Upper Deck A Piece of History 500 HR Club

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Description

The Upper Deck A Piece of History 500 HR Club, is a multi-brand, game-used set featuring all members (except Barry Bonds) of the 500 Home Run Club.

Beginning in 1999, Upper Deck inserted into various products cards featuring a piece of a game-used bat. The first group of 15 cards were randomly inserted into 1999 and early 2000 Upper Deck baseball sets.

As more players reached the 500 HR milestone, new cards were added.

With the exception of Babe Ruth, approximately 350 of each card was produced. Only 50 Babe Ruth's were made.

Since Barry Bonds was exclusive to Topps at the time he reached the 500 HR milestone, he was unable to be included in this set.

Checklist

1999-2000

A Piece of History cards from the original 1999-2000 run were released in the following products:

It is unclear how card #ARM was distributed; however, less than 10 copies of this triple-bat card are known to exist.

  • EM Eddie Murray
  • BR Babe Ruth
  • EB Ernie Banks
  • EM Eddie Mathews
  • FR Frank Robinson
  • HA Hank Aaron
  • HK Harmon Killebrew
  • JF Jimmie Foxx
  • MM Mickey Mantle
  • MO Mel Ott
  • MS Mike Schmidt
  • RJ Reggie Jackson
  • TW Ted Williams
  • WM Willie McCovey
  • WM Willie Mays
  • NNO Instant Winner Card
  • ARM Hank Aaron / Babe Ruth / Willie Mays

2002

These cards were released into packs of 2002 Upper Deck Series Two.

  • MMC Mark McGwire

2003

These cards were released into packs of 2003 Upper Deck Series One.

  • SS Sammy Sosa

2004

Cards from 2004 were released into the following packs:

  • 504HR Rafael Palmeiro
  • KG Ken Griffey, Jr.

2008

These cards were released into packs of 2008 Upper Deck Series One.

  • FT Frank Thomas
  • JT Jim Thome

2009

This cards were released into packs of 2009 Upper Deck Series One.

  • MR Manny Ramirez

2010

This cards were released into packs of 2010 Upper Deck.

  • 500HR-GS Gary Sheffield

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