2005 Upper Deck Baseball Forum

I hear the collective sighs. There are some REAL variations here. And there may be more.

There are 2 known Washington National variants from the Series 1 set (cards #123 & 126). There may be more, but my usual searches did NOT find others. Expos are [a] versions and Nats are [b] versions.

Additionally, while researching the Expos/National variations, I found other actual variations as well. In the Series 1 Star Rookies subset, it appears UD created "Future Stars" out of a few of the players (212, 217, 218, 228, 229, 243, 249, & 250). Further investigation led me to discovering that the Future Stars (FS) variations were (c) 2005, while the Star Rookies (SR) versions were (c) 2004, therefore, I made the SRs the [a] version of the number and the FSs are the [b] versions.

Please note that the Future Stars/Star Rookies variation is more than the foil on the front, but it's also in the actual printing on the back.

As always, you may wish to look in your collections to ensure you have the correct card logged, and now that you know there are variations out there, if you discover any others, please alert us by submitting an inaccuracy report.

Dan...my "guess" is that this is a factory set vs. a hand collated set issue.  I know that there is at least one other FS/SR issue and I will create an inaccuaracy report shortly (Card #260 Scott Kazmir).  I also know that a handful of cards have been found with different text on the back.

https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/2005/Upper_Deck_-_Base/2961/Derek_Jeter_(Last_Text_Line_Begins_with_A)/2998707

https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/2005/Upper_Deck_-_Base/2962/Derek_Jeter_(Last_Text_Line_Begins_with_Four)/12458662

The first link has a (c) 2004, the second link a (c) of 2005.  I'm sure there are many, many more like this.

I just very recently purchased a set and I haven't even had a chance to look closely at it other than to verify that all 500 cards were there.

I litterally cannot imagine that they would create variations for two of the Expos cards and not the entire team.  I'll begin my search.  It will take time for sure.

If the whole first series is different in the Factory set, then let's hold off adding any more of these until they are verified. If all of the first series is (c) 2005 in the FS and the packed out cards are (c) 2004, then we might just make a parallel.