1996 Leaf Signature Series

Description

1996 Leaf Signature Series is a 150-card set released in two series. The first 100 cards were issued as part of the Leaf Signature Series set in August, 1996; while the final 50 cards came out in January, 1997 as part of the Extended Series.

Leaf Signature was one of the more significant products ever issued as it was the first to include an autographed card in every pack. A limited number of Signature Series packs were sold to mass-market retail outlets in "Blaster"-style boxes.

The production of the Extended Series was less than half of the first series and each pack contained two autographs and one pack in every 12-pack Hobby box yielded four autographs. Extended Series packs had a selected of base cards from both series, making the Extended Series base cards very difficult to find.

Distribution

Signature Series: 12 packs per box, four cards per pack (MSRP: $9.99).

Extended Series: 12 packs per box, four cards per pack (MSRP: $9.99). Hobby only

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Signature Series Odds	Extended Series Odds
Base	150	-	?	?
Signature Series base set	100	-	?	?
Extended Series base set	50	-	N/A	?
Gold Press Proofs	150	-	1:12	1:8
Platinum Press Proofs	150	150	N/A	1:24
Bronze Autographs	254	3500	?	N/A
Silver Autographs	254	1000	?	N/A
Gold Autographs	254	500	?	N/A
Extended Series Autographs	218	5000	N/A	2:1
Extended Series Autographs Century Marks	31	100	N/A	?

Checklist

• 1 Mike Piazza
• 2 Juan Gonzalez
• 3 Greg Maddux
• 4 Marc Newfield
• 5 Wade Boggs
• 6 Ray Lankford
• 7 Frank Thomas
• 8 Rico Brogna
• 9 Tim Salmon
• 10 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 11 Manny Ramirez
• 12 Cecil Fielder
• 13 Gregg Jefferies
• 14 Rondell White
• 15 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 16 Alex Rodriguez
• 17 Bernie Williams
• 18 Andres Galarraga
• 19 Mike Mussina
• 20 Chuck Knoblauch
• 21 Joe Carter
• 22 Jeff Bagwell
• 23 Mark McGwire
• 24 Sammy Sosa
• 25 Reggie Sanders
• 26 Chipper Jones
• 27 Jeff Cirillo
• 28 Roger Clemens
• 29 Craig Biggio
• 30 Gary Sheffield
• 31 Paul O'Neill
• 32 Johnny Damon
• 33 Jason Isringhausen
• 34 Jay Bell
• 35 Henry Rodriguez
• 36 Matt Williams
• 37 Randy Johnson
• 38 Fred McGriff
• 39 Jason Giambi
• 40 Ivan Rodriguez
• 41 Raul Mondesi
• 42 Barry Larkin
• 43 Ryan Klesko
• 44 Joey Hamilton
• 45 Todd Hundley
• 46 Jim Edmonds
• 47 Dante Bichette
• 48 Roberto Alomar
• 49 Mark Grace
• 50 Brady Anderson
• 51 Hideo Nomo
• 52 Ozzie Smith
• 53 Robin Ventura
• 54 Andy Pettitte
• 55 Kenny Lofton
• 56 John Mabry
• 57 Paul Molitor
• 58 Rey Ordonez
• 59 Albert Belle
• 60 Charles Johnson
• 61 Edgar Martinez
• 62 Derek Bell
• 63 Carlos Delgado
• 64 Raul Casanova
• 65 Ismael Valdes
• 66 J.T. Snow
• 67 Derek Jeter
• 68 Jason Kendall
• 69 John Smoltz
• 70 Chad Mottola
• 71 Jim Thome
• 72 Will Clark
• 73 Mo Vaughn
• 74 John Wasdin
• 75 Rafael Palmeiro
• 76 Mark Grudzielanek
• 77 Larry Walker
• 78 Alan Benes
• 79 Michael Tucker
• 80 Billy Wagner
• 81 Paul Wilson
• 82 Greg Vaughn
• 83 Dean Palmer
• 84 Ryne Sandberg
• 85 Eric Young
• 86 Jay Buhner
• 87 Tony Clark
• 88 Jermaine Dye
• 89 Barry Bonds
• 90 Ugueth Urbina
• 91 Charles Nagy
• 92 Ruben Rivera
• 93 Todd Hollandsworth
• 94 Darin Erstad RC
• 95 Brooks Kieschnick
• 96 Edgar Renteria
• 97 Lenny Dykstra
• 98 Tony Gwynn
• 99 Kirby Puckett
• 100 Checklist

• 101 Andruw Jones
• 102 Alex Ochoa
• 103 David Cone
• 104 Rusty Greer
• 105 Jose Canseco
• 106 Ken Caminiti
• 107 Mariano Rivera
• 108 Ron Gant
• 109 Darryl Strawberry
• 110 Vladimir Guerrero
• 111 George Arias
• 112 Jeff Conine
• 113 Bob Higginson
• 114 Eric Karros
• 115 Brian Hunter
• 116 Eddie Murray
• 117 Todd Walker
• 118 Chan Ho Park
• 119 John Jaha
• 120 Dave Justice
• 121 Mac Suzuki
• 122 Scott Rolen
• 123 Tino Martinez
• 124 Kimera Bartee
• 125 Garret Anderson
• 126 Brian Jordan
• 127 Andre Dawson
• 128 Javy Lopez
• 129 Bill Pulsipher
• 130 Dwight Gooden
• 131 Al Martin
• 132 Terrell Wade
• 133 Steve Gibralter
• 134 Tom Glavine
• 135 Kevin Appier
• 136 Tim Raines
• 137 Curtis Pride
• 138 Todd Greene
• 139 Bobby Bonilla
• 140 Trey Beamon
• 141 Marty Cordova
• 142 Rickey Henderson
• 143 Ellis Burks
• 144 Dennis Eckersley
• 145 Kevin Brown
• 146 Carlos Baerga
• 147 Brett Butler
• 148 Marquis Grissom
• 149 Karim Garcia
• 150 Frank Thomas CL

Parallels

Each of the 150 base cards are available in the following parallels.

• Gold Press Proof
• Platinum Press Proof (serial-numbered to 150 copies, Extended Series packs only)

• 1 Kurt Abbott
• 2 Juan Acevedo
• 3 Terry Adams
• 4 Manny Alexander
• 5 Roberto Alomar SP
• 6 Moises Alou
• 7 Wilson Alvarez
• 8 Garret Anderson
• 9 Shane Andrews
• 10 Andy Ashby
• 11 Pedro Astacio
• 12 Brad Ausmus
• 13 Bobby Ayala
• 14 Carlos Baerga
• 15 Harold Baines
• 16 Jason Bates
• 17 Allen Battle
• 18 Rich Becker
• 19 David Bell
• 20 Rafael Belliard
• 21 Andy Benes
• 22 Armando Benitez
• 23 Jason Bere
• 24 Geronimo Berroa
• 25 Willie Blair
• 26 Mike Blowers
• 27 Wade Boggs SP
• 28 Ricky Bones
• 29 Mike Bordick
• 30 Toby Borland
• 31 Ricky Bottalico
• 32 Darren Bragg
• 33 Jeff Branson
• 34 Tilson Brito
• 35 Rico Brogna
• 36 Scott Brosius
• 37 Damon Buford
• 38 Mike Busby
• 39 Tom Candiotti
• 40 Frank Castillo
• 41 Andujar Cedeno
• 42 Domingo Cedeno
• 43 Roger Cedeno
• 44 Norm Charlton
• 45 Jeff Cirillo
• 46 Will Clark
• 47 Jeff Conine
• 48 Steve Cooke
• 49 Joey Cora
• 50 Marty Cordova
• 51 Rheal Cormier
• 52 Felipe Crespo
• 53 Chad Curtis
• 54 Johnny Damon
• 55 Russ Davis
• 56 Andre Dawson
• 57 Carlos Delgado *
• 58 Doug Drabek
• 59 Darren Dreifort
• 60 Shawon Dunston
• 61 Ray Durham
• 62 Jim Edmonds
• 63 Joey Eischen
• 64 Jim Eisenreich
• 65 Sal Fasano
• 66 Jeff Fassero
• 67 Alex Fernandez
• 68 Darrin Fletcher
• 69 Chad Fonville
• 70 Kevin Foster
• 71 John Franco
• 72 Julio Franco
• 73 Marvin Freeman
• 74 Travis Fryman
• 75 Gary Gaetti
• 76 Carlos Garcia
• 77 Jason Giambi
• 78 Benji Gil
• 79 Greg Gohr
• 80 Chris Gomez
• 81 Leo Gomez
• 82 Tom Goodwin
• 83 Mike Grace
• 84 Mike Greenwell
• 85 Rusty Greer
• 86 Mark Grudzielanek
• 87 Mark Gubicza
• 88 Juan Guzman
• 89 Darryl Hamilton
• 90 Joey Hamilton
• 91 Chris Hammond
• 92 Mike Hampton
• 93 Chris Haney
• 94 Todd Haney
• 95 Erik Hanson
• 96 Pete Harnisch
• 97 LaTroy Hawkins
• 98 Charlie Hayes
• 99 Jimmy Haynes
• 100 Roberto Hernandez
• 101 Bob Higginson
• 102 Glenallen Hill
• 103 Ken Hill
• 104 Sterling Hitchcock
• 105 Trevor Hoffman
• 106 Dave Hollins
• 107 Dwayne Hosey
• 108 Thomas Howard
• 109 Steve Howe
• 110 John Hudek
• 111 Rex Hudler
• 112 Brian L. Hunter *
• 113 Butch Huskey
• 114 Mark Hutton
• 115 Jason Jacome
• 116 John Jaha
• 117 Reggie Jefferson
• 118 Derek Jeter SP
• 119 Bobby Jones
• 120 Todd Jones
• 121 Brian Jordan
• 122 Kevin Jordan
• 123 Jeff Juden
• 124 Ron Karkovice
• 125 Roberto Kelly
• 126 Mark Kiefer
• 127 Brooks Kieschnick
• 128 Jeff King
• 129 Mike Lansing
• 130 Matt Lawton
• 131 Al Leiter
• 132 Mark Leiter
• 133 Curtis Leskanic
• 134 Darren Lewis
• 135 Mark Lewis
• 136 Felipe Lira
• 137 Pat Listach
• 138 Keith Lockhart
• 139 Kenny Lofton SP
• 140 John Mabry
• 141 Mike Macfarlane
• 142 Kirt Manwaring
• 143 Al Martin
• 144 Norberto Martin
• 145 Dennis Martinez
• 146 Pedro Martinez
• 147 Sandy Martinez
• 148 Mike Matheny
• 149 T.J. Mathews
• 150 David McCarty
• 151 Ben McDonald
• 152 Pat Meares
• 153 Orlando Merced
• 154 Jose Mesa
• 155 Matt Mieske
• 156 Orlando Miller
• 157 Mike Mimbs
• 158 Paul Molitor SP
• 159 Raul Mondesi SP
• 160 Jeff Montgomery
• 161 Mickey Morandini
• 162 Lyle Mouton
• 163 James Mouton
• 164 Jamie Moyer
• 165 Rodney Myers
• 166 Denny Neagle
• 167 Robb Nen
• 168 Marc Newfield
• 169 Dave Nilsson
• 170 Otis Nixon *
• 171 Jon Nunnally
• 172 Chad Ogea
• 173 Troy O'Leary
• 174 Rey Ordonez
• 175 Jayhawk Owens
• 176 Tom Pagnozzi
• 177 Dean Palmer
• 178 Roger Pavlik
• 179 Troy Percival
• 180 Carlos Perez
• 181 Robert Perez
• 182 Andy Pettitte
• 183 Phil Plantier *
• 184 Mike Potts
• 185 Curtis Pride
• 186 Ariel Prieto
• 187 Bill Pulsipher
• 188 Brad Radke
• 189 Manny Ramirez SP
• 190 Joe Randa
• 191 Pat Rapp
• 192 Bryan Rekar
• 193 Shane Reynolds
• 194 Arthur Rhodes
• 195 Mariano Rivera
• 196 Alex Rodriguez SP
• 197 Frank Rodriguez
• 198 Mel Rojas
• 199 Ken Ryan
• 200 Bret Saberhagen
• 201 Tim Salmon
• 202 Rey Sanchez
• 203 Scott Sanders
• 204 Steve Scarsone
• 205 Curt Schilling
• 206 Jason Schmidt
• 207 David Segui
• 208 Kevin Seitzer
• 209 Scott Servais
• 210 Don Slaught
• 211 Zane Smith
• 212 Paul Sorrento
• 213 Scott Stahoviak
• 214 Mike Stanley
• 215 Terry Steinbach
• 216 Kevin Stocker
• 217 Jeff Suppan
• 218 Bill Swift
• 219 Greg Swindell
• 220 Kevin Tapani
• 221 Danny Tartabull
• 222 Julian Tavarez
• 223 Frank Thomas SP
• 224 Ozzie Timmons
• 225 Michael Tucker
• 226 Ismael Valdes
• 227 Jose Valentin
• 228 Todd Van Poppel
• 229 Mo Vaughn SP
• 230 Quilvio Veras
• 231 Fernando Vina
• 232 Joe Vitiello
• 233 Jose Vizcaino
• 234 Omar Vizquel
• 235 Terrell Wade *
• 236 Paul Wagner
• 237 Matt Walbeck
• 238 Jerome Walton
• 239 Turner Ward
• 240 Allen Watson
• 241 David Weathers
• 242 Walt Weiss
• 243 Turk Wendell
• 244 Rondell White
• 245 Brian Williams
• 246 George Williams
• 247 Paul Wilson
• 248 Bobby Witt
• 249 Bob Wolcott
• 250 Eric Young
• 251 Ernie Young *
• 252 Greg Zaun
• 223 Jim Thome (gold)
• 223 Jim Thome (silver)

• 1 Scott Aldred
• 2 Mike Aldrete
• 3 Rich Amaral
• 4 Alex Arias
• 5 Paul Assenmacher
• 6 Roger Bailey
• 7 Erik Bennett
• 8 Sean Bergman
• 9 Doug Bochtler
• 10 Tim Bogar
• 11 Pat Borders
• 12 Pedro Borbon
• 13 Shawn Boskie
• 14 Rafael Bournigal
• 15 Mark Brandenburg
• 16 John Briscoe
• 17 Jorge Brito
• 18 Doug Brocail
• 19 Jay Buhner SP
• 20 Scott Bullett
• 21 Dave Burba
• 22 Ken Caminiti SP
• 23 John Cangelosi
• 24 Cris Carpenter
• 25 Chuck Carr
• 26 Larry Casian
• 27 Tony Castillo
• 28 Jason Christiansen
• 29 Archi Cianfrocco
• 30 Mark Clark
• 31 Terry Clark
• 32 Roger Clemens SP
• 33 Jim Converse
• 34 Dennis Cook
• 35 Francisco Cordova
• 36 Jim Corsi
• 37 Tim Crabtree
• 38 Doug Creek
• 39 John Cummings
• 40 Omar Daal
• 41 Rich DeLucia
• 42 Mark Dewey
• 43 Alex Diaz
• 44 Jermaine Dye SP
• 45 Ken Edenfield
• 46 Mark Eichhorn
• 47 John Ericks
• 48 Darin Erstad
• 49 Alvaro Espinoza
• 50 Jorge Fabregas
• 51 Mike Fetters
• 52 John Flaherty
• 53 Bryce Florie
• 54 Tony Fossas
• 55 Lou Frazier
• 56 Mike Gallego
• 57 Karim Garcia SP
• 58 Jason Giambi
• 59 Ed Giovanola
• 60 Tom Glavine SP
• 61 Juan Gonzalez SP EXCH
• 62 Craig Grebeck
• 63 Buddy Groom
• 64 Kevin Gross
• 65 Eddie Guardado
• 66 Mark Guthrie
• 67 Tony Gwynn SP
• 68 Chip Hale
• 69 Darren Hall
• 70 Lee Hancock
• 71 Dave Hansen
• 72 Bryan Harvey
• 73 Bill Haselman
• 74 Mike Henneman
• 75 Doug Henry
• 76 Gil Heredia
• 77 Carlos Hernandez
• 78 Jose Hernandez
• 79 Darren Holmes
• 80 Mark Holzemer
• 81 Rick Honeycutt
• 82 Chris Hook
• 83 Chris Howard
• 84 Jack Howell
• 85 David Hulse
• 86 Edwin Hurtado
• 87 Jeff Huson
• 88 Mike James
• 89 Derek Jeter SP
• 90 Brian Johnson
• 91 Randy Johnson SP
• 92 Mark Johnson
• 93 Andruw Jones SP EXCH
• 94 Chris Jones
• 95 Ricky Jordan
• 96 Matt Karchner
• 97 Scott Karl
• 98 Jason Kendall SP
• 99 Brian Keyser
• 100 Mike Kingery
• 101 Wayne Kirby
• 102 Ryan Klesko SP
• 103 Chuck Knoblauch SP
• 104 Chad Kreuter
• 105 Tom Lampkin
• 106 Scott Leius
• 107 Jon Lieber
• 108 Nelson Liriano
• 109 Scott Livingstone
• 110 Graeme Lloyd
• 111 Kenny Lofton SP
• 112 Luis Lopez
• 113 Torey Lovullo
• 114 Greg Maddux SP
• 115 Mike Maddux
• 116 Dave Magadan
• 117 Mike Magnante
• 118 Joe Magrane
• 119 Pat Mahomes
• 120 Matt Mantei
• 121 John Marzano
• 122 Terry Mathews
• 123 Chuck McElroy
• 124 Fred McGriff SP
• 125 Mark McLemore
• 126 Greg McMichael
• 127 Blas Minor
• 128 Dave Mlicki
• 129 Mike Mohler
• 130 Paul Molitor SP
• 131 Steve Montgomery
• 132 Mike Mordecai
• 133 Mike Morgan
• 134 Mike Munoz
• 135 Greg Myers
• 136 Jimmy Myers
• 137 Mike Myers
• 138 Bob Natal
• 139 Dan Naulty
• 140 Jeff Nelson
• 141 Warren Newson
• 142 Chris Nichting
• 143 Melvin Nieves
• 144 Charlie O'Brien
• 145 Alex Ochoa
• 146 Omar Olivares
• 147 Joe Oliver
• 148 Lance Painter
• 149 Rafael Palmeiro SP
• 150 Mark Parent
• 151 Steve Parris
• 152 Bob Patterson
• 153 Tony Pena
• 154 Eddie Perez
• 155 Yorkis Perez
• 156 Robert Person
• 157 Mark Petkovsek
• 158 Andy Pettitte SP
• 159 J.R. Phillips
• 160 Hipolito Pichardo
• 161 Eric Plunk
• 162 Jimmy Poole
• 163 Kirby Puckett SP
• 164 Paul Quantrill
• 165 Tom Quinlan
• 166 Jeff Reboulet
• 167 Jeff Reed
• 168 Steve Reed
• 169 Carlos Reyes
• 170 Bill Risley
• 171 Kevin Ritz
• 172 Kevin Roberson
• 173 Rich Robertson
• 174 Alex Rodriguez SP EXCH
• 175 Ivan Rodriguez SP
• 176 Bruce Ruffin
• 177 Juan Samuel
• 178 Tim Scott
• 179 Kevin Sefcik
• 180 Jeff Shaw
• 181 Danny Sheaffer
• 182 Craig Shipley
• 183 Dave Silvestri
• 184 Aaron Small
• 185 John Smoltz SP
• 186 Luis Sojo
• 187 Sammy Sosa SP
• 188 Steve Sparks
• 189 Tim Spehr
• 190 Russ Springer
• 191 Matt Stairs
• 192 Andy Stankiewicz
• 193 Mike Stanton
• 194 Kelly Stinnett
• 195 Doug Strange
• 196 Mark Sweeney
• 197 Jeff Tabaka
• 198 Jesus Tavarez
• 199 Frank Thomas SP
• 200 Larry Thomas
• 201 Mark Thompson
• 202 Mike Timlin
• 203 Steve Trachsel
• 204 Tom Urbani
• 205 Julio Valera
• 206 Dave Valle
• 207 William VanLandingham
• 208 Mo Vaughn SP
• 209 Dave Veres
• 210 Ed Vosberg
• 211 Don Wengert
• 212 Matt Whiteside
• 213 Bob Wickman
• 214 Matt Williams SP
• 215 Mike Williams
• 216 Woody Williams
• 217 Craig Worthington

• 1 Jay Buhner
• 2 Ken Caminiti
• 3 Roger Clemens
• 4 Jermaine Dye
• 5 Darin Erstad
• 6 Karim Garcia
• 7 Jason Giambi
• 8 Tom Glavine
• 9 Juan Gonzalez EXCH
• 10 Tony Gwynn
• 11 Derek Jeter EXCH
• 12 Randy Johnson
• 13 Andruw Jones EXCH
• 14 Jason Kendall
• 15 Ryan Klesko
• 16 Chuck Knoblauch
• 17 Kenny Lofton
• 18 Greg Maddux
• 19 Fred McGriff
• 20 Paul Molitor
• 21 Alex Ochoa
• 22 Rafael Palmeiro EXCH
• 23 Andy Pettitte
• 24 Kirby Puckett
• 25 Alex Rodriguez EXCH
• 26 Ivan Rodriguez
• 27 John Smoltz
• 28 Sammy Sosa
• 29 Frank Thomas
• 30 Mo Vaughn
• 31 Matt Williams