I scored three packs of the Bowman DPP today at Target. I usually pick up a couple packs from this set just to get some of the top draft picks of that given year. Topps has been kind of leveraging the Strasburg and Harper buzz for their flagship bowman products, but there are still a lot of stars in these.
First off I got two purple refractors. I was confused with the normal Bowman Chromes, but these aren't numbered. At least Stephenson was the Reds #1 draft pick, that's a good sign. Moneyball wouldn't like it because he's a pitcher out of high school, but oh well. These are the base cards:
The black border is... different. I like that they use something to differentiate the base cards from Bowman, but I don't know how much I like this black border. It might take some getting used to. Right now it just feels kind of lazy. I am happy to pull two guys that I worked with this summer with the Eugene Emeralds. I always like having cards of players that I've met. Black border just doesn't feel right though. Plus the chrome cards still have the white border:
Here's another No. 1 pick and a USA card of a player younger than my brother. Yeah this kid was born in 1995! What?! Anyway, this is an adequate product depending on if you're a prospector or not. I don't consider myself one, but I do like flipping through my cards and finding RCs of the next star, who knows? This is how I got a David Wright RC back in the day, maybe I'll be lucky again. It does take patience though.
First off I got two purple refractors. I was confused with the normal Bowman Chromes, but these aren't numbered. At least Stephenson was the Reds #1 draft pick, that's a good sign. Moneyball wouldn't like it because he's a pitcher out of high school, but oh well. These are the base cards:
The black border is... different. I like that they use something to differentiate the base cards from Bowman, but I don't know how much I like this black border. It might take some getting used to. Right now it just feels kind of lazy. I am happy to pull two guys that I worked with this summer with the Eugene Emeralds. I always like having cards of players that I've met. Black border just doesn't feel right though. Plus the chrome cards still have the white border:
Here's another No. 1 pick and a USA card of a player younger than my brother. Yeah this kid was born in 1995! What?! Anyway, this is an adequate product depending on if you're a prospector or not. I don't consider myself one, but I do like flipping through my cards and finding RCs of the next star, who knows? This is how I got a David Wright RC back in the day, maybe I'll be lucky again. It does take patience though.
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