Description

2005 Topps Opening Day is a 165-card parallel brand released exclusively to retail outlets in March, 2005. As has become par for the course for this brand, the design of the base set is identical to that year's Topps flagship baseball set. The only difference being a special "Opening Day" logo on the front, and the player's name is stamped in cyan-colored foil.

Distribution

Retail: 36 packs per box, 6 cards per pack (MSRP: $0.99). Retail only.

Target Exclusive Retail "Relic Edition" Blasters: 8 packs per box, 20 cards plus one relic card per pack.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Wax Odds	Blaster Odds
Base	165	-	6:1	20:1
Chrome	10	-	?	?
Chrome Refractors	10	-	?	?
Autographs	6	-	1:965	N/A
MLB Game Worn Jersey Collection	18	-	N/A	one per Target Relic Edition blaster

Checklist

Base Set

1 Alex Rodriguez
2 Placido Polanco
3 Torii Hunter
4 Lyle Overbay
5 Johnny Damon
6 Mike Cameron
7 Ichiro Suzuki
8 Francisco Rodriguez
9 Bobby Crosby
10 Sammy Sosa
11 Randy Wolf
12 Jason Bay
13 Mike Lieberthal
14 Paul Konerko
15 Brian Giles
16 Luis Gonzalez
17 Jim Edmonds
18 Carlos Lee
19 Corey Patterson
20 Hank Blalock
21 Sean Casey
22 Dmitri Young
23 Mark Mulder
24 Bobby Abreu
25 Jim Thome
26 Jason Kendall
27 Jason Giambi
28 Vinny Castilla
29 Tony Batista
30 Ivan Rodriguez
31 Craig Biggio
32 Chris Carpenter
33 Adrian Beltre
34 Scott Podsednik
35 Cliff Floyd
36 Chad Tracy
37 John Smoltz
38 Shingo Takatsu
39 Jack Wilson
40 Gary Sheffield
41 Lance Berkman
42 Carl Crawford
43 Carlos Guillen
44 David Bell
45 Kazuo Matsui
46 Jason Schmidt
47 Jason Marquis
48 Melvin Mora
49 David Ortiz
50 Andruw Jones
51 Miguel Tejada
52 Bartolo Colon
53 Derrek Lee
54 Eric Gagne
55 Miguel Cabrera
56 Travis Hafner
57 Jose Valentin
58 Mark Prior
59 Phil Nevin
60 Jose Vidro
61 Khalil Greene
62 Carlos Zambrano
63 Erubiel Durazo
64 Michael Young
65 Woody Williams
66 Edgardo Alfonzo
67 Troy Glaus
68 Garret Anderson
69 Richie Sexson
70 Curt Schilling
71 Randy Johnson
72 Chipper Jones
73 J.D. Drew
74 Russ Ortiz
75 Frank Thomas
76 Jimmy Rollins
77 Barry Zito
78 Rafael Palmeiro
79 Brad Wilkerson
80 Adam Dunn
81 Doug Mientkiewicz
82 Manny Ramirez
83 Pedro Martinez
84 Moises Alou
85 Mike Sweeney
86 Boston Red Sox
87 Matt Clement
88 Nomar Garciaparra
89 Magglio Ordonez
90 Bret Boone
91 Mark Loretta
92 Jose Contreras
93 Randy Winn
94 Austin Kearns
95 Ken Griffey, Jr.
96 Jake Westbrook
97 Kazuhito Tadano
98 C.C. Sabathia
99 Todd Helton
100 Albert Pujols
101 Jose Molina / Bengie Molina
102 Aaron Miles
103 Mike Lowell
104 Paul Lo Duca
105 Juan Pierre
106 Dontrelle Willis
107 Jeff Bagwell
108 Carlos Beltran
109 Ronnie Belliard
110 Roy Oswalt
111 Zack Greinke
112 Steve Finley
113 Kazuhisa Ishii
114 Justin Morneau
115 Ben Sheets
116 Johan Santana
117 Billy Wagner
118 Mariano Rivera
119 Corey Koskie
120 Akinori Otsuka
121 Joe Mauer
122 Jacque Jones
123 Joe Nathan
124 Nick Johnson
125 Vernon Wells
126 Mike Piazza
127 Jose Guillen
128 Jose Reyes
129 Marcus Giles
130 Javy Lopez
131 Kevin Millar
132 Jorge Posada
133 Carl Pavano
134 Bernie Williams
135 Kerry Wood
136 Matt Holliday
137 Kevin Brown
138 Derek Jeter
139 Barry Bonds
140 Jeff Kent
141 Mark Kotsay
142 Shawn Green
143 Tim Hudson
144 Shannon Stewart
145 Pat Burrell
146 Gavin Floyd
147 Mike Mussina
148 Eric Chavez
149 Jon Lieber
150 Vladimir Guerrero
151 Vicente Padilla
152 Ryan Klesko
153 Jake Peavy
154 Scott Rolen
155 Greg Maddux
156 Edgar Renteria
157 Larry Walker
158 Scott Kazmir
159 B.J. Upton
160 Mark Teixeira
161 Ken Harvey
162 Alfonso Soriano
163 Carlos Delgado
164 Alexis Rios
165 Checklist

Parallels

Chrome

Opening Day Chrome is a 10-card partial-parallel. A Refractor parallel is also available.

1 Albert Pujols
2 Alex Rodriguez
3 Ivan Rodriguez
4 Jim Thome
5 Sammy Sosa
6 Vladimir Guerrero
7 Alfonso Soriano
8 Ichiro Suzuki
9 Derek Jeter
10 Chipper Jones

Autographs & Game-Used

Autographs

AH Aaron Hill
AW Anthony Whittington
CC Chad Cordero
FH Felix Hernandez
OQ Omar Quintanilla
PM Paul Maholm

MLB Game Worn Jersey Collection

See 2005 MLB Game-Worn Jersey Collection.