MAILDAY!

You'd be pretty excited too, if you bought a lot of 1998-2000 Stadium Club Triumvirate/3X3's for only $22.

At one time, this was a $100 card.

Fast forward ten years, and now it's just dollar-box fodder.

$20 Worth of Junk Wax: 2000 Topps TEK

A set so bad, it deserved its own video.

Always Be Collecting: 2000 Fleer Tradition

2000 Fleer Tradition

Base Set: 450 cards + 50 Glossy exclusive "Prospects"
Inserts:

• Dividends: 15 cards (1:6)
• Grasskickers: 15 cards (1:30)
• Hall's Well: 15 cards (1:30)
• Ripken Collection: 10 cards (1:30)
• Ten-4: 10 cards (1:18)
• Who to Watch: 15 cards (1:3)

Autogamers:

• Fresh Ink: 37 Autographs (1:144, hobby exclusive)
• Glossy Lumberjacks: 45 Bat Cards (one-per-Glossy Set, production varies from 30 to 809 copies)

Packaging: 36 pack, 10-card Hobby and retail waxboxes; Glossy factory sets.
Notable Cards: Ripken Collection inserts, Glossy Rookies.
Other Notes:

• The product that single-handedly kicked off the "retro" themed craze of the 2000s.
• Lauded as the best product of 2000.
  
• Base set is a dead-ringer for 1954 Topps.
• Cards printed on "shoebox gray" stock without any foil stamping or glossy coating.
• 10,000 serial numbered "Glossy" factory sets produced. Each set included five of 50 Glossy exclusive Prospects (each card serial numbered to 1000) and a Lumberjack bat card.
• Lumberjacks, the first game used element in Fleer/Fleer Tradition.
  

Full Set: $50 (NmMT)
Full Glossy Set (factory): $60 (NmMT)


2000 Fleer Tradition Update

Base Set: 149 cards
Autogamers: Mickey Mantle game jersey (1:80 sets)
Notable Cards: Johan Santana and Barry Zito RCs
Other Notes:

• Card #50 (believed to be C.C. Sabathia) was pulled from the set after he was taken off the Indians 40-man roster.

Full Set (factory): $25 (NmMT)