Upper Deck A Piece of History 500 HR Club

Description

The Upper Deck A Piece of History 500 HR Club, is a multi-brand, game-used set featuring all members (except Barry Bonds) of the 500 Home Run Club.

Beginning in 1999, Upper Deck inserted into various products cards featuring a piece of a game-used bat. The first group of 15 cards were randomly inserted into 1999 and early 2000 Upper Deck baseball sets.

As more players reached the 500 HR milestone, new cards were added.

With the exception of Babe Ruth, approximately 350 of each card was produced. Only 50 Babe Ruth's were made.

Since Barry Bonds was exclusive to Topps at the time he reached the 500 HR milestone, he was unable to be included in this set.

Checklist

1999-2000

A Piece of History cards from the original 1999-2000 run were released in the following products:

• 1999 SP Authentic: Ernie Banks

• 1999 SP Signature: Mel Ott

• 1999 SPx: Willie Mays

• 1999 UD Choice: Eddie Murray

• 1999 UD Ionix: Frank Robinson

• 1999 Upper Deck Series Two: Babe Ruth

• 1999 Upper Deck Century Legends: Jimmie Foxx

• 1999 Upper Deck Challengers for 70: Harmon Killebrew

• 1999 Upper Deck HoloGrFx: Eddie Mathews and Willie McCovey

• 1999 Upper Deck MVP: Mike Schmidt

• 1999 Upper Deck Ovation: Mickey Mantle

• 1999 Upper Deck Retro: Ted Williams

• 2000 Black Diamond: Reggie Jackson

• 2000 Upper Deck Series One: Hank Aaron

It is unclear how card #ARM was distributed; however, less than 10 copies of this triple-bat card are known to exist.

• 714 HR Babe Ruth
• 521 HR Ernie Banks
• 521 HR Eddie Mathews
• 586 HR Frank Robinson
• 755 HR Hank Aaron
• 573 HR Harmon Killebrew
• 534 HR Jimmie Foxx
• 536 HR Mickey Mantle
• 511 HR Mel Ott
• 548 HR Mike Schmidt
• 563 HR Reggie Jackson
• 521 HR Ted Williams
• 521 HR Willie McCovey
• NNO Instant Winner Card
• 660 HR Willie Mays
• 504 HR Eddie Murray
• NNO Hank Aaron / Babe Ruth / Willie Mays

2002

These cards were released into packs of 2002 Upper Deck Series Two.

• 583 HR Mark McGwire

2003

These cards were released into packs of 2003 Upper Deck Series One.

• HR-SS Sammy Sosa

2004

Cards from 2004 were released into the following packs:

• 2004 Upper Deck Series One: Rafael Palmeiro

• 2004 Upper Deck Etchings: Ken Griffey, Jr.

• HR-RP Rafael Palmeiro
• 500 HR Ken Griffey, Jr.

2008

These cards were released into packs of 2008 Upper Deck Series One.

• 512 HR Frank Thomas
• 504 HR Jim Thome

2009

This cards were released into packs of 2009 Upper Deck Series One.

• 500 HR Manny Ramirez

2010

This cards were released into packs of 2010 Upper Deck.

• 500HR-GS Gary Sheffield