Topps confirms 60 sparkles in Series 1 baseball set
By Chris Olds | Editor
Topps confirmed on Friday morning that 60 cards in the first series of its flagship 2011 baseball set have sparkle variations.
As previously reported here, there is a sparkle — or twinkle — of a diamond digitally placed into the photograph on the short-printed cards. While Topps did not announce how scarce the cards are, they have been falling roughly one per case in hobby and also have been found in retail packs.
Get the full list of 60 after the jump.
1 Ryan Braun
3 Jon Lester
5 Joey Votto
15 David Wright
20 Hanley Ramirez
23 Jaime Garcia
25 Carl Crawford
35 Shin-Soo Choo
40 Justin Upton
42 Mariano Rivera
44 Martin Prado
50 Alex Rodriguez
60 Andrew McCutchen
61 David Price
67 Vladimir Guerrero
70 Kyle Drabek
75 Jered Weaver
78 Mike Stanton
80 Desmond Jennings
100 Albert Pujols
102 CC Sabathia
108 Zack Greinke
110 Aroldis Chapman
120 Mat Latos
128 Manny Ramirez
140 Brett Anderson
150 Miguel Cabrera
165 Jeremy Hellickson
166 Josh Johnson
169 Chipper Jones
174 Roy Oswalt
177 Brian Matusz
195 Nick Markakis
200 Ichiro
208 Clay Buchholz
209 Carlos Santana
210 Brian Wilson
214 Chase Utley
216 Jose Bautista
218 Victor Martinez
236 Nelson Cruz
240 Andre Ethier
241 Wandy Rodriguez
247 Starlin Castro
250 Carlos Gonzalez
255 Torii Hunter
269 Stephen Drew
270 Ubaldo Jimenez
271 Adam Dunn
275 Clayton Kershaw
290 Ike Davis
293 Justin Morneau
294 Luke Scott
299 Chris Carpenter
300 Roy Halladay
307 Alex Rios
315 David Ortiz
320 Michael Young
322 Brent Morel
330 Derek Jeter
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Does anyone have a sense of what the print runs are?
If anyone gets the Utley Sparkle I will gladly trade for it. I pulled the Joey Votto if anyone is interested
I managed to pull Torii Hunter from a jumbo box. Then in rack packs from Wal-mart, I got Chris Carpenter, Ubaldo Jimenez, and Miquel Cabrera.
I also wonder if the SP variations (Gehrig, Campanella, etc.) also have even shorter-printed sparkle variations. Does anyone know?
Anyone know how rare they are in retail packs?
I bought a hobby box of Topps 2011 Baseball and landed a Alex Rios “Sparkle”, its nice but I sure would like to land a Jeter! I also landed a Manny R. Relic Card with a piece of Baseball Bat in the “60” Series cards and its only valued at 8.00, seems kinda low for a manny relic but not sure how many there are. Anyone else have one of these?
I got the B Wilson, Bautista and Luke Scott all outta the W-Mart Jumbo Packs. My odds figured to 1 in every 1,000 cards, What are they gonna list out for??
I just got an Utely sparkle phillies816 if you are interested
i pulled a 2011 topps brian matusz sparkle varation out of a walmart hanger pack i bought
for $10. i read that they are in retail packs but never thought i whould have found one.
I got my first one in a rack pack. My second came in a $15 value box.
i’ve bought almost $100.00 dollars in 36 cards a pack at walmart and just got a domonic brown 421 sparkle card…………no wonder kids take money from parents…..:)
From mod: All Browns look like that one. It’s not a sparkle card.
I have a question is does Jermaine Dye have a sparkle card because it sure looks like one on the hand that he is holding the bat. Please let me lnow. Thank You!