Description

2001 Topps American Pie 150-card set released June 15, 2001. The brainchild of Florida Hobby store owner and Topps consultant Alan Narz, American Pie was a hybrid baseball/non-sports set designed to captured the essence of America at the height of the Baby Boomers Era of the '60's and '70's.

The first 115 cards in the set features Major Leaguers who played in the era, #116-#140 features historic events and #141-#150 features American icons of the '60's and '70's.

Each 24-pack Hobby box should yield at least one autograph or relic card.

American Pie can be seen as the first product the successfully incorporated non-sports subjects into a mainstream baseball card set -- a trend that would continue throughout the decade.

Distribution

Hobby: 24 packs per box, seven cards per pack (MSRP: $5)

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	150	-	?	?
Decade Leaders	10	-	1:12	?
Profiles in Courage	20	-	1:8	?
Baseball Autoproof	16	25	1:4009	?
Entertainment Star Autoproof	3	500	1:1071	?
Relics	4	-	1:29	?
Rookie Reprint Relics	20	-	1:116	?
Timeless Classics Relics	45	-	1:80	?
Woodstock (Baseball)	24	-	1:167	?
Woodstock (Max Yasgur's Farm)	1	-	1:806	?
Team Topps Legends	16	-	1:211	?

Checklist

Base Set

116 Civil Rights Movement
117 Bay of Pigs
120 Atomic Bomb Test Ban Treaty
119 N.Y. World's Fair
1 Al Kaline
2 Al Oliver
3 Andre Dawson
4 Bert Blyleven
5 Bill Buckner
6 Bill Mazeroski
7 Bob Gibson
8 Bill Freehan
9 Bob Grich
10 Bobby Murcer
11 Bobby Richardson
12 Boog Powell
13 Brooks Robinson
14 Carl Yastrzemski
15 Carlton Fisk
16 Clete Boyer
17 Curt Flood
18 Dale Murphy
19 Tony Conigliaro
20 Dave Parker
21 Dave Winfield
22 Dick Allen
23 Dick Groat
24 Don Drysdale
25 Don Sutton
26 Dwight Evans
27 Eddie Mathews
28 Elston Howard
29 Frank Howard
30 Frank Robinson
31 Fred Lynn
32 Gary Carter
33 Gaylord Perry
34 Norm Cash
35 George Brett
36 George Foster
37 Goose Gossage
38 Graig Nettles
39 Greg Luzinski
40 Hank Aaron
41 Harmon Killebrew
42 Jack Clark
43 Jack Morris
44 Jim Wynn
45 Jim Kaat
46 Jim Palmer
47 Joe Pepitone
48 Joe Rudi
49 Johnny Bench
50 Juan Marichal
51 Keith Hernandez
52 Bucky Dent
53 Lou Brock
54 Ron Cey
55 Luis Aparicio
56 Luis Tiant
57 Mark Fidrych
58 Maury Wills
59 Mickey Lolich
60 Mickey Rivers
61 Mike Schmidt
62 Moose Skowron
63 Nolan Ryan
64 Orlando Cepeda
65 Ozzie Smith
66 Phil Niekro
67 Reggie Jackson
68 Reggie Smith
69 Rico Carty
70 Roberto Clemente
71 Robin Yount
72 Roger Maris
73 Rollie Fingers
74 Ron Guidry
75 Ron Santo
76 Ron Swoboda
77 Sal Bando
78 Sam McDowell
79 Steve Carlton
80 Thurman Munson
81 Tim McCarver
82 Tom Seaver
83 Mike Cuellar
84 Tony Kubek
85 Tommy John
86 Tony Perez
87 Tug McGraw
88 Vida Blue
89 Warren Spahn
90 Whitey Ford
91 Willie Mays
92 Willie McCovey
93 Willie Stargell
94 Yogi Berra
95 Stan Musial
96 Jim Piersall
97 Duke Snider
98 Bruce Sutter
99 Dave Concepcion
100 Darrell Evans
101 Dennis Eckersley
102 Hoyt Wilhelm
103 Minnie Minoso
104 Don Newcombe
105 Richie Ashburn
106 Alan Trammell
107 Jim Hunter
108 Lou Whitaker
109 Johnny Podres
110 Denny Martinez
111 Willie Horton
112 Dean Chance
113 Fergie Jenkins
114 Cecil Cooper
115 Rick Reuschel
118 Cuban Missile Crisis
126 Space Race
127 Robert F. Kennedy
129 Man On The Moon
141 John F. Kennedy
142 Marilyn Monroe
143 Elvis Presley
144 Jimi Hendrix
145 Arthur Ashe
146 Richard Nixon
148 Janis Joplin
149 Frank Sinatra
150 Trevor Malcolm
147 James Dean
140 Iran Hostage Crisis
139 Three Mile Island
138 Disco
137 Bicentennial
136 Nixon Resigns
135 Watergate
134 U.S. Gas Shortage
133 Vietnam Cease Fire
131 Flower Power
132 Women's Lib Movement
128 Peace Movement
130 Woodstock
125 U.S. Troops in Vietnam
124 British Music Invasion
122 Lyndon Johnson Signs
121 Kennedy Assassination
123 The Motown Sound

Inserts

Decade Leaders

DL1 Willie Stargell
DL2 Harmon Killebrew
DL3 Johnny Bench
DL4 Hank Aaron
DL5 Rod Carew
DL6 Roberto Clemente
DL7 Nolan Ryan
DL8 Bob Gibson
DL9 Jim Palmer
DL10 Juan Marichal

Profiles in Courage

PIC1 Roger Maris
PIC2 Lou Brock
PIC3 Brooks Robinson
PIC4 Carl Yastrzemski
PIC5 Mike Schmidt
PIC6 Hank Aaron
PIC7 Tom Seaver
PIC8 Willie Mays
PIC9 Graig Nettles
PIC10 Frank Robinson
PIC11 Rollie Fingers
PIC12 Tony Perez
PIC13 George Brett
PIC14 Robin Yount
PIC15 Nolan Ryan
PIC16 Warren Spahn
PIC17 Johnny Bench
PIC18 Vida Blue
PIC19 Roberto Clemente
PIC20 Thurman Munson

Autographs & Game-Used

AutoProof

Each AutoProof features an autograph signed on a card bought-back by Topps. Each AutoProof in serial-numbered to 25 copies.

While some players signed 25 copies of the same card, others signed different cards from different years. Regardless, each player signed a total of 25 cards. Known AutoProofs are denoted below.

1 Johnny Bench
2 Vida Blue
3 Clete Boyer
4 Bob Gibson
5 Frank Howard
6 Reggie Jackson
7 Tony Kubek
8 Mickey Lolich
9 Willie Mays
10 Tug McGraw
11 Joe Pepitone
12 Bobby Richardson
13 Bill Skowron
14 Warren Spahn
15 Luis Tiant
16 Carl Yastrzemski

Entertainment Star AutoProof

This three-card set features T.V. personalities who signed original Topps non-sports cards from the 60's and '70's. In all each entertainer signed a cumulative total of 500 cards, all of which are serial-numbered on the backs.

A wide array of different vintage Topps entertainment cards (each featuring the applicable entertainer) were used for this program but all are valued equally within the respective confines of the applicable signer.

2 Lou Ferrigno
3 Adam West
1 Danny Bonaduce

Relics

This four card set featured memorabilia from deceased pop culture icons of the '60's and '70's. A fifth card of Jimi Hendrix was on the pre-release checklist issued by Topps, but was pulled from the final product after a suitable relic could not be acquired.

PAPM1 Frank Sinatra
PAPM3 Elvis Presley
PAPM4 Janis Joplin
PAPM5 Jimi Hendrix
PAPM2 Berlin Wall

Rookie Reprint Relics

This 20-card set features both a jersey swatch and a bat chip, mounted onto a reprint of the player's respective Topps rookie card.

NOTE: Tim McCarver and Thurman Munson were both erroneously given the same card number.

BBRR-TM Tim McCarver / Thurman Munson
BBRR-AD Andre Dawson
BBRR-AO Al Oliver
BBRR-BG Bob Grich
BBRR-BM Bobby Murcer
BBRR-BP Boog Powell
BBRR-DE Dennis Eckersley
BBRR-DS Don Sutton
BBRR-DW Dave Winfield
BBRR-GB George Brett
BBRR-GC Gary Carter
BBRR-JB Johnny Bench
BBRR-JK Jim Kaat
BBRR-JM Joe Morgan
BBRR-MF Mark Fidrych
BBRR-OS Ozzie Smith
BBRR-RJ Reggie Jackson
BBRR-RY Robin Yount
BBRR-SC Steve Carlton

Timeless Classics Relics

BBTC1 Sam McDowell
BBTC2 Sam McDowell
BBTC3 Frank Howard
BBTC4 Dick Groat
BBTC5 Roger Maris
BBTC6 Orlando Cepeda
BBTC7 Willie Mays
BBTC8 Carl Yastrzemski
BBTC9 Roberto Clemente
BBTC10 Harmon Killebrew
BBTC12 Willie Mays
BBTC13 Tony Conigliaro
BBTC14 Frank Robinson
BBTC15 Carl Yastrzemski
BBTC16 Carl Yastrzemski
BBTC17 Carl Yastrzemski
BBTC18 Hank Aaron
BBTC19 Frank Howard
BBTC20 Carl Yastrzemski
BBTC21 Willie McCovey
BBTC22 Rico Carty
BBTC23 Frank Howard
BBTC24 Johnny Bench
BBTC25 Willie Stargell
BBTC26 Steve Carlton
BBTC27 Norm Cash
BBTC28 Reggie Jackson
BBTC29 Willie Stargell
BBTC30 Mike Schmidt
BBTC31 Mike Schmidt
BBTC32 Mickey Rivers
BBTC33 Tom Seaver
BBTC34 George Brett
BBTC35 George Foster
BBTC36 Graig Nettles
BBTC37 Nolan Ryan
BBTC38 Nolan Ryan
BBTC39 Dave Parker
BBTC40 George Foster
BBTC41 Dick Allen
BBTC42 Dave Parker
BBTC43 Fred Lynn
BBTC44 Keith Hernandez
BBTC45 Dave Winfield
BBTC11 Brooks Robinson

Woodstock

This 25-card set features game-used bat chips from 24 players from the era. The 25th and final card features actual dirt from Max Yasgur's farm, the site of the 1969 Woodstock concert.

NOTE: Both Willie Stargell and the Woodstock dirt card were both erroneously given the same card number.

BBWM-BB Bill Buckner
BBWM-BF Bill Freehan
BBWM-BR Brooks Robinson
BBWM-CF Carlton Fisk
BBWM-CY Carl Yastrzemski
BBWM-DE Dwight Evans
BBWM-DG Dick Groat
BBWM-DS Duke Snider
BBWM-DW Dave Winfield
BBWM-FL Fred Lynn
BBWM-FR Frank Robinson
BBWM-GB George Brett
BBWM-JP Jimmy Piersall
BBWM-JR Joe Rudi
BBWM-JW Jim Wynn
BBWM-MW Maury Wills
BBWM-OC Orlando Cepeda
BBWM-RJ Reggie Jackson
BBWM-RY Robin Yount
BBWM-SM Stan Musial
BBWM-TK Ted Kluszewski
BBWM-TP Tony Perez
BBWM-WM Willie Mays
BBWM-WS Willie Stargell
BBWM-WS Woodstock Dirt

Team Topps Legends

See 2001 Team Topps Legends Autographs.