Description

2008 Bowman is a 230-card set supplemented with a 110-card Prospects insert set, released by Topps May 13, 2008. The last ten cards in the base set make up a Hobby-exclusive Autographed Rookies subset.

For the third consecutive year, the first 130 cards of the Bowman Chrome Prospects was bundled into Bowman. The first 110 cards parallel the Bowman Prospects with the final 20 cards autographed and exclusive to Hobby packs.

Each 24-pack Hobby pack will yield an autograph. Hobby exclusive Jumbo packs will have one Autographed Rookie, one Autographed Chrome Prospect, and one Signs of the Future autograph.

Distribution

Hobby/retail: 24 packs per box, 10 cards per pack (MSRP: $3)

Jumbo: 12 packs plus one Signs of the Future autograph per box, 32 cards per pack (MSRP: $10).

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Hobby Odds	Retail Odds	Jumbo Odds
Base	200	-	5:1	5:1	?
Autographed Rookies	20	-	1:233	N/A	1:12
Gold	200	-	one-per-pack	one-per-pack	one-per-pack
Blue	200	500	1:14	1:32	?
Orange	200	250	1:26	1:65	?
Red	200	one-of-one	1:4512	N/A	?
Printing Plates	200	four for each	1:732	N/A	?
Autographed Rookies Blue	20	500	1:620	N/A	?
Autographed Rookies Orange	20	250	1:1160	N/A	?
Autographed Rookies Red	20	one-of-one	1:243,648	N/A	?
Autographed Rookies Printing Plates	20	four for each	1:4700	N/A	?
Prospects	110	-	2:1	2:1	8:1
Prospects Gold	110	-	one-per-pack	one-per-pack	1:3
Prospects Blue	110	500	1:14	1:32	?
Prospects Orange	110	250	1:28	1:65	?
Prospects Red	110	one-of-one	1:4512	N/A	?
Prospects Printing Plates	110	four for each	1:732	N/A	?
Chrome Prospects	110	-	2:1	2:1	6:1
Chrome Prospects Refractor	110	599	1:34	1:88	?
Chrome Prospects X-Fractor	110	275	1:65	1:188	?
Chrome Prospects Blue Refractor	110	150	1:126	1:350	?
Chrome Prospects Gold Refractor	110	50	1:380	1:1040	?
Chrome Prospects Orange Refractor	110	25	1:750	1:2075	?
Chrome Prospects Red Refractor	110	5	1:3600	N/A	?
Chrome Prospects SuperFractor	110	one-of-one	1:18,274	N/A	?
Chrome Prospects Printing Plates	110	four for each	1:732	N/A	?
Autographed Chrome Prospects	20	-	1:37	N/A	1:12
Autographed Chrome Prospects Refractor	20	500	1:113	N/A	?
Autographed Chrome Prospects X-Fractor	20	250	1:226	N/A	?
Autographed Chrome Prospects Blue Refractor	20	150	1:372	N/A	?
Autographed Chrome Prospects Gold Refractor	20	50	1:1155	N/A	?
Autographed Chrome Prospects Orange Refractor	20	25	1:2495	N/A	?
Autographed Chrome Prospects Red Refractor	20	5	1:11,075	N/A	?
Autographed Chrome Prospects SuperFractor	20	one-of-one	1:55,000	N/A	?
Autographed Chrome Prospects Printing Plates	20	four for each	1:4780	N/A	?
Signs of the Future	35	-	N/A	1:100	one-per-box
Signs of the Future Printing Plates	35	four for each	N/A	1:1200	?
Scouts Autograph Group A	11	-	1:176	1:410	?
Scouts Autograph Group B	10	-	1:390	1:910	?

Checklist

Base Set

1 Ryan Braun
2 David DeJesus
3 Brandon Phillips
4 Mark Teixeira
5 Daisuke Matsuzaka
6 Justin Upton
7 Jered Weaver
8 Todd Helton
9 Cameron Maybin
10 Erik Bedard
11 Jason Bay
12 Cole Hamels
13 Bobby Abreu
14 Carlos Zambrano
15 Vladimir Guerrero
16 Joe Blanton
17 Bengie Molina
18 Paul Maholm
19 Adrian Gonzalez
20 Brandon Webb
21 Carl Crawford
22 A.J. Burnett
23 Dmitri Young
24 Jeremy Hermida
25 C.C. Sabathia
26 Adam Dunn
27 Matt Garza
28 Adrian Beltre
29 Kevin Milwood
30 Manny Ramirez
31 Javier Vazquez
32 Carlos Delgado
33 Jason Schmidt
34 Torii Hunter
35 Ivan Rodriguez
36 Nick Markakis
37 Gil Meche
38 Garrett Atkins
39 Fausto Carmona
40 Joe Mauer
41 Tom Glavine
42 Hideki Matsui
43 Scott Rolen
44 Tim Linecum
45 Prince Fielder
46 Ted Lilly
47 Frank Thomas
48 Tom Gorzelanny
49 Lance Berkman
50 David Ortiz
51 Dontrelle Willis
52 Travis Hafner
53 Aaron Harang
54 Chris Young
55 Vernon Wells
56 Francisco Liriano
57 Eric Chavez
58 Phil Hughes
59 Melvin Mora
60 Johan Santana
61 Brian McCann
62 Pat Burrell
63 Chris Carpenter
64 Brian Giles
65 Jose Reyes
66 Hanley Ramirez
67 Ubaldo Jimenez
68 Felix Pie
69 Jeremy Bonderman
70 Jimmy Rollins
71 Miguel Tejada
72 Derek Lowe
73 Alex Gordon
74 John Maine
75 Alfonso Soriano
76 Richie Sexson
77 Ben Sheets
78 Hunter Pence
79 Magglio Ordonez
80 Josh Beckett
81 Victor Martinez
82 Mark Buehrle
83 Jason Varitek
84 Chien-Ming Wang
85 Ken Griffey, Jr.
86 Billy Butler
87 Brad Penny
88 Carlos Beltran
89 Curt Schilling
90 Jorge Posada
91 Andruw Jones
92 Bobby Crosby
93 Freddy Sanchez
94 Barry Zito
95 Miguel Cabrera
96 B.J. Upton
97 Matt Cain
98 Lyle Overbay
99 Austin Kearns
100 Alex Rodriguez
101 Rich Harden
102 Justin Morneau
103 Oliver Perez
104 Gary Matthews, Jr.
105 Matt Holliday
106 Justin Verlander
107 Orlando Cabrera
108 Rich Hill
109 Tim Hudson
110 Ryan Zimmerman
111 Roy Oswalt
112 Nick Swisher
113 Raul Ibanez
114 Kelly Johnson
115 Alex Rios
116 John Lackey
117 Robinson Cano
118 Michael Young
119 Jeff Francis
120 Grady Sizemore
121 Mike Lowell
122 Aramis Ramirez
123 Stephen Drew
124 Yovani Gallardo
125 Chase Utley
126 Dan Haren
127 Jose Vidro
128 Ronnie Belliard
129 Yunel Escobar
130 Greg Maddux
131 Garrett Anderson
132 Aubrey Huff
133 Paul Konerko
134 Dan Uggla
135 Roy Halladay
136 Andre Ethier
137 Orlando Hernandez
138 Troy Tulowitzki
139 Carlos Guillen
140 Scott Kazmir
141 Aaron Rowand
142 Jim Edmonds
143 Jermaine Dye
144 Orlando Hudson
145 Derrek Lee
146 Travis Buck
147 Zack Greinke
148 Jeff Kent
149 John Smoltz
150 David Wright
151 Joba Chamberlain
152 Adam LaRoche
153 Kevin Youkilis
154 Troy Glaus
155 Nick Johnson
156 J.J. Hardy
157 Felix Hernandez
158 Khalil Greene
159 Gary Sheffield
160 Albert Pujols
161 Chuck James
162 Rocco Baldelli
163 Eric Byrnes
164 Brad Hawpe
165 Delmon Young
166 Chris Young
167 Brian Roberts
168 Russell Martin
169 Hank Blalock
170 Yadier Molina
171 Jeremy Guthrie
172 Chipper Jones
173 Johnny Damon
174 Ryan Garko
175 Jake Peavy
176 Chone Figgins
177 Edgar Renteria
178 Jim Thome
179 Carlos Pena
180 Corey Patterson
181 Dustin Pedroia
182 Brett Meyers
183 Josh Hamilton
184 Randy Johnson
185 Ichiro
186 Aaron Hill
187 Jarrod Saltalamacchia
188 Michael Cuddyer
189 Jeff Francoeur
190 Derek Jeter
191 Curtis Granderson
192 James Loney
193 Brian Bannister
194 Carlos Lee
195 Pedro Martinez
196 Asdrubal Cabrera
197 Kenji Johjima
198 Bartolo Colon
199 Jacoby Ellsbury
200 Ryan Howard
201 Radhames Liz RC
202 Justin Ruggiano RC
203 Lance Broadway (RC)
204 Joey Votto (RC)
205 Billy Buckner (RC)
206 Joe Koshansky (RC)
207 Ross Detwiler RC
208 Chin-Lung Hu (RC)
209 Luke Hochevar RC
210 Jeff Clement (RC)
211 Troy Patton (RC)
212 Hiroki Kuroda RC
213 Emilio Bonifacio RC
214 Armando Galarraga RC
215 Josh Anderson (RC)
216 Nick Blackburn RC
217 Seth Smith (RC)
218 Jonathan Meloan RC
219 Alberto Gonzalez RC
220 Josh Banks RC

Autographed Rookies

Autographed Rookies are exclusive to Hobby packs

221 Clay Buchholz AU (RC)
222 Nyjer Morgan AU (RC)
223 Brandon Jones AU RC
224 Sam Fuld AU RC
225 Daric Barton AU (RC)
226 Chris Seddon AU (RC)
227 J.R. Towles AU RC
228 Steve Pearce AU RC
229 Ross Ohlendorf AU RC
230 Clint Sammons AU (RC)

Parallels

All 230 base cards (including the ten Hobby only Autographed Rookies) are available in the following parallels.

Blue (serial-numbered to 500 copies)
Orange (serial-numbered to 250 copies)
Red (one-of-one; Hobby only)
Printing Plates (set of four for each card; Hobby only)

Orange Parallel

Orange Parallel
Red Parallel

Red Parallel

Multiple copies (up to 19 of the same card) were sold on eBay during the last week of August of 2010. These cards look exactly like the red one-of-one cards however they are missing the foil 1/1 stamp. The origin of these cards is unknown. Entire uncut sheets of red parallels without the 1/1 stamps appeared on eBay during the first week of December 2010. Some say that these cards were printed in case someone returns a red 1/1 that was damaged. It's unknown how these sheets made it out of Topps and into the secondary market.

Gold

All 220 non-autographed base cards and all 110 Prospects inserts (see below) are available in a one-per-pack parallel.

Inserts

Prospects

All 110 Prospects are available in the following parallels.

Gold
Blue (serial-numbered to 500 copies)
Orange (serial-numbered to 250 copies)
Red (one-of-one; Hobby only)
Printing Plates (set of four for each card; Hobby only)

Chrome Prospects

All 110 Prospects are also available in a Chrome edition, which is available in the following Refractor parallels.

Refractor (serial-numbered to 599 copies)
X-Fractor (serial-numbered to 275 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; Hobby only)
SuperFractor (one-of-one; Hobby only)
Printing Plates (set of four for each cards; Hobby only)

BP1 Max Sapp
BP2 Jamie Richmond
BP3 Darren Ford
BP4 Sergio Romo
BP5 Jacob Butler
BP6 Glenn Gibson
BP7 Tom Hagan
BP8 Michael McCormick
BP9 Gregorio Petit
BP10 Bobby Parnell
BP11 Jeff Kindel
BP12 Anthony Claggett
BP13 Christopher Frey
BP14 Jonah Nickerson
BP15 Anthony Martinez
BP16 Rusty Ryal
BP17 Justin Berg
BP18 Gerardo Parra
BP19 Wesley Wright
BP20 Stephen Chapman
BP21 Chance Chapman
BP22 Brett Pill
BP23 Zachary Phillips
BP24 John Raynor
BP25 Danny Duffy
BP26 Brian Finegan
BP27 Jonathan Venters
BP28 Steve Tolleson
BP29 Ben Jukich
BP30 Matthew Weston
BP31 Kyle Mura
BP32 Luke Hetherington
BP33 Michael Daniel
BP34 Jake Renshaw
BP35 Greg Halman
BP36 Ryan Khoury
BP37 Ryan Ouellette
BP38 Mike Brantley
BP39 Eric Brown
BP40 Jose Duarte
BP41 Eli Tintor
BP42 Kent Sakamoto
BP43 Luke Montz
BP44 Alex Cobb
BP45 Michael McKenry
BP46 Javier Castillo
BP47 Jeffrey Stevens
BP48 Greg Burns
BP49 Blake Johnson
BP50 Austin Jackson
BP51 Anthony Recker
BP52 Luis Durango
BP53 Engel Beltre
BP54 Seth Bynum
BP55 Ryan Strieby
BP56 Iggy Suarez
BP57 Ryan Morris
BP58 Scott Van Slyke
BP59 Tyler Kolodny
BP60 Joseph Martinez
BP61 Aaron Mathews
BP62 Phillip Cuadrado
BP63 Alex Liddi
BP64 Alex Burnett
BP65 Brian Barton
BP66 David Welch
BP67 Kyle Reynolds
BP68 Francisco Hernandez
BP69 Logan Morrison
BP70 Ronald Ramirez
BP71 Brad Miller
BP72 Braedyn Pruitt
BP73 Jason Fernandez
BP74 Joseph Mahoney
BP75 Quentin Davis
BP76 P.J. Walters
BP77 Jordan Czarniecki
BP78 Jonathan Mota
BP79 Michael Hernandez
BP80 James Guerrero
BP81 Chris Johnson
BP82 Daniel Cortes
BP83 Sal Sanchez
BP84 Sean Henry
BP85 Caleb Gindl
BP86 Tommy Everidge
BP87 Matt Rizzotti
BP88 Luis Munoz
BP89 Matthew Klimas
BP90 Angel Reyes
BP91 Sean Danielson
BP92 Omar Poveda
BP93 Mario Lisson
BP94 Brian Mathews
BP95 Matthew Buschmann
BP96 Greg Thomson
BP97 Matt Inouye
BP98 Aneury Rodriguez
BP99 Brad Harman
BP100 Aaron Bates
BP101 Graham Taylor
BP102 Ken Holmberg
BP103 Greg Dowling
BP104 Ronnie Ray
BP105 Michael Wlodarczyk
BP106 Jose Martinez
BP107 Jason Stephens
BP108 Will Rhymes
BP109 Joey Side
BP110 Brandon Waring

Autographed Chrome Prospects

The 20 Autographed Chrome Prospects are exclusive to Hobby packs and available in the following Refractor parallels.

Refractor (serial-numbered to 500 copies)
X-Fractor (serial-numbered to 250 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; Hobby only)
SuperFractor (one-of-one; Hobby only)
Printing Plates (set of four for each cards; Hobby only)

BCP111 David Price
BCP112 Michael Moustakas
BCP113 Matt LaPorta
BCP114 Wendell Fairley
BCP115 Josh Vitters
BCP116 Jonathan Bachanov
BCP117 Edward Kunz
BCP118 Matt Dominguez
BCP119 Kyle Lotzkar
BCP120 Madison Bumgarner
BCP121 Jason Heyward
BCP122 Julio Borbon
BCP123 Josh Smoker
BCP124 Jarrod Parker
BCP125 Kevin Ahrens
BCP126 J.P. Arencibia
BCP127 Josh Bell
BCP128 Scott Cousins
BCP129 Brandon Hynick
BCP130 Alan Johnson

Autographs & Game-Used

Scouts Autographs

AS Alex Smith B
BB Bill Buck B
BE Bob Engle B
BF Bob Fontaine, Jr. A
BS The Bowman Scout A
CB Chris Bourjos A
DJ Dave Jennings B
DL Don Lyle B
DO Don Ontiveros B
JC Jerome Cochran B EXCH
JD Jon Debble A EXCH
JH Josue Herrera B
JL Jerry Lafferty A
JM Joe Mason B
LW Leon Wurth A
MR Mike Rizzo A
RA Ralph Avila A
TC Ty Coslow A
TCU Tom Couston A
TD Tony DeMacio A
TK Tim Kelly B

Signs of the Future

Signs of the Future are exclusive to retail packs. In addition, one Signs of the Future is seeded into each Hobby Jumbo box as a box topper.

AC Adam Carr
BK Brad Knox
BO Brian Omogrosso
BW Brian Wilson
CN Chris Nowak
CR Colby Rasmus
CT Clayton Tanner
CTI Chris Tillman
DS David Shafer
EJ Elliot Johnson
GM Garrett Mock
GP Gerardo Parra
GS Greg Smith
JE Jack Egbert
JG Jaime Garcia
JH Joel Hanrahan
JHI Jamar Hill
JHU Jon Huber
JJ Jason Jaramillo
JK Josh Kroeger
JL Jeff Locke
JM Jose Mijares
JV Jonathan Van Every
KB Kyle Bloom
LM Lou Marson
MC Mike Costanzo
ME Mitch Einertson
MP Matt Peterson
RK Ryan Kalish
RS Ryan Speier
SR Steven Register
TC Tyler Colvin
TM Tommy Manzella
TO Tim Olson
WI Will Inman