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1997 Bowman Series 2 hobby box

Description

1997 Bowman is a 441-card set. For the first time, Bowman Baseball was released in two series (series one numbers 1-221, series two numbers 222-441). This was also the first year of the, now familiar, "Red/Blue" design convention. The 301 top prospects have blue borders while the 140 veteran stars are designated by red borders.

An unannounced Hideki Irabu card (number 221) was added late to the Series One set, but was produced at the same rate as any other Series One base card. Players that were featured for the first time on a Bowman card also carried a blue foil "1st Bowman Card" logo on the card front.

Rookie Cards in this set include Adrian Beltre, Kerry Wood, Brad Penny, and Eric Chavez in the first series; and Roy Halladay, Aramis Ramirez, Miguel Tejada, Vernon Wells, Jayson Werth, and Lance Berkman in Series Two.

Please note that cards 155 and 158 don't exist. Calvin "Pokey" Reese and George Arias are both numbered 156 (Reese is an uncorrected error - should be numbered 155). Chris Carpenter and Eric Milton are both numbered 159 (Carpenter is an uncorrected error - should be numbered 158).

$125 Guarantee

For the second year, Topps offered collectors to purchase an option to buyback their complete sets. To get the guarantee, collectors had to mail in the Guaranteed Certificate Request Form which was found in every three packs of either series along with a $5 registration and processing fee. To redeem the guarantee, collectors had to send a complete set of Bowman regular cards (441 cards in both series) along with the certificate to Topps between August 31st and December 31st, 2000. Topps would then send the collector a check for $125.

Distribution

24 packs per box, ten cards per pack.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Base	441	-	?
Internationals	441	-	one-per-pack
Bowman's Best Preview (S1)	20	-	1:12
Bowman's Best Preview Refractor (S1)	20	-	1:48
Bowman's Best Preview Atomic Refractor (S1)	20	-	1:96
Scout's Honor Roll (S1)	15	-	1:12
1998 ROY Favorites (S2)	15	-	1:12
International Best (S2)	20	-	1:12
International Best Refractor (S2)	20	-	1:48
International Best Atomic Refractor (S2)	20	-	1:96
Blue Ink Autograph (S1, S2)	89	-	1:96
Black Ink Autograph (S1, S2)	89	-	1:503
Gold Ink Autograph (S1, S2)	89	-	1:1509
Derek Jeter Blue (S1) / Green Ink (S2) Autograph	1	-	1:1928

Checklist

Base Set

Series One

Veterans (Reds)

1 Derek Jeter
2 Edgar Renteria
3 Chipper Jones
4 Hideo Nomo
5 Tim Salmon
6 Jason Giambi
7 Robin Ventura
8 Tony Clark
9 Barry Larkin
10 Paul Molitor
11 Bernard Gilkey
12 Jack McDowell
13 Andy Benes
14 Ryan Klesko
15 Mark McGwire
16 Ken Griffey, Jr.
17 Robb Nen
18 Cal Ripken, Jr.
19 John Valentin
20 Ricky Bottalico
21 Mike Lansing
22 Ryne Sandberg
23 Carlos Delgado
24 Craig Biggio
25 Eric Karros
26 Kevin Appier
27 Mariano Rivera
28 Vinny Castilla
29 Juan Gonzalez
30 Al Martin
31 Jeff Cirillo
32 Eddie Murray
33 Ray Lankford
34 Manny Ramirez
35 Roberto Alomar
36 Will Clark
37 Chuck Knoblauch
38 Harold Baines
39 Trevor Hoffman
40 Edgar Martinez
41 Geronimo Berroa
42 Rey Ordonez
43 Mike Stanley
44 Mike Mussina
45 Kevin Brown
46 Dennis Eckersley
47 Henry Rodriguez
48 Tino Martinez
49 Eric Young
50 Bret Boone
51 Raul Mondesi
52 Sammy Sosa
53 John Smoltz
54 Billy Wagner
55 Jeff D'Amico
56 Ken Caminiti
57 Jason Kendall
58 Wade Boggs
59 Andres Galarraga
60 Jeff Brantley
61 Mel Rojas
62 Brian L. Hunter
63 Bobby Bonilla
64 Roger Clemens
65 Jeff Kent
66 Matt Williams
67 Albert Belle
68 Jeff King
69 John Wetteland
70 Deion Sanders

Prospects (Blues)

71 Bubba Trammell RC
72 Felix Heredia RC
73 Billy Koch
74 Sidney Ponson RC
75 Ricky Ledee RC
76 Brett Tomko
77 Braden Looper RC
78 Damian Jackson
79 Jason Dickson
80 Chad Green RC
81 R.A. Dickey RC
82 Jeff Liefer
83 Matt Wagner
84 Richard Hidalgo
85 Adam Riggs
86 Robert Smith
87 Chad Hermansen RC
88 Felix Martinez
89 J.J. Johnson
90 Todd Dunwoody
91 Katsuhiro Maeda
92 Darin Erstad
93 Eli Marrero
94 Bartolo Colon
95 Chris Fussell
96 Ugueth Urbina
97 Josh Paul RC
98 Jaime Bluma
99 Seth Greisinger RC
100 Jose Cruz, Jr. RC
101 Todd Dunn
102 Joe Young
103 Jonathan Johnson
104 Justin Towle RC
105 Brian Rose
106 Jose Guillen
107 Andruw Jones
108 Mark Kotsay RC
109 Wilton Guerrero
110 Jacob Cruz
111 Mike Sweeney
112 Julio Mosquera
113 Matt Morris
114 Wendell Magee, Jr.
115 John Thomson
116 Javier Valentin
117 Tom Fordham
118 Ruben Rivera
119 Mike Drumright RC
120 Chris Holt
121 Sean Maloney
122 Michael Barrett
123 Tony Saunders RC
124 Kevin Brown
125 Richard Almanzar
126 Mark Redman
127 Anthony Sanders RC
128 Jeff Abbott
129 Eugene Kingsale
130 Paul Konerko
131 Randall Simon RC
132 Andy Larkin
133 Rafael Medina
134 Mendy Lopez
135 Freddy Adrian Garcia
136 Karim Garcia
137 Larry Rodriguez RC
138 Carlos Guillen
139 Aaron Boone
140 Donnie Sadler
141 Brooks Kieschnick
142 Scott Spiezio
143 Everett Stull
144 Enrique Wilson
145 Milton Bradley RC
146 Kevin Orie
147 Derek Wallace
148 Russ Johnson
149 Joe Lagarde RC
150 Luis Castillo
151 Jay Payton
152 Joe Long
153 Livan Hernandez
154 Vladimir Nunez RC
156 Pokey Reese UER (should be numbered 155
156 George Arias
157 Homer Bush
159 Chris Carpenter UER (should be numbered 158
159 Eric Milton RC
160 Richie Sexson
161 Carl Pavano
162 Chris Gissell RC
163 Mac Suzuki
164 Pat Cline
165 Ron Wright
166 Dante Powell
167 Mark Bellhorn
168 George Lombard
169 Pee Wee Lopez RC
170 Paul Wilder RC
171 Brad Fullmer
172 Willie Martinez RC
173 Dario Veras RC
174 Dave Coggin
175 Kris Benson RC
176 Torii Hunter
177 D.T. Cromer
178 Nelson Figueroa RC
179 Hiram Bocachica RC
180 Shane Monahan
181 Jimmy Anderson RC
182 Juan Melo
183 Pablo Ortega RC
184 Calvin Pickering RC
185 Reggie Taylor
186 Jeff Farnsworth RC
187 Terrence Long
188 Geoff Jenkins
189 Steve Rain RC
190 Nerio Rodriguez
191 Derrick Gibson RC
192 Darin Blood
193 Ben Davis
194 Adrian Beltre RC
195 Damian Sapp RC
196 Kerry Wood RC
197 Nate Rolison RC
198 Fernando Tatis RC
199 Brad Penny RC
200 Jake Westbrook RC
201 Edwin Diaz
202 Joe Fontenot RC
203 Matt Halloran RC
204 Blake Stein RC
205 Onan Masaoka
206 Ben Petrick
207 Matt Clement RC
208 Todd Greene
209 Ray Ricken
210 Eric Chavez RC
211 Edgard Velazquez
212 Bruce Chen RC
213 Danny Patterson
214 Jeff Yoder
215 Luis Ordaz RC
216 Chris Widger
217 Jason Brester
218 Carlton Loewer
219 Chris Reitsma RC
220 Neifi Perez
221 Hideki Irabu RC

Series Two

Veterans (Reds)

222 Ellis Burks
223 Pedro Martinez
224 Kenny Lofton
225 Randy Johnson
226 Terry Steinbach
227 Bernie Williams
228 Dean Palmer
229 Alan Benes
230 Marquis Grissom
231 Gary Sheffield
232 Curt Schilling
233 Reggie Sanders
234 Bob Higginson
235 Moises Alou
236 Tom Glavine
237 Mark Grace
238 Ramon Martinez
239 Rafael Palmeiro
240 John Olerud
241 Dante Bichette
242 Greg Vaughn
243 Jeff Bagwell
244 Barry Bonds
245 Pat Hentgen
246 Jim Thome
247 Jermaine Allensworth
248 Andy Pettitte
249 Jay Bell
250 John Jaha
251 Jim Edmonds
252 Ron Gant
253 David Cone
254 Jose Canseco
255 Jay Buhner
256 Greg Maddux
257 Brian McRae
258 Lance Johnson
259 Travis Fryman
260 Paul O'Neill
261 Ivan Rodriguez
262 Gregg Jefferies
263 Fred McGriff
264 Derek Bell
265 Jeff Conine
266 Mike Piazza
267 Mark Grudzielanek
268 Brady Anderson
269 Marty Cordova
270 Ray Durham
271 Joe Carter
272 Brian Jordan
273 Dave Justice
274 Tony Gwynn
275 Larry Walker
276 Cecil Fielder
277 Mo Vaughn
278 Alex Fernandez
279 Michael Tucker
280 Jose Valentin
281 Sandy Alomar, Jr.
282 Todd Hollandsworth
283 Rico Brogna
284 Rusty Greer
285 Roberto Hernandez
286 Hal Morris
287 Johnny Damon
288 Todd Hundley
289 Rondell White
290 Frank Thomas

Prospects (Blues)

291 Don Denbow RC
292 Derrek Lee
293 Todd Walker
294 Scott Rolen
295 Wes Helms
296 Bob Abreu
297 John Patterson RC
298 Alex Gonzalez RC
299 Grant Roberts RC
300 Jeff Suppan
301 Luke Wilcox
302 Marlon Anderson
303 Ray Brown
304 Mike Caruso RC
305 Sam Marsonek RC
306 Brady Raggio RC
307 Kevin McGlinchy RC
308 Roy Halladay RC
309 Jeremi Gonzalez RC
310 Aramis Ramirez RC
311 Dee Brown RC
312 Justin Thompson
313 Jay Tessmer RC
314 Mike Johnson RC
315 Danny Clyburn
316 Bruce Aven
317 Keith Foulke RC
318 Jimmy Osting RC
319 Valerio De Los Santos RC
320 Shannon Stewart
321 Willie Adams
322 Larry Barnes RC
323 Mark Johnson RC
324 Chris Stowers RC
325 Brandon Reed
326 Randy Winn
327 Steve Chavez RC
328 Nomar Garciaparra
329 Jacque Jones RC
330 Chris Clemons
331 Todd Helton
332 Ryan Brannan RC
333 Alex Sanchez RC
334 Arnold Gooch
335 Russell Branyan
336 Daryle Ward
337 John LeRoy RC
338 Steve Cox
339 Kevin Witt
340 Norm Hutchins
341 Gabby Martinez
342 Kris Detmers
343 Mike Villano RC
344 Preston Wilson
345 James Manias RC
346 Deivi Cruz RC
347 Donzell McDonald RC
348 Rod Myers RC
349 Shawn Chacon RC
350 Elvin Hernandez RC
351 Orlando Cabrera RC
352 Brian Banks
353 Robbie Bell
354 Brad Rigby
355 Scott Elarton
356 Kevin Sweeney RC
357 Steve Soderstrom
358 Ryan Nye
359 Marlon Allen RC
360 Donny Leon RC
361 Garrett Neubart RC
362 Abraham Nunez RC
363 Adam Eaton RC
364 Octavio Dotel RC
365 Dean Crow RC
366 Jason Baker RC
367 Sean Casey
368 Joe Lawrence RC
369 Adam Johnson RC
370 Scott Schoeneweis RC
372 Ronnie Belliard RC
373 Russ Ortiz
374 Robert Stratton RC
375 Bobby Estalella
376 Corey Lee RC
377 Carlos Beltran
378 Mike Cameron
379 Scott Randall RC
380 Corey Erickson RC
381 Jay Canizaro
382 Kerry Robinson RC
383 Todd Noel RC
384 A.J. Zapp RC
385 Jarrod Washburn
386 Ben Grieve
387 Javier Vazquez RC
388 Tony Graffanino
389 Travis Lee RC
390 DaRond Stovall
391 Dennis Reyes RC
392 Danny Buxbaum
393 Marc Lewis
394 Kelvim Escobar RC
395 Danny Klassen
396 Ken Cloude RC
397 Gabe Alvarez
398 Jaret Wright RC
399 Raul Casanova
400 Clayton Bruner RC
401 Jason Marquis RC
402 Marc Kroon
403 Jamey Wright
404 Matt Snyder RC
405 Josh Garrett RC
406 Juan Encarnacion
407 Heath Murray
408 Brett Herbison RC
409 Brent Butler RC
410 Danny Peoples RC
411 Miguel Tejada RC
412 Damian Moss
413 Jim Pittsley
414 Dmitri Young
415 Glendon Rusch
416 Vladimir Guerrero
417 Cole Liniak RC
418 Ramon Hernandez
419 Cliff Politte RC
420 Mel Rosario RC
421 Jorge Carrion RC
422 John Barnes RC
423 Chris Stowe RC
424 Vernon Wells RC
425 Brett Caradonna RC
426 Scott Hodges RC
427 Jon Garland RC
428 Nathan Haynes RC
429 Geoff Goetz RC
430 Adam Kennedy RC
431 T.J. Tucker RC
432 Aaron Akin RC
433 Jayson Werth RC
434 Glenn Davis RC
435 Mark Mangum RC
436 Troy Cameron RC
437 J.J. Davis RC
438 Lance Berkman RC
439 Jason Standridge RC
440 Jason Dellaero RC
441 Hideki Irabu
371 Gerald Witasick, Jr. RC

Parallels

All 441 cards are available in a one-per-pack "International" parallel. The Internationals are printing on foil-board and have the player's national flag in the background.

Inserts

Bowman's Best Preview

See 1997 Bowman's Best.

Scout's Honor Roll

SHR1 Dmitri Young
SHR2 Bob Abreu
SHR3 Vladimir Guerrero
SHR4 Paul Konerko
SHR5 Kevin Orie
SHR6 Todd Walker
SHR7 Ben Grieve
SHR8 Darin Erstad
SHR9 Derrek Lee
SHR10 Jose Cruz, Jr.
SHR11 Scott Rolen
SHR12 Travis Lee
SHR13 Andruw Jones
SHR14 Wilton Guerrero
SHR15 Nomar Garciaparra

1998 ROY Favorites

It should be noted that the actual 1998 Rookies of the Year (Ben Grieve and Kerry Wood) were not included in this set.

ROY1 Jeff Abbott
ROY2 Karim Garcia
ROY3 Todd Helton
ROY4 Richard Hidalgo
ROY5 Geoff Jenkins
ROY6 Russ Johnson
ROY7 Paul Konerko
ROY8 Mark Kotsay
ROY9 Ricky Ledee
ROY10 Travis Lee
ROY11 Derrek Lee
ROY12 Eli Marrero
ROY13 Juan Melo
ROY14 Brian Rose
ROY15 Fernando Tatis

International Best

This 20-card chromium-stock set features a variety of players, mostly from overseas. The design in identical to the 1997 Bowman's Best set. Each card is available in the following Refractor parallels.

Refractor
Atomic Refractor

BBI1 Frank Thomas
BBI2 Ken Griffey, Jr.
BBI3 Juan Gonzalez
BBI4 Bernie Williams
BBI5 Hideo Nomo
BBI6 Sammy Sosa
BBI7 Larry Walker
BBI8 Vinny Castilla
BBI9 Mariano Rivera
BBI10 Rafael Palmeiro
BBI11 Nomar Garciaparra
BBI12 Todd Walker
BBI13 Andruw Jones
BBI14 Vladimir Guerrero
BBI15 Ruben Rivera
BBI16 Bob Abreu
BBI17 Karim Garcia
BBI18 Katsuhiro Maeda
BBI19 Jose Cruz
BBI20 Damian Moss

Autographs & Game-Used

Autographs

This 90-card set features top prospects with on-card autographs with the Topps Certified Autograph Issue Stamp. All cards EXCEPT the Derek Jeter are available in three different color parallels.

Blue Ink
Black Ink
Gold Ink

The Blue Ink cards are the easiest to find while the Golds are the scarcest.

The Jeter was only available in either blue (Series One) and green ink (Series Two).

CA1 Jeff Abbott
CA2 Bob Abreu
CA3 Willie Adams
CA4 Brian Banks
CA5 Kris Benson
CA6 Darin Blood
CA7 Jaime Bluma
CA8 Kevin L. Brown
CA9 Ray Brown
CA10 Homer Bush
CA11 Mike Cameron
CA12 Jay Canizaro
CA13 Luis Castillo
CA14 Dave Coggin
CA15 Bartolo Colon
CA16 Rocky Coppinger
CA17 Jacob Cruz
CA18 Jose Cruz
CA19 Jeff D'Amico
CA20 Ben Davis
CA21 Mike Drumright
CA22 Scott Elarton
CA23 Darin Erstad
CA24 Bobby Estalella
CA25 Joe Fontenot
CA26 Tom Fordham
CA27 Brad Fullmer
CA28 Chris Fussell
CA29 Karim Garcia
CA30 Kris Detmers
CA31 Todd Greene
CA32 Ben Grieve
CA33 Vladimir Guerrero
CA34 Jose Guillen
CA35 Roy Halladay
CA36 Wes Helms
CA37 Chad Hermansen
CA38 Richard Hidalgo
CA39 Todd Hollandsworth
CA40 Damian Jackson
CA41 Derek Jeter
CA42 Andruw Jones
CA43 Brooks Kieschnick
CA44 Eugene Kingsale
CA45 Paul Konerko
CA46 Marc Kroon
CA47 Derrek Lee
CA48 Travis Lee
CA49 Terrence Long
CA50 Curt Lyons
CA51 Eli Marrero
CA52 Rafael Medina
CA53 Juan Melo
CA54 Shane Monahan
CA55 Julio Mosquera
CA56 Heath Murray
CA57 Ryan Nye
CA58 Kevin Orie
CA59 Russ Ortiz
CA60 Carl Pavano
CA61 Jay Payton
CA62 Neifi Perez
CA63 Sidney Ponson
CA64 Pokey Reese
CA65 Ray Ricken
CA66 Brad Rigby
CA67 Adam Riggs
CA68 Ruben Rivera
CA69 J.J. Johnson
CA70 Scott Rolen
CA71 Tony Saunders
CA72 Donnie Sadler
CA73 Richie Sexson
CA74 Scott Spiezio
CA75 Everett Stull
CA76 Mike Sweeney
CA77 Fernando Tatis
CA78 Miguel Tejada
CA79 Justin Thompson
CA80 Justin Towle
CA81 Billy Wagner
CA82 Todd Walker
CA83 Luke Wilcox
CA84 Paul Wilder
CA85 Enrique Wilson
CA86 Kerry Wood
CA87 Jamey Wright
CA88 Ron Wright
CA89 Dmitri Young
CA90 Nelson Figueroa

@@ Line 95: / Line 95: @@
 ===Bowman's Best Preview===
-This 20-card, chromium-stock, set previews the [[1997 Bowman's Best]] set.  All cards are available in the following Refractor parallels.
+See [[1997 Bowman's Best]].
-* Refractor
-* Atomic Refractor
-<sql2wiki database="carddb">
-SELECT num,player FROM cards WHERE (year = 1997) AND (setname = "Bowman's Best Preview")
-ORDER BY num +0 ASC;
-</sql2wiki>
 ===Scout's Honor Roll===