2004 Topps Chrome Baseball Cards

By 2004, I was just one year back from my hiatus. I can remember buying packs of whatever at Target that year and pulling Conor Jackson. He was one of the hopeful prospects at the time. While his career was stunted by Valley Fever in 2009, he still collected over $10 million during his 6-year career. I’d say that’s a success. In any case, 2004 Topps Chrome was issued during the prime era of the relic craze so many of its insert sets feature this characteristic. Covered here is a complete resource for 2004 Topps Chrome baseball cards.

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Set Information:

Important Date(s)
January 2004	Release Date S1 (1-233)
May 2004	Release Date S2 (234-467)

2004 Topps Chrome was released across two series’ in the first half of 2004. The series was issued 4 cards per pack, 20 packs per box, and 10 boxes per case. Packs held an SRP of $3. Cards 221-246 are autographed. A variation of card number 234 (Bradley Sullivan) was issued that erroneously states his card number as 345 and is found in all parallel sets except for Red X-Fractors, and constitutes about 20% of the total print run for that card in each set respectively. Key RC: Yadier Molina. 2004 Topps Chrome was released during an election year so Topps capitalized on it by producing a few sets commemorating past Presidents, which make for nice adds for political memorabilia collectors.

Set	Total Cards	Print Run(s)	Odds
Base	467	–	221-233: 1:21 H; 1:33 R 234-246: 1:22 H; 1:35 R
Refractor	467	221-233, 235-246 /100 234A /80; 234B /20	1-220: 1:4 H/R 247-466: 1:4 H/R 221-233: 1:380 H 234-246: 1:375 H
Gold Refractor	467	221-233, 235-246 /50 234A /40; 234B /10	1-220: 1:5 H; 1:10 R 247-466: 1:9 H 221-233: 1:759 H 234-246: 1:790 H
Black Refractor	467	221-233, 235-246 /25 234A /20; 234B /5	1-220: 1:10 H; 1:20 R 247-466: 1:19 H 221-233: 1:1527 H 234-246: 1:1579 H
Red X-Fractor	466	1-220 /63 221-246 /1 247-466 /61	1-220; 247-466: 1:Hot Pack Hot Pack: 1:Hobby Box 221-233: 1:21,371 H S1 234-246: 1:20,800 H S2
Fashionably Great Relics	37	–	Group A: 1:59 R S1 Group B: 1:107 R S1
Handle With Care Bat Knob Relics	25	5	–
Handle With Care Bat Knob Relics 1 of 1	25	1	–
Presidential First Pitch Seat Relics	16	100	1:15 Box Loader S2 1:633 H S2
Presidential Pastime Refractors	42	–	1:9 H S2
Presidential Pastime X-fractors	42	1-43	1:400 H S2; 1:791 R S2
Town Heroes Relics	21	–	1:1 Box Loader S2 1:48 R S2

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Checklist:

Card #	Player(s)	Card #	Player(s)
1	Jim Thome	234	Bradley Sullivan RC FY AU
2	Reggie Sanders	235	Carlos Quentin RC FY AU
3	Mark Kotsay	236	Conor Jackson RC FY AU
4	Edgardo Alfonzo	237	Estee Harris RC FY AU
5	Tim Wakefield	238	Jeffrey Allison RC FY AU
6	Moises Alou	239	Kyle Sleeth RC FY AU
7	Jorge Julio	240	Matthew Moses RC FY AU
8	Bartolo Colon	241	Tim Stauffer RC FY AU
9	Chan Ho Park	242	Brad Snyder RC FY AU
10	Ichiro Suzuki	243	Jason Hirsh RC FY AU
11	Kevin Millwood	244	Lastings Milledge RC FY AU
12	Preston Wilson	245	Logan Kensing RC FY AU
13	Tom Glavine	246	Kory Casto RC FY AU
14	Junior Spivey	247	David Aardsma RC FY
15	Marcus Giles	248	Omar Quintanilla RC FY
16	David Segui	249	Ervin Santana RC FY
17	Kevin Millar	250	Merkin Valdez RC FY
18	Corey Patterson	251	Vito Chiaravalloti RC FY
19	Aaron Rowand	252	Travis Blackley RC FY
20	Derek Jeter	253	Chris Shelton RC FY
21	Luis Castillo	254	Rudy Guillen RC FY
22	Manny Ramirez	255	Bobby Brownlie RC FY
23	Jay Payton	256	Paul Maholm RC FY
24	Bobby Higginson	257	Roger Clemens
25	Lance Berkman	258	Laynce Nix
26	Juan Pierre	259	Eric Hinske
27	Mike Mussina	260	Ivan Rodriguez
28	Fred McGriff	261	Brandon Webb
29	Richie Sexson	262	Jhonny Peralta
30	Tim Hudson	263	Adam Kennedy
31	Mike Piazza	264	Tony Batista
32	Brad Radke	265	Jeff Suppan
33	Jeff Weaver	266	Kenny Lofton
34	Ramon Hernandez	267	Scott Sullivan
35	David Bell	268	Ken Griffey Jr.
36	Randy Wolf	269	Juan Rivera
37	Jake Peavy	270	Larry Walker
38	Tim Worrell	271	Todd Hollandsworth
39	Gil Meche	272	Carlos Beltran
40	Albert Pujols	273	Carl Crawford
41	Michael Young	274	Karim Garcia
42	Josh Phelps	275	Jose Reyes
43	Brendan Donnelly	276	Brandon Duckworth
44	Steve Finley	277	Brian Giles
45	John Smoltz	278	J.T. Snow
46	Jay Gibbons	279	Jamie Moyer
47	Trot Nixon	280	Julio Lugo
48	Carl Pavano	281	Mark Teixeira
49	Frank Thomas	282	Cory Lidle
50	Mark Prior	283	Lyle Overbay
51	Danny Graves	284	Troy Percival
52	Milton Bradley	285	Robby Hammock
53	Kris Benson	286	Jason Johnson
54	Ryan Klesko	287	Damian Rolls
55	Mike Lowell	288	Antonio Alfonseca
56	Geoff Blum	289	Tom Goodwin
57	Michael Tucker	290	Paul Konerko
58	Paul Lo Duca	291	D’Angelo Jimenez
59	Vicente Padilla	292	Ben Broussard
60	Jacque Jones	293	Magglio Ordonez
61	Fernando Tatis	294	Carlos Pena
62	Ty Wigginton	295	Chad Fox
63	Rich Aurilia	296	Jeriome Robertson
64	Andy Pettitte	297	Travis Hafner
65	Terrence Long	298	Joe Randa
66	Cliff Floyd	299	Brady Clark
67	Mariano Rivera	300	Barry Zito
68	Kelvim Escobar	301	Ruben Sierra
69	Marlon Byrd	302	Brett Myers
70	Mark Mulder	303	Oliver Perez
71	Francisco Cordero	304	Benito Santiago
72	Carlos Guillen	305	Russ Davis
73	Fernando Vina	306	Joe Nathan
74	Lance Carter	307	Jim Edmonds
75	Hank Blalock	308	Matt Kata
76	Jimmy Rollins	309	Vinny Castilla
77	Francisco Rodriguez	310	Marty Cordova
78	Javy Lopez	311	Aramis Ramirez
79	Jerry Hairston Jr.	312	Carl Everett
80	Andruw Jones	313	Ryan Freel
81	Rodrigo Lopez	314	Mark Bellhorn
82	Johnny Damon	315	Joe Mauer
83	Hee Seop Choi	316	Tim Redding
84	Kazuhiro Sasaki	317	Jeromy Burnitz
85	Danny Bautista	318	Miguel Cabrera
86	Matt Lawton	319	Ramon Nivar
87	Juan Uribe	320	Casey Blake
88	Rafael Furcal	321	Adam LaRoche
89	Kyle Farnsworth	322	Jermaine Dye
90	Jose Vidro	323	Jerome Williams
91	Luis Rivas	324	John Olerud
92	Hideo Nomo	325	Scott Rolen
93	Javier Vazquez	326	Bobby Kielty
94	Al Leiter	327	Travis Lee
95	Jose Valentin	328	Jeff Cirillo
96	Alex Cintron	329	Scott Spiezio
97	Zach Day	330	Melvin Mora
98	Jorge Posada	331	Mike Timlin
99	C.C. Sabathia	332	Kerry Wood
100	Alex Rodriguez	333	Tony Womack
101	Brad Penny	334	Jody Gerut
102	Brad Ausmus	335	Morgan Ensberg
103	Raul Ibanez	336	Odalis Perez
104	Mike Hampton	337	Michael Cuddyer
105	Adrian Beltre	338	Jose Hernandez
106	Ramiro Mendoza	339	LaTroy Hawkins
107	Rocco Baldelli	340	Marquis Grissom
108	Esteban Loaiza	341	Matt Morris
109	Russell Branyan	342	Juan Gonzalez
110	Todd Helton	343	Jose Valverde
111	Braden Looper	344	Joe Borowski
112	Octavio Dotel	345	Josh Bard
113	Mike MacDougal	346	Austin Kearns
114	Cesar Izturis	347	Chin-Hui Tsao
115	Johan Santana	348	Wil Ledezma
116	Jose Contreras	349	Aaron Guiel
117	Placido Polanco	350	Alfonso Soriano
118	Jason Phillips	351	Ted Lilly
119	Orlando Hudson	352	Sean Burroughs
120	Vernon Wells	353	Rafael Palmeiro
121	Ben Grieve	354	Quinton McCracken
122	Dave Roberts	355	David Ortiz
123	Ismael Valdes	356	Randall Simon
124	Eric Owens	357	Wily Mo Pena
125	Curt Schilling	358	Brian Anderson
126	Russ Ortiz	359	Corey Koskie
127	Mark Buehrle	360	Keith Foulke
128	Doug Mientkiewicz	361	Sidney Ponson
129	Dmitri Young	362	Gary Matthews Jr.
130	Kazuhisa Ishii	363	Herbert Perry
131	A.J. Pierzynski	364	Shea Hillenbrand
132	Brad Wilkerson	365	Craig Biggio
133	Joe McEwing	366	Barry Larkin
134	Alex Cora	367	Arthur Rhodes
135	Jose Cruz Jr.	368	Sammy Sosa
136	Carlos Zambrano	369	Joe Crede
137	Jeff Kent	370	Gary Sheffield
138	Shigetoshi Hasegawa	371	Coco Crisp
139	Jarrod Washburn	372	Torii Hunter
140	Greg Maddux	373	Derrek Lee
141	Josh Beckett	374	Adam Everett
142	Miguel Batista	375	Miguel Tejada
143	Omar Vizquel	376	Jeremy Affeldt
144	Alex Gonzalez	377	Robin Ventura
145	Billy Wagner	378	Scott Podsednik
146	Brian Jordan	379	Matthew LeCroy
147	Wes Helms	380	Vladimir Guerrero
148	Deivi Cruz	381	Steve Karsay
149	Alex Gonzalez	382	Jeff Nelson
150	Jason Giambi	383	Chase Utley
151	Erubiel Durazo	384	Bobby Abreu
152	Mike Lieberthal	385	Josh Fogg
153	Jason Kendall	386	Trevor Hoffman
154	Xavier Nady	387	Matt Stairs
155	Kirk Rueter	388	Edgar Martinez
156	Mike Cameron	389	Edgar Renteria
157	Miguel Cairo	390	Chipper Jones
158	Woody Williams	391	Eric Munson
159	Toby Hall	392	Dewon Brazelton
160	Bernie Williams	393	John Thomson
161	Darin Erstad	394	Chris Woodward
162	Matt Mantei	395	Joe Kennedy
163	Shawn Chacon	396	Reed Johnson
164	Bill Mueller	397	Johnny Estrada
165	Damian Miller	398	Damian Moss
166	Tony Graffanino	399	Victor Zambrano
167	Sean Casey	400	Dontrelle Willis
168	Brandon Phillips	401	Troy Glaus
169	Runelvys Hernandez	402	Raul Mondesi
170	Adam Dunn	403	Jeff Davanon
171	Carlos Lee	404	Kurt Ainsworth
172	Juan Encarnacion	405	Pedro Martinez
173	Angel Berroa	406	Eric Karros
174	Desi Relaford	407	Billy Koch
175	Joe Mays	408	Luis Gonzalez
176	Ben Sheets	409	Jack Cust
177	Eddie Guardado	410	Mike Sweeney
178	Rocky Biddle	411	Jason Bay
179	Eric Gagne	412	Mark Redman
180	Eric Chavez	413	Jason Jennings
181	Jason Michaels	414	Rondall White
182	Dustan Mohr	415	Todd Hundley
183	Kip Wells	416	Shannon Stewart
184	Brian Lawrence	417	Jae Weong Seo
185	Bret Boone	418	Livan Hernandez
186	Tino Martinez	419	Mark Ellis
187	Aubrey Huff	420	Pat Burrell
188	Kevin Mench	421	Mark Loretta
189	Tim Salmon	422	Robb Nen
190	Carlos Delgado	423	Joel Pineiro
191	John Lackey	424	Todd Walker
192	Eric Byrnes	425	Jeremy Bonderman
193	Luis Matos	426	A.J. Burnett
194	Derek Lowe	427	Greg Myers
195	Mark Grudzielanek	428	Roy Oswalt
196	Tom Gordon	429	Carlos Baerga
197	Matt Clement	430	Garret Anderson
198	Byung-Hyun Kim	431	Horacio Ramirez
199	Brandon Inge	432	Brian Roberts
200	Nomar Garciaparra	433	Kevin Brown
201	Frank Catalanotto	434	Eric Milton
202	Cristian Guzman	435	Ramon Vazquez
203	Bo Hart	436	Alex Escobar
204	Jack Wilson	437	Alex Sanchez
205	Ray Durham	438	Jeff Bagwell
206	Freddy Garcia	439	Claudio Vargas
207	J.D. Drew	440	Shawn Green
208	Orlando Cabrera	441	Geoff Jenkins
209	Roy Halladay	442	David Wells
210	David Eckstein	443	Nick Johnson
211	Omar Falcon RC FY	444	Jose Guillen
212	Todd Self RC FY	445	Scott Hatteberg
213	David Murphy RC FY	446	Phil Nevin
214	Dioner Navarro RC FY	447	Jason Schmidt
215	Marcus McBeth RC FY	448	Ricky Ledee
216	Chris O’Riordan RC FY	449	So Taguchi
217	Rodney Choy Foo RC FY	450	Randy Johnson
218	Tim Frend RC FY	451	Eric Young
219	Yadier Molina RC FY	452	Chone Figgins
220	Zach Duke RC FY	453	Larry Bigbie
221	Anthony Lerew RC FY AU	454	Scott Williamson
222	Blake Hawksworth RC FY AU	455	Ramon Martinez
223	Brayan Pena RC FY AU	456	Roberto Alomar
224	Craig Ansman RC FY AU	457	Ryan Dempster
225	Jon Knott RC FY AU	458	Ryan Ludwick
226	Josh Labandeira RC FY AU	459	Ramon Santiago
227	Khalid Ballouli RC FY AU	460	Jeff Conine
228	Kyle Davies RC FY AU	461	Brad Lidge
229	Matt Creighton RC FY AU	462	Ken Harvey
230	Mike Gosling RC FY AU	463	Guillermo Mota
231	Nic Ungs RC FY AU	464	Rick Reed
232	Zach Miner RC FY AU	465	Armando Benitez
233	Donald Levinski RC FY AU	466	Wade Miller

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Fashionably Great Relics:

Card #	Player(s)	Group	Card #	Player(s)	Group
FGR-AD	Adam Dunn	A	FGR-JBO	Joe Borchard	A
FGR-AJ	Andruw Jones	A	FGR-JO	John Olerud	A
FGR-AP	Albert Pujols	A	FGR-JR	Juan Rivera	A
FGR-AR	Alex Rodriguez	A	FGR-JS	John Smoltz	A
FGR-BM	Brett Myers	A	FGR-JV	Jose Vidro	A
FGR-BW	Billy Wagner	B	FGR-KB	Kevin Brown	B
FGR-CB	Craig Biggio	A	FGR-MM	Mark Mulder	A
FGR-CD	Carlos Delgado	A	FGR-MP	Mike Piazza	A
FGR-CF	Cliff Floyd	A	FGR-MR	Manny Ramirez	A
FGR-CJ	Chipper Jones	A	FGR-MS	Mike Sweeney	A
FGR-CS	Curt Schilling	A	FGR-NG	Nomar Garciaparra	B
FGR-DL	Derek Lowe	B	FGR-PM	Pedro Martinez	A
FGR-EC	Eric Chavez	B	FGR-RP	Rafael Palmeiro	A
FGR-FG	Freddy Garcia	A	FGR-SS	Sammy Sosa	A
FGR-FM	Fred McGriff	A	FGR-TH	Tim Hudson	B
FGR-FT	Frank Thomas	A	FGR-THO	Trevor Hoffman	A
FGR-HB	Hank Blalock	A	FGR-VW	Vernon Wells	B
FGR-IR	Ivan Rodriguez	B	FGR-WP	Willy Mo Pena	A
FGR-JB	Jeff Bagwell	A

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Handle With Care Bat Knob Relics:

2004 Topps Chrome Handle With Card Bat Knob Relics is a 25-card set and the rarest of all the insert sets from this issue. The base set has a print run of just 5 examples and is accompanied by a 1/1 parallel.

Card #	Player(s)	Card #	Player(s)
HCR-AK	Al Kaline	HCR-LB	Lance Berkman
HCR-AP	Albert Pujols	HCR-LBR	Lou Brock
HCR-AR	Alex Rodriguez	HCR-LG	Luis Gonzalez
HCR-AS	Alfonso Soriano	HCR-MT	Miguel Tejada
HCR-BR	Brooks Robinson	HCR-NG	Nomar Garciaparra
HCR-CF	Carlton Fisk	HCR-PM	Paul Molitor
HCR-CY	Carl Yastrzemski	HCR-RJ	Reggie Jackson
HCR-FR	Frank Robinson	HCR-RY	Robin Yount
HCR-GB	George Brett	HCR-TH	Torii Hunter
HCR-HK	Harmon Killebrew	HCR-WB	Wade Boggs
HCR-JB	Johnny Bench	HCR-WM	Willie Mays
HCR-JG	Jason Giambi	HCR-WS	Willie Stargell
HCR-JT	Jim Thome

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Presidential First Pitch Seat Relics:

2004 Topps Chrome Presidential First Pitch Seat Relics is a 16-card set with a print run of just 100.

Card #	President	Card #	President
FPR-BC	Bill Clinton	FPR-HT	Harry Truman
FPR-CC	Calvin Coolidge	FPR-JK	John F. Kennedy
FPR-DE	Dwight Eisenhower	FPR-LJ	Lyndon B. Johnson
FPR-FR	Franklin D. Roosevelt	FPR-RN	Richard Nixon
FPR-GB	George W. Bush	FPR-RR	Ronald Reagan
FPR-GF	Gerald Ford	FPR-WH	Warren Harding
FPR-GHB	George H.W. Bush	FPR-WT	William Taft
FPR-HH	Herbert Hoover	FPR-WW	Woodrow Wilson

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Presidential Pastime:

2004 Topps Chrome Presidential Pastime is a 42-card set. The base set features a refractor finish. X-Fractor parallels exist with print runs ranging from 1-43.

Card #	President	Card #	President
PP1	George Washington	PP22	Grover Cleveland
PP2	John Adams	PP23	Benjamin Harrison
PP3	Thomas Jefferson	PP24	William McKinley
PP4	James Madison	PP25	Theodore Roosevelt
PP5	James Monroe	PP26	William Taft
PP6	John Quincy Adams	PP27	Woodrow Wilson
PP7	Andrew Jackson	PP28	Warren Harding
PP8	Martin Van Buren	PP29	Calvin Coolidge
PP9	William Harrison	PP30	Herbert Hoover
PP10	John Tyler	PP31	Franklin D. Roosevelt
PP11	James Polk	PP32	Harry Truman
PP12	Zachary Taylor	PP33	Dwight Eisenhower
PP13	Millard Fillmore	PP34	John F. Kennedy
PP14	Franklin Pierce	PP35	Lyndon B. Johnson
PP15	James Buchanan	PP36	Richard Nixon
PP16	Abraham Lincoln	PP37	Gerald Ford
PP17	Andrew Johnson	PP38	Jimmy Carter
PP18	Ulysses S. Grant	PP39	Ronald Reagan
PP19	Rutherford B. Hayes	PP40	George H.W. Bush
PP20	James Garfield	PP41	Bill Clinton
PP21	Chester Arthur	PP42	George W. Bush

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Town Heroes Relics:

2004 Topps Chrome Town Heroes is a 21-card set that features GU cards with relics that vary by player.

Card #	Player(s)	Card #	Player(s)
CHR-AP	Albert Pujols	CHR-MM	Mark Mulder
CHR-AR	Alex Rodriguez	CHR-MP	Mark Prior
CHR-BZ	Barry Zito	CHR-MR	Manny Ramirez
CHR-CJ	Chipper Jones	CHR-MT	Miguel Tejada
CHR-EC	Eric Chavez	CHR-NG	Nomar Garciaparra
CHR-FT	Frank Thomas	CHR-RH	Rich Harden
CHR-HN	Hideo Nomo	CHR-RP	Rafael Palmeiro
CHR-JG	Jason Giambi	CHR-SS	Sammy Sosa
CHR-JR	Jose Reyes	CHR-SST	Shannon Stewart
CHR-KW	Kerry Wood	CHR-TH	Tim Hudson
CHR-LB	Lance Berkman

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