Bowman Chrome Draft is one of baseball’s hottest products, offering excitement for prospectors hoping to stockpile their favorite rookie/minor league player as well as offering relatively low cost packs/boxes for kids and other collectors who love opening packs just for the fun of it.  As always, this year’s Bowman Chrome Draft Baseball is loaded with rookies, autographs, blue refractors, gold refractors, orange refractors, red refractors, printing plates, refractors, superfractors, xfractors, and more.  Currently 2006 Bowman Chrome Draft Baseball is set to release on December 7, 2006.

Box/Case Breakdown: 24 packs/box, 7 cards/pack, 10 boxes/case.  1 autograph/box and 1 relic/box

Pack Breakdown: Each pack of 2006 Bowman Chrome Draft Baseball has 2 Bowman rookie cards, 1 Bowman Chrome rookie card, 2 Bowman prospect/1st year cards, 1 Bowman Chrome prospect/1st year cards, and 1 parallel (blue refractors, gold refractors, orange refractors, red refractors, refractors, superfractors, xfractors)

Hobby Exclusive Parallels: Red Bowman Parallels #/1, Superfractors #/1, Printing plates (autographed and non-autographed) #/1, Red Refractors (#/5) Signs of the Future Head of the Class Dual Autographs #/174, and Bowman Scouting Report (Box Loader).

Product Highlights:

Red Bowman Parallels #/1
Printing Plates #/1
Superfractors #/1
Red Refractors #/5
Orange Refractors #/25
Gold Refractors #/50
Signs of the Future Head of the Class Dual Autographs #/174
Blue Refractors #/199
White Bowman Parallels #/225
Xfractors #/299
Exclusive Bowman Futures Game Prospect Relic Cards

Changes in Bowman Chrome Draft From Prior Years:

There have been several changes in 2006 Bowman Chrome Draft Baseball over the years, and this year is no exception.  One of the biggest changes this year is the new Major League Baseball Players’ Association new Rookie rules which essentially means that instead of just having rookie cards inserted into packs and boxes, Topps has inserted both rookie cards (players who have made a team’s 40 man roster) and prospect cards (players who were drafted but have not yet made a team’s 40 man roster).  As it specifically relates to Bowman Chrome Draft, the numbering on blue refractors has changed to 199 (used to be #/150), the numbering on xfractors has changed to 225 (used to be #/150, /225, or /250 depending on the year), and refractors are no longer numbered (used to be #/300 or /500 depending on the year).

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