Friday, May 29, 2015

A random awesome set - 2002 Bowman's Best Bat Pieces

One more random post before I finish off Dennis' stuff.  I was browsing that same portion of COMC as I did the other day, and came across a few cards from some 2002 Bowman set.  I've never seen them before, but I think they look pretty cool.  Here's one of Freddy Sanchez:
It's definitely busy, with the crazy lines in the back and that dark red outline.  But I dig how they personalized the bat piece in this card to the guy on the card - I've seen symbols stamped into bat pieces before, but never really words/stats like at this level.  So I think it's neat.

There also appear to be variations as I saw these two both on COMC as well:
The one on the right has the traditional symbol, but then the left has a stat.  Looking at Beckett makes me think that there might be 2-3 parallels of each guy (a red one, a blue one, an autograph parallel with a bigger bat piece for some guys) with different print runs for each parallel.  Regardless, it's a pretty cool set, and it would be an interesting set to chase. Though a pricey one too - David Wright and Jose Bautista both have early cards in this set, which has to be one of their first (if not the first) relic to each of their names.

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  1. I always kind of liked the early 2000s Bowman's Best relic/auto cards. I actually used to have the Sanchez auto version. Also, I didn't realize there were multiple versions of the bats!

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    1. Yeah I never would've known there were variations if not for COMC. But this definitely makes me want to look more into early Bowman relics.

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  2. I have that Freddy Sanchez in my collection. I believe Jason Bay had one around that time too. Like Dennis I never paid much attention to the variations.

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    1. Bay does have one in there, and it's sweet you have the Sanchez!

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