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Buzz Break: 2000 Team Best Graded minor league baseball cards
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The box: 2000 Team Best Graded minor league cards
Where to buy: Check eBay

Packs per box: 18 plus one graded card (Packs: six 1998 Team Best Top Prospects Signature Series, six 1999 Team Best Player of the Year, six 2000 Team Best Rookies)
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 109
1998 base set completion:  27 of 50 (54 percent)
Duplicates: 6
1999 base set completion:  24 of 50 (48 percent)
Duplicates: 7
2000 base set completion:  33 of 225 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 1
Base cards of note (1998) – Rick Ankiel, Eric Chavez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell, Ruben Rivera, Jimmy Rollins, Vernon Wells
Base cards of note (1999) – Rick Ankiel, Josh Hamilton, Corey Patterson, Aaron Rowand, CC Sabathia, Jayson Werth
Base cards of note (2000) – John Lackey, Ben Sheets, Josh Hamilton, Barry Zito, Pat Burrell, Mark Mulder
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This entry was posted in Autograph Collecting, Baseball, Buzz Break and tagged autographs, Jimmy Rollins, MiLB, Minor League Baseball, MLB, 1998 Team Best Top Prospects Signature Series, 1999 Team Best Player of the Year, 2000 Team Best Rookies, Aaron Rowand, Adam Everett, Barry Zito, Ben Petrick, Ben Sheets, Bryan Hebson, CC Sabathia, Chad Harville, Corey Patterson, Eric Chavez, Frank Catalanotto, J.D. Drew, Jayson Werth, John Lackey, Josh Hamilton, Julio Lugo, Mark Mulder, Mike Lowell, Pat Burrell, Rick Ankiel, Ruben Rivera, Team Best, Vernon Wells on January 16, 2017 by BlowoutBuzz.

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