First look: 2010 Bowman Chrome baseball cards
Topps released the basic set information and preview images for 2010 Bowman Chrome baseball cards on Wednesday, a set that will include a Chrome autograph of Washington Nationals rookie Stephen Strasburg.
And, yes, it will include an autographed SuperFractor.
It will arrive in mid-October packing one autograph per 18-pack hobby box. (Each pack will include two prospect cards and two veterans.) The autograph checklist will consist of 24 prospects who did not appear in 2010 Bowman.
The standard set inclusions will be 110 Chrome prospect cards — with the typical Refractor, Blue, Gold, Orange, Red and Supers — while there also will be 20 members of the USA Baseball 18U team with signed cards. Those will be found one in five boxes (roughly two per case) as a bonus autograph, while there also will be 10 dual-signed USA autograph cards as well.
The Topps 100 Prospects set will return in Chrome with Super, Gold, and standard Refractors. Refractor quantities vary from set to set, though Reds are numbered to five, Orange to 25, Gold to 50 in most sets. Odds were not announced, but there will be approximately four USA Baseball cards per box, three Topps 100 cards per box and seven total Refractor cards per box.
The 220-card Chrome set will consist of 180 veterans and 40 rookies all with the rainbow of Refractors. Among the rookies in the set are Strasburg, Ian Desmond, Austin Jackson, Jason Heyward, Drew Storen, Ike Davis, Drew Stubbs, Starlin Castro and Tyler Colvin.
Read more and see images after the jump.
The lone rookie autograph announced so far is Strasburg, according to the preliminary checklist, while those slated to appear on autographed prospects cards includes Aroldis Chapman, Dee Gordon, Brett Wallace, Tim Beckham, Yonder Alonso and at least three players still to be determined.
The USA autographs are all TBD because the teams have not yet been selected.
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Chris, please tell me Topps has decided to finally include Brennan Boesch in this set? He has yet to appear in any Topps product this year, and the guy is only the hottest rookie on the planet (and yes that includes Strasburg. Certainly not on hype, but check out his numbers…)