2001 Donruss Elite

Description

The 2001 Donruss Elite set (the second baseball product issued by Donruss-Playoff) was released to The Hobby in May 2001. The all foil-board base set consists of 200 cards with the last 50 cards making up a rookie subset. Each rookie is serial-numbered to 1000 copies, with the first 100 part of the die-cut and autographed "Turn of the Century" parallel. Each 24-pack waxbox yielded one serial-numbered rookie, one Extra Edition exchange card, one serial-numbered parallel, three serial-numbered inserts, and two autographed/game used cards.

Elite Extra Edition

The last 50 cards in the base set (cards 201-250) were issued as exchange coupons for unspecified rookies and prospects, and randomly seeded into packs at a rate of 1:14. Unlike other similar exchange programs, each coupon cost $5.99 to redeem and initially the checklist was not to be revealed until after the November 1, 2001 expiration date. This program was not well received by collectors, and forced Donruss-Playoff to announced in late October a provisional checklist and to extend the deadline to January 20th, 2002.

In April, 2002 representatives at Donruss-Playoff released the production figures for each of the Elite Extra Edition cards. All of these cards are actually serial-numbered "XXX/1000" on back but were mailed out in random order, meaning that, although Donruss-Playoff said that only 556 copies of Mark Prior's card were issued, some collectors received a Prior card with a serial-number above 556 -- all of which defeated the whole purpose of the serial-numbering.

In February 2002, Donruss-Playoff announced that all remaining cards were destroyed; however, in future D-P baseball releases a fair number of 2001 Elite Extra Edition "buybacks" were inserted.

Distribution

24 packs per box, five cards per pack. MSRP $3.99, Hobby only.

Reviews

http://web.archive.org/web/20020101215824/www.stalegum.com/coll/01delite.htm

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
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Checklist

Base Set

NOTE: The base set checklist is identical to that of 2001 Donruss.

1 Alex Rodriguez

2 Barry Bonds

3 Cal Ripken

4 Chipper Jones

5 Derek Jeter

6 Troy Glaus

7 Frank Thomas

8 Greg Maddux

9 Ivan Rodriguez

10 Jeff Bagwell

11 Jose Canseco

12 Todd Helton

13 Ken Griffey Jr.

14 Manny Ramirez

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