2006 Bowman Chrome

Description

2006 Bowman Chrome is a 224-card set released in August, 2006. This was the first year of the new MLB-mandated "rookie card" rules, and as a result, all the Bowman brands were forced into a realignment. Beginning in 2006, a player had to actually have played in a Major League game to appear in a MLB-licensed trading card set. Those players making their Major League debut in the current season (or late in the previous season) would be entitled to have a standardized "ROOKIE CARD" icon on their card.

In the case of the Bowman brands, whose stock-in-trade has been to feature hundreds of Minor League "prospects" in order to have their rookie cards years before they ever played in a Major League game (if ever), this meant that those players would now be featured in a Prospects "insert" -- an "insert" that just happens to look a lot like, and produced in roughly the same quantities as, the base set.

Each 18-pack Hobby box will yield an autograph and five Refractors.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds
Base	224	-	?	?
short set	220	-	2:1	2:1
Prospects	110	-	2:1	2:1
Refractor	220	-	1:4	1:6
Prospects Refractor	110	500	1:22	1:81
X-Fractor	330*	250	1:15	1:44
Blue Refractor	330*	150	1:25	1:73
Gold Refractor	330*	50	1:74	1:247
Orange Refractor	330*	25	1:181	1:182
Red Refractor	330*	5	1:906	1:908
SuperFractor	330*	one-of-one	1:3350	N/A
Printing Plates	330*	four for each	1:836	N/A
Autographed Rookies/Prospects	31	-	1:27	1:65
Autographed Rookies/Prospects Refractor	31	500	1:82	1:200
Autographed Rookies/Prospects X-Fractor	31	225	1:182	1:478
Autographed Rookies/Prospects Blue Refractor	31	150	1:266	1:890
Autographed Rookies/Prospects Gold Refractor	31	50	1:820	1:1910
Autographed Rookies/Prospects Orange Refractor	31	25	1:1640	1:3820
Autographed Rookies/Prospects Red Refractor	31	5	1:8250	1:19,500
Autographed Rookies/Prospects SuperFractor	31	one-of-one	1:35,592	N/A
Autographed Rookies/Prospects Printing Plates	31	four for each	1:9000	N/A
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie	1	-	1:2734	1:6617
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie Refractor	1	250	1:5100	1:12,432
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie X-Fractor	1	125	1:10,205	1:28,500
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie Blue Refractor	1	75	1:16,877	1:61,700
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie Gold Refractor	1	50	1:26,000	1:52,900
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie Orange Refractor	1	25	1:62,686	1:62,686
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie Red Refractor	1	5	1:438,929	?
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie SuperFractor	1	one-of-one	1:877,608	N/A
Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie Printing Plates	1	one-of-one	1:292,536	N/A

* Includes base set and Prospects.

Checklist

Base Set

• 1 Nick Swisher
• 2 Ted Lilly
• 3 John Smoltz
• 4 Lyle Overbay
• 5 Alfonso Soriano
• 6 Javier Vazquez
• 7 Ronnie Belliard
• 8 Jose Reyes
• 9 Brian Roberts
• 10 Curt Schilling
• 11 Adam Dunn
• 12 Zack Greinke
• 13 Carlos Guillen
• 14 Jon Garland
• 15 Robinson Cano
• 16 Chris Burke
• 17 Barry Zito
• 18 Russ Adams
• 19 Chris Capuano
• 20 Scott Rolen
• 21 Kerry Wood
• 22 Scott Kazmir
• 23 Brandon Webb
• 24 Jeff Kent
• 25 Albert Pujols
• 26 C.C. Sabathia
• 27 Adrian Beltre
• 28 Brad Wilkerson
• 29 Randy Wolf
• 30 Jason Bay
• 31 Austin Kearns
• 32 Clint Barmes
• 33 Mike Sweeney
• 34 Kevin Youkilis
• 35 Justin Morneau
• 36 Scott Podsednik
• 37 Jason Giambi
• 38 Steve Finley
• 39 Morgan Ensberg
• 40 Eric Chavez
• 41 Roy Halladay
• 42 Horacio Ramirez
• 43 Ben Sheets
• 44 Chris Carpenter
• 45 Andruw Jones
• 46 Carlos Zambrano
• 47 Jonny Gomes
• 48 Shawn Green
• 49 Moises Alou
• 50 Ichiro Suzuki
• 51 Juan Pierre
• 52 Grady Sizemore
• 53 Kazuo Matsui
• 54 Jose Vidro
• 55 Jake Peavy
• 56 Dallas McPherson
• 57 Ryan Howard
• 58 Zach Duke
• 59 Michael Young
• 60 Todd Helton
• 61 David DeJesus
• 62 Ivan Rodriguez
• 63 Johan Santana
• 64 Danny Haren
• 65 Derek Jeter
• 66 Greg Maddux
• 67 Jorge Cantu
• 68 J.J. Hardy
• 69 Victor Martinez
• 70 David Wright
• 71 Ryan Church
• 72 Khalil Greene
• 73 Jimmy Rollins
• 74 Hank Blalock
• 75 Pedro Martinez
• 76 Chris Shelton
• 77 Felipe Lopez
• 78 Jeff Francis
• 79 Andy Sisco
• 80 Hideki Matsui
• 81 Ken Griffey, Jr.
• 82 Nomar Garciaparra
• 83 Kevin Millwood
• 84 Paul Konerko
• 85 A.J. Burnett
• 86 Mike Piazza
• 87 Brian Giles
• 88 Johnny Damon
• 89 Jim Thome
• 90 Roger Clemens
• 91 Aaron Rowand
• 92 Rafael Furcal
• 93 Gary Sheffield
• 94 Mike Cameron
• 95 Carlos Delgado
• 96 Jorge Posada
• 97 Denny Bautista
• 98 Mike Maroth
• 99 Brad Radke
• 100 Alex Rodriguez
• 101 Freddy Garcia
• 102 Oliver Perez
• 103 Jon Lieber
• 104 Melvin Mora
• 105 Travis Hafner
• 106 Alex Rios
• 107 Derek Lowe
• 108 Luis Castillo
• 109 Livan Hernandez
• 110 Tadahito Iguchi
• 111 Shawn Chacon
• 112 Frank Thomas
• 113 Josh Beckett
• 114 Aubrey Huff
• 115 Derrek Lee
• 116 Chien-Ming Wang
• 117 Joe Crede
• 118 Torii Hunter
• 119 J.D. Drew
• 120 Troy Glaus
• 121 Sean Casey
• 122 Edgar Renteria
• 123 Craig Wilson
• 124 Adam Eaton
• 125 Jeff Francoeur
• 126 Bruce Chen
• 127 Cliff Floyd
• 128 Jeremy Reed
• 129 Jake Westbrook
• 130 Wily Mo Pena
• 131 Toby Hall
• 132 David Ortiz
• 133 David Eckstein
• 134 Brady Clark
• 135 Marcus Giles
• 136 Aaron Hill
• 137 Mark Kotsay
• 138 Carlos Lee
• 139 Roy Oswalt
• 140 Chone Figgins
• 141 Mike Mussina
• 142 Orlando Hernandez
• 143 Magglio Ordonez
• 144 Jim Edmonds
• 145 Bobby Abreu
• 146 Nick Johnson
• 147 Carlos Beltran
• 148 Jhonny Peralta
• 149 Pedro Feliz
• 150 Miguel Tejada
• 151 Luis Gonzalez
• 152 Carl Crawford
• 153 Yadier Molina
• 154 Rich Harden
• 155 Tim Wakefield
• 156 Rickie Weeks
• 157 Johnny Estrada
• 158 Gustavo Chacin
• 159 Dan Johnson
• 160 Willy Taveras
• 161 Garret Anderson
• 162 Randy Johnson
• 163 Jermaine Dye
• 164 Joe Mauer
• 165 Ervin Santana
• 166 Jeremy Bonderman
• 167 Garrett Atkins
• 168 Manny Ramirez
• 169 Brad Eldred
• 170 Chase Utley
• 171 Mark Loretta
• 172 John Patterson
• 173 Tom Glavine
• 174 Dontrelle Willis
• 175 Mark Teixeira
• 176 Felix Hernandez
• 177 Cliff Lee
• 178 Jason Schmidt
• 179 Chad Tracy
• 180 Rocco Baldelli
• 181 Aramis Ramirez
• 182 Andy Pettitte
• 183 Mark Mulder
• 184 Geoff Jenkins
• 185 Chipper Jones
• 186 Vernon Wells
• 187 Bobby Crosby
• 188 Lance Berkman
• 189 Vladimir Guerrero
• 190 Coco Crisp
• 191 Brad Penny
• 192 Jose Guillen
• 193 Brett Myers
• 194 Miguel Cabrera
• 195 Bartolo Colon
• 196 Craig Biggio
• 197 Tim Hudson
• 198 Mark Prior
• 199 Mark Buehrle
• 200 Barry Bonds

Rookies

NOTE: As this was the first year for MLB's rookie card rules, every player in this subset has the "ROOKIE CARD" icon. Unfortunately, the bulk of these players had their "true" rookie issued before 2006 (quite often in a Bowman-branded product). Those players who have the "ROOKIE CARD" icon on their card, but whose "true" rookie was issued in a previous year are designated with a "(RC)".

• 201 Anderson Hernandez (RC)
• 202 Jose Capellan (RC)
• 203 Jeremy Accardo RC
• 204 Hanley Ramirez (RC)
• 205 Matt Capps (RC)
• 206 Jonathan Papelbon (RC)
• 207 Chuck James (RC)
• 208 Matt Cain (RC)
• 209 Cole Hamels (RC)
• 210 Jason Botts (RC)
• 211 Lastings Milledge (RC)
• 212 Conor Jackson (RC)
• 213 Yusmeiro Petit (RC)
• 214 Alay Soler RC
• 215 Willy Aybar (RC)
• 216 Adam Loewen (RC)
• 217 Justin Verlander (RC)
• 218 Francisco Liriano (RC)
• 219 Kenji Johjima RC
• 220 Craig Hansen RC

Autographed Rookies

Although not serial-numbered, it's estimated that each player signed around 1500 copies of their base Autographed Rookie.

• 221 Prince Fielder (RC)
• 222 Josh Barfield (RC)
• 223 Fausto Carmona (RC)
• 224 James Loney (RC)

Kenji Johjima Autograph

Kenji Johjima signed a limited number of copies of his base card. Production was never revealed, but it's been estimated at around 500.

• 219a Kenji Johjima

Prospects

• BC111 Koby Clemens
• BC112 Lance Broadway
• BC113 Cameron Maybin
• BC114 Mike Aviles
• BC115 Kyle Blanks
• BC116 Chris Dickerson
• BC117 Sean Gallagher
• BC118 Jamar Hill
• BC119 Garrett Mock
• BC120 Russ Rohlicek
• BC121 Clete Thomas
• BC122 Elvis Andrus
• BC123 Brandon Moss
• BC124 Mark Holliman
• BC125 Jose Tabata
• BC126 Corey Wimberly
• BC127 Bobby Wilson
• BC128 Edward Mujica
• BC129 Hunter Pence
• BC130 Adam Heether
• BC131 Andy Wilson
• BC132 Radhames Liz
• BC133 Garrett Patterson
• BC134 Carlos Gomez
• BC135 Jared Lansford
• BC136 Jose Arredondo
• BC137 Renee Cortez
• BC138 Francisco Rosario
• BC139 Brian Stokes
• BC140 Will Thompson
• BC141 Ernesto Frieri
• BC142 Jose Mijares
• BC143 Jeremy Slayden
• BC144 Brandon Fahey
• BC145 Jason Windsor
• BC146 Shawn Nottingham
• BC147 Dallas Trahern
• BC148 Jon Niese
• BC149 A.J. Shappi
• BC150 Jordan Pals
• BC151 Tim Moss
• BC152 Steve Marek
• BC153 Mat Gamel
• BC154 Sean Henn
• BC155 Matthew Guillory
• BC156 Brandon Jones
• BC157 Gary Galvez
• BC158 Shane Lindsay
• BC159 Jesus Reina
• BC160 Lorenzo Cain
• BC161 Chris Britton
• BC162 Yovani Gallardo
• BC163 Matt Walker
• BC164 Shaun Cumberland
• BC165 Ryan Patterson
• BC166 Michael Hollimon
• BC167 Eude Brito
• BC168 John Bowker
• BC169 James Avery
• BC170 John Bannister
• BC171 Juan Ciriaco
• BC172 Manuel Corpas
• BC173 Leo Rosales
• BC174 Tim Kennelly
• BC175 Adam Russell
• BC176 Jeremy Hellickson
• BC177 Ryan Klosterman UER
• BC178 Evan Meek
• BC179 Steve Murphy
• BC180 Scott Feldman
• BC181 Pablo Sandoval
• BC182 Dexter Fowler
• BC183 Jairo Cuevas
• BC184 Andrew Pinckney
• BC185 Marino Salas
• BC186 Justin Christian
• BC187 Ching-Lung Lo
• BC188 Randy Roth
• BC189 Andy Sonnanstine
• BC190 Josh Outman
• BC191 Yuber Rodriguez
• BC192 Hainley Statia
• BC193 Kevin Estrada
• BC194 Jeff Karstens
• BC195 Corey Coles
• BC196 Gustavo Espinoza
• BC197 Brian Horwitz
• BC198 Landon Jacobsen
• BC199 Ben Krosschell
• BC200 Jason Jaramillo
• BC201 Josh Wilson
• BC202 Jason Ray
• BC203 Brent Dlugach
• BC204 Cesar Jimenez
• BC205 Eric Haberer
• BC206 Felipe Paulino
• BC207 Alcides Escobar
• BC208 Jose Ascanio
• BC209 Yoel Hernandez
• BC210 Geoff Vandel
• BC211 Travis Denker
• BC212 Ramon Alvarado
• BC213 Welinson Baez
• BC214 Chris Kolkhorst
• BC215 Emiliano Fruto
• BC216 Luis Cota
• BC217 Mark Worrell
• BC218 Cla Meredith
• BC219 Emmanuel Garcia
• BC220 B.J. Szymanski

Autographed Prospects

NOTES

• Although not serial-numbered, it's estimated that each player signed around 1500 copies of their base Autographed Prospect.
• Cards #BC222 and #BC246 packed out as redemption cards that expired August 31st, 2008.

• BC221 Alex Gordon
• BC222 Mark Pawelek EXCH
• BC223 Justin Upton
• BC224 Sean West
• BC225 Tyler Greene
• BC226 Josh Kinney
• BC227 Pedro Lopez
• BC228 Troy Patton
• BC229 Chris Iannetta
• BC230 Jared Wells
• BC231 Brandon Wood
• BC232 Josh Geer
• BC233 Cesar Carrillo
• BC234 Franklin Gutierrez
• BC235 Matt Garza
• BC236 Eli Iorg
• BC237 Trevor Bell
• BC238 Jeff Lyman
• BC239 Jon Lester
• BC240 Kendrys Morales
• BC241 J. Brent Cox
• BC242 Jose Bautista
• BC243 Josh Sullivan
• BC244 Brandon Snyder
• BC245 Elvin Puello
• BC246 Henry Sanchez EXCH
• BC247 Jacob Marceaux

Parallels

All 224 base cards and all 135 Prospects are available in the following Refractor parallels.

• Refractor (Base: not numbered; Prospects, Autographed Rookies and Autographed Prospects: serial-numbered to 500 copies)
• X-Fractor (Base and Prospects: serial-numbered to 250 copies; Autographed Rookies and Autographed Prospects: serial-numbered to 225 copies)
• Blue Refractor (serial-numbered to 150 copies)
• Gold Refractor (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
• Orange Refractor (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
• Red Refractor (serial-numbered to five)
• SuperFractor (one-of-one; Hobby only)
• Printing Plates (set of four for each card; Hobby only)

Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie Refractor

The Kenji Johjima Autographed Rookie (#219a) is also available in the following Refractors.

• Refractor (serial-numbered to 250 copies)
• X-Fractor (serial-numbered to 125 copies)
• Blue Refractor (serial-numbered to 75 copies)
• Gold Refractor (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
• Orange Refractor (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
• Red Refractor (serial-numbed to five)
• SuperFractor (one-of-one; Hobby only)
• Printing Plates (set of four foe each card; Hobby only)

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