Product preview: 2009 Topps Chrome baseball

Topps released preview images and product information for its 2009 Topps Chrome baseball set on Thursday with a 100-card World Baseball Classic insert set and plenty of rookies among the key highlights.

The base set will consist of 220 cards — 50 of those rookies — and will be capped by 21 autographed rookie cards, a checklist that includes the Braves’ Jordan Shafer, the Athletics’ Trevor Cahill, Braves import Kenshin Kawakami, Cardinals prospect Colby Rasmus and Nationals pitcher Jordan Zimmerman among others.

The set, which will arrive in August, will include two autographed rookies per 24-pack box with approximately six WBC inserts and a host of Refractor cards per box. As with past releases, Red Refractors are limited to 25, Golds are limited t0 50 and Blues are 199. Standard Refractors are not numbered (with exception of the rookie autographs at 499), but will be found 1:3, so approximately eight per box. Also included will be 1/1 Superfractors and press plates.

Look for more images and key preliminary checklists after the jump.

Rookies
171    Travis Snider
172    Josh Outman
173    Dexter Fowler
174    Matt Tuiasosopo
175    Bobby Parnell
176    Jason Motte
177    James McDonald
178    Scott Lewis
179    George Kottaras
180    Phil Coke
181    Jordan Schafer
182    Joe Martinez
183    Trevor Crowe
184    Sharon Martis
185    Everth Cabrera
186    Trevor Cahill
187    Jesse Chavez
188    Josh Whitesell
189    Brian Duensing
190    Andrew Bailey
191    Ryan Perry
192    Brett Anderson
193    Rickey Romero
194    Elvis Andrus
195    Kenshin Kawakami
196    Colby Rasmus
197    David Patton
198    Donald Veal
199    David Freese
200    Rick Porcello
201    Bobby Parnell
202    Luke Gregerson
203    Edwin Moreno
204    Koji Uehara
205    Jason Jaramillo
206    Ramiro Pena
207    Brad Nelson
208    Michael Hinckley
209    TBD
210    TBD
211    TBD
212    TBD
213    TBD
214    TBD
215    TBD
216    TBD
217    TBD
218    TBD
219    TBD
220    TBD

AUTOGRAPHED ROOKIE
BASE CARD VARIATIONS
221    Jordan Schafer
222    Trevor Crowe
223    Sharon Martis
224    Trevor Cahill
225    Ryan Perry
226    Brett Anderson
227    Elvis Andrus
228    Kenshin Kawakami
229    Colby Rasmus
230    David Freese
231    Bobby Parnell
232    Koji Uehara
233    Jason Jaramillo
234    Rickey Romero
235    Jordan Zimmerman
236    David Patton
237    Josh Whitesell
238    Luke Gregerson
239    Joe Martinez
240    Brian Duensing
241    Everth Cabrera
242    Andrew Bailey

WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC STARS
WBC1    Yu Darvish
WBC2    Yulieski Gourriel
WBC3    Yi-Chuan Lin
WBC4    Ichiro
WBC5    Hung-Wen Chen
WBC6    Alexeis Bell
WBC7    Chih-Hsien Chiang
WBC8    Kenji Johjima
WBC9    Hanley Ramirez
WBC10    Chenhao Li
WBC11    Yoennis Cespedes
WBC12    Dae Ho Lee
WBC13    Alex Rodriguez
WBC14    Luis Durango
WBC15    Chipper Jones
WBC16    Dennis Neuman
WBC17    Carlos Lee
WBC18    Tae Kyun Kim
WBC19    Adrian Gonzalez
WBC20    Michel Enríquez
WBC21    Miguel Cabrera
WBC22    Hisashi Iwakuma
WBC23    Aroldis Chapman
WBC24    Daisuke Matsuzaka
WBC25    Chris Denorfia
WBC26    David Wright
WBC27    Alex Rios
WBC28    Michihiro Ogasawara
WBC29    Frederich Cepeda
WBC30    Chen-Chang Lee
WBC31    Shunsuke Watanabe
WBC32    Luca Panerati
WBC33    David Ortiz
WBC34    Tetsuya Yamaguchi
WBC35    Lee Jin Young
WBC36    Tom Stuifbergen
WBC37     Masahiro Tanaka
WBC38    Cheng-Min Peng
WBC39    Yoshiyuki Ishihara
WBC40    Manuel Campos
WBC41    YI-Feng Kuo
WBC42    Ruben Tejada
WBC34    Tetsuya Yamaguchi
WBC35    Lee Jin Young
WBC36    Tom Stuifbergen
WBC37     Masahiro Tanaka
WBC38    Cheng-Min Peng
WBC39    Yoshiyuki Ishihara
WBC40    Manuel Campos
WBC41    YI-Feng Kuo
WBC42    Ruben Tejada
WBC43    Kenley Jansen
WBC44    Shinnosuke Abe
WBC45    Shuichi Murata
WBC46    Yolexis Ulacia
WBC47    Yueh-Ping Lin
WBC48    James Beresford
WBC49    Justin Morneau
WBC50    Brad Harman
WBC51    Juan Carlos Sulbaran
WBC52    Ubaldo Jimenez
WBC53    Joel Naughton
WBC54    Cristhian Presichi
WBC55    Russell Martin
WBC56    Concepcion Rodriguez
WBC57    Kuo-Hui Lo
WBC58    Chih-Kang Kao
WBC59    Gregor Blanco
WBC60    Justin Erasmus
WBC61    Kosuke Fukudome
WBC62    Hiroyuki Nakajima
WBC63    Luke Hughes
WBC64    Sidney de Jong
WBC65    Greg Halman
WBC66    Seilchi Uchikawa
WBC67    Tao Bu
WBC68    Pedro Martinez
WBC69    Nan Wang
WBC70    Arquimedes Nieto
WBC71    Yang Yang
WBC72    Alex Liddi
WBC73    Fei Feng
WBC74    Pedro Lazo
WBC75    Carlos Zambrano
WBC76    Bryan Engelhardt
WBC77    Yen-Wen Kuo
WBC78    Norichika Aoki
WBC79    Jose Reyes
WBC80    Kangan Xia
WBC81    Shin-Soo Choo
WBC82    Frank Catalanotto
WBC83    Ray Chang
WBC84    Vladimir Guerrero
WBC85    Fu-Te Ni
WBC86    Hein Robb
WBC87    In Sik Kim
WBC88    Hung-Wen Chen
WBC89    Akinori Iwamura
WBC90    Chi-Hung Cheng
WBC91    Fujia Chu
WBC92    Gift Ngoepe
WBC93    Zhenwang Zhang
WBC94    Bernie Williams
WBC95    Dustin Pedroia
WBC96    Dylan Lindsay
WBC97    Felix Hernandez
WBC98    Yadier Molina
WBC99    Phillippe Aumont
WBC100    Derek Jeter

Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.