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You are here: Home / Sports Card News / Modern Sports Card News / 2010 Bowman Chrome Review

2010 Bowman Chrome Review

November 16, 2010 By Rich Mueller

by Rich Klein

The recently released Bowman Chrome baseball product completes the troika or trilogy (whichever word you prefer) of “new products affected by uber-prospect Stephen Strasburg’s rotator cuff surgery”.

When it became clear Strasburg was no longer going to be a serious National League Rookie of the Year candidate and likely going to be out for most if not all of the 2011 season, the buzz went out of what had been an infusion of energy in the new card market.

Strasburg, who had been the most prominent rookie on a card since the fabled 2001 class led then by Albert Pujols, Ichiro Suzuki and Mark Prior, was still having an huge impact on card prices.  However, this time his absence from playing was going to reduce this interest in 2010 Topps Chrome, 2010 Topps Update and Highlights and 2010 Bowman Chrome.  Those three products were all heavily pre-sold in no small part due to the Strasburg hype.

2010 Bowman ChromeThus, the recently released Bowman Chrome product had already been through a lot before ever being issued.  It was too late for Topps to go in another direction though.  Even the unopened box mentions to “Look for Autographs of Stephen Strasburg”.

With just 72 cards in an box, having one autograph is not a bad “hit” as that means between one and two of every 100 cards is autographed.

Because of that, the interest in for these boxes, which contain 18 packs with four cards per pack, is still reasonably strong although some dealers took a big financial hit.  My local card store owner in Texas told me he went through nearly two dozen cases of this product, although he admitted that in some cases he did not take his standard mark-up. For those interested in buying this product online $50-60 per box should be sufficient to land a box if you shop around.  If Strasburg returns as good as ever, these boxes could be a bargain down the road.

To their credit, Topps also understands that there are issues with collectors who may be “buried” in the late-season products due to purchasing pre-sales at a higher level.  Much like they did with Topps Chrome, the company announced late last week that for each 18 hobby wrappers sent in (A full box worth of wrappers), a five-card “redemption pack” would be issued with a chance for collectors to receive autographs.

That is one way of making collectors feel better if their box did not live up to what was hoped by those collectors who may have purchased these boxes before Strasburg got injured

Adeinis Hechavarria autoSo how did we do with the box we opened? Interestingly enough, before we begin, I need to mention that this is the only box we opened from the group of products affected by the Strasburg injury in which we didn’t land a Strasburg card. However, as you will see, we ended up being quite satisfied with what we received.

  • Base Cards: 24 different out of 220
  • Base Card Refractors; Ike Davis, Matt Holliday, Hanley Ramirez, Kevin Slowey, Carl Crawford
  • Base Card Gold Refractor (#d to 50): Mike Saunders
  • Bowman Chrome Prospects: 34 different out of 110 cards.
  • Bowman Chrome Prospect Refractor: Everett Williams
  • Bowman Chrome USA Stars: Albert Almora, Bubba Starling (2 of this card), Tony Walters
  • Topps 100 Prospects (#d to 999); Andrew Cashner
  • Autographed USA Stars: Christian Lopes
  • Bowman Chrome Autographed Prospects: Adeinis Hechavarria
  • We were lucky enough to be able to get two autographs out of this box and will also be mailing in for those five bonus cards. Thus, if everyone was as fortunate as we were in this box, the suspicion is that these boxes would quickly regain their price momentum.  Strasburg’s return would be a bigger bonus.

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    Rich Klein can be reached at [email protected]

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    Rich is the editor and founder of Sports Collectors Daily. A broadcaster and writer for over 40 years and a collector for even longer than that, he's usually typing something somewhere. Type him back at [email protected]

    Filed Under: Modern Sports Card News Tagged With: Autographed, base, Refractor, rookie, Stars

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