Topps issued 2010 Bowman Chrome this past week, which is a little later in the year than they have typically issued this product in the past. As in past years, the first 110 Prospect cards were issued as part of the 2010 Bowman release earlier in the year. This release features the remaining 110 Prospect cards (including the autographs that really drive this product) as well as Chrome versions of the veterans cards. I love the chrome format for cards, but unfortunately I don't really care much for the design of either the veterans or the prospects cards from 2010 Bowman. And putting them in the chrome format doesn't do much for the design.
Inserts are typically pretty sparse in this product and there are only a few here, with USA baseball again being featured. Topps also chose to do a chrome version of the Topps 100 prospect set that were issued as paper cards in 2010 Bowman. And I think it was a good choice as the design of these cards looks really nice in the Chrome format. It's one of the really redeeming things about this issue for me.
As far as Cubs representation in the set, I am generally pretty happy with it. Rafael Dolis, Blake Lalli, and Robinson Chirinos make their major set debuts here and Chirinos is featured on one of the autograph parallels. He is a bit of a curious selection for that honor being a mediocre 26 year old, but whatever. It's nice to see a new face represented.
Base Set - 7 Versions - Base, Refractors (Stated Print Run 550), Blue Refractors #/150, Gold Refractors #/50, Orange Refractors #/25, Red Refractors #/5, Superfractors 1/1 plus four colors of printing plates
#27 Ryan Dempster
#42 Derrek Lee
#66 Kosuke Fukudome
#68 Aramis Ramirez
#114 Alfonso Soriano
#140 Carlos Zambrano
#196 Andrew Cashner
#211 Starlin Castro
#218 Tyler Colvin
Prospects Base Set - 9 Versions - Base, Green Xfractors, Refractors #/500, Purple Refractors #/899, Blue Refractors #/150, Gold Refractors #/50, Orange Refractors #/25, Red Refractors #/5, Superfractors 1/1 plus four colors of printing plates
#BCP-133 Rafael Dolis
#BCP-145 Blake Lalli
#BCP-161 Justin Bour
#BCP-180 Chris Archer
#BCP-213 Robinson Chirinos
Prospects Base Set Autograph Parallels (these have a closer up version of the picture from the non-auto cards) - 7 Versions - Base, Refractors #/500, Blue Refractors #/150, Gold Refractors #/50, Orange Refractors #/25, Red Refractors #/5, Superfractors 1/1 plus four colors of printing plates
#BCP-213 Robinson Chirinos
Topps 100 Prospects - 4 Versions - Base #/999, Refractors #/499, Gold Refractors #/50, Superfractors 1/1
#10 Starlin Castro
#13 Josh Vitters
#39 Andrew Cashner
#62 Brett Jackson
#72 D.J. LeMahieu
USA Baseball 18U National Team - 7 Versions - Base, Refractors #/500, Blue Refractors #/150, Gold Refractors #/50, Orange Refractors #/25, Red Refractors #/5, Superfractors 1/1, and 4 colors of printing plates - No Cubs included
USA Baseball 18U National Team Autos (some of these parallel the set above) - 7 Versions - Base, Refractors #/500, Blue Refractors #/150, Gold Refractors #/50, Orange Refractors #/25, Red Refractors #/5, Superfractors 1/1, and 4 colors of printing plates - No Cubs included
USA Baseball Dual Autos #/500 - No Cubs included
USA Baseball Chrome Black Refractor Autos #/25 - This is part of the wrapper redemption program - No Cubs Included
USA Buyback Autos - This looks like it is going to be a wrapper redemption of some sort and all of these will be #'d to 100 - No Cubs included
Wrapper Redemption Autograph Exclusives #/100 - These are only available via the wrapper redemption - No Cubs included
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