The annual prospect chaser’s delight is back. 2015 Bowman Chrome Baseball makes its debut this weekend.
Each box will have two autographed cards with all rookies signing on-card. Hobby boxes will have 18 packs of four
cards each for around $65-70 per box while Jumbo boxes will carry 13 cards including five autographs and six prospects for around $130 at retail.
Topps announced in late August that rookie sensation Carlos Correa had signed cards during a visit to the company’s offices and they will be late additions to the product.
2015 Bowman will have some new subsets including Superfractors That Never Were, 1/1 cards showcasing past and present players who have never been featured with autographed versions.
Other new insert and autograph content this year will include:
- Series Next Die-Cuts, a “futuristic die-cut chrome insert” according to Topps, with ‘Haze’ ‘Vapor’, ‘Torrent’ and ‘Superfractor’ parallels.
Prospect Profiles Minis: “The game’s top prospects on a vertical mini design”
Prime Position Autographs: On card autographs of the best prospects at each position.
Hot Packs return with Wave Refractor cards featuring top prospects.
2015 Bowman Chrome will feature 100 prospects and international signers who were not in the flagship 2015 Bowman Baseball set. In addition to the base chrome cards, those players will be featured with a Chrome Prospect on-card autograph.
The base set will have 200 veterans and rookies with eight different parallels:
- Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Purple Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Blue Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Green Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Gold Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Orange Refractor: sequentially #’d to 25. (hobby only)
- Red Refractor: sequentially #’d to 5.
- SuperFractor: #’d 1/1.
Prospect and Chrome Prospect Autographs will include these parallels:
- Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Purple Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Blue Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Green Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Orange Refractor: sequentially #’d to 25. (hobby only)
- Red Refractor: sequentially #’d to 5.
- Superfractor: #’d 1/1.
- Printing Plates: #’d 1/1.
Chome Rookie Autographs will include these parallels:
- Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Blue Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Green Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Gold Refractor: sequentially #’d.
- Orange Refractor: sequentially #’d to 25. (hobby only)
- Red Refractor: sequentially #’d to 5.
- SuperFractor: #’d 1/1.
Dual Autographs will pair a prospect with a veteran. There will be Red Refractor parallels numbered to 5 and 1 of 1 Superfractors issued.
Other autograph content includes:
- Bowman Black Continuity Autographs (on card)
- Autographed cards from past All-American high school showcase games.
You can check out Bowman Chrome on eBay here.