game. It was released in Mid-July, around three months after the first series. The set features 148-player cards and 27 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.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Booster Pack Odds	Starter Deck Odds
Base	175	-	?	?
short set	148	-	?	?
Foil	27	-	1:3	?
Strategy Cards	25	-	1:2	40:1

Checklist

Promos

FanFest

This six-card set was issued at the 2001 MLB All-Star FanFest in Seattle -- not far away from WotC's corporate headquarters. Each card has the All-Star Game logo on the front.

• 84 Wes Helms
• 17 Juan Pierre
• 127 Luis Rivas
• 8 C.C. Sabathia
• 87 Ben Sheets
• 169 Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Promos

WotC created three different promo cards of Ichiro Suzuki, and distributed them at three separate fan conventions: The 2001 National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland, 2001 GenCon in Milwaukee (the largest fan convention for board and card games), and at the 2001 Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio.

Each card is an ordinary Ichiro base card, but with each fan convention's logo on the front.

Base Set

Parallels

1st Edition

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

• S1 Johnny Damon
• S2 Ruben Mateo
• S3 Mark McGwire
• S4 Jeff Liefer
• S5 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• S6 Mike Piazza
• S7 Derek Jeter
• S8 Jose Valentin
• S9 Benito Santiago
• S10 Pokey Reese
• S11 Tony Gwynn
• S12 Greg Maddux
• S13 Julio Zuleta
• S14 Ray Durham
• S15 Abraham Nunez
• S16 Rey Ordonez
• S17 Roger Clemens
• S18 Rick Ankiel
• S19 Greg Maddux
• S20 Danny Graves
• S21 Mark McGwire
• S22 Al Leiter
• S23 Barry Bonds
• S24 Mascot Dot Racing
• S25 Dennys Reyes