2005 Topps Cracker Jack

Description

2005 Topps Cracker Jack is a 250-card set and was released in April, 2005. The set is similar to the previous year's set; however, unlike 2004 Topps Cracker Jack, it is not based on the 1914 Cracker Jack set. 50 cards scattered throughout the set are short-printed and seeded into packs at the rate of 1:3/packs.

Distribution

Hobby: 20 packs per box, eight cards plus one "Secret Surprise" per pack (MSRP: $3). 12 boxes per case.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	250	-	7:1	?
short set	200	-	7:1	?
Short Prints	40	-	1:3	1:3
Red Mini	200	-	1:1	?
Short Print Red Mini	50	-	1:20	1:20
Blue Mini	250	50	1:75	1:75
Grey Mini	250	25	1:151	1:150
White Mini	250	one-of-one	1:3763	1:3813
Stickers	200	-	1:1	?
Short Print Stickers	50	-	1:20	1:20
1, 2, 3 Strikes You're Out Relics	6	-	1:204	1:204
Take Me Out to the Ballgame Mini Relics	84	-	1:16	1:16
Cracker Jack Autographs	10	50	1:258	1:258
Secret Surprise Mini Autographs	20	-	?	?

Checklist

Base Set

The base set of 200 cards plus an additional 50 short prints make up the 250 card master set. Cards 196-218 feature prospect and rookies. Cards 219-229 feature players from the St. Louis Cardinals team that went to the World Series in 2004. Cards 230-240 feature players from the Boston Red Sox team that won the World Series in that year.

• 1 David Wright SP
• 2 Rafael Furcal
• 3 Alex Rodriguez (Portrait)
• 3 Alex Rodriguez SP (Fielding)
• 4 Victor Martinez SP
• 5 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 6 Bobby Crosby SP
• 7 Ivan Rodriguez
• 8 Darin Erstad
• 9 Javy Lopez
• 10 Brian Giles
• 11 Aaron Rowand SP
• 12 Joe Torre MGR
• 13 Zack Greinke SP
• 14 Shannon Stewart
• 15 Jack Wilson
• 16 Jose Vidro
• 17 Josh Beckett
• 18 Barry Zito
• 19 Bret Boone
• 20 Greg Maddux
• 21 Carl Crawford SP
• 22 Mark Teixeira
• 23 Jason Schmidt
• 24 Kazuhisa Ishii
• 25 Mike Piazza
• 26 Daniel Cabrera SP
• 27 Mike Lieberthal
• 28 Gil Meche
• 29 Phil Nevin
• 30 Adrian Beltre SP
• 31 Chipper Jones SP
• 32 Zach Day
• 33 Ben Sheets
• 34 Carlos Zambrano
• 35 Melvin Mora
• 36 Joe Mauer
• 37 Ken Harvey
• 38 Bernie Williams
• 39 Mike Maroth
• 40 Eric Chavez
• 41 Matt Lawton SP
• 42 Ray Durham
• 43 Vernon Wells
• 44 Mike Lowell
• 45 Jim Thome
• 46 Joel Pineiro
• 47 Lance Berkman
• 48 Ryan Klesko
• 49 Adam Dunn
• 50 Vladimir Guerrero
• 51 Eric Gagne SP
• 52 Richie Sexson
• 53 Javier Vazquez
• 54 Roy Oswalt
• 55 Carlos Delgado
• 56 John Buck SP
• 57 Kenny Rogers
• 58 Sidney Ponson
• 59 Vicente Padilla
• 60 Mark Prior (Leg Up)
• 60 Mark Prior SP (Portrait)
• 61 A.J. Pierzynski
• 62 Aubrey Huff
• 63 Shea Hillenbrand
• 64 Carlos Guillen
• 65 Lyle Overbay
• 66 Al Leiter
• 67 Eric Hinske
• 68 Laynce Nix
• 69 Scott Hairston
• 70 Roger Clemens
• 71 Cesar Izturis SP
• 72 Shawn Green
• 73 Marcus Giles
• 74 Rafael Palmeiro
• 75a Gary Sheffield SP
• 75b Melky Cabrera SP
• 76 Juan Pierre
• 77 Pat Burrell
• 78 Sean Burroughs
• 79 Frank Thomas
• 80 Andruw Jones
• 81 C.C. Sabathia
• 82 Jeff Bagwell
• 83 Tom Glavine
• 84 Craig Wilson SP
• 85 Johan Santana (Throwing)
• 85 Johan Santana SP (Portrait)
• 86 Raul Ibanez
• 87 Sean Casey
• 88 Bucky Jacobsen
• 89 B.J. Upton
• 90 Bobby Abreu
• 91 Geoff Jenkins
• 92 Troy Glaus
• 93 Dontrelle Willis
• 94 Jose Lima
• 95 Rocco Baldelli
• 96 Aramis Ramirez
• 97 Paul Lo Duca
• 98 Torii Hunter
• 99 Jay Payton
• 100 Carlos Beltran
• 101 Jaret Wright
• 102 Jason Bay
• 103 Cliff Floyd
• 104 Mike Sweeney
• 105 Sammy Sosa
• 106 Khalil Greene SP
• 107 David DeJesus
• 108 Jermaine Dye
• 109 Miguel Cabrera
• 110 Miguel Tejada SP
• 111 Johnny Estrada SP
• 112 Ronnie Belliard SP
• 113 Austin Kearns
• 114 Erubiel Durazo
• 115 Preston Wilson
• 116 Hideo Nomo
• 117 Dmitri Young
• 118 Jon Lieber
• 119 Derrek Lee
• 120 Todd Helton
• 121 Omar Vizquel
• 122 Wily Mo Pena
• 123 J.D. Drew
• 124 Matt Holliday
• 125 Ichiro Suzuki
• 126 Mark Buehrle SP
• 127 Barry Bonds
• 128 Jeff Kent
• 129 Kerry Wood
• 130 Mariano Rivera
• 131 Nick Johnson
• 132 Randy Winn
• 133 Phil Garner
• 134 Jose Reyes
• 135a Michael Young SP
• 135b Ian Kinsler SP RC
• 136 Jose Contreras
• 137 Oliver Perez
• 138 Roy Halladay
• 139 Kevin Millwood
• 140 Jorge Posada
• 141 Mike Cameron
• 142 Edgardo Alfonzo
• 143 Chris Shelton
• 144 Luis Castillo
• 145 Alfonso Soriano
• 146 Ryan Drese SP
• 147 Mark Mulder
• 148 Jason Giambi
• 149 Travis Hafner
• 150 Randy Johnson
• 151 Paul Konerko SP
• 152 Mike Mussina
• 153 Brad Wilkerson
• 154 Tim Hudson
• 155 Garret Anderson
• 156 Chase Utley SP
• 157 Jamie Moyer
• 158 Scott Kazmir
• 159 Brett Myers
• 160 Kazuo Matsui
• 161 Orlando Hudson
• 162 Luis Gonzalez
• 163 Kevin Youkilis
• 164a Jason Kendall
• 164b Landon Powell SP
• 165 Hank Blalock
• 166 Mark Loretta SP
• 167 Miguel Cairo
• 168 Corey Patterson
• 169 Victor Zambrano
• 170 Magglio Ordonez
• 171 J.T. Snow
• 172 Randy Wolf
• 173 Rich Harden
• 174 Bartolo Colon
• 175 Derek Jeter
• 176 Casey Kotchman SP
• 177 Val Majewski
• 178 Grady Sizemore
• 179 Rickie Weeks
• 180 Robinson Cano
• 181 Nick Swisher SP
• 182 Ryan Howard
• 183 John Van Benschoten
• 184 Delmon Young
• 185 Aaron Hill
• 186 Chris Burke SP
• 187 Merkin Valdez
• 188 Jeremy Reed
• 189 Conor Jackson
• 190 Mark Teahen
• 191 Joey Gathright SP
• 192 Gavin Floyd
• 193 Joe Blanton
• 194 Jason Kubel
• 195 Jeff Francis
• 196 Angel Guzman SP
• 197 Dallas McPherson
• 198 Melky Cabrera RC
• 199 Jake Dittler
• 200 Elvys Quezada RC*
• 201 Ian Kinsler SP RC
• 202 Nate McLouth RC
• 203 Chris Seddon RC
• 204 Chad Orvella RC
• 205 Ian Bladergroen RC*
• 206 James Jurries SP RC*
• 207 Landon Powell RC
• 208 Eric Nielsen RC*
• 209 Chris Roberson RC
• 210 Andre Ethier RC
• 211 Chris Denorfia SP RC
• 212 Darren Fenster RC*
• 213 Jeremy West RC*
• 214 Sean Marshall RC
• 215 Ryan Sweeney RC
• 216 Steve Doetsch SP RC*
• 217 Kevin Melillo RC
• 218 Chip Cannon RC*
• 219 Tony LaRussa
• 220 Chris Carpenter
• 221a Edgar Renteria SP BOS
• 221b Edgar Renteria SP STL
• 222 Albert Pujols
• 223 Jim Edmonds
• 224 Jason Marquis
• 225 Scott Rolen SP
• 226 Larry Walker SP
• 227 Matt Morris
• 228 Mike Matheny SF
• 228 Mike Matheny SP STL
• 229 Jeromy Burnitz
• 230 Terry Francona
• 231 Johnny Damon SP
• 232 Keith Foulke
• 233 Trot Nixon
• 234 Manny Ramirez
• 235 David Ortiz SP
• 236a Pedro Martinez SP BOS
• 236b Pedro Martinez SP NYM
• 237 Curt Schilling
• 238 Kevin Millar
• 239 Bill Mueller
• 240 Mark Bellhorn
• NNO Josh Beckett SP

Parallels

All 250 base cards are available in the following mini-sized parallels.

• Mini
• Mini Sticker
• Mini Blue (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
• Mini Grey (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
• Mini White (one-of-one)

Autographs/Game Used

1, 2, 3 Strikes You're Out! Relics

• BR Brad Radke
• CS Curt Schilling
• JB Josh Beckett
• JW Jaret Wright
• RD Ryan Drese
• RO Russ Ortiz

Take Me Out to the Ball Game Relics

• AB Adrian Beltre
• AB1 Angel Berroa
• AB2 Angel Berroa
• AD Adam Dunn
• AL Adam LaRoche
• AP Albert Pujols
• AR Alex Rodriguez
• ARA Aramis Ramirez
• AS Alfonso Soriano
• BB Barry Bonds
• BC Bobby Cox
• BCR Bobby Crosby
• BK Bobby Kielty
• BS Benito Santiago
• BW Bernie Williams
• CB Carlos Beltran
• CBI Craig Biggio
• CC Coco Crisp
• CG Cristian Guzman
• CP Corey Patterson
• CT Charles Thomas
• DE Darin Erstad
• DM Doug Mientkiewicz
• DO David Ortiz
• DW Dontrelle Willis
• EC1 Eric Chavez
• EC2 Eric Chavez
• GS Gary Sheffield
• HB1 Hank Blalock
• HB2 Hank Blalock
• HB3 Hank Blalock
• IR1 Ivan Rodriguez
• IR2 Ivan Rodriguez
• JB Jeff Bagwell
• JE Johnny Estrada
• JE1 Jim Edmonds
• JE2 Jim Edmonds
• JG Jody Gerut
• JGI Jay Gibbons
• JGU Jose Guillen
• JJ Jacque Jones
• JK Jason Kendall
• JP1 Jorge Posada
• JP2 Jorge Posada
• JR Jeremy Reed
• JT Jim Thome
• JTO Joe Torre
• KM Kevin Millar
• KME Kevin Mench
• LB1 Lance Berkman
• LB2 Lance Berkman
• LG Luis Gonzalez
• LN Laynce Nix
• MC Miguel Cabrera
• MG Marcus Giles
• MK Mark Kotsay
• MM Melvin Mora
• MO Magglio Ordonez
• MP Mike Piazza
• MR Manny Ramirez
• MTE1 Miguel Tejada
• MTE2 Miguel Tejada
• MT1 Mark Teixeira
• MT2 Mark Teixeira
• MT3 Mark Teixeira
• MY Michael Young
• NG Nick Green
• OV Omar Vizquel
• PK Paul Konerko
• PN Phil Nevin
• RB Ron Belliard
• RF Rafael Furcal
• RK Ryan Klesko
• RP Rafael Palmeiro
• RS Reggie Sanders
• SB Sean Burroughs
• SG Shawn Green
• TG Troy Glaus
• TH Todd Helton
• THU Torii Hunter
• VC Vinny Castilla
• VG Vladimir Guerrero
• VM Victor Martinez
• MRE Mike Restovich

Secret Surprise Mini Autographs

A 21 card set that was split into six different groups. Only 100 copies of each Group A card were produced (according to Topps), but the cards are not serial numbered.

• AG Angel Guzman
• AR Alex Rodriguez
• CB Carlos Beltran
• CC Carl Crawford
• CN Chris Nelson
• CS C.C. Sabathia
• CT Curtis Thigpen
• CW Craig Wilson
• DM Dallas McPherson
• DW David Wright
• EC Eric Chavez
• EG Eric Gagne
• GA Garret Anderson
• HB Hank Blalock
• JS Johan Santana
• KM Kevin Millar
• MK Mark Kotsay
• ML Mark Loretta
• MM Melvin Mora
• RR Richie Robnett
• SK Scott Kazmir

Autographs

An 11 card set featuring on card autographs of some baseball's hottest players. The cards are in two groups, an A group serial numbered to 25 and a B group serial numbered to 50.

• AR Alex Rodriguez
• BB Barry Bonds
• CB Carlos Beltran
• CC Carl Crawford
• CS C.C. Sabathia
• CW Craig Wilson
• DW David Wright
• EC Eric Chavez
• EG Eric Gagne
• GA Garret Anderson
• JS Johan Santana