Manufacturer:

Upper Deck Company

 Set Count:

90

Front: Linen finish. No gloss. Player image appears to be a painting and on some an artist's name is visible. The player name, team name, card name and the border around the player image is gold foil. White border. Cards have vertical or horizontal orientation.

Back: No gloss. Part of image from the front is reproduced.  Text describes a player highlight. 2007 stats. Team logo. Holographic manufacturer logo. Vertical orientation.

Subsets:

Veteran Players

Combo cards

Rookie Cards

Parallel Cards:

UD Masterpieces Artist's Proof (*)

UD Masterpieces Black Linen (99)

UD Masterpieces Blue Steel (50)

UD Masterpieces Bronze Ore (*)

UD Masterpieces Celestial Blue (1)

UD Masterpieces Deep Blue Linen (75)

UD Masterpieces Green Linen (1:6)

UD Masterpieces Hades (50)

UD Masterpieces Ionised (50)

UD Masterpieces Original Paintings (*)

UD Masterpieces Persian Blue Linen (*)

UD Masterpieces Pinot Red (75)

UD Masterpieces Red (*)

UD Masterpieces Rusted (50)

UD Masterpieces Serious Black (99)

UD Masterpieces Urban Gray (*)

UD Masterpieces Windsor Green (1:9)

Either serialed numbered or odds of finding in a hobby pack. (*) means the cards is listed on Beckett.com but not in Beckett Baseball Plus.

Inserts:

UD Masterpieces 5x7 Box Topper

UD Masterpieces 5x7 Box Topper Signature

UD Masterpieces Captured on Canvas

UD Masterpieces Captured on Canvas Bronze

UD Masterpieces Captured on Canvas Forest Green (1/1)

UD Masterpieces Stroke of Genius Signatures

UD Masterpieces Stroke of Genius Signatures Windsor Green (1/1)

Top Cards (June/July 2008 Beckett Baseball Card Plus):

Cal Ripken #10, 53, 55 - $6.00

Cal Ripken/Tony Gwynn #42 - $6.00

Diasuke Matsuzaka (RC) # 27 $6.00

Sandy Koufax #17 - $5.00

Roberto Clemente #87 - $5.00

Comments:

Nice looking cards although pricy.  I paid about $20 for an 8-pack box at Target when new. The packs held 4 cards.  That works out to $0.62 per card.  Beckett lists commons at $0.60. Although there are 17 different parallel cards in the set I didn't get any of them.

 Base Card

Veteran Not a true subset in the sense that the design is different from the base card. Unlike most sets, there are a number of cards which feature retired players.

Combo There may only be one of these.

Rookie Card Same design as the base card but with the Rookie Card logo.