2017 Bowman Chrome Mini Complete Set Box Break & Review

Happy New Year!!!  Its 2018 and everyday baseball season gets closer.  Pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training next month.  In 2017 we had an impressive rookie class.  Its going to be hard to top it.

All 2017 Topps MLB licensed products have been released.  The last two were Bowman’s Best and the Bowman Chrome Mini Complete Set.  2018 Topps Series 1 Baseball is due out near the end of the month.

I really like the 2017 Bowman Chrome Mini Complete Set.  Inside each box is a complete 273-card set featuring top tier rookies and prospects from 2017.  Along with it are (3) packs containing (10) special parallels each.  These exclusive parallels can only be found in here.  Parallels include: Refractor, Blue Shimmer Refractor #’ed/150, Black Shimmer Refractor #’ed/100, Green Refractor #’ed/99, Bowman 70th Logo Refractor #’ed/70, Gold Refractor #’ed/50, Orange Refractor #’ed/25, Red Refractor #’ed/10, Superfractors #’ed/1, and Printing Plates #’ed/1.

What I find the most attractive about this set is the configuration.  You can open the main box to access the parallel packs, yet the complete base set remains sealed separately.  I like that a lot.  There aren’t too many configurations that allow you to open something, get the “hits”, and leave you with a sealed set.

It certainly wouldn’t bother me if more rookie/prospect products were configured like this.  Boxes are currently selling for just under $200.  Demand is quite strong considering there aren’t any autographs.

Here is what I pulled:

Parallels

• Yoshitomo Tsutsugo Magenta Printing Plate #’ed 1/1
• Dane Dunning Orange Refractor #’ed/25
• Dakota Chalmers Gold Refractor #’ed/50
• Brett Phillips Gold Refractor #’ed/50
• Harrison Bader Gold Refractor #’ed/50
• Justus Sheffield Bowman 70th Logo Refractor #’ed/70
• Max Fried Bowman 70th Logo Refractor #’ed/70
• Rowdy Tellez Bowman 70th Logo Refractor #’ed/70
• Mickey Moniak Green Refractor #’ed/99
• Brendan Rodgers Green Refractor #’ed/99
• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Green Refractor #’ed/99
• Garrett Whitley Green Refractor #’ed/99
• Brian Anderson Green Refractor #’ed/99
• Jorge Alfaro Blue Shimmer Refractor #’ed/150
• Christin Stewart Blue Shimmer Refractor #’ed/150
• Teoscar Hernandez Blue Shimmer Refractor #’ed/150
• Touki Toussaint Blue Shimmer Refractor #’ed/150
• A.J. Puckett Blue Shimmer Refractor #’ed/150
• Tetsuto Yamada Blue Shimmer Refractor #’ed/150
• Sandy Alcantara Blue Shimmer Refractor #’ed/150
• Jorge Ona Refractor
• Trevor Clifton Refractor
• Blake Rutherford Refractor
• Wuilmer Becerra Refractor
• Beau Burrows Refractor
• Dylan Cozens Refractor
• Albert Abreu Refractor
• Jonathan Arauz Refractor
• Kyle Freeland Refractor
• Justus Sheffield Refractor

Upper Deck’s 2016 National Complete 5-Card VIP Set

Upper Deck just keeps churning out their plans for the 2016 National Sports Collectors Convention.  Below you’ll find a complete gallery of the 5-card set VIPs will receive.  A lot more National news to come!

Cooper’s Yankees Dream Scene Is Complete & Heading To Chicago

What if, for one brief shining moment, the greatest Bronx Bombers in history could gather together—each in the ultimate prime of their careers—to swap stories, talk shop, pal around and have a ball…and what if WE were lucky enough to be flies on the clubhouse wall bearing witness to it all.

As I reported back in February, artist Jamie Cooper was beginning to work on the Yankees Dream Scene painting.  After numerous sketches and hours of hard work, Mr. Cooper has finished another one of his masterpieces.  This 4.5′ x 5.5′ painting will be auctioned off by Legendary Auctions on August 2nd in Chicago, right in time for the National Sports Collectors Convention.  Many Phillies fans are familiar with Cooper’s work as he is the artist behind the Phillies Dream Scene that now hangs in the Diamond Club at Citizens Bank Park.  The amount of research that Mr. Cooper puts into his pieces is amazing.  The Yankees Dream Scene consists of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, and Derek Jeter.  Just like with the Phillies Dream Scene, Mr. Cooper has thrown in a lot of little historical details that you might not see right away.

There is no word yet on whether or not reproduction prints will be made, but I’m sure if enough Yankees fans inquiry about it you’ll see it happen.  According to Mr. Cooper, “My goal is to get this out to all Yankees fans and drive interest in a full size Yankees piece on the scale of the Phillies Dream scene.”

Panini Unveils Complete 2012 NSCC Wrapper Redemption Details

This afternoon, Panini unveiled all the details you’ll need to know in order to take part in their 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention wrapper redemption program.

Click here for a complete list of qualifying products.

Click here for a complete checklist of the cards you can look for within these special silver packs made just for the show.

In a few days we’ll get to see some of the ’12 NSCC relic and autographed cards Panini plans to include.  Until then, here is a preview of the relic cards without their clothes on 🙂  This is an actual photo from inside the Panini printing facility.