Anyone have any of these cards? Been searching for the Gomes for years, but have never seen it. I've seen every other parallel, including the Photographer Proof /25, but not this one. (I've also seen every parallel but this in a backdoored, unnumbered, version.)
According to Beckett, there 160 cards in the set, each numbered to 50. All of them that I have seen have backs that say "Artist Proof", "The card you have just received contains a signature from Fleer Graphic Designer Sharira Hameed", and are thus signed.
The checklist per Beckett is below. First 110 cards are regular, while 111-160 are prospects. Between COMC, eBay, Beckett, Sportlots and Sportsbuy, I've found 29 of them. 20 are numbered, 4 are unnumbered (presumably Fleer bankruptcy cards), and 6 do not specify (Maddux was seen both /50 and unnumbered). The interesting thing is that the highest card number is #99, and none are prospect cards. The odds on that happening by coincidence are incredibly long (and calculable, although math is failing me at the moment).
My guess would be that either only cards 1-110 (non prospect cards) were produced with an Artist Proof Parallel, or only cards 1-100 were produced. It's also possible that the serial numbering is lower for the higher #'d cards. Beckett does list some odds (below) which differ for cards 1-110 and 111-160, although I'm not sure exactly what they mean.
I would absolutely love to be able to definitively take this card off my checklist. The questions that I have are:
1) Does anyone have any information about this set? A copy of a sell sheet?
2) Does anyone have any of these cards? Which ones?
2) Anyone know what exactly the odds below mean? My Beckett to English translator is either broken or nonexistant.
*AP 1-110: 3X TO 8X BASIC
*AP 111-160: 1X TO 2.5X BASIC p/
*AP 111-160: .4X TO 1X BASIC p/r
OVERALL PARALLEL ODDS 1:6 H, 1:4
STATED PRINT RUN 50 SERIAL #'d S
#1 Juan Pierre
#2 Derek Jeter
#3 Brandon Webb "/50"
#4 Jeff Bagwell 2/50
#5 Jason Schmidt
#6 Marlon Byrd
#7 Garret Anderson
#8 Miguel Cabrera
#9 Jose Reyes
#10 Rocco Baldelli
#11 Tony Batista
#12 Carlos Beltran 16/50
#13 Nomar Garciaparra
#14 Shawn Green
#15 Albert Pujols
#16 Magglio Ordonez
#17 Kip Wells
#18 Andruw Jones
#19 Ryan Wagner
#20 Alex Rodriguez
#21 Vernon Wells
#22 Todd Helton
#23 David Ortiz
#24 Troy Glaus
#25 Jim Thome 39/50
#26 Greg Maddux 11/50 and /un#'d
#27 Roberto Alomar
#28 Edgardo Alfonzo
#29 Hee Seop Choi
#30 Ken Griffey Jr.
#31 Tim Hudson
#32 Shannon Stewart 23/50
#33 Ichiro Suzuki 4/50
#34 Luis Gonzalez 22/50
#35 Darin Erstad
#36 Dmitri Young
#37 Ivan Rodriguez /un#'d
#38 Scott Podsednik /un#'d
#39 Jose Vidro
#40 Mark Prior
#41 Mike Mussina
#42 Gary Sheffield /un#'d
#43 Manny Ramirez
#44 C.C. Sabathia
#45 Curt Schilling
#46 Scott Rolen
#47 Hideo Nomo /un#'d
#48 Torii Hunter
#49 Aubrey Huff
#50 Javy Lopez
#51 Austin Kearns
#52 Mike Piazza
#53 Sean Burroughs
#54 Kerry Wood
#55 Marquis Grissom 15/50
#56 Preston Wilson 34/50
#57 Angel Berroa
#58 Jason Kendall
#59 Rafael Palmeiro
#60 Mike Lowell
#61 Eric Chavez
#62 Bartolo Colon
#63 Adam Dunn
#64 Pedro Martinez
#65 Lance Berkman
#66 Bret Boone
#67 Eric Gagne
#68 Vladimir Guerrero 19/50
#69 Jay Gibbons
#70 Larry Walker
#71 Orlando Cabrera
#72 Jorge Posada
#73 Jamie Moyer
#74 Carl Crawford "#'d"
#75 Hank Blalock
#76 Josh Beckett "/50"
#77 Jody Gerut "/50"
#78 Kevin Brown 2/50
#79 Sammy Sosa
#80 Chipper Jones
#81 Tom Glavine
#82 Barry Zito "#'d"
#83 Edgar Renteria
#84 Esteban Loaiza 18/50
#85 Jason Giambi 19/50
#86 Miguel Tejada
#87 Randy Johnson
#88 A.J. Burnett
#89 Richie Sexson
#90 Reggie Sanders
#91 Carlos Delgado
#92 Pat Burrell
#93 Jacque Jones
#94 Roy Oswalt 5/50
#95 Frank Thomas
#96 Melvin Mora "/50"
#97 Jeremy Bonderman
#98 Mike Sweeney
#99 Brian Giles
#100 Edgar Martinez
#101 Mark Teixeira
#102 Sean Casey
#103 Javier Vazquez
#104 Hideki Matsui
#105 Jim Edmonds
#106 Roy Halladay
#107 Craig Biggio
#108 Geoff Jenkins
#109 Alfonso Soriano
#110 Barry Larkin
#111 Chris Bootcheck PR
#112 Dallas McPherson PR
#113 Matt Kata PR
#114 Scott Hairston PR
#115 Bobby Crosby PR
#116 Adam Wainwright PR
#117 Daniel Cabrera PR
#118 Kevin Youkilis PR
#119 Ronny Cedeno PR
#120 Ruddy Yan PR
#121 Ryan Wing PR
#122 William Bergolla PR
#123 Edwin Encarnacion PR
#124 Jonny Gomes PR
#125 Garrett Atkins PR
#126 Clint Barmes PR
#127 Wilfredo Ledezma PR
#128 Cody Ross PR
#129 Josh Willingham PR
#130 Chin-Hui Tsao PR
#131 Hector Gimenez PR
#132 David DeJesus PR
#133 Jimmy Gobble PR
#134 Edwin Jackson PR
#135 Koyie Hill PR
#136 Rickie Weeks PR
#137 Graham Koonce PR
#138 Rob Bowen PR
#139 Shawn Hill PR
#140 Craig Brazell PR
#141 Mike Hessman PR
#142 Jorge DePaula PR
#143 Chien-Ming **** PR
#144 Rich Harden PR
#145 Ryan Howard PR
#146 Alfredo Simon PR
#147 Ian Snell PR
#148 Ryan Doumit PR
#149 Khalil Greene PR
#150 Angel Chavez PR
#151 Dan Haren PR
#152 Chris Snelling PR
#153 Aaron Miles PR
#154 John Gall PR
#155 Chris Narveson PR
#156 Delmon Young PR
#157 Chad Gaudin PR
#158 Gerald Laird PR
#159 Alexis Rios PR
#160 Jason Arnold PR
According to Beckett, there 160 cards in the set, each numbered to 50. All of them that I have seen have backs that say "Artist Proof", "The card you have just received contains a signature from Fleer Graphic Designer Sharira Hameed", and are thus signed.
The checklist per Beckett is below. First 110 cards are regular, while 111-160 are prospects. Between COMC, eBay, Beckett, Sportlots and Sportsbuy, I've found 29 of them. 20 are numbered, 4 are unnumbered (presumably Fleer bankruptcy cards), and 6 do not specify (Maddux was seen both /50 and unnumbered). The interesting thing is that the highest card number is #99, and none are prospect cards. The odds on that happening by coincidence are incredibly long (and calculable, although math is failing me at the moment).
My guess would be that either only cards 1-110 (non prospect cards) were produced with an Artist Proof Parallel, or only cards 1-100 were produced. It's also possible that the serial numbering is lower for the higher #'d cards. Beckett does list some odds (below) which differ for cards 1-110 and 111-160, although I'm not sure exactly what they mean.
I would absolutely love to be able to definitively take this card off my checklist. The questions that I have are:
1) Does anyone have any information about this set? A copy of a sell sheet?
2) Does anyone have any of these cards? Which ones?
2) Anyone know what exactly the odds below mean? My Beckett to English translator is either broken or nonexistant.
*AP 1-110: 3X TO 8X BASIC
*AP 111-160: 1X TO 2.5X BASIC p/
*AP 111-160: .4X TO 1X BASIC p/r
OVERALL PARALLEL ODDS 1:6 H, 1:4
STATED PRINT RUN 50 SERIAL #'d S
#1 Juan Pierre
#2 Derek Jeter
#3 Brandon Webb "/50"
#4 Jeff Bagwell 2/50
#5 Jason Schmidt
#6 Marlon Byrd
#7 Garret Anderson
#8 Miguel Cabrera
#9 Jose Reyes
#10 Rocco Baldelli
#11 Tony Batista
#12 Carlos Beltran 16/50
#13 Nomar Garciaparra
#14 Shawn Green
#15 Albert Pujols
#16 Magglio Ordonez
#17 Kip Wells
#18 Andruw Jones
#19 Ryan Wagner
#20 Alex Rodriguez
#21 Vernon Wells
#22 Todd Helton
#23 David Ortiz
#24 Troy Glaus
#25 Jim Thome 39/50
#26 Greg Maddux 11/50 and /un#'d
#27 Roberto Alomar
#28 Edgardo Alfonzo
#29 Hee Seop Choi
#30 Ken Griffey Jr.
#31 Tim Hudson
#32 Shannon Stewart 23/50
#33 Ichiro Suzuki 4/50
#34 Luis Gonzalez 22/50
#35 Darin Erstad
#36 Dmitri Young
#37 Ivan Rodriguez /un#'d
#38 Scott Podsednik /un#'d
#39 Jose Vidro
#40 Mark Prior
#41 Mike Mussina
#42 Gary Sheffield /un#'d
#43 Manny Ramirez
#44 C.C. Sabathia
#45 Curt Schilling
#46 Scott Rolen
#47 Hideo Nomo /un#'d
#48 Torii Hunter
#49 Aubrey Huff
#50 Javy Lopez
#51 Austin Kearns
#52 Mike Piazza
#53 Sean Burroughs
#54 Kerry Wood
#55 Marquis Grissom 15/50
#56 Preston Wilson 34/50
#57 Angel Berroa
#58 Jason Kendall
#59 Rafael Palmeiro
#60 Mike Lowell
#61 Eric Chavez
#62 Bartolo Colon
#63 Adam Dunn
#64 Pedro Martinez
#65 Lance Berkman
#66 Bret Boone
#67 Eric Gagne
#68 Vladimir Guerrero 19/50
#69 Jay Gibbons
#70 Larry Walker
#71 Orlando Cabrera
#72 Jorge Posada
#73 Jamie Moyer
#74 Carl Crawford "#'d"
#75 Hank Blalock
#76 Josh Beckett "/50"
#77 Jody Gerut "/50"
#78 Kevin Brown 2/50
#79 Sammy Sosa
#80 Chipper Jones
#81 Tom Glavine
#82 Barry Zito "#'d"
#83 Edgar Renteria
#84 Esteban Loaiza 18/50
#85 Jason Giambi 19/50
#86 Miguel Tejada
#87 Randy Johnson
#88 A.J. Burnett
#89 Richie Sexson
#90 Reggie Sanders
#91 Carlos Delgado
#92 Pat Burrell
#93 Jacque Jones
#94 Roy Oswalt 5/50
#95 Frank Thomas
#96 Melvin Mora "/50"
#97 Jeremy Bonderman
#98 Mike Sweeney
#99 Brian Giles
#100 Edgar Martinez
#101 Mark Teixeira
#102 Sean Casey
#103 Javier Vazquez
#104 Hideki Matsui
#105 Jim Edmonds
#106 Roy Halladay
#107 Craig Biggio
#108 Geoff Jenkins
#109 Alfonso Soriano
#110 Barry Larkin
#111 Chris Bootcheck PR
#112 Dallas McPherson PR
#113 Matt Kata PR
#114 Scott Hairston PR
#115 Bobby Crosby PR
#116 Adam Wainwright PR
#117 Daniel Cabrera PR
#118 Kevin Youkilis PR
#119 Ronny Cedeno PR
#120 Ruddy Yan PR
#121 Ryan Wing PR
#122 William Bergolla PR
#123 Edwin Encarnacion PR
#124 Jonny Gomes PR
#125 Garrett Atkins PR
#126 Clint Barmes PR
#127 Wilfredo Ledezma PR
#128 Cody Ross PR
#129 Josh Willingham PR
#130 Chin-Hui Tsao PR
#131 Hector Gimenez PR
#132 David DeJesus PR
#133 Jimmy Gobble PR
#134 Edwin Jackson PR
#135 Koyie Hill PR
#136 Rickie Weeks PR
#137 Graham Koonce PR
#138 Rob Bowen PR
#139 Shawn Hill PR
#140 Craig Brazell PR
#141 Mike Hessman PR
#142 Jorge DePaula PR
#143 Chien-Ming **** PR
#144 Rich Harden PR
#145 Ryan Howard PR
#146 Alfredo Simon PR
#147 Ian Snell PR
#148 Ryan Doumit PR
#149 Khalil Greene PR
#150 Angel Chavez PR
#151 Dan Haren PR
#152 Chris Snelling PR
#153 Aaron Miles PR
#154 John Gall PR
#155 Chris Narveson PR
#156 Delmon Young PR
#157 Chad Gaudin PR
#158 Gerald Laird PR
#159 Alexis Rios PR
#160 Jason Arnold PR
