2011 Bowman Chrome Baseball
2011 Bowman Chrome Baseball picks up where 2011 Bowman Baseball left off, with 110 TOPPS EXCLUSIVE Minor League Prospects along with 20 USA Baseball 18U National Team talents AND Prospect Bryce Harper! Get a First Look at the Future Rookies of Major League Baseball with 2011 Bowman Chrome Baseball!
Configuration: 18 packs per box. 4 cards per pack.
Product Highlights
- Bryce Harper ON-CARD Autograph Cards!
- 1 Bowman Chrome Prospect ON-CARD Autograph Card per Box!
- USA Baseball 18U National Team Autograph Cards!
- 110 Never-Before-Seen Bowman Chrome Prospect Cards - 2 Per Pack!
- New & Hobby Exclusive USA Baseball 18U National Team Set Redemption Cards!
- Hobby Exclusive 1/1 Printing Plates!
- Hobby Exclusive Super-Fractor Parallels!
- All New Inserts With Select Hobby Exclusive Parallels!
Our 2011 Bowman Chrome Break
Base Cards
The base cards have stuck with the same feel for years with a black border. This is a favorite solid design amongst all collectors.
Prospects
The prospect cards as always are similar to the base cards except with white border used instead. These cards are jazzed up as the picture has a nice accent color around the edges. There is also a facsimile signature on the cards.
Parallels
The parallels shown here are the same basic design as the base card, but there are refractor and gold border variations. These are great for player and team collectors. We pulled 5 regular refractors: Nick Markakis, Tim Hudson, David DeJesus, Clay Buchholz, and Jon Lester. The Gold Refractor we pulled was an Alexei Ramirez numbered out of 50.
Bowman's Best Prospects
These cards bring back some fond memories of some of the older Bowman baseball products, with the colorful background and a posed picture of the prospect in the foreground. We pulled 2: Bryce Harper and Devin Mesoraco.
Futures
The futures cards have a nice snazzy looking die cut edge design to them. We pulled 3 regular inserts: Jonathan Singleton, Gary Sanchez, and Matt Dominguez. We also pulled a Jacob Turner X-Fractor variation.
Throwbacks
The throwbacks cards are where they have brought back old Bowman designs and used them for a nice insert set of some of today's young stars. We pulled 2: Grant Green and Jacob Turner.
The Hit
The Autograph we pulled was of Enny Romero numbered out of 500. Not someone I have actually heard of, but an Autograph none the less. This would probably fit in nicely with a Rays team collection! The autograph is a nice blue signature that is signed directly on the card.
Final Thoughts
Bowman Chrome is always a prospectors dream product. This year does not disappoint. With Bryce Harper cards in this product, this is what people will be searching through for that next high end prospect card. The cards in this set are nicely done and the designs are solid. The one drawback for the price is that there is only one guaranteed hit per box. But overall, this break was fun and very worth while. Way to go Topps!
Product Rating
• Value = 4
• Innovation = 5
• Fun and Experience = 5
• Rebuy Value = 4
I rate this product an A- for Topps!
NPN Information
Open only to U.S/Canadian (except Quebec) residents. For a chance to obtain any of the cards listed above, at the same odds, while supplies last, hand print your name and complete address on a 3 x 5 card and mail in a #10 envelope to:
NPN 2011 Bowman Chrome Baseball
P.O. Box 2098
Duryea, PA 18642
Only one card per envelope, mailed separately, postmarked by January 18, 2012 and recieved by January 25, 2012. No metered mail. Limit 1 request per household for 2011 Bowman Chrome Baseball. Failure to comply will result in all entries disqualified. Drawings on or about February 1, 2012. Potential Canadian winners will be required to first correctly answer the mathematical skill-testing question. Include on a 3 x 5 the answer to the following skill-test question:
12 x 3 + 14 - 2 = ?
I would like to thank Topps for giving me the chance to review this new product.
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