Monday 10 February 2020

Who needs Series 1? I've got the Best!

I was at Wally World on Friday, but there wasn't any Series 1 on the shelves yet. Boo. So, to get some baseball, I'm reaching back into the small collection of stuff I haven't posted yet, and am surprisingly not grabbing some Chronicles, but some 2019 Bowman's Best.
Let's go prospecting!

2 mini boxes with 6 packs. Perfect for a two-day post!

Pack 1:
There were supposed to be only 5 cards per pack, but the first one provided 6, so...bonus! The design is exactly what you expect from the product. The final card in each pack was a refractor.

Just the highlights from the next packs!

Pack 2:
Pack 2 was pretty basic, but here's another shiny insert.

Pack 3:
There's the first Jays card in the box, and you can see the slightly different background design for the prospects vs the veterans.
Another insert, but this one is die-cut and extra sparkly. The atomic refractors aren't numbered.
And here's autograph #1 of the mini-box. Nice penmanship for a decently hyped rookie. Unfortunately, he's with the Marlins here, so we'll have to wait for the eventual trade for him to really get noticed.

Pack 4:
But with that said, at least the Marlins colours look nice in this design.
You want shiny Pete Alonso? This was your pack!
And auto #2. And it is a dupe from just one pack prior. But it is a numbered parallel, and a palindromic numbered parallel as well, being 05/50! Even better, that makes it easier to add the first one to my next COMC submission.

Pack 5:
This is the regular design for the Future Foundations card.

Pack 6:
Another atomic refractor - this time for the base design.
And these are my favourite types of parallels - ones where the colour of the parallel match the team colours. Rockies ones are a little easier to come by than other teams, with these being /250. This also is a bonus with being an ebay 1/1 - 250/250. Two interesting numbers among the numbered cards in the same (mini) box!

Two more autographs and more shininess tomorrow!

3 comments:

  1. Nice serial numbering. The palindromic numbered parallel doesn't receive enough love within our hobby.

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    1. Especially since they don't appear in every numbered parallel set. There's going to be a 1/x and x/x (even if they're the same true 1/1), but there won't be a 991/199.

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  2. JJ Bleday hot box! There's a sentence you don't really expect to be using. But, hey, Alonso rookie, yay!

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