Pack of the Day 47: 2013 Bowman Chrome Hobby Box #2

This is the final box of cards I came home with from my local shop's 20th anniversary party. It has been so long since I scanned these cards and began this post that I have misplaced the sheet of paper I had with all of the data I had regarding how many cards I pulled from the base set and whatnot.

I was glad to pull copies of the Dickey and Reddick base cards as I had them already for my base set but not for the respective rainbows I am putting together for them. Milone and Encarnacion are included in the photo simply because I like them as players and they balanced out the scan nicely.

For the prospects I just looked for the most obviously-posed cards in the box. That Jack Leathersich pose is especially nice, although Kyle Smith and Dustin Geiger have that artsy "looking away from the camera and dreaming of a call-up" vibe to them.

These are all base Refractors. Harper isn't a bad pull. I guess Trumbo and Longoria aren't too bad, either, but I kind of have a Harper PC. I really need to set up a system for organizing my cards. Right now my system is to put the card on top of the least precarious-looking stack of cards.

My prospect Refractor is of C.J. Edwards. Who is C.J. Edwards? I don't know.

My Risin' Thru The Ranks mini-Refractor is another C.J., this time C.J. Cron. I think I have a couple of his cards, but other than that I don't know anything about him.

I think this set is called Bowman Sapphire Greatest Rookie Reprints or something. Ken Griffey Jr. is a pretty good pull, and breaks my streak of guys named C.J. and also my streak of guys who I don't know anything about.

I got a Blue Refractor of Matt Kemp, which is pretty nice with the blue uniform and all. My Google tells me that these are numbered out of # / 250. 

I also got this Purple Refractor of B.J. Boyd, another guy who goes by his initials. I am told these are numbered out of # / 199. So I didn't pull any crazy colored Refractors out of either of my Bowman Chrome boxes. Oh well.

The promised autograph from this box comes from Luis Torrens, a Yankees prospect who I have also never heard of. Every time I see this card it really bothers me that his signature is off to the right like that. I just want to nudge it over a little bit into the center.

According to the box lid, every third box contains an extra prospect autograph. I guess this was the third box, because I also got this Refractor autograph of Victor Roache, numbered out of # / 500, if I recall the number correctly.

So that's the end of the second box of Bowman Chrome that I came home from the party with. I guess the Bowman Black Collection autograph of Mac Williamson from the first box is the big hit. Nothing else too exciting came from the boxes. All told, I probably wouldn't buy this product again, but I wouldn't turn down another free box of it. I was bouncing back and forth between this and a box of regular Chrome while I was in the shop, and I don't know if I made the right choice. I will never know. I can't remember if that wraps up the posts for my stuff from the party or not. There is one more box. It is NASCAR stuff, so I know you folks will actively avoid clicking the link to read it, but I don't care. I will write about it and post it anyway because I like that stuff. Maybe I am a little too defensive about my NASCAR stuff. Maybe I will do a while week of alternating posts covering NASCAR stuff and My Little Pony cards.