Review 2012 Bowman Baseball

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hdjstuff

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2012 Bowman Baseball

24 packs / 10 cards per pack
'2 Bowman Chrome cards in every pack'
1 Auto'd Bowman Chrome card in every box

I received the following:

116 regular Bowman - set is 220 - 52.7% of the set - no duplicates!! :)

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I am a Bowman apologist... I am a Bowman collector - having said that - just to make sure everyone who reads this knows - this issue, has a 'clean' design. The cards are printed on white stock, the front is glossy, and the reverse is matte. The front has foil imprinting and if the card is a rookie, the RC designation is easily visible. The reverse has 2011 pro stats and career stats. Also included is the Bowman Briefing - Resume, Skills and Evolution. Most of the photos are action shots.

Bowman Prospects

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48 unique prospects - set is 110 - 43.6% of the set -- :D

My main gripe is here -- why in the world can't the set be numbered correctly? There are only 110 cards in the set and several numbers are duplicated (not the player - just the number) and the same number is eliminated in the non-chrome set. This ain't rocket science.....:confused:

One of my favorite cards in either of the sets...

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This feller looks to be about 12 years old!! (maybe it's just me?)

Bowman Chrome Pospects

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This portion of the set - looks great and is numbered correctly!!

I received 43 unique BCP cards -- 39% of the set of 110.

Bowman Gold

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24 unique gold cards - 10.9% of the set of 220

Bowman Best

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I received 2 of each - 2 Rookies and 2 Veterans

These are counted as chrome cards in the packs and they are chrome. The design is cool. I would have liked to have a little different design between the rookies and vets, but the numbers on the reverse make the difference clear. Each set is 25 cards for a total of 50 (that's for the youngsters here in Florida that failed the math portion of the FCAT!!)

International Parallels

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2 Vets and 1 Prospect

Blue Parallel #ed to 500
Silver Ice

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Michael Crouse
Daniel Hudson

AUTO

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Joe Ross

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If one wants prospects and rookies, this is an issue that should not be missed. There are prospects that are several years away from the 'bigs' - but then again, who knows when they will get the call?

The master set builder might have quite a hill to climb - gold, blue, silver ice, red ice, blue wave (from the wrapper redemption), and the orange parallels - PLUS the chrome parallels. I must give props to Topps - the numbering of the cards is on the reverse!! Thank you!!

The autos - blue Sharpee - is on the card - as it should be - again - they look excellent. One will also have a number of parallels to chase - refractor, blue refractor, gold refractor, and red refractor autos to track down. The superfractors are so scarce, that it's really not worth attempting to grab them - unless $$ is no object.

Overall grade A+ --- get the numbering thing down...

Go buy a bunch of boxes - jumbo and hobby - and send the LEAGUE LEADING RAYS parallels to me!!

Duane
 
Nice review as always Duane. I like this years design, looks very clean with good photography. I like that the autos are on card as well. Please LMKif you pulled any of these

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BP6 Perio
BP36 Brady

-Brett
 
Nice review Duane. I too love me some Bowman.

Did you happen to pull a chrome prospect Anthony Rendon, Xander Bogaerts, or Nick Castellanos?

Thanks,
Brad
 
Nice review as always Duane. I like this years design, looks very clean with good photography. I like that the autos are on card as well. Please LMKif you pulled any of these

96 138 152 205

BP6 Perio
BP36 Brady

-Brett

Got them... should be coming your way soon.

Duane
 
Nice review as always Duane. I like this years design, looks very clean with good photography. I like that the autos are on card as well. Please LMKif you pulled any of these

96 138 152 205

BP6 Perio
BP36 Brady

-Brett

Got them... should be coming your way soon.

Duane

Thanks. I'll throw some stamps in the mail tomorrow.

-Brett
 
I, too, am a huge Bowman collector.....love the Bowman's Best set.....I need the Middlebrooks for my set...

Thanks, Duane as always.....I'm going to find a goodie to send to you this week...lol.
Diane
 
awsome reveiw i have enjoeyd them very much and they have helped me decided what to buy a pack of new type of stuff several times. I like the lindor and the middlebrooks cards they are very sharp looking
 
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