2003 Upper Deck Victory box

Description

2003 Victory is a 200 card set released, exclusive to retail, in February, 2003. After four years as a large but no-frills, insert-less product, Upper Deck dramatically changed Victory into a multi-fractured, multi-paralleled, set with a collectible card game element. The first 100 cards comprise the short set while the last 100 cards were all short-printed to various quantities. The corners on all cards are rounded to look like a playing card.

These changes were not well received by collectors, and as a result, Upper Deck discontinued the line after 2003 -- although it remains part of their hockey line.

2003 Victory did contain the first-ever MLB licensed "True" rookie card of Hideki Matsui.

Distribution

6 cards in a pack, 36 cards in a box.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Base	200	-	?
short set	100	-	?
Solid Hits	28	-	1:4
Clutch Players	20	-	1:5
Lay it on the Line	20	-	1:5
True Gamers	10	-	1:10
Run Producers	10	-	1:10
Difference Makers	6	-	1:20
Winning Formula	6	-	1:20
Green Parallel (Tier 1)	100	-	one-per-pack
Orange Parallel (Tier 2)	100	-	1:8
Blue Parallel (Tier 3)	100	650	?
Purple Parallel (Tier 4)	100	50	?
Red Parallel (Tier 5)	100	25	?

Checklist

Base Set

1 Troy Glaus

2 Garret Anderson

3 Tim Salmon

4 Darin Erstad

5 Luis Gonzalez

6 Curt Schilling

7 Randy Johnson

8 Junior Spivey

9 Andruw Jones

10 Greg Maddux

11 Chipper Jones

12 Gary Sheffield

13 John Smoltz

14 Geronimo Gil

15 Tony Batista

16 Trot Nixon

17 Manny Ramirez

18 Pedro Martinez

19 Nomar Garciaparra

20 Derek Lowe

21 Shea Hillenbrand

22 Sammy Sosa

23 Kerry Wood

24 Mark Prior

25 Magglio Ordonez

26 Frank Thomas

27 Mark Buehrle

28 Paul Konerko

29 Adam Dunn

30 Ken Griffey Jr.

31 Austin Kearns

32 Matt Lawton

33 Larry Walker

34 Todd Helton

35 Jeff Bagwell

36 Roy Oswalt

37 Lance Berkman

38 Mike Sweeney

39 Carlos Beltran

40 Kazuhisa Ishii

41 Shawn Green

42 Hideo Nomo

43 Adrian Beltre

44 Richie Sexson

45 Ben Sheets

46 Torii Hunter

47 Jacque Jones

48 Corey Koskie

49 Vladimir Guerrero

50 Jose Vidro

51 Mo Vaughn

52 Mike Piazza

53 Roberto Alomar

54 Derek Jeter

55 Alfonso Soriano

56 Jason Giambi

57 Roger Clemens

58 Mike Mussina

59 Bernie Williams

60 Jorge Posada

61 Nick Johnson

62 Hideki Matsui RC

63 Eric Chavez

64 Barry Zito

65 Miguel Tejada

66 Tim Hudson

67 Pat Burrell

68 Bobby Abreu

69 Jimmy Rollins

70 Brett Myers

71 Jim Thome

72 Jason Kendall

73 Brian Giles

74 Aramis Ramirez

75 Sean Burroughs

76 Ryan Klesko

77 Phil Nevin

78 Barry Bonds

79 J.T. Snow

80 Rich Aurilia

81 Ichiro Suzuki

82 Edgar Martinez

83 Freddy Garcia

84 Jim Edmonds

85 J.D. Drew

86 Scott Rolen

87 Albert Pujols

88 Mark McGwire

89 Matt Morris

90 Ben Grieve

91 Carl Crawford

92 Alex Rodriguez

93 Carl Everett

94 Juan Gonzalez

95 Rafael Palmeiro

96 Hank Blalock

97 Carlos Delgado

98 Josh Phelps

99 Eric Hinske

100 Shannon Stewart

Solid Hits

101 Albert Pujols

102 Alex Rodriguez

103 Alfonso Soriano

104 Barry Bonds

105 Bernie Williams

106 Brian Giles

107 Chipper Jones

108 Darin Erstad

109 Derek Jeter

110 Eric Chavez

111 Miguel Tejada

112 Ichiro Suzuki

113 Rafael Palmeiro

114 Jason Giambi

115 Jeff Bagwell

116 Jim Thome

117 Ken Griffey Jr.

118 Lance Berkman

119 Luis Gonzalez

120 Manny Ramirez

121 Mike Piazza

122 J.D. Drew

123 Sammy Sosa

124 Scott Rolen

125 Shawn Green

126 Todd Helton

127 Troy Glaus

128 Vladimir Guerrero

Clutch Players

129 Albert Pujols

130 Brian Giles

131 Carlos Delgado

132 Curt Schilling UER (Rockies logo on front)

133 Derek Jeter

134 Frank Thomas

135 Greg Maddux

136 Jeff Bagwell

137 Jim Thome

138 Jorge Posada

139 Kazuhisa Ishii

140 Larry Walker

141 Luis Gonzalez

142 Miguel Tejada

143 Pat Burrell

144 Pedro Martinez

145 Rafael Palmeiro

146 Roger Clemens

147 Tim Hudson

148 Troy Glaus

Laying it on the Line

149 Alfonso Soriano

150 Andruw Jones

151 Barry Zito

152 Darin Erstad

153 Eric Chavez

154 Alex Rodriguez

155 J.D. Drew

156 Jason Giambi

157 Jason Kendall

158 Ken Griffey Jr.

159 Lance Berkman

160 Mike Mussina

161 Mike Piazza

162 Nomar Garciaparra

163 Randy Johnson

164 Roberto Alomar

165 Scott Rolen

166 Shawn Green

167 Torii Hunter

168 Vladimir Guerrero

True Gamers

169 Alex Rodriguez

170 Andruw Jones

171 Bernie Williams

172 Ichiro Suzuki

173 Miguel Tejada

174 Nomar Garciaparra

175 Pedro Martinez

176 Randy Johnson

177 Todd Helton

178 Vladimir Guerrero

Run Producers

179 Barry Bonds

180 Carlos Delgado

181 Chipper Jones

182 Frank Thomas

183 Lance Berkman

184 Larry Walker

185 Manny Ramirez

186 Mike Piazza

187 Sammy Sosa

188 Shawn Green

Difference Makers

189 Chipper Jones

190 Curt Schilling

191 Derek Jeter

192 Ken Griffey Jr.

193 Sammy Sosa

194 Vladimir Guerrero

Winning Formula

195 Alex Rodriguez

196 Barry Bonds

197 Greg Maddux

198 Ichiro

199 Jason Giambi

200 Mike Piazza

Parallels

Each of the first 100 cards (the entire short-set) are available in the following parallels.

Tier 1, Green

Tier 2, Orange

Tier 3, Blue (serial-numbered to 650 copies)

Tier 4, Purple (serial-numbered to 50 copies)

Tier 5, Red (serial-numbered to 25 copies)

NOTE: All cards are serial-numbered on the front in dot-matrix.