2009 World Baseball Classic Card Wrap Up

OK, maybe I'm being too optimistic here, but I'm guessing that Topps has finally finished making World Baseball Classic sets for the 2009 games. So here's a wrap up on what all they produced last year.

There were 10 sets in all:

- a 55 card box set
- a 20 card insert set with Bowman
- a 25 card insert set with Topps 2
- a 10 card "Redemption" set
- a 13 card eTopps set
- a 5 card Allen & Ginters Box Topper set
- a 100 card Topps Chrome insert set
- a 40 card Bowman Chrome insert set
- a 3 card subset in the Topps Update set
- a 35 card subset/insert set in the Bowman Draft Picks And Prospects set

That's a total of 306 cards, not all of which were of Derek Jeter or Alex Rodriguez. (And that's not counting the two 8 card promo sheets given away at Pool A and C games in Tokyo and Toronto respectively.)

For the victorious Japanese team, there were 50 cards that represented 21 of the 29 players who saw action during the WBC (plus a patch card from the eTopps set). Here's a listing of the players on the roster and their cards (for the Allen & Ginter cards, each card gets counted twice since there are two player "cards" on each card):

Player	Cards
Abe, Shinnosuke	Box Set #7, Bowman #BW6, Topps Chrome #W44
Aoki, Norichika	A&G CB4 (shown above), Topps Chrome #W78, Bowman Chrome #BCW21, Bowman Draft Picks #BDPW35, eTopps #8
Darvish, Yu	Box Set #1, Bowman #BW1, Topps 2 #BCS7, Redemption #7, Topps Chrome #W1,Bowman Draft Picks #BDPW2, eTopps #1
Fujikawa, Kyuji	Bowman Chrome #BCW39
Fukudome, Kosuke	Box Set #26, Topps Chrome #W61
Inaba, Atsunori	No cards
Ishihara, Yoshiyuki	Topps Chrome #W39
Iwakuma, Hisashi	A&G CB5, Topps Chrome #W22, Bowman Chrome #BCW22, eTopps #11
Iwamura, Akinori	Box Set #42, Topps Chrome #W89
Iwata, Minoru	No cards
Johjima, Kenji	Box Set #54, Topps Chrome #W8
Kamei, Yoshiyuki	No cards
Kataoka, Yasuyuki	No cards
Kawasaki, Munenori	Bowman Draft Picks #BDPW11
Komatsu, Satoshi	No cards
Kurihara, Kenta	No cards
Mahara, Takahiro	Bowman Chrome #BCW47
Matsuzaka, Daisuke	Box Set #9, Redemption #10, A&G CB4 (shown above), Topps Chrome #W24, Bowman Draft Picks #BDPW22
Murata, Shuichi	Topps 2 #BCS22, Topps Chrome #W45, Bowman Chrome #BCW28
Nakajima, Hiroyuki	Topps 2 #BCS4, Topps Chrome #W62, Bowman Chrome #BCW48
Ogasawara, Michihiro	Topps Chrome #W28 (shown below), Bowman Chrome #BCW45
Sugiuchi, Toshiya	Bowman Chrome #BCW57
Suzuki, Ichiro	Box Set #29, Topps 2 #BCS5, A&G CB5, Topps Chrome #W4,Bowman Draft Picks #BDPW1, eTopps #9
Tanaka, Masahiro	Topps Chrome #W37, Bowman Chrome #BCW30
Uchikawa, Seiichi	Topps Chrome #W66, Bowman Draft Picks #BDPW34
Utsumi, Tetsuya	No cards
Wakui, Hideaki	No cards
Watanabe, Shunsuke	Topps Chrome #W31, Bowman Chrome #BCW58
Yamaguchi, Tetsuya	Topps Chrome #W34
Patch card	eTopps #13

This (obviously) does not include the cards Konami produced in Japan for the WBC. I suspect that they produced a complete team set for the Japanese team, but the cards are going for much more than I want to pay for them on eBay.