This our first look at the 2010 Bowman Chrome Baseball product. A much anticipated release from Topps after the resurgence of the Bowman line from the first 2010 release. The 2010 Bowman product, fueled by First Prospect cards of Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper the release has surged towards Upper Deck Exquisite-esque prices nearing $400 per box.

With Strasburg slated to have another autograph in the set, the newly crowned hobby hero, should help fuel the release of this product. Topps has also announced that Strasburg will be available in the rest of their 2010 products.

Quite a few other coveted prospected have been rumored to appear on their First Bowman Prospect Auto card as well:

• BCP197 TBD
• BCP198 Adeinis Hechavarria
• BCP199 Aroldis Chapman
• BCP200 Dee Gordon
• BCP201 Brett Wallace
• BCP202 Kyle Gibson
• BCP203 Max Kepler
• BCP204 Shelby Miller
• BCP205 Miguel Sano
• BCP206 Brett Oberholtzer
• BCP207 Gary Sanchez
• BCP208 Jacob Turner
• BCP209 Josh Satin
• BCP210 Matt Davidson
• BCP211 Arodys Vizcaino
• BCP212 TBD
• BCP213 Robinson Chirinos
• BCP214 Trayce Thompson
• BCP215 TBD
• BCP216 Corban Joseph
• BCP217 Noel Arguelles
• BCP218 Tim Beckham
• BCP219 Yonder Alonzo
• BCP220 Juan Urbina

While this may only be a preliminary checklist that Topps has issued for the set, it is leaving most prospector salivating at the idea that once Razor exclusives could possible be featured in the product. Other top prospects include Cuban defector and Reds Top Prospect Aroldis Champan and the Minnesota Twins 2009 First Round pick Kyle Gibson, who has a consensus top 10 pick going into the draft, but was injured prior to the draft, causing him to slide to the 22nd spot.

Be sure to check back for updates, as we will be updating information as we receive it.

The product is scheduled to hit shelves on Wednesday, October 13, 2010.

Topps recently released the information on their 2009 Topps Chrome Football set. The 220 card set will feature Topps famous chrome technology along with their famous refractor parallels. Along with the refractors, each hobby box will contain a autographed rookie card from one of 50 in the set. Each of these autographs will also be produced in a superfractor (1 of 1), gold (/10), and black (/25) variation. Included again in this years set is the Rookie Patch cards, were just exclusively in the hobby boxes.

Each of the base cards will be available in superfractor (1 of 1), red (/25), copper (/599), refractor, and printing plate variety. Each hobby box will contain 9 parallel cards.

Along with the refractors, there will be inserts of Cheerleads and Ring of Honor, each of which will be produced in a variety of refractors as well.

This our first look at the 2009 Bowman Chrome product. Always a fan favorite, this years product looks to be another success for the product. The product will feature a 220-card base set, 40 card World Baseball Classic, and of course, the prospects inserted 2 in every pack. Each of the cards will also be produced in Bowman Chrome familiar parallel sets of Refractors, XFractors, Blue Refractors, Gold Refractors, Orange Refractors, Red Refractors, Superfractors, and Printing Plates, ranging in production numbers of 500 to 1 of 1’s. These parallel’s are inserted 7 per box.

The prospect checklist contains 110 players that have previously not had a card in the Bowman Chrome series. Still missing from the set is last years top-pick, Tim Beckham. The preliminary Prospect Autograph set, inserted 1 per box, looks to be very promising. One of the more attractive perks about the Bowman Chrome Prospect sets is that each of the prospects are always featured in their MLB uniforms. The checklist contains autographs from some of the top prospects in the game. Some of highlights include: Tommy Hanson, Freddie Freeman, Carlos Santana, and Dayan Viciedo. Here is a small run down of the autograph checklist from the 2009 Bowman Chrome Baseball Hobby Sellsheet:

• BCP91 Rinku Singh
• BCP92 Dinesh Kumar Patel
• BCP93 Randall Delgado
• BCP94 Pat Venditte
• BCP95 Zack Putnam
• BCP96 Robbie Grossman
• BCP97 Tommy Hanson
• BCP98 Gift Negope
• BCP99 Dylan Lindsay
• BCP100 Chris Marrero
• BCP101 Freddie Freeman
• BCP102 Chris Johnson
• BCP103 Jefry Marte
• BCP104 Ernie Banks
• BCP105 Brett Anderson
• BCP106 Juancarlos Sulbaran
• BCP107 Ryan Perry
• BCP108 Carlos Santana
• BCP109 Brad Emaus
• BCP110 Dayan Viciedo
• BCP111 Tim Federowicz
• BCP112 Allen Craig

I can guarantee that at least two of those prospect auto’s will be cut prior to production as BCP111 and BCP112 already belong to Beemer Weams and Logan Morrison from the 2009 Bowman inserts. With the numerous parallels, great prospect checklist, and riding on the heels of the lackluster prospect autograph checklist from the base Bowman, you can count on this being a very hot product.