Description

2004 National Pastime is a 90-card set, released by Fleer, in July, 2004. The final 30 cards in the set (#61-90) make up a "rookie" subset, which each card serial-numbered to 699 copies. Despite this, there are no notable rookie cards in the set.

Each 10-pack Hobby box should be expected to yield two autographs and either a game-used memorabilia card or a third autograph.

Distribution

Hobby: 10 packs per box, five cards per pack. Six boxes per case.

Retail: 24 packs per box, five cards per pack (MSRP: $2.99). 20 boxes per case.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	90	-	?	?
short set	60	-	?	?
Rookies	30	699	1:7	1:48
Red	90	150	*	?
White	90	50	*	?
Blue	90	one-of-one	*	?
1959 Fleer Ted Williams Reprints	81	406	1:3	?
1959 Fleer Ted Williams Reprints Masterpiece	81	one-of-one	?	?
History in the Making	30	-	1:5	1:4
American Game	15	-	1:10	1:12
National Treasures	12	500	1:12	?
National Treasures Gold	12	varies	?	N/A
1959 Fleer Ted Williams Reprints Bat	40	9	**	?
American Game Jersey	14	-	**	1:96
American Game Jersey Patch Masterpiece	14	one-of-one	**	N/A
American Game Retired GU	10	varies	**	?
American Game Retired GU Dual	5	varies	**	?
American Game Retired GU Autograph	8	varies	**	?
American Flag Patch	25	3 or less	1:240	N/A
History in the Making Jersey	27	-	**	1:36
History in the Making Patch Masterpiece	27	one-of-one	**	N/A
History in the Making Dual bat	1	5	**	?
Buyback Game Used	97	varies	**	?
Buyback Autographs	107	varies	***	?
National Treasures Autograph Red	3	50	***	?
National Treasures Autograph White	3	varies	***	?
National Treasures Autograph Blue	3	6	***	?
National Treasures Autograph Masterpiece	3	one-of-one	***	?
Signature Swings Gold	34	varies	***	?
Signature Swings Red	32	varies	***	?
Signature Swings White	41	varies	***	?
Signature Swings Blue Autographed Bat	38	varies	***	?
Signature Swings Masterpiece Autographed Bat	38	one-of-one	***	?
Signs of the Future Gold	20	varies	***	?
Signs of the Future Red	20	varies	***	?
Signs of the Future White	20	varies	***	?
Signs of the Future Blue	20	varies	***	?

Checklist

Base Set

1 Hideki Matsui
2 Khalil Greene
3 Pedro Martinez
4 Sammy Sosa
5 Mark Teixeira
6 Orlando Cabrera
7 Scott Podsednik
8 Miguel Tejada
9 Andruw Jones
10 Manny Ramirez
11 Jose Reyes
12 Bobby Abreu
13 Alex Rodriguez
14 Ivan Rodriguez
15 Jason Schmidt
16 Mike Piazza
17 Eric Chavez
18 Mark Prior
19 Adam Dunn
20 Richard Hidalgo
21 Todd Helton
22 Rocco Baldelli
23 Roy Oswalt
24 Angel Berroa
25 Jason Giambi
26 Jim Thome
27 Javy Lopez
28 Derek Jeter
29 Tom Glavine
30 Magglio Ordonez
31 Austin Kearns
32 Scott Rolen
33 Miguel Cabrera
34 Vernon Wells
35 Frank Thomas
36 Jeff Bagwell
37 Shannon Stewart
38 Richie Sexson
39 Hideo Nomo
40 Nomar Garciaparra
41 C.C. Sabathia
42 Albert Pujols
43 Barry Zito
44 Hank Blalock
45 Carlos Delgado
46 Greg Maddux
47 Randy Johnson
48 Josh Beckett
49 Kerry Wood
50 Roger Clemens
51 Garret Anderson
52 Ichiro Suzuki
53 Kip Wells
54 Vladimir Guerrero
55 Shawn Green
56 Chipper Jones
57 Aubrey Huff
58 Ken Griffey, Jr.
59 Torii Hunter
60 Alfonso Soriano

Rookies

61 Chris Shelton RC
62 Graham Koonce RC
63 Kaz Matsui RC
64 Alfredo Simon RC
65 Mike Gosling RC
66 Mike Rouse RC
67 Mariano Gomez RC*
68 Justin Leone RC
69 Jose Capellan RC
70 Don Kelly RC
71 Merkin Valdez RC
72 Greg Dobbs RC
73 Shingo Takatsu RC
74 Chris Aguila RC
75 Jerome Gamble RC*
76 Onil Joseph RC*
77 Ramon Ramirez RC
78 Angel Chavez RC
79 Hector Gimenez RC
80 Ivan Ochoa RC
81 Aarom Baldiris RC*
82 Akinori Otsuka RC
83 Ruddy Yan
84 Jerry Gil RC
85 Shawn Hill RC
86 John Gall RC
87 Jason Bartlett RC
88 Jorge Sequea RC*
89 Luis A. Gonzalez RC
90 Sean Henn RC

Parallels

Each of the 90 base cards are available in the following parallels and are exclusive to Hobby packs.

Red (serial-numbered to 150 copies)
White (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
Blue (one-of-one)

Inserts

1959 Fleer Ted Williams Reprints

This set is a reprint of the 80-card 1959 Fleer Ted Williams set. Each card is serial-numbered to 406 copies with a one-of-one Masterpiece parallel also available.

In addition, Fleer randomly inserted an exchange card good for an entire 1959 set.

History in the Making

1 Pedro Martinez
2 Alex Rodriguez
3 Sammy Sosa
4 Mike Piazza
5 Jason Giambi
6 Jim Thome
7 Derek Jeter
8 Hideo Nomo
9 Nomar Garciaparra
10 Albert Pujols
11 Greg Maddux
12 Randy Johnson
13 Roger Clemens
14 Ichiro Suzuki
15 Vladimir Guerrero
16 Chipper Jones
17 Ken Griffey, Jr.
18 Manny Ramirez
19 Ivan Rodriguez
20 Mark Prior
21 Austin Kearns
22 Alfonso Soriano
23 Barry Zito
24 Josh Beckett
25 Angel Berroa
26 Jose Reyes
27 Adam Dunn
28 Todd Helton
29 Hank Blalock
30 Kaz Matsui

American Game

1 Greg Maddux
2 Randy Johnson
3 Roger Clemens
4 Mark Prior
5 Mike Piazza
6 Alex Rodriguez
7 Adam Dunn
8 Jim Thome
9 Derek Jeter
10 Scott Rolen
11 Nomar Garciaparra
12 Kerry Wood
13 Chipper Jones
14 Frank Thomas
15 Jeff Bagwell

National Treasures

Each National Treasures card is serial-numbered to 500 copies with a Gold parallel, serial-numbered to the production figures listed below, also available.

2 Kenesaw Landis
5 Leo Durocher
9 Peter Gammons
10 Ernie Harwell
11 Billy Martin
12 John McGraw
13 Red Barber
15 Casey Stengel
16 Sparky Anderson
17 Harry Caray
18 Ban Johnson
20 Ralph Kiner

Autographs & Game-Used