In 1996 Topps took 165 cards from its flagship set and reprinted them on chromium stock. It was the first Topps Chrome set, and it was not much loved at first. The packs held four cards, and Refractors, an idea carried over from Finest, came one in twelve.
Derek Jeter is #80, the last of the Future Stars, #72 through #80. It is not a rookie card; those came in 1993. It is the card of the season he arrived.
The first Topps Chrome, the season he became the Yankees' shortstop.
He is in Yankee pinstripes, reaching back over his head to make a catch. A gold FUTURE STAR badge sits in the upper corner, the Topps Chrome logo at the side, the Yankees' top-hat logo at the bottom and his name in gold beside it. The same card in the flagship set is #219.
That season he was the unanimous American League Rookie of the Year, and in October the Yankees beat Atlanta in the World Series, the first of the five titles he would win.
He retired in 2014 with 3,465 hits and went into the Hall of Fame on 396 of 397 ballots.
