2014 Bowman Baseball Cards

JMO says he pulled a chrome jose abreu auto out of a walmart blaster. There are NO chrome autos in retail. None but Orange Wave autos numbered to 5. Take your lies somewhere else.

HIT THE JOSE ABREU WHITE ICE 1/1 OVERSIZED CARD. GOT IT GRADED BGS 9.5!!!
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I done VERY well with this product.. prolly more so than any other ever!… I only bought into 1 case break (Astros and twins ofr about $120 total), and about 7 retail blaster boxes… in the case break I was lucky and pulled a Byron buxton purple ice auto #/10 which I got graded and is a 9.5/10 beckett sitting in my collection….also pulled mark appel oversized boxtopper auto #/25 from same break… in the first blaster box I bought from walmrt, I pulled a jose Abreu chrome auto and like the 5th retail blaster box I bought, pulled a lucky redemption auto (kris Bryant refractor auto #/500)….so I pulled basically about all the big name stuff you could get prospect/rookie wise in a matter of 1 months time… prolly will never get that lucky with any product ever again

Issac, blue were 1:38(I think) and orange 1:87(that I do know). But I wanna know how many were produced of each player

Mike, a guy on eBay has a purple paper he says is exclusive to retail! But here it says just jumbos!

How many of the blue/orange wave chrome cards were produced? I found some packs still left at a local target and bought them all and pulled a Daniel Norris mini orange. However just wondering on the Bryant’s, etc as the prices have skyrocketed! I was paying $14 now people are asking $100. But I feel the #d blue borders would be less produced as they state the run but could be wrong. And the pack states 1:87 packs!

Really wish I had been lucky enough to pull his auto for my collection cause I’m not spending thousands especially when all the redemptions were refractors of him making it the most heavily produced card of them all! Sad..just sad!

good product. does anyone know if there is a bowman blue border of #65 Domonic Brown and if no one knows where can I find out? thank you for any help

Is there really a Kris Bryant RETAIL auto? (paper) I have never seen one on ebay. Only the Chrome ones.

I like this set, completed both base set and BP’s. I like the design of the card and the pictures are well done.
What is missing for me is the content. I felt that the base set could better fill in the missing roster in the Topps set. There are lots of players that were a part of the prospects list in Bowman in the 2013 year and are now starters, but didn’t make either the base Bowman, or Topps series 1/2. Since Topps doesn’t have a large set filling out a full team roster, I feel they could have used Bowman to better round out this with younger up and coming players. It is not clear to me that this is what the average collector wants, but for me when watching games, my son and I try to put together teams while we watch, switching players from teams as they are traded. But with so many duplicates of perceived stars and prospects in the Topps and Bowman sets, rather than actual roster players, this is now only a 70% solution, where I believe in the past it would have had 95% of the players just in the 792 card Topps set.

The other day I pulled a Trevor Gretzky PA-TG Green Auto numbered 59/100. I didn’t see a Green set mentioned on your list so I just wanted to mention they exist. Was from a Retail Blaster box from Target.

My first time buying Bowman products and I love them! I think they look nice and I enjoy the prospect cards.. I enjoy the variety of parallels and the look of the cards! Buying the 3-pack package with 3 purple base parallels cards from Target are a good investment! I have pulled 4 Case-hits! Auto Mark Appel #/35 – auto #/10 – mini #/250 – die-cut #/99 Jose Abreu.. All in a months period.. Along with 14 other parallel cards and 10 State and Hometown.

Love the Product. I just broke a box and didn’t receive an auto! Very strange. 1st time that has happened to me.

Sorry, I should have given more detail. It’s the 2014 Bowman Is Back Ken Griffey Jr 89BIB-KG super fractor.

I just pulled the Ken Griffey Jr super fractor in a blaster box from Walmart. Anybody know what it may be worth?

I just wanted to know if you are aware of the “no-name” error cards that have been coming out lately. Because you seem to have either overlooked them or perhaps weren’t informed of them being inserted in to packs. I’m always on the lookout for Oswaldo Arcia cards and have come across both a 2014 Topps and a 2014 Bowman card of him with no name. And there were other cards of different players that I’ve come across on eBay that didn’t have their name on as well. Do you know anything about them?

Picked up my first bowman hobby box. The box guaranteed a chrome autograph but I didn’t get one. I really didn’t get much of anything. Best card pulled was a paper parallel numbered to 500. I was a little hesitant buying the box when the only guarantee was the 1 autograph. Since I didn’t even get that, its hard to endorse this product.

How hard is it to find the retail orange and green wave packs? Like what are the odds per pack?

4 Stars.
I usually love Bowman to pieces, but this year I am not happy with the Retail blaster boxes as I have been in the past. Way more cards are Hobby only this year!! That a bit of bull. I don’t always have big $ to spend on Hobby boxes and am more comfortable purchasing the less expensive blaster boxes and hanger packs. Not having Auto RC’s and some of the lower numbered Parallel cards kind of irks me a little. I would have given 5 stars if not for this. Seems to run the same this year with many of their products. Minimal short print stuff in the blaster boxes throughout so far in 2014!! Peeved in Sarasota.

Bowman continues to be my favorite to collect. I’ve had a lot of nice pulls over the last 3+ years.

I understand that, but Brinson was drafted (and signed) in 2012. Just a case of the cards not being ready/available until now possibly? Sorry, just trying to wrap my head around this. Thanks!

Question: any explanation why a card copyrighted in 2011 (i.e. Lewis Brinson Under Armour auto) is in the 2014 product instead of the 2011 product? Any explanation would be great. Thanks!

Ryan:

Here’s EXACTLY what my brother found, in some of his Target value packs. We’re still wondering how scarce/valuable these retail wave refractors are: http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball-box-breaks/706210-look-what-i-found-some-orange-y-14-bowman-retail.html

P.P.S. My brother just sent me a photo of them, and they are definitely orange wave refractors, but they are numbered as “BCPXX Refractors” We are interested in how scarce and rare these are. Thanks!

P.S. Are the orange wave parallels in retail equivalent to the silver ice parallels insofar as they are not designated as #/XX on the back (i.e., they do not have a limited number designator on the card back)? If this is so, is there any indication how scarce or valuable they are? He’s been getting some value packs with 4 or 5 of them in a row, in one of the packs.

Ryan: Just got a text back from my brother, who says they are numbered as “BCPXX Refractor” on the card backs. Strange. What have you heard about these? He’s wondering how scarce they are, as they are refractors and say so on the back, but he’s getting lots of them in the value packs from Target, in Minnesota.

My brother just cracked his fourth(!) hot pack with 5 orange refractors, from those value packs at Target with purple card mini packs.

Ryan, have you heard of this elsewhere?

I cracked a jumbo box and found a Josh Donaldson Blue border card missing the name and team logo. There is an indentation in which you can read the name at an angle in the right light. But the gold overlay is missing. Any news on that?

Fantastic as always! Best product out there in my opinion.

Picked up a Jumbo box, which guarantees 3 autos. Only pulled 2 autos, a base auto of Chris Bostick and a base auto of Kyle Parker. What?! Serious Topps? I scoured all the cards one by one to check, sure enough, no other auto (checked the backs of the cards too since the back of the box mentions some sort of “signed on back” cards). Thanks, Topps, for ripping off a good customer. Wish I had recorded my break for proof. I’ll try writing Topps, but I doubt they’ll even respond.

Best other card pulled was a Jorge Alfaro Top-100 die-cut refractor #/99. Only 3 other serial #’d cards in the whole jumbo box.

About 10 of the chrome cards had north/south scratch streaks on them (luckily not the autos). The Abreu chrome I pulled is quite noticeably off-center, left. In fact, the vast majority of the chrome cards are surprisingly off-center, left.

Don’t waste your money. It’s the worst lot I’ve seen in years.

How many Lucky Redemptions are there of each number? I see multiple of the same number on eBay.

I pulled a 5 card orange wave refractor pack from a pack of retail cards. Has anyone else found these? I haven’t seen anything written up about them being in the release.

Family had a great time, found hot pack with blue wave refactor cards, Mark Appel and Chrome Rookie Auto Gold Refractor of Travis d’Arnaud.

on the no name card is it # or base card?

These always look so boring. Bought 4 jumbo packs at my LCS and did okay. Wil Meyers Red Ice #/25, Ryan Zimmerman Silver Bordered #/75, Josh Hader Black Collection Auto Redemption #/25 & a Wil Meyers 89 Bowman Is Back Silver Diamond Refractor. Really disappointed that all the Kris Bryant Autos I’ve seen are redemptions. (Meaning years before they would arrive.) This product just does not inspire me to buy boxes.

bowman isn’t really my thing but I got ten packs today because why the hell not? I like the design but the parallels have gotten way out of control. this coupled with what I would call basically three base sets make it very confusing. trying to manufacture rarity by making endless parallel colors is going to bite back eventually.

I got a Jumbo today, I pulled blue ref auto /150, 2 base auto’s, and also had a black wave ref pack that had a white ice /25 and a auto /50, also a BTP Ref /99. pretty sweet to pull 4 auto’s 2 colored.

Nice product, bought a case of jumbo. I received a pack with 5 blue un-numbered chrome refractors. Can somebody tell me should they be #’d. Couldn’t find any info. I’m giving this rating because my lowest parallel was 25, and auto was 50. No case hit!

Looks like the Kris Bryant base autos are very short printed – more color autos listed than regular base autos.
No refractor autos #/500 either.

Thanks Ryan. Just got done cracking 3 hobby boxes, wanted a jumbo none in stock yet, pulled an Abreu Chrome Ref Auto #/500 (they seem to be going for nice money on ebay),2 chrome auto’s, 9 #’d parallels. 3 color ref. mini’s, 2 color ref. and 1 chrome ref. Overall very pleased with the product this year.

Looks Great! Cant wait to break some!

Are they doing the wrapper redemption packs again? I went yesterday and got 3 blaster boxes. pulled 2 auto’s 1 was /#500,an Abreu bcp ,Taveres 89BIB. overall the cards look very nice. Im headed to the hobby shop for some jumbo’s today. Good luck chromies.

im starting to get into the prospect side of collecting..but i am not going crazy over a product that puts high school kids so high on a pedistool….i dont believe it’s good for the player himself to know a card he signed is selling for hundreds of dollars.IT can have an adverse outcome on thier development…keep the signing limited to established prospects…the product always looks great with the chrome and color and the wave inserts..it doesnt need so many autos to be a fun inexpensive product..

The base cards show an autographed red ice /25? Are the base like Jeter going to have cracked ice autos?

THIS PRODUCT IS CRAZY SICK
What about orange wave autos?

Thanks for the response Ryan. It is great that you not only provide such great information about these products in your articles but it is greatly appreciated that you read and respond to our questions as well.
Thanks for making our hobby even more enjoyable!

Will Tanaka have non-auto chrome cards at least(for possibility of reds, oranges etc?)

Will there be a Tanaka auto? I didn’t see it on the checklist. Most likely a redemption??

kris bryant!!

Wow! just reading the description makes one’s head spin. Lots and lots of stuff to look for. Imagine getting one of those 25 auto books?

Also, will there be blaster boxes at retail stores for this, or is it going to be like Bowman Draft where it was Jumbo/Hobby exclusive?

Is there going to be a base set of the ’89 oversized or just ice, auto, and ice auto?

Bowman is always my favorite release each year.

Ryan, I’ve got some Jumbo boxes coming. Your article says hobby boxes have randomly inserted Blue Wave Refractor and Black Wave Refractor Hot Packs. Does that mean Jumbo won’t have them or does anything Hobby has Jumbo will have too?

Thanks a lot!
Jason

Same old boring Bowman design as usual. They know that prospectors will buy it regardless of what it looks like so why bother trying to make it look nice, right?

I assume the autos will be on bowman chrome cards? Sorry if it’s a dumb question, I am still new to collecting?

Any idea when there will be a checklist for this product?

Thanks!

I’m confused with the term of Bowman Baseball product here. 2014 Bowman, not Bowman Chrome?

Tons of Autos from what I hear. Any idea when the entire checklist will be coming out? Do you know of Julio Urias will have Chrome Auto coming out on these and not just the black?

I gave it 4 stars only because it answered my question of whether Kris Bryant was going to be in 2013 Bowman Draft. Which was no. But overall, I look forward to cracking boxes and sorting through the massive number of parallels for each card.

Hey Ryan, did I miss something here? How many autos in the Jumbo boxes? Three? I can’t find it in the article. Thanks, Bob