Official 2012 Bowman Baseball Thread... Post your case and box break hits!

miconelegacy

Some cards are already up on EBay, but think those are retail. Cases are released tomorrow I believe.

There are some great rookies and Darvish and Harper should do quite well. Getting a little excited for the release.

Anyone else getting any? Thoughts?

Sean1125

Hopefully the LCS's will have it, I will go buy a few boxes just for the heck of it.

I'm looking forward to see your rips

stangrider

Will be busting 4 cases, unfortunately all hobby. Was too late to get on the jumbo presale before it spiked. Excited to rip!

halosfan

still picking up some prime cuts cards ... the next one up is one I missed the first time and can't believe it is going so high

Sportsamerica

I will be opening up a case..

Did you see this yet? Josh Bell 1/1

stangrider

Yes, and that's one of the top hits from the product-doh!

Francart

I'll be ripping a box of Jumbos

miconelegacy

Wow that Bell looks sweet!

I've only pulled one Superfractor and it was Ivan Nova. And of course I sold it for like $175 early last year before he went on a tear.

Glad a bunch of you are buying the product. Will be great to see some scans and posts!

GB5HOF

Picking up my one case of Hobby tomorrow afternoon.

GB5HOF

Just looked at Blowout for the first time in a while...why are hobby cases going for $975 now? They were about $700 less than a month ago. Why the huge increase?

Sean1125

Hype.

miconelegacy

Because of the rookies, Darvish, and I think Harper wasnt originally going to be included, and he is creating a huge buzz!

Sean1125

Called one of the LCS, got an answer with an extremely unenthusiastic tone as usual and then a quote of "I can't sell a case because I don't make enough on it"

EAsports

Any case rippers want to sell me a half dozen or so J.T. Wise RCs?

He's a decent hitting, can't field Dodgers catcher prospect that played at LSU.

If you get any parallels, I'd probably be interested in that, too.

Sethro

Started ripping tonight. Got this:

Sethro

And this looks pretty cool:

Toro

Go with Jumbos and then Chrome later on

ssdawg77

Busted a case of regular hobby last night, here is a sampling from the case. Still have 2 cases of jumbos, not sure if I am going to bust or resale.

EAsports

The Internationals look great!

ssdawg77

<< <i>The Internationals look great! >>



They do, I really like the prospect Internationals.

epatmythes

Busted 2 HTA jumbo boxes while I waited for the UPS guy to delivery my hobby case. Opened 3 boxes so far... no massive hits (Redemptions 1-3)... but I did hit a Manny Machado Bowman's Best die-cut refractor #/25, an Orange refractor #/25 of "Rookie" Davis (great name), and maybe some decent autos (I have no clue).

Besides Gerritt Cole... who are the prospects to pull, hold, grade, etc... from this product???

miconelegacy

One of the things I do if I am not familiar with them is look up their stats. Check out what league they are in, maybe even do a little research on them. Can go along way if you have a little bit of extra time. My cases will be here tomorrow. These things are already jumping again. Looks like the least expensive on Ebay is $1,300. There is one for $1,250 but assume that will be gone by the end of the day.

Post any great pulls you get, Good Luck!

epatmythes

Finally... a nice hit that I'm happy with...

Box #8...

Gerrit Cole Refractor Auto #359/500

Goot

I just scanned the checklist and realized I know somebody in this years bowman set, which is still kinda bizarre to me. I'm hoping a couple other buddies will get drafted in the next year or so and will make it into the set someday too!

Anyways, it's Drew Hutchison...he's a prospect for the Blue Jays. I hope somebody pulls some of his stuff and he can make you some money someday!

epatmythes

Well, my case has now been busted... time to start sorting!

Overall, quite disappointed in this product. Quality control is definitely lacking, as I have just a mountain of a stack of cards with significant damage that I will be sending to Topps for replacement (if for no other reason than to waste their time putting together 100-200 exact replacements). Centering is tough on the base cards. One of the reasons I buy Bowman is for my need in the Pujols registry sets... pulled plenty, but did I pull a centered copy... nadda. The gold card in every pack, those are the most often damaged... even had one that the corner, for a good inch, was completely bent over! Last, but certainly not least, how many products don't provide at least one significant hit per case??? Redemption 1, 2 or 3... Bowman Black... Aflac All American Auto's... not a single significant hit in my case.

Oh well, it was still fun. Now I'm off to build my set, and figure out what I can sell to try to recoup some of the ~$1100 I dropped on this product!!!

miconelegacy

<< <i>Well, my case has now been busted... time to start sorting!

Overall, quite disappointed in this product. Quality control is definitely lacking, as I have just a mountain of a stack of cards with significant damage that I will be sending to Topps for replacement (if for no other reason than to waste their time putting together 100-200 exact replacements). Centering is tough on the base cards. One of the reasons I buy Bowman is for my need in the Pujols registry sets... pulled plenty, but did I pull a centered copy... nadda. The gold card in every pack, those are the most often damaged... even had one that the corner, for a good inch, was completely bent over! Last, but certainly not least, how many products don't provide at least one significant hit per case??? Redemption 1, 2 or 3... Bowman Black... Aflac All American Auto's... not a single significant hit in my case.

Oh well, it was still fun. Now I'm off to build my set, and figure out what I can sell to try to recoup some of the ~$1100 I dropped on this product!!! >>



Ouch! You must have pulled a bunch of Auto's. Refractors any low numbered?

Sethro

Check out this cool error card:



A picture of Astrubal Cabrera but it says Miguel Cabrera.

miconelegacy

Wow that I's really cool Seth!

prthd

Im a huge Asdrubal fan, I wonder if this has a corrected version.

prthd

looks like they reversed them

epatmythes

Only need a few cards to complete my master set...

WANT
Centered & Gradable (Gem Mint): Albert Pujols base card... if such exists!

AVAILABLE FOR SALE AND/OR TRADE
Base Sets (Regular, Prospects, Chrome Prospects): Lots, just ask!
Gold Parallel: 72 unique extras, just ask!
Bowman's Best: 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25
Bowman's Best Prospects: 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25
International: 25, 35, 39, 46, 48, 56, 72, 75, 87, 102, 108, 115, 122, 138, 139, 151, 166, 167, 168, 179, 188, 197
International Prospects: 34, 34, 35, 39, 49, 51, 51, 68, 74, 80, 93, 99, 109
Silver Ice: 9, 46, 87, 92, 107, 129, 135, 149, 204
Silver Ice Prospects: 13, 15, 22, 25, 50, 83
Chrome Prospect Refractors /500: 2, 18, 24, 33, 42, 62, 76
Chrome Prospect Blue Refractors /250: 9, 22, 28, 40, 100
Blue Parallel /500: 5, 24, 44, 71, 83, 85, 86, 90, 107, 109, 127, 173, 194, 199, 218
Blue Parallel Prospects /500: 1, 5, 8, 28, 33, 35, 72, 110
Orange Parallel /250: 73, 83, 86, 143, 155, 178
Orange Parallel Prospects /250: 57, 66, 74, 78
Prospect Autographs: 9 Eddie Rosario, 20 Jeimer Candelario, 31 Nick Maronde, 62 Kes Carter, 99 Dante Bichette Jr, 105 Xander Bogaerts

digicat

If anyone has them for sale, I'm looking to buy the 5 non-auto SF Giants prospects in Refractor form:

BCP16 Jesus Galindo
BCP26 Joseph Staley
BCP39 Mike Murray
BCP44 Adam Duvall
BCP51 Brett Krill

fur72

This stuff is HOTT! Wish I got in on it this year. I will just have to wait for Chrome. Thanks for sharing everyone. I have see alot of these pulls on twitter.

epatmythes

<< <i>This stuff is HOTT! Wish I got in on it this year. I will just have to wait for Chrome. Thanks for sharing everyone. I have see alot of these pulls on twitter. >>



I have a few sets for sale on the B/S/T if you just want to prospect on the cheap

RipublicaninMass

picked up the LAST four Jumbos at the local brick and mortar. Nothing to brag about here, hit base cards of Darvish and Harper both o/c, I'll take anyone's Red Sox anything from the breaks and trade whatever you want

scmavl

10 value boxes...

They started off great, the first three boxes each had an auto and some Chrome Harpers. Then it all dried up. After that, I got a couple of numbered Chrome parallels, some base (and one more Chrome) Harper, two base Darvish, and a couple of refractor things and Bowmans Best. And of the three autos, two are the same (an A's pitcher).

epatmythes

I ain't no scout, and don't exactly follow minor league baseball... so what little research I've done in the past 24 hours gives me this list of potentially good Prospect cards from the set(s)...

Bryce Harper (duh!)
Oscar Taveras
Xander Bogaerts
Carlos Martinez
Francisco Lindor
Nick Castellanos
Josh Bell
Gerrit Cole
Danny Hultzen
Anthony Rendon
Eddie Rosario

mgugs46

If anyone hit any Xander Bogaerts autos, I am interested if you are selling/trading

zep33

I busted a Jumbo box last night and my 2 base chrome autos were badly scratched. But my 3rd auto was an Orange #/25. Forgot the name but he was 19th overall pick last year. Tyler something I think.

That was lowest #/d Bowman auto I've ever pulled. At least that one wasn't beat to crap like the other 2

stormsurge

I got lucky:

TonyC

<< <i>I got lucky:

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Yes!

zep33

<< <i>I got lucky:

>>



You sure did!!

Congrats!!

halosfan

any extra AROD cards can always find a home here

epatmythes

<< <i>any extra AROD cards can always find a home here >>



I'm sure I'll have a few... PM me your addy... they're yours!

Walt

I opened 5 jumbo boxes, here are my hits. Let me know if anyone is trading!

Tyler Collins Blue AU
Wilin Rosario Blue AU
Eric Arce Ref AU
Nick Delmonico Ref AU
Dellin Betances Ref AU
Addison Reed AU
Drew Pomeranz AU
Nick Delmonico AU
Joe Pederson AU
Rookie Davis AU
Jacob Anderson AU X2
Cheslor Cuthbert AU
Clay Holmes AU
Brandon Jacobs AU
Tom Milone Red Wave /25

Tons of other stuff. Looking for other bow chrome or heritage/ginter high end

Thanks

epatmythes

<< <i>I opened 5 jumbo boxes, here are my hits. Let me know if anyone is trading!

Tyler Collins Blue AU
Wilin Rosario Blue AU
Eric Arce Ref AU
Nick Delmonico Ref AU
Dellin Betances Ref AU
Addison Reed AU
Drew Pomeranz AU
Nick Delmonico AU
Joe Pederson AU
Rookie Davis AU
Jacob Anderson AU X2
Cheslor Cuthbert AU
Clay Holmes AU
Brandon Jacobs AU
Tom Milone Red Wave /25

Tons of other stuff. Looking for other bow chrome or heritage/ginter high end

Thanks >>



Walt,

I'm looking for these....

Centered & Gradable (Gem Mint): Albert Pujols base card... if such exists!
Bowman's Best: BB10
Bowman's Best Prospects: BBP4, BBP22

My tradelist is on the previous page! Thanks!

-Eric

prthd

Im looking for Asdrubal Cabrera cards if anyone pulls any.

kmnorton

Bingo! Payday.

Prthd, pm your addy, I have a blue bordered card I can send you.

Kurt

fur72

Is the gold Darvish numbered?

stormsurge

Yup numbered to 50.

DamageInc

Hey, I would like to acquire a base card and chrome card of Bryce Harper if anyone has any extras.
I bought 6 packs yesterday and got some good cards, but no Harper. I have always had the worst
luck....lol.