Review 2016 Bowman's Best

2016 Bowman's Best​

One master box - 2 mini boxes - 6 packs per mini box - 5 cards per pack
4 Chrome autos per master box

I received the following:

Base cards - 23 of 65 -- 35% of the vet base of 65

Base


Top Prospect base - 14 of 35 -- 40% of the base set of 35

Top Prospect Base


As a Bowman collector, Bowman's Best is an issue that I look forward to each year. Bowman's Best is a higher end issue. The cards are printed on stiff white stock and the design is a bit busy on the front. With a large logo, at least 2 different designs - top portion and bottom portion, along with the picture of the player -- just a bit busy. The cards have a mirror finish - i.e. chrome and should hold up very well to handling.

I would like to see a few more base cards in the master box - maybe one more pack - just to get a bit closer to a set. With the expense of boxes, it becomes harder and harder to collate sets by buying several boxes. One has to look to trade or buy in one of many places to complete a set.

Parallels

Refractor/Blue Refractor/Cracked Ice



Refractors - 7x
Blue Refractor - #ed to 250 Ryan Braun
Cracked Ice - Nomar Mazara

The refractors are clearly marked with the word refractor on the reverse of the card -- THANK YOU!

I haven't said this in a while, but it would be cool if Topps had a contest to see who could complete one of the colored refractor sets and win some type of prize --- could spark interest in set building.


Cracked Ice/Retro



Cracked Ice Retro - Andrew Benintendi (my favorite insert -- very cool looking - no pun intended!)
Retro - Jose Berrios, Mark McGuire

Stat Line / Mirror Image



Stat Line - Bumbarner, Arcia, Arenado, Altuve (lots of A's?)
Mirror Image - Syndergaard/Manning, Scherzer/Giolito, Verlander/Pint

Autos



Vladimir Guerrero
Riley Pint
Ian Anderson

Green Auto


Ozzie Albies #ed to 99

All of the autos I received are on card autos - blue Sharpee - as they should be in a higher end set. Well done Topps!

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Overall grade A- just a few more base cards please....

Go buy several master boxes and send the Rays parallels (if there are any???) to me!

Duane

Duane,
Those cards look really nice. What would you need for the Guerrero auto or the Benintendi cracked ice? Please let me know.

Thanks,
David

Vlad Guerrero Jr.!??! Crikey, I'm old.

Nice set of 4 autos you pulled on that one.

Duane -
Nice hits on Braves autos. Can I list some Rays for you to look at for first the Anderson then the Ozzie?

Thanks!

Nice break. Best regards, David

Nice box. If trading I could use the Bumgarner stat line, Kye Lewis prospect card, and Verlander/pint mirror image. I have 2 daniel robertson #'d rays refractors to trade.

Thanks for the review Duane. I love the large logo on the card, but the rest of the design is way to bust for my liking. I will probably only go after a few in this set. LMK if you pulled

tp-26 braxton garrett

Thanks, Brett

daktion said:

Thanks for the review Duane. I love the large logo on the card, but the rest of the design is way to bust for my liking. I will probably only go after a few in this set. LMK if you pulled

tp-26 braxton garrett

Thanks, Brett

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Sorry no TP26

Duane