2001 Absolute Memorabilia

Distribution

The cards were distributed primarily in hobby boxes that came 6 cards per pack and 18 packs per box. Cards were also distributed in retail packs with significantly worse insert odds. A hobby box sold on eBay in June 2009 for $142.

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  Hobby Box

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  Hobby Pack

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds
Base	200	-	?
short set	150	-	?
Rookie Premiere Materials	50	700	1:18
Spectrum short set	150	10	?
Spectrum Rookie Premiere Materials	50	25	?

Checklist

• 1 Alex Rodriguez
• 2 Barry Bonds
• 3 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• 4 Chipper Jones
• 5 Derek Jeter
• 6 Troy Glaus
• 7 Frank Thomas
• 8 Greg Maddux
• 9 Ivan Rodriguez
• 10 Jeff Bagwell
• 11 Ryan Dempster
• 12 Todd Helton
• 13 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 14 Manny Ramirez
• 15 Mark McGwire
• 16 Mike Piazza
• 17 Nomar Garciaparra
• 18 Pedro Martinez
• 19 Randy Johnson
• 20 Rick Ankiel
• 21 Rickey Henderson
• 22 Roger Clemens
• 23 Sammy Sosa
• 24 Tony Gwynn
• 25 Vladimir Guerrero
• 26 Kazuhiro Sasaki
• 27 Roberto Alomar
• 28 Barry Zito
• 29 Pat Burrell
• 30 Harold Baines
• 31 Carlos Delgado
• 32 J.D. Drew
• 33 Jim Edmonds
• 34 Darin Erstad
• 35 Jason Giambi
• 36 Tom Glavine
• 37 Juan Gonzalez
• 38 Mark Grace
• 39 Shawn Green
• 40 Tim Hudson
• 41 Andruw Jones
• 42 Dave Justice
• 43 Jeff Kent
• 44 Barry Larkin
• 45 Rafael Furcal
• 46 Mike Mussina
• 47 Hideo Nomo
• 48 Rafael Palmeiro
• 49 Adam Piatt
• 50 Scott Rolen
• 51 Gary Sheffield
• 52 Bernie Williams
• 53 Bob Abreu
• 54 Edgardo Alfonzo
• 55 Edgar Renteria
• 56 Phil Nevin
• 57 Craig Biggio
• 58 Andres Galarraga
• 59 Edgar Martinez
• 60 Fred McGriff
• 61 Magglio Ordonez
• 62 Jim Thome
• 63 Matt Williams
• 64 Kerry Wood
• 65 Moises Alou
• 66 Brady Anderson
• 67 Garret Anderson
• 68 Russell Branyan
• 69 Tony Batista
• 70 Vernon Wells
• 71 Carlos Beltran
• 72 Adrian Beltre
• 73 Kris Benson
• 74 Lance Berkman
• 75 Kevin Brown
• 76 Dee Brown
• 77 Jeromy Burnitz
• 78 Timo Perez
• 79 Sean Casey
• 80 Luis Castillo
• 81 Eric Chavez
• 82 Jeff Cirillo
• 83 Bartolo Colon
• 84 David Cone
• 85 Freddy Garcia
• 86 Johnny Damon
• 87 Ray Durham
• 88 Jermaine Dye
• 89 Juan Encarnacion
• 90 Terrence Long
• 91 Carl Everett
• 92 Steve Finley
• 93 Cliff Floyd
• 94 Brad Fullmer
• 95 Brian Giles
• 96 Luis Gonzalez
• 97 Rusty Greer
• 98 Jeffrey Hammonds
• 99 Mike Hampton
• 100 Orlando Hernandez
• 101 Richard Hidalgo
• 102 Geoff Jenkins
• 103 Jacque Jones
• 104 Brian Jordan
• 105 Gabe Kapler
• 106 Eric Karros
• 107 Jason Kendall
• 108 Adam Kennedy
• 109 Deion Sanders
• 110 Ryan Klesko
• 111 Chuck Knoblauch
• 112 Paul Konerko
• 113 Carlos Lee
• 114 Kenny Lofton
• 115 Javy Lopez
• 116 Tino Martinez
• 117 Ruben Mateo
• 118 Kevin Millwood
• 119 Jimmy Rollins
• 120 Raul Mondesi
• 121 Trot Nixon
• 122 John Olerud
• 123 Paul O'Neill
• 124 Chan Ho Park
• 125 Andy Pettitte
• 126 Jorge Posada
• 127 Mark Quinn
• 128 Aramis Ramirez
• 129 Mariano Rivera
• 130 Tim Salmon
• 131 Curt Schilling
• 132 Richie Sexson
• 133 John Smoltz
• 134 J.T. Snow
• 135 Jay Payton
• 136 Shannon Stewart
• 137 B.J. Surhoff
• 138 Mike Sweeney
• 139 Fernando Tatis
• 140 Miguel Tejada
• 141 Jason Varitek
• 142 Greg Vaughn
• 143 Mo Vaughn
• 144 Robin Ventura
• 145 Jose Vidro
• 146 Omar Vizquel
• 147 Larry Walker
• 148 David Wells
• 149 Rondell White
• 150 Preston Wilson

Rookie Premiere Materials

Each Rookie Premiere Materials card is serial-numbered to 700 copies and have a piece of memorabilia embedded into the card. A number of cards packed out as redemptions which expired June 1st, 2003.

• 151 Bud Smith RC EXCH
• 152 Cory Aldridge RC
• 153 Wilmy Caceres RC*
• 154 Josh Beckett EXCH
• 155 Wilson Betemit RC
• 156 Jason Michaels RC
• 157 Albert Pujols RC
• 158 Andres Torres RC
• 159 Jack Wilson RC
• 160 Alex Escobar
• 161 Ben Sheets EXCH
• 162 Rafael Soriano RC
• 163 Nate Frese RC*
• 164 Carlos Garcia EXCH RC*
• 165 Brandon Larson RC
• 166 Alexis Gomez RC
• 167 Jason Hart
• 168 Nick Johnson
• 169 Donaldo Mendez RC EXCH
• 170 Christian Parker RC
• 171 Jackson Melian RC* EXCH
• 172 Jack Cust
• 173 Adrian Hernandez EXCH RC
• 174 Joe Crede
• 175 Jose Mieses RC*
• 176 Roy Oswalt
• 177 Eric Munson
• 178 Xavier Nady
• 179 Horacio Ramirez RC
• 180 Abraham Nunez
• 181 Jose Ortiz
• 182 Jeremy Owens RC*
• 183 Claudio Vargas RC
• 184 Marcus Giles
• 185 Aubrey Huff
• 186 C.C. Sabathia EXCH
• 187 Adam Dunn
• 188 Adam Pettyjohn EXCH RC
• 189 Elpidio Guzman RC*
• 190 Jay Gibbons RC
• 191 Wilkin Ruan RC
• 192 Tsuyoshi Shinjo RC
• 193 Alfonso Soriano EXCH
• 194 Corey Patterson
• 195 Ichiro Suzuki RC
• 196 Billy Sylvester RC* EXCH
• 197 Juan Uribe RC
• 198 Johnny Estrada RC
• 199 Carlos Valderrama RC
• 200 Matt White RC* EXCH

Parallels

Spectrum

All 200 cards are available in a Spectrum parallel. Spectrum cards #1-#150 are serial-numbered to ten, while the 50 RPMs (#151-#200) were numbered to 25.

RPM Autographs

RPM Autographs is a 41-card autographed partial-parallel of the Rookie Premiere Materials subset. Each card is serial-numbered to 25 copies. A number of cards packed out as redemptions which expired June 1st, 2003.

• 151 Bud Smith EXCH
• 152 Cory Aldridge
• 154 Josh Beckett EXCH
• 155 Wilson Betemit
• 157 Albert Pujols
• 158 Andres Torres
• 159 Jack Wilson
• 160 Alex Escobar
• 161 Ben Sheets EXCH
• 162 Rafael Soriano
• 163 Nate Frese
• 164 Carlos Garcia
• 165 Brandon Larson
• 167 Jason Hart
• 168 Nick Johnson
• 169 Donaldo Mendez EXCH
• 170 Christian Parker
• 171 Jackson Melian EXCH
• 173 Adrian Hernandez EXCH
• 174 Joe Crede
• 175 Jose Mieses
• 176 Roy Oswalt
• 178 Xavier Nady
• 179 Horacio Ramirez
• 180 Abraham Nunez
• 181 Jose Ortiz
• 182 Jeremy Owens
• 183 Claudio Vargas
• 184 Marcus Giles
• 186 C.C. Sabathia EXCH
• 187 Adam Dunn EXCH
• 188 Adam Pettyjohn EXCH
• 190 Jay Gibbons
• 191 Wilkin Ruan
• 193 Alfonso Soriano EXCH
• 194 Corey Patterson EXCH
• 196 Billy Sylvester EXCH
• 197 Juan Uribe
• 198 Johnny Estrada EXCH
• 199 Carlos Valderrama
• 200 Matt White EXCH

Autographs & Game-Used

Ball Hoggs

Ball Hoggs is a set featuring a piece of a game-used baseball on each card. Each card is serial-numbered to the figures listed below with the first 25 copies part of the Boss Hoggs parallel (see below).

• BH1 Vladimir Guerrero 75
• BH2 Troy Glaus 75
• BH3 Tony Gwynn 75
• BH4 Cal Ripken, Jr. EXCH 175
• BH5 Todd Helton 75
• BH6 Jacque Jones 125
• BH7 Shawn Green 100
• BH8 Ichiro Suzuki 50
• BH9 Scott Rolen 100
• BH10 Roger Clemens 75
• BH11 Ken Griffey, Jr. 50
• BH14 Sammy Sosa 75
• BH15 J.D. Drew 50
• BH16 Barry Bonds 75
• BH17 Pat Burrell 75
• BH18 Mark McGwire 75
• BH19 Mike Piazza 50
• BH20 Magglio Ordonez EXCH 125
• BH21 Miguel Tejada 75
• BH22 Albert Pujols 75
• BH23 Derek Jeter 50
• BH24 Johnny Damon 125
• BH25 Mike Sweeney 75
• BH26 Ben Grieve 125
• BH27 Jeff Kent 75
• BH28 Andres Galarraga 75
• BH29 Richie Sexson 50
• BH30 Juan Encarnacion 125
• BH31 Ruben Mateo 75
• BH33 Manny Ramirez 75
• BH35 Ivan Rodriguez 75
• BH36 Darin Erstad EXCH 125
• BH37 Carlos Delgado 100
• BH38 Jeff Bagwell EXCH 125
• BH39 Jermaine Dye 75
• BH40 Jose Ortiz 50
• BH41 Gary Sheffield 75
• BH42 Eric Chavez 125
• BH43 Mark Grace 75
• BH44 Rafael Palmeiro 125
• BH45 Tsuyoshi Shinjo 75
• BH46 Terrence Long 75
• BH47 Carlos Delgado 50
• BH48 Frank Thomas 75
• BH49 Chipper Jones EXCH 50
• BH50 Jason Giambi 75

• BH1 Vladimir Guerrero AU
• BH2 Troy Glaus AU
• BH3 Tony Gwynn AU
• BH4 Cal Ripken, Jr. EXCH
• BH5 Todd Helton AU
• BH6 Jacque Jones
• BH7 Shawn Green
• BH8 Ichiro Suzuki
• BH9 Scott Rolen
• BH10 Roger Clemens AU
• BH11 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• BH12 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• BH13 Sammy Sosa
• BH14 Sammy Sosa
• BH15 J.D. Drew
• BH16 Barry Bonds
• BH17 Pat Burrell
• BH18 Mark McGwire
• BH19 Mike Piazza
• BH20 Magglio Ordonez EXCH
• BH21 Miguel Tejada
• BH22 Albert Pujols AU
• BH23 Derek Jeter
• BH24 Johnny Damon
• BH25 Mike Sweeney
• BH26 Ben Grieve
• BH27 Jeff Kent
• BH28 Andres Galarraga
• BH29 Richie Sexson
• BH30 Juan Encarnacion
• BH31 Ruben Mateo
• BH32 Alex Rodriguez EXCH AU
• BH33 Manny Ramirez
• BH34 Juan Gonzalez AU
• BH35 Ivan Rodriguez
• BH36 Darin Erstad EXCH
• BH37 Carlos Delgado
• BH38 Jeff Bagwell EXCH
• BH39 Jermaine Dye
• BH40 Jose Ortiz
• BH41 Gary Sheffield AU
• BH42 Eric Chavez
• BH43 Mark Grace
• BH44 Rafael Palmeiro
• BH45 Tsuyoshi Shinjo
• BH46 Terrence Long
• BH47 Carlos Delgado
• BH48 Frank Thomas
• BH49 Chipper Jones EXCH
• BH50 Jason Giambi

Home Opener Souvenirs

The bases and baseballs from the opening day of the 2001 season were purchased by Donruss and swatches of these items were the basis for the Home Opener Souvenirs sets. Some players had two different cards in this set. Five different sets: Single (1 swatch), Double (2 swatches), Triple (3 swatches), Homerun (4 swatches- 3 base, 1 baseball), and Autographed (1 swatch) were inserted into packs. Each was serial numberd to 400, 200, 100, 25 and 25 copies respectively. Just the Homerun (4 swatch) cards had multi-colored surface swatches. Only ten of the fifty cards were paralleled with an autograph. The Troy Glaus autograph card was packed out as a redemption card that expired in 2003.

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  Single

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  Double

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  Homerun

• OD1 Barry Bonds
• OD2 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• OD3 Pedro Martinez
• OD4 Troy Glaus
• OD5 Frank Thomas
• OD6 Alex Rodriguez
• OD7 Ivan Rodriguez
• OD8 Jeff Bagwell
• OD9 Mark McGwire
• OD10 Todd Helton
• OD11 Gary Sheffield
• OD12 Manny Ramirez
• OD13 Mike Piazza
• OD14 Sammy Sosa
• OD15 Preston Wilson
• OD16 Tony Gwynn
• OD17 Vladimir Guerrero
• OD18 Carlos Delgado
• OD19 Roberto Alomar
• OD20 Todd Helton
• OD21 Albert Pujols
• OD22 Jason Giambi
• OD23 Sammy Sosa
• OD24 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• OD25 Darin Erstad
• OD26 Mark McGwire
• OD27 Carlos Delgado
• OD28 Juan Gonzalez
• OD29 Mike Sweeney
• OD30 Alex Rodriguez
• OD31 Roger Clemens
• OD32 Tsuyoshi Shinjo
• OD33 Ben Grieve
• OD34 Jeff Kent
• OD35 Vladimir Guerrero
• OD36 Shawn Green
• OD37 Rafael Palmeiro
• OD38 Tony Gwynn
• OD39 Scott Rolen
• OD40 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• OD41 Albert Pujols
• OD42 Barry Bonds
• OD43 Mark Grace
• OD44 Bernie Williams
• OD45 Frank Thomas
• OD46 Jermaine Dye
• OD47 Mike Piazza
• OD48 Chipper Jones
• OD49 Richie Sexson
• OD50 Magglio Ordonez

Tools of the Trade

The first of the famous Tools of the Trade sets. The fifty card set features game used jerseys (/300), bats (/100), batting gloves (/50) and hats(/100) of many of baseball's current superstars. Fifteen of the fifty were packed out as redemption cards that expired in 2003. Ten of the cards were also paralleled with an autographed version that was serial numbered to 25 copies.

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  5 - Scott Rolen

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  25 - Greg Maddux

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  27 - Vlad

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  44 Sean Casey

• TT1 Vladimir Guerrero JSY
• TT2 Troy Glaus JSY
• TT3 Tony Gwynn JSY
• TT4 Todd Helton JSY
• TT5 Scott Rolen JSY
• TT6 Roger Clemens JSY
• TT7 Pedro Martinez JSY
• TT8 Richie Sexson JSY
• TT9 Magglio Ordonez JSY
• TT10 Ben Grieve JSY
• TT11 Jeff Bagwell JSY
• TT12 Edgar Martinez JSY
• TT13 Greg Maddux JSY
• TT14 Larry Walker JSY
• TT15 Frank Thomas JSY
• TT16 Edgardo Alfonzo JSY
• TT17 Cal Ripken, Jr. JSY
• TT18 Jose Vidro JSY
• TT19 Andruw Jones JSY
• TT20 Kazuhiro Sasaki JSY
• TT21 Barry Bonds BAT
• TT22 Juan Gonzalez BAT
• TT23 Andruw Jones BAT
• TT24 Cal Ripken, Jr. BAT
• TT25 Greg Maddux BAT
• TT26 Manny Ramirez BAT
• TT27 Roberto Alomar BAT
• TT28 Shawn Green BAT
• TT29 Edgardo Alfonzo BAT
• TT30 Rafael Palmeiro BAT
• TT31 Hideo Nomo BAT
• TT32 Andres Galarraga BAT
• TT33 Todd Helton BAT
• TT34 Darin Erstad BAT
• TT35 Ivan Rodriguez BAT
• TT36 Sean Casey BAT
• TT37 Vladimir Guerrero BAT
• TT38 Dave Justice BAT
• TT39 Troy Glaus BAT
• TT40 Jeff Bagwell BAT
• TT41 Barry Bonds GLV
• TT42 Cal Ripken, Jr. GLV
• TT43 Roberto Alomar GLV
• TT44 Sean Casey GLV
• TT45 Tony Gwynn GLV
• TT46 Bernie Williams HAT
• TT47 Barry Zito HAT
• TT48 Greg Maddux HAT
• TT49 Tom Glavine HAT
• TT50 Troy Glaus HAT

Autographed Baseballs

In each hobby box of 2001 Absolute Memorabilia, an autographed baseball was inserted as a box topper. Most of the balls were signed by either Hall of Fame players or current stars/superstars. Each baseball features a light brown 2001 Playoff Absolute large logo on the panel above the autograph, with the name of the player in print, and the actual Serial number of the ball. Making these Certified Autograph Baseballs.

Player	PR
Hank Aaron	25
Hank Bauer	500
Johnny Bench	25
Yogi Berra	25
Wade Boggs	25
Barry Bonds	25
Clete Boyer	500
Lou Brock	25
Steve Carlton	25
Gary Carter	200
Sean Casey	25
Roger Clemens	25
Dave Concepcion	500
Andre Dawson	550
Bucky Dent	500
Larry Doby	300
Bobby Doerr	300
J.D. Drew	25
Jim Edmonds	25
Bob Feller	550
Rollie Fingers	575
Whitey Ford	25
George Foster	500
Steve Garvey	1000
Bob Gibson	25
Tom Glavine	25
Goose Gossage	500
Tony Gwynn	25
Todd Helton	25
Rickey Henderson	25
Frank Howard	500
Monte Irvin	500
Reggie Jackson	25
Fergie Jenkins	1000
Chipper Jones	25
Tommy John	1000
Charles Johnson	25
Randy Johnson	25
Brian Jordan	25
George Kell	300
Harmon Killebrew	200
Ralph Kiner	100
Dave Kingman	500
Don Larsen	200
Javy Lopez	25
Greg Maddux	25
Bill Madlock	524
Juan Marichal	485
Willie Mays	25
Bill Mazeroski	25
Willie McCovey	25
Minnie Minoso	1000
Dale Murphy	25
Stan Musial	25
Don Newcombe	500
Al Oliver	500
Magglio Ordonez	200
Jim Palmer	500
Joe Pepitone	500
Tony Perez	400
Gaylord Perry	1000
Johnny Podres	500
Boog Powell	500
Kirby Puckett	25
Manny Ramirez	25
Bobby Richardson	500
Phil Rizzuto	25
Robin Roberts	500
Frank Robinson	25
Henry Rodriguez	400
Nolan Ryan	25
Ryne Sandberg	25
Mike Schmidt	25
Red Schoendienst	500
Herb Score	500
Tom Seaver	25
Moose Skowron	500
Enos Slaughter	525
Ozzie Smith	25
Duke Snider	25
Warren Spahn	500
Willie Stargell	25
Frank Thomas	25
Luis Tiant	500
Earl Weaver	300
Hoyt Wilhelm	500
Billy Williams	325
Maury Wills	500
Don Zimmer	500