Counting Down to 2012 Bowman Baseball…AND YOUR CHANCE TO BE ON A BOWMAN CARD!
2012 Bowman Baseball hits the street on May 9th and this year’s release promises to be BIGGER and BETTER than ever! The product is loaded with awesome autographs, awesome content and special surprises! Get in on the ground floor with Major League Baseball’s future stars by getting their first Bowman cards. Featured in this year’s release are future stars Dylan Bundy, Gerrit Cole, Trevor Bauer, Bubba Starling, Danny Hultzen and Anthony Rendon!
To celebrate, Topps will be counting down to the launch with a special Bowman Baseball announcement EACH and EVERY DAY until Bowman launches May 9th. What is in store for 2012 Bowman Baseball? Make sure you look for the announcements every day to find out.
Daily announcements will be made via press release and on facebook.com/topps. For more information you can also follow us on twitter @toppscards.
Announcement #1
Win Your Own Debut with Team Bowman (image attached)
To celebrate the launch of Bowman Baseball we have included 10 Bowman Debut Golden Contracts randomly inserted in hobby boxes of 2012 Bowman Baseball. Each Golden contract guarantees you an autographed Yu Darvish baseball and one lucky winner will receive the following:
- Your Own Bowman Baseball Card in a 2013 Bowman release
- A $500 Signing Bonus
- A Bowman Jersey
Get in on the ground floor and Uncover Greatness. Bowman, Who is next?
2007/08 UD Trilogy Johnny Bower Ice Scripts Autograph
2007/08 UD Trilogy Johnny Bower Ice Scripts Autograph
We received some emails about this card and got a quick response from Upper Deck:
“We didn’t receive them back in time to use unfortunately. We tried to cancel the deal as we pulled the redemptions from packs, but he ultimately signed them and returned them. So we got them out into the market where they belong as redemption replacements. They are not super rare, but should have a nice value tied to them as set collectors will likely scurry to snatch these up.”
It’s a good things these were not destroyed.
2000 UD Ovation Ryan Anderson WP #70 SP
2000 UD Ovation Ryan Anderson WP SP #70
“Because he was removed from the 40 man roster prior to release of product, Upper Deck had to remove his card from the set. A hand full of these cards still reached packs slipping by quality control. The card has a special embossed bottom right corner as an indicator for employees at Upper Deck to pull them before they were packed out. This card currently books at $150.
1977 Topps Reggie Jackson (Orioles uniform)
There are roughly 8 of the Reggie Jackson 1977 Topps Oriole uniform cards known to exist. Topps uncovered the proof from the Topps Vault and auctioned it off. The original press release from 2004 went as follows:
“The Topps Vault ( www.thetoppsvault.com), which features unique and rare Topps items such as uncut sheets, works in progress, proof cards and original art, is pleased to announce that it has made an historic “hobby find”.
Topps has uncovered the “Proof” of the 1977 Topps Reggie Jackson Baltimore Orioles baseball card.
After Jackson signed with the New York Yankees for the 1977 season, Topps quickly changed the photo to picture him in pinstripes and his Orioles card, which was originally slated for release, was sent to the shredders. Later, a couple of the Orioles card surfaced and they soon became hobby legend. Today, this infamous card is considered one of the most sought after cards in existence because of its rarity and because of Reggie’s greatness on the diamond.
The 1977 Topps Reggie Jackson Orioles “Proof” baseball card is currently up for auction on TheToppsVault.com. The auction will close in 5 days.”
It’s replacement was a headshot of Jackson, wearing an A’s batting helmet that was airbrushed to look like a Yankees logo on the helmet.
2003 NetPro Anna Kournikova Blue Dress #10B
Original press release from NetPro:
“At NetPro we recently announced that the 2003 NetPro Premier Edition had an
Anna Kournikova #10 Card that was pulled from the set in the very beginning
stages of production. The reason the card was pulled is because it was
learned by NetPro that Adidas had used that original #10 picture for an
advertising campaign. Now, the pulled #10 Anna Kournikova is causing quite
a frenzy among collectors in the trading card hobby. Two of these pulled
cards have surfaced in on-line auctions and each sold for over $250. We
have since received emails from interested collectors in search of this rare
card, asking if there is a distinction between the boxes that potentially
have this card and those boxes that do not. We have informed those
collectors that there is no distinction between two such boxes. All we can
accurately say is that we believe less than 100 of these pulled cards
reached Foil Pack Boxes. With that said, this scarce card is sure to be a
treasure to anyone who happens to pull one from a 2003 Premier Edition Foil
Pack Box.”
2007 Topps Chrome Michael Vick #TC111
Topps reported that Michael Vick‘s Topps Chrome cards were pulled and removed from the set after Vick’s involvement in the dogfighting ring. Some of the cards still surfaced on the secondary market and are now considered to be short print (scarce). Although Vick is back in football and doing well, his SP’d card still sells for $50-$70. It’s expensive for a base card, but a must have for set builders. The base card has sold as high as $500.
92 Fleer Sensation Frank Thomas (No Name on Front)
I saw this card on eBay and it made me think of the conversation I had with a former executive of Fleer. When asking about cards getting backdoored, they said, “Some “unfinished” product went out the back door while I was there - such as lacking embossing or foiling, etc. But that stuff was, quite simply, stolen before it was finished. Had a real run of that in about ’92 when “Rookie Sensations” insert set was so hot.” This particular Thomas card actually sold for $250.
