Bowman Draft
12 packs - 32 cards per pack
3 Chrome Autos per box
I received these:
Paper Base
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Once complete set of 200 paper base and 73 duplicate paper cards!! -- EXCELLENT!!
Chrome Base
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66 unique chrome base cards - 33% of the set of 200 -- Very good!
Bowman Draft (I am a Bowman collector and my preferred brand is Bowman...) is a very good set to chase and complete. Many of the players will never make it big - many may make the 'bigs' one day, but only a handful will be really successful. That's where the fun comes in.... in a year or 5, pull out your set(s) and see what kind of cardboard gold you now have....
Bowman Draft is excellent for the set builder and the player collector. For those collectors out there that attempt to build parallel sets of specific colors - i.e. gold, purple, red, etc... lots 'o luck... that might be one heck of a hill to climb. However, the refractor set could easily be in reach - especially with the 'bay.
I like the distribution of the issue - there are just enough inserts to get one chasing an insert set and not so many that it distracts from the base sets...
There are 2 cards in the chrome set that are un-numbered -- don't really know how that happens, but..
Taylor Ward - #124
Wuilmer Becera - #185
Parallels
Chrome Refractors
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I received 24 unique chrome refractors....
Paper Parallels
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Mitch Keller #ed to 499
Purple - Nick Solak #ed to 250
Green - Blake Hunt #ed to 99
Chrome Refractor Parallels
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Blue - #ed to 399 --Brett Netzer and Joe Perez
Purple - #ed to 250 - Zac Lowther
Gold - #ed to 50 - Royce Lewis
Recommended Viewing
Bukauskas/Martin
Lewis/Rooker
Wright/Waters
Baz/Jennings
Draft History // Defining Moments
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Draft History - Thome and Fisk
Defining Moments - R. Lewis, C. Schmidt, K. Maitan, A. Beck
Autos
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Brendan Murphy and Luis Gonzalez
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Morgan Cooper - refractor - #ed to 75
and
BONUS AUTO
Blue Wave Refractor - Peter Solomon - #ed to 150
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All autos that I received are on card blue Sharpee autos --- I believe there is a redemption auto or 2. Autos and chrome parallels are on thicker stock and easily spotted.
THANK YOU TOPPS for putting the word 'refractor' on the refractor cards!! Greatly appreciated.
Overall grade -- A+ -- complete paper set and a good start on both chrome and chrome refractor sets.
Go buy a box or 3 (if one can find them - here in O'do they were gobbled up quickly!) - send the Rays parallels to me (only 3 Rays in the set!!!)
Duane
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