Donruss/Leaf Beckett Samples (thread to help player collectors)

[nerdherd020]

The Jim Thome 2003 DK SAMPLE is now headed to a good home.

 

[nerdherd020]

Bumping this up to help player collectors.

 

[Hawk8]

If anyone has any Andre Dawson let me know!

 

[Hendersonfan]

Re: Donruss/Leaf Beckett Samples (thead to help player collectors)

If anyone has any Andre Dawson let me know!

I have a photo you may be interested in. PM and I'll send it tomorrow.

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[VizquelCollector.com]

My wants below. Offering $30 for any of the Vizquel Golds, $15 for any regulars.

Omar Vizquel
2002 Donruss Diamond Kings Samples Gold #59
2002 Donruss Elite Samples Gold #69
2002 Leaf Samples #110
2002 Leaf Samples Gold #110
2003 Donruss Champions Samples Gold #84

Danys Baez
2003 Donruss Team Heroes Samples #158
2003 Donruss Team Heroes Samples Gold #158
2003 Leaf Samples #35

 

[WaxPax]

Re: Donruss/Leaf Beckett Samples (thead to help player collectors)

I have a Piazza "Sample"

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[BBCgalaxee]

Re: Donruss/Leaf Beckett Samples (thead to help player collectors)

These cards, both silver and gold, are completely under the hobby radar.

Think of it like this, there's sooooooo many player super collectors on fcb and yet so many still need these cards in both versions, even though the cards are ten or more years old!

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[DeliciousBacon]

I have two major scores heading my way soon: sealed Becketts from Nov. and Dec 2002, with samples! The Nov. has a 2002 Leaf R&S, the Dec. has a 2002 Donruss Originals. Hoping I get a couple of Gold Samples!

 

[katieneack]

I have two major scores heading my way soon: sealed Becketts from Nov. and Dec 2002, with samples! The Nov. has a 2002 Leaf R&S, the Dec. has a 2002 Donruss Originals. Hoping I get a couple of Gold Samples!

Good Luck - These have to be the most unervalued cards out there. I still have never to this day seen a single Beckett Gold Sample of Larkin. By far some of the hardest non-serial #'d cards to find. I still need quite a few of the silver versions!

 

[K34PuckettAddict]

I have two major scores heading my way soon: sealed Becketts from Nov. and Dec 2002, with samples! The Nov. has a 2002 Leaf R&S, the Dec. has a 2002 Donruss Originals. Hoping I get a couple of Gold Samples!

Let me know if you come across any Kirby Puckett's?

 

[DeliciousBacon]

Well, that went poorly. Got those two 2002 Becketts in today; the Leaf R&S Sample was Mark Mulder, and the Donruss Originals Sample was Derek Jeter. EXCEPT...when I tried to take the Jeter off the insert card, it ripped a chunk of paper off the back. At least the old Becketts are a fun read. Remember back when Adam Dunn was a listed star, and Kaz Ishii RCs booked for $6-$10 and up? Or when Brett Myers and Barry Zito were the best RCs of the 2000 RC class? Or a Bowman Chrome Pujols RC booked for $300?

 

[nerdherd020]

Well, that went poorly. Got those two 2002 Becketts in today; the Leaf R&S Sample was Mark Mulder, and the Donruss Originals Sample was Derek Jeter. EXCEPT...when I tried to take the Jeter off the insert card, it ripped a chunk of paper off the back. At least the old Becketts are a fun read. Remember back when Adam Dunn was a listed star, and Kaz Ishii RCs booked for $6-$10 and up? Or when Brett Myers and Barry Zito were the best RCs of the 2000 RC class? Or a Bowman Chrome Pujols RC booked for $300?

What card number is the Mulder?

 

[BBCgalaxee]

Re: Donruss/Leaf Beckett Samples (thead to help player collectors)

A few of mine, all gold with the group photo containing cards sent to mlbpa for approval

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[DeliciousBacon]

I ran some numbers and came up with some possible PRs for these samples. According to the December 2002 magazine's circulation statement, Beckett printed a shade over 285,000 copies of the October issue. At one card per issue for a 100 set, that's 2850 total samples. Golds make up 10%, so that would make 285 Golds and 2565 Silvers.

However, Beckett also states that out of the 285K copies printed, almost 87,500 copies were never distributed. That makes for a net distribution of 197,500 copies. In theory, that leaves us with around 1780 Silvers and 200 Golds.

But then again...and I don't know the answer to this, as I was out of the hobby at this time, but were these samples only included in copies sent to mail subscribers? If that's the case, then we end up with a PR of 500 Silvers and 50 Golds (based on mail subscription of 55K copies). This seems more plausible considering how hard these are to find.

 

[tunahead]

I ran some numbers and came up with some possible PRs for these samples. According to the December 2002 magazine's circulation statement, Beckett printed a shade over 285,000 copies of the October issue. At one card per issue for a 100 set, that's 2850 total samples. Golds make up 10%, so that would make 285 Golds and 2565 Silvers.

However, Beckett also states that out of the 285K copies printed, almost 87,500 copies were never distributed. That makes for a net distribution of 197,500 copies. In theory, that leaves us with around 1780 Silvers and 200 Golds.

But then again...and I don't know the answer to this, as I was out of the hobby at this time, but were these samples only included in copies sent to mail subscribers? If that's the case, then we end up with a PR of 500 Silvers and 50 Golds (based on mail subscription of 55K copies). This seems more plausible considering how hard these are to find.

They were inserted in the store copies for sure. I remember getting a couple of these samples back in the day from store bought copies.

 

[DeliciousBacon]

They were inserted in the store copies for sure. I remember getting a couple of these samples back in the day from store bought copies.

OK, so then the higher numbers (1780/200) must be closer to the actual PR. The question is, regardless of how many they made, where the XXXX are they all???

 

[BBCgalaxee]

Re: Donruss/Leaf Beckett Samples (thead to help player collectors)

Although, I wonder how many copies were trashed with cards inside and how many are still stuck in the magazine's.

On top of that, how many are buried in common boxes because they look exactly like base cards from the front.

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[olerud363]

Stumbled across this info on basecardpedia.com. Don't recall this being mentioned elsewhere, but I always thought the Beckett samples were parallels of the full sets. I might have to go through the entries for all the 2002-2003 DLP product on baseballcardpedia.com to see if there are checklists for which cards from the other products have Beckett samples.

2002 Donruss Originals Beckett Samples
Randomly inserted into the November, 2002 issue of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly was one card from a 100-card set previewing the upcoming Donruss Originals set. Each card is stamped "SAMPLE" on the back in either silver or gold foil. About 10% of the production run was stamped in Gold.
16 Alex Rodriguez
17 Lance Berkman
18 Kevin Brown
19 Garret Anderson
20 Bob Abreu
21 Richard Hidalgo
22 Matt Morris
24 Derek Jeter
25 Kerry Wood
26 Mark Grace
27 Edgar Martinez
28 Nomar Garciaparra
30 Jason Giambi
32 Albert Pujols
33 Juan Cruz
34 Troy Glaus
35 Greg Maddux
37 J.D. Drew
38 Tsuyoshi Shinjo
39 Vladimir Guerrero
40 Barry Bonds
41 Carlos Delgado
42 Ken Griffey, Jr.
43 Carlos Pena
44 Jeff Kent
46 Frank Thomas
47 Larry Walker
48 Pedro Martinez
49 Moises Alou
51 Luis Gonzalez
52 Adrian Beltre
53 Bobby Hill
54 Roy Oswalt
55 Tim Hudson
56 Trot Nixon
57 Jeff Bagwell
58 Bernie Williams
60 Bartolo Colon
61 Shawn Green
62 Mark Buehrle
63 Sean Casey
64 Rickey Henderson
67 Cliff Floyd
68 Darin Erstad
69 Paul LoDuca
70 Ivan Rodriguez
71 Mo Vaughn
73 Raul Mondesi
74 Sammy Sosa
75 Cristian Guzman
76 Jimmy Rollins
77 Hideo Nomo
78 C.C. Sabathia
79 Wade Miller
81 Chipper Jones
82 Miguel Tejada
83 Freddy Garcia
84 Richie Sexson
85 Robin Ventura
86 Jose Vidro
87 Rich Aurilia
88 Scott Rolen
89 Carlos Beltran
91 Kazuhiro Sasaki
92 Carlos Hernandez
93 Randy Johnson
94 Jim Thome
95 Curt Schilling
97 Barry Larkin
98 Rafael Palmeiro
99 Tom Glavine
100 Barry Zito
101 Craig Biggio
102 Mike Piazza
103 Ben Sheets
104 Mark Mulder
105 Mike Mussina
106 Jim Edmonds
107 Paul Konerko
108 Pat Burrell
109 Chan Ho Park
110 Mike Sweeney
111 Phil Nevin
112 Brian Giles
114 Corey Patterson
115 Gary Sheffield
131 Nomar Garciaparra
132 Roger Clemens
133 Hank Blalock
134 Eric Chavez
135 Corey Patterson
136 Richie Sexson
137 Freddy Garcia
138 Miguel Tejada
140 Adrian Beltre
141 Bob Abreu
142 Bret Boone
143 Tim Hudson
144 Roy Oswalt
145 Derek Jeter

 

[nerdherd020]

Bump.

 

[nborton]

I know I have one of these as well. I can't remember who, but I know I still have it somewhere.