2001 MLB Showdown

Description

2001 MLB Showdown is a 462-card trading card game released in Mid-April. The product was released by Wizards of the Coast, the same company behind the popular Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon trading card games. The 1st Edition cards were released with a silver stamp on front of the card indicating the first print run. The set features 400-player cards and 62 foil superstar cards that were short printed at one in three packs.

Distribution

1st Edition: 24 packs per box, nine cards per pack (MSRP: $2.99).

Starter Packs: 12 starter decks per box, 75 cards per deck.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Booster Pack Odds	Starter Deck Odds
Base	462	-	?	?
short set	400	-	?	?
Foil	62	-	1:3	?
Strategy Cards	75	-	1:2	40:1

Checklist

Promos

To promote the upcoming 2001 MLB Showdown set, WotC released three promo sets: Ace Pitcher, Diamond Star, and Future Star. The front of each card is marked with the respective set's name.

Ace Pitcher

• 1 Kris Benson
• 2 Kevin Brown
• 3 Roger Clemens
• 4 Bartolo Colon
• 5 Jeff D'Amico
• 6 Ryan Dempster
• 7 Adam Eaton
• 8 Scott Elarton
• 9 Livan Hernandez
• 10 Tim Hudson
• 11 Randy Johnson
• 12 Darryl Kile
• 13 Al Leiter
• 14 Jon Lieber
• 15 Greg Maddux
• 16 Pedro Martinez
• 17 Brad Radke
• 18 Javier Vazquez
• 19 Jeff Weaver
• 20 David Wells

Diamond Star

• 1 Roberto Alomar
• 2 Carlos Delgado
• 3 Jason Giambi
• 4 Troy Glaus
• 5 Luis Gonzalez
• 6 Tony Gwynn
• 7 Todd Helton
• 8 Richard Hidalgo
• 9 Bob Higginson
• 10 Andruw Jones
• 11 Dave Justice
• 12 Jeff Kent
• 13 Ivan Rodriguez
• 14 Gary Sheffield
• 15 Mike Sweeney
• 16 Miguel Tejada
• 17 Frank Thomas
• 18 Greg Vaughn
• 19 Robin Ventura
• 20 Rondell White

Future Star

• 1 Peter Bergeron
• 2 Pat Burrell
• 3 Mike Cameron
• 4 Sean Casey
• 5 J.D. Drew
• 6 Corey Koskie
• 7 Melvin Mora
• 8 Trot Nixon
• 9 Eric Owens
• 10 Jay Payton
• 11 Aramis Ramirez
• 12 Richie Sexson
• 13 Preston Wilson

Base Set

• 1 Garret Anderson
• 2 Darin Erstad FOIL
• 3 Ron Gant
• 4 Troy Glaus FOIL
• 5 Shigetoshi Hasegawa
• 6 Adam Kennedy
• 7 Al Levine RC
• 8 Ben Molina
• 9 Troy Percival
• 10 Mark Petkovsek
• 11 Tim Salmon
• 12 Scott Schoeneweis
• 13 Scott Spiezio
• 14 Mo Vaughn
• 15 Jarrod Washburn
• 16 Brian Anderson
• 17 Danny Bautista
• 18 Jay Bell
• 19 Greg Colbrunn
• 20 Steve Finley
• 21 Luis Gonzalez
• 22 Randy Johnson FOIL
• 23 Byung-Hyun Kim
• 24 Matt Mantei
• 25 Mike Morgan
• 26 Curt Schilling
• 27 Kelly Stinnett
• 28 Greg Swindell
• 29 Matt Williams
• 30 Tony Womack
• 31 Andy Ashby
• 32 Bobby Bonilla
• 33 Rafael Furcal FOIL
• 34 Andres Galarraga
• 35 Tom Glavine FOIL
• 36 Andruw Jones
• 37 Chipper Jones FOIL
• 38 Brian Jordan
• 39 Wally Joyner
• 40 Keith Lockhart
• 41 Javy Lopez
• 42 Greg Maddux
• 43 Kevin Millwood
• 44 Mike Remlinger
• 45 John Rocker
• 46 B.J. Surhoff
• 47 Quilvio Veras
• 48 Brady Anderson
• 49 Albert Belle
• 50 Jeff Conine
• 51 Delino DeShields
• 52 Buddy Groom
• 53 Trenidad Hubbard
• 54 Luis Matos
• 55 Jose Mercedes
• 56 Melvin Mora
• 57 Mike Mussina
• 58 Sidney Ponson
• 59 Pat Rapp
• 60 Chris Richard
• 61 Cal Ripken, Jr. FOIL
• 62 Mike Trombley
• 63 Rolando Arrojo
• 64 Dante Bichette
• 65 Rheal Cormier
• 66 Carl Everett
• 67 Rich Garces
• 68 Nomar Garciaparra FOIL
• 69 Mike Lansing
• 70 Darren Lewis
• 71 Derek Lowe
• 72 Pedro Martinez FOIL
• 73 Ramon Martinez
• 74 Trot Nixon
• 75 Jose Offerman
• 76 Troy O'Leary
• 77 Jason Varitek
• 78 Rick Aguilera
• 79 Damon Buford
• 80 Joe Girardi
• 81 Mark Grace
• 82 Willie Greene
• 83 Ricky Gutierrez
• 84 Felix Heredia
• 85 Jon Lieber
• 86 Jeff Reed
• 87 Sammy Sosa FOIL
• 88 Kevin Tapani
• 89 Todd Van Poppel
• 90 Rondell White
• 91 Kerry Wood
• 92 Eric Young
• 93 James Baldwin
• 94 Ray Durham
• 95 Keith Foulke FOIL
• 96 Bob Howry
• 97 Charles Johnson FOIL
• 98 Mark Johnson
• 99 Paul Konerko
• 100 Carlos Lee
• 101 Magglio Ordonez
• 102 Jim Parque
• 103 Herbert Perry
• 104 Bill Simas
• 105 Chris Singleton
• 106 Mike Sirotka
• 107 Frank Thomas FOIL
• 108 Jose Valentin
• 109 Kelly Wunsch
• 110 Aaron Boone
• 111 Sean Casey
• 112 Danny Graves
• 113 Ken Griffey, Jr. FOIL
• 114 Pete Harnisch
• 115 Barry Larkin FOIL
• 116 Alex Ochoa
• 117 Steve Parris
• 118 Pokey Reese
• 119 Chris Stynes
• 120 Scott Sullivan
• 121 Eddie Taubensee
• 122 Michael Tucker
• 123 Ron Villone
• 124 Dmitri Young
• 125 Roberto Alomar FOIL
• 126 Sandy Alomar, Jr.
• 127 Jason Bere
• 128 Dave Burba
• 129 Bartolo Colon
• 130 Wil Cordero
• 131 Chuck Finley
• 132 Travis Fryman
• 133 Steve Karsay
• 134 Kenny Lofton
• 135 Manny Ramirez FOIL
• 136 David Segui
• 137 Jim Thome
• 138 Omar Vizquel
• 139 Bob Wickman
• 140 Pedro Astacio
• 141 Brian Bohanon
• 142 Jeff Cirillo
• 143 Jeff Frye
• 144 Jeffrey Hammonds
• 145 Todd Helton FOIL
• 146 Todd Hollandsworth
• 147 Butch Huskey
• 148 Jose Jimenez
• 149 Brent Mayne
• 150 Neifi Perez
• 151 Terry Shumpert
• 152 Larry Walker
• 153 Gabriel White FOIL
• 154 Masato Yoshii
• 155 Matt Anderson
• 156 Brad Ausmus
• 157 Rich Becker
• 158 Tony Clark
• 159 Deivi Cruz
• 160 Damion Easley
• 161 Juan Encarnacion
• 162 Juan Gonzalez
• 163 Shane Halter
• 164 Bob Higginson
• 165 Todd Jones FOIL
• 166 Brian Moehler
• 167 Hideo Nomo
• 168 Dean Palmer
• 169 Jeff Weaver
• 170 Antonio Alfonseca
• 171 Luis Castillo FOIL
• 172 Ryan Dempster FOIL
• 173 Cliff Floyd
• 174 Alex Gonzalez
• 175 Mark Kotsay
• 176 Derrek Lee
• 177 Braden Looper
• 178 Mike Lowell
• 179 Brad Penny
• 180 Mike Redmond
• 181 Henry Rodriguez
• 182 Jesus Sanchez
• 183 Mark Smith
• 184 Preston Wilson
• 185 Moises Alou
• 186 Jeff Bagwell FOIL
• 187 Lance Berkman
• 188 Craig Biggio
• 189 Tim Bogar
• 190 Jose Cabrera
• 191 Octavio Dotel
• 192 Scott Elarton FOIL
• 193 Richard Hidalgo
• 194 Chris Holt
• 195 Jose Lima
• 196 Julio Lugo
• 197 Mitch Meluskey
• 198 Bill Spiers
• 199 Daryle Ward
• 200 Carlos Beltran
• 201 Ricky Bottalico
• 202 Johnny Damon FOIL
• 203 Jermaine Dye
• 204 Carlos Febles
• 205 Dave McCarty
• 206 Mark Quinn
• 207 Joe Randa
• 208 Dan Reichert
• 209 Rey Sanchez
• 210 Jose Santiago
• 211 Jeff Suppan
• 212 Mac Suzuki
• 213 Mike Sweeney
• 214 Greg Zaun
• 215 Terry Adams
• 216 Adrian Beltre
• 217 Kevin Brown FOIL
• 218 Alex Cora
• 219 Darren Dreifort
• 220 Tom Goodwin
• 221 Shawn Green
• 222 Mark Grudzielanek
• 223 Dave Hansen
• 224 Todd Hundley
• 225 Eric Karros
• 226 Chad Kreuter
• 227 Chan Ho Park
• 228 Jeff Shaw
• 229 Gary Sheffield FOIL
• 230 Juan Acevedo
• 231 Ron Belliard
• 232 Henry Blanco
• 233 Jeromy Burnitz
• 234 Jeff D'Amico FOIL
• 235 Valerio De Los Santos
• 236 Marquis Grissom
• 237 Charlie Hayes
• 238 Jimmy Haynes
• 239 Jose Hernandez
• 240 Geoff Jenkins
• 241 Curtis Leskanic
• 242 Mark Loretta
• 243 Richie Sexson
• 244 David Weathers
• 245 Jay Canizaro
• 246 Ron Coomer
• 247 Cristian Guzman
• 248 LaTroy Hawkins
• 249 Denny Hocking
• 250 Torii Hunter
• 251 Jacque Jones
• 252 Corey Koskie
• 253 Matt Lawton
• 254 Matt LeCroy
• 255 Eric Milton
• 256 David Ortiz
• 257 Brad Radke FOIL
• 258 Mark Redman
• 259 Bob Wells
• 260 Michael Barrett
• 261 Peter Bergeron
• 262 Milton Bradley
• 263 Orlando Cabrera
• 264 Vladimir Guerrero FOIL
• 265 Wilton Guerrero
• 266 Dustin Hermanson
• 267 Terry Jones
• 268 Steve Kline
• 269 Felipe Lira
• 270 Mike Mordecai
• 271 Lee Stevens
• 272 Anthony Telford
• 273 Javier Vazquez
• 274 Jose Vidro FOIL
• 275 Edgardo Alfonzo FOIL
• 276 Derek Bell
• 277 Armando Benitez
• 278 Mike Bordick
• 279 Mike Hampton FOIL
• 280 Lenny Harris
• 281 Al Leiter
• 282 Jay Payton
• 283 Mike Piazza FOIL
• 284 Todd Pratt
• 285 Glendon Rusch
• 286 Bubba Trammell
• 287 Robin Ventura
• 288 Turk Wendell
• 289 Rick White
• 290 Todd Zeile
• 291 Scott Brosius
• 292 Roger Clemens FOIL
• 293 Jason Grimsley
• 294 Orlando Hernandez
• 295 Derek Jeter FOIL
• 296 Dave Justice
• 297 Chuck Knoblauch
• 298 Tino Martinez
• 299 Denny Neagle
• 300 Jeff Nelson
• 301 Paul O'Neill
• 302 Andy Pettitte
• 303 Jorge Posada
• 304 Mariano Rivera FOIL
• 305 Jose Vizcaino
• 306 Bernie Williams FOIL
• 307 Kevin Appier
• 308 Eric Chavez
• 309 Ryan Christenson
• 310 Jason Giambi FOIL
• 311 Jeremy Giambi
• 312 Ben Grieve
• 313 Gil Heredia
• 314 Ramon Hernandez
• 315 Tim Hudson FOIL
• 316 Jason Isringhausen
• 317 Terrence Long FOIL
• 318 Jim Mecir
• 319 Mark Mulder
• 320 Matt Stairs
• 321 Miguel Tejada
• 322 Randy Velarde
• 323 Bob Abreu
• 324 Jeff Brantley
• 325 Pat Burrell
• 326 Omar Daal
• 327 Rob Ducey
• 328 Doug Glanville
• 329 Wayne Gomes
• 330 Kevin Jordan
• 331 Travis Lee
• 332 Mike Lieberthal
• 333 Vicente Padilla
• 334 Robert Person
• 335 Scott Rolen FOIL
• 336 Kevin Sefcik
• 337 Randy Wolf
• 338 Jimmy Anderson
• 339 Mike Benjamin
• 340 Kris Benson
• 341 Adrian Brown
• 342 Brian Giles FOIL
• 343 Jason Kendall FOIL
• 344 Pat Meares
• 345 Warren Morris
• 346 Aramis Ramirez
• 347 Todd Ritchie
• 348 Scott Sauerbeck
• 349 Jose Silva
• 350 John Vander Wal
• 351 Mike Williams
• 352 Kevin Young
• 353 Carlos Almanzar
• 354 Bret Boone
• 355 Matt Clement
• 356 Adam Eaton
• 357 Wiki Gonzalez
• 358 Trevor Hoffman FOIL
• 359 Damian Jackson
• 360 Ryan Klesko
• 361 Phil Nevin FOIL
• 362 Eric Owens
• 363 Desi Relaford
• 364 Ruben Rivera
• 365 Kevin Walker
• 366 Woody Williams
• 367 Jay Witasick
• 368 Rich Aurilia
• 369 Marvin Benard
• 370 Barry Bonds FOIL
• 371 Ellis Burks
• 372 Bobby Estalella
• 373 Doug Henry
• 374 Livan Hernandez
• 375 Jeff Kent FOIL
• 376 Doug Mirabelli
• 377 Bill Mueller
• 378 Calvin Murray
• 379 Robb Nen FOIL
• 380 Russ Ortiz
• 381 Armando Rios
• 382 Felix Rodriguez
• 383 Kirk Rueter
• 384 J.T. Snow
• 385 Paul Abbott
• 386 David Bell
• 387 Jay Buhner
• 388 Mike Cameron
• 389 John Halama
• 390 Rickey Henderson
• 391 Al Martin
• 392 Edgar Martinez FOIL
• 393 Mark McLemore
• 394 John Olerud
• 395 Jose Paniagua
• 396 Arthur Rhodes
• 397 Alex Rodriguez FOIL
• 398 Kazuhiro Sasaki FOIL
• 399 Aaron Sele
• 400 Dan Wilson
• 401 Rick Ankiel FOIL
• 402 Will Clark
• 403 J.D. Drew
• 404 Jim Edmonds FOIL
• 405 Pat Hentgen
• 406 Darryl Kile
• 407 Ray Lankford
• 408 Mike Matheny
• 409 Mark McGwire FOIL
• 410 Craig Paquette
• 411 Placido Polanco
• 412 Edgar Renteria
• 413 Garrett Stephenson
• 414 Fernando Tatis
• 415 Mike Timlin
• 416 Dave Veres
• 417 Fernando Vina
• 418 Miguel Cairo
• 419 Vinny Castilla
• 420 Steve Cox
• 421 Doug Creek
• 422 John Flaherty
• 423 Jose Guillen
• 424 Roberto Hernandez FOIL
• 425 Russ Johnson
• 426 Albie Lopez
• 427 Felix Martinez
• 428 Fred McGriff
• 429 Bryan Rekar
• 430 Greg Vaughn
• 431 Gerald Williams
• 432 Esteban Yan
• 433 Luis Alicea
• 434 Frank Catalanotto
• 435 Royce Clayton
• 436 Tim Crabtree
• 437 Chad Curtis
• 438 Rusty Greer
• 439 Rick Helling
• 440 Gabe Kapler
• 441 Mike Lamb
• 442 Ricky Ledee
• 443 Rafael Palmeiro
• 444 Ivan Rodriguez FOIL
• 445 Kenny Rogers
• 446 Mike Venafro
• 447 John Wetteland
• 448 Tony Batista FOIL
• 449 Jose Cruz, Jr.
• 450 Carlos Delgado FOIL
• 451 Kelvim Escobar
• 452 Darrin Fletcher
• 453 Brad Fullmer
• 454 Alex Gonzalez
• 455 Mark Guthrie
• 456 Billy Koch
• 457 Esteban Loaiza
• 458 Raul Mondesi
• 459 Mickey Morandini
• 460 Paul Quantrill
• 461 Shannon Stewart
• 462 David Wells FOIL

Parallels

1st Edition

Cards inserted into Booster Packs were all hit with a "1st Edition" foil stamp; whereas cards coming out of the Starter Decks do not.

Inserts

Strategy

• S1 Jorge Posada
• S2 Nomar Garciaparra
• S3 Manny Ramirez
• S4 Bernie Williams / Derek Jeter
• S5 Sammy Sosa
• S6 Brian Buchanon
• S7 Jay Canizaro
• S8 Michael Tucker
• S9 Turk Wendell
• S10 Luis Castillo
• S11 Carl Everett
• S12 Carlos Delgado
• S13 Nomar Garciaparra
• S14 Bengie Molina
• S15 Eric Young
• S16 Chris Carpenter
• S17 Nomar Garciaparra
• S18 Alex Ochoa
• S19 Reds Player
• S20 Rickey Henderson
• S21 Alex Gonzalez
• S22 Hideo Nomo
• S23 Sean Casey
• S24 Angels Player
• S25 New York Yankees
• S26 Chuck Knoblauch
• S27 Todd Helton
• S28 Tim Salmon
• S29 Randy Johnson
• S30 Johnny Damon
• S31 Cincinnati Reds
• S32 Alex Rodriguez
• S33 Pokey Reese
• S34 Mark McGwire
• S35 Pittsburgh Pirates
• S36 Homer Bush
• S37 Chicago Cubs
• S38 Minnesota Twins
• S39 Johnny Damon
• S40 Brian Giles
• S41 Shawon Dunston
• S42 Curtis Leskanic
• S43 Texas Rangers
• S44 Bob Higginson
• S45 Baltimore Orioles
• S46 Greg Maddux
• S47 "Fans Flamethrower"
• S48 Kevin Brown
• S49 Omar Vizquel
• S50 Tom Glavine
• S51 Neifi Perez
• S52 Mike Lamb
• S53 Pokey Reese
• S54 New York Yankees
• S55 Randy Johnson
• S56 Boston Red Sox
• S57 "Fans Just Foul"
• S58 Bernie Williams
• S59 Barry Bonds
• S60 Jason Christiansen
• S61 Eddie Taubensee
• S62 Chicago White Sox
• S63 Todd Jones
• S64 Pitchout
• S65 Brian Moehler
• S66 Livan Hernandez
• S67 Omar Vizquel
• S68 Byung-Hyun Kim
• S69 New York Mets
• S70 Benito Santiago
• S71 Kevin Brown
• S72 Pedro Martinez
• S73 Bobby Cox
• S74 Dmitri Young
• S75 Moises Alou