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)

Autographs & Game-Used

Autographs

With some exceptions, each player signed 5000 cards for insertion into Signature Series packs. Each card is stamped with either a Bronze, Silver, or Gold foil stamp with the first 3500 cards stamped in Bronze, 1000 in Silver, and the remaining 500 in Gold.

Ten "marquee" players (indicated with an "SP" in the checklist below) signed only 1000 cards, with 700 Bronze, 200 Silver, and 100 Gold.

Seven players (designated with an "*" in the checklist below) did not return their autographs to Donruss in time for the release of Signature Series. Six of those cards were randomly inserted into packs of Extended Series. The seventh player, Otis Nixon, never bothered to return his cards; however, some Nixon Autographs have surfaced on the secondary market.

Jim Thome did not sign any Bronze autographs, but erroneously signed 410 Silver and 514 Gold Autographs.

All cards were signed in black ink; however, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Tucker, and Carlos Delgado signed some of their cards in blue ink.

• Kurt Abbott
• Juan Acevedo
• Terry Adams
• Manny Alexander
• Roberto Alomar SP
• Moises Alou
• Wilson Alvarez
• Garret Anderson
• Shane Andrews
• Andy Ashby
• Pedro Astacio
• Brad Ausmus
• Bobby Ayala
• Carlos Baerga
• Harold Baines
• Jason Bates
• Allen Battle
• Rich Becker
• David Bell
• Rafael Belliard
• Andy Benes
• Armando Benitez
• Jason Bere
• Geronimo Berroa
• Willie Blair
• Mike Blowers
• Wade Boggs SP
• Ricky Bones
• Mike Bordick
• Toby Borland
• Ricky Bottalico
• Darren Bragg
• Jeff Branson
• Tilson Brito
• Rico Brogna
• Scott Brosius
• Damon Buford
• Mike Busby
• Tom Candiotti
• Frank Castillo
• Andujar Cedeno
• Domingo Cedeno
• Roger Cedeno
• Norm Charlton
• Jeff Cirillo
• Will Clark
• Jeff Conine
• Steve Cooke
• Joey Cora
• Marty Cordova
• Rheal Cormier
• Felipe Crespo
• Chad Curtis
• Johnny Damon
• Russ Davis
• Andre Dawson
• Carlos Delgado *
• Doug Drabek
• Darren Dreifort
• Shawon Dunston
• Ray Durham
• Jim Edmonds
• Joey Eischen
• Jim Eisenreich
• Sal Fasano
• Jeff Fassero
• Alex Fernandez
• Darrin Fletcher
• Chad Fonville
• Kevin Foster
• John Franco
• Julio Franco
• Marvin Freeman
• Travis Fryman
• Gary Gaetti
• Carlos Garcia
• Jason Giambi
• Benji Gil
• Greg Gohr
• Chris Gomez
• Leo Gomez
• Tom Goodwin
• Mike Grace
• Mike Greenwell
• Rusty Greer
• Mark Grudzielanek
• Mark Gubicza
• Juan Guzman
• Darryl Hamilton
• Joey Hamilton
• Chris Hammond
• Mike Hampton
• Chris Haney
• Todd Haney
• Erik Hanson
• Pete Harnisch
• LaTroy Hawkins
• Charlie Hayes
• Jimmy Haynes
• Roberto Hernandez
• Bob Higginson
• Glenallen Hill
• Ken Hill
• Sterling Hitchcock
• Trevor Hoffman
• Dave Hollins
• Dwayne Hosey
• Thomas Howard
• Steve Howe
• John Hudek
• Rex Hudler
• Brian L. Hunter *
• Butch Huskey
• Mark Hutton
• Jason Jacome
• John Jaha
• Reggie Jefferson
• Derek Jeter SP
• Bobby Jones
• Todd Jones
• Brian Jordan
• Kevin Jordan
• Jeff Juden
• Ron Karkovice
• Roberto Kelly
• Mark Kiefer
• Brooks Kieschnick
• Jeff King
• Mike Lansing
• Matt Lawton
• Al Leiter
• Mark Leiter
• Curtis Leskanic
• Darren Lewis
• Mark Lewis
• Felipe Lira
• Pat Listach
• Keith Lockhart
• Kenny Lofton SP
• John Mabry
• Mike Macfarlane
• Kirt Manwaring
• Al Martin
• Norberto Martin
• Dennis Martinez
• Pedro Martinez
• Sandy Martinez
• Mike Matheny
• T.J. Mathews
• David McCarty
• Ben McDonald
• Pat Meares
• Orlando Merced
• Jose Mesa
• Matt Mieske
• Orlando Miller
• Mike Mimbs
• Paul Molitor SP
• Raul Mondesi SP
• Jeff Montgomery
• Mickey Morandini
• Lyle Mouton
• James Mouton
• Jamie Moyer
• Rodney Myers
• Denny Neagle
• Robb Nen
• Marc Newfield
• Dave Nilsson
• Otis Nixon *
• Jon Nunnally
• Chad Ogea
• Troy O'Leary
• Rey Ordonez
• Jayhawk Owens
• Tom Pagnozzi
• Dean Palmer
• Roger Pavlik
• Troy Percival
• Carlos Perez
• Robert Perez
• Andy Pettitte
• Phil Plantier *
• Mike Potts
• Curtis Pride
• Ariel Prieto
• Bill Pulsipher
• Brad Radke
• Manny Ramirez SP
• Joe Randa
• Pat Rapp
• Bryan Rekar
• Shane Reynolds
• Arthur Rhodes
• Mariano Rivera
• Alex Rodriguez SP
• Frank Rodriguez
• Mel Rojas
• Ken Ryan
• Bret Saberhagen
• Tim Salmon
• Rey Sanchez
• Scott Sanders
• Steve Scarsone
• Curt Schilling
• Jason Schmidt
• David Segui
• Kevin Seitzer
• Scott Servais
• Don Slaught
• Zane Smith
• Paul Sorrento
• Scott Stahoviak
• Mike Stanley
• Terry Steinbach
• Kevin Stocker
• Jeff Suppan
• Bill Swift
• Greg Swindell
• Kevin Tapani
• Danny Tartabull
• Julian Tavarez
• Frank Thomas SP
• Ozzie Timmons
• Michael Tucker
• Ismael Valdes
• Jose Valentin
• Todd Van Poppel
• Mo Vaughn SP
• Quilvio Veras
• Fernando Vina
• Joe Vitiello
• Jose Vizcaino
• Omar Vizquel
• Terrell Wade *
• Paul Wagner
• Matt Walbeck
• Jerome Walton
• Turner Ward
• Allen Watson
• David Weathers
• Walt Weiss
• Turk Wendell
• Rondell White
• Brian Williams
• George Williams
• Paul Wilson
• Bobby Witt
• Bob Wolcott
• Eric Young
• Ernie Young *
• Greg Zaun
• Jim Thome (gold)
• 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