2004 Bowman Chrome

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Description

2004 Bowman Chrome is a 350-card set released in August, 2004. The last 20 cards are autographed and each 18-pack Hobby box will yield at least one.

Distribution

Hobby: 18 packs plus one box topper pack per box, four cards per pack (MSRP: $4). 12 boxes per case.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards Total Cards Numbered To Hobby Odds
Base 350 - ?
short set 330 - 4:1
Autographed First Year 20 2000 1:25
Refractor 330 - 1:4
Autographed First Year Refractor 20 500 1:100
X-Fractor 330 172 one-per-box
Autographed First Year X-Fractor 20 250 1:200
Gold Refractor 330 50 1:60
Autographed First Year Gold Refractor 20 50 1:1003
Blue Rafractors 165 290 one-per-box
Stars of the Future 3 500 1:600
Stars of the Future Refractor 3 ? ?

Checklist

Base Set

Veterans (Reds)

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  • 1 Garret Anderson
  • 2 Larry Walker
  • 3 Derek Jeter
  • 4 Curt Schilling
  • 5 Carlos Zambrano
  • 6 Shawn Green
  • 7 Manny Ramirez
  • 8 Randy Johnson
  • 9 Jeremy Bonderman
  • 10 Alfonso Soriano
  • 11 Scott Rolen
  • 12 Kerry Wood
  • 13 Eric Gagne
  • 14 Ryan Klesko
  • 15 Kevin Millar
  • 16 Ty Wigginton
  • 17 David Ortiz
  • 18 Luis Castillo
  • 19 Bernie Williams
  • 20 Edgar Renteria
  • 21 Matt Kata
  • 22 Bartolo Colon
  • 23 Derrek Lee
  • 24 Gary Sheffield
  • 25 Nomar Garciaparra
  • 26 Kevin Millwood
  • 27 Corey Patterson
  • 28 Carlos Beltran
  • 29 Mike Lieberthal
  • 30 Troy Glaus
  • 31 Preston Wilson
  • 32 Jorge Posada
  • 33 Bo Hart
  • 34 Mark Prior
  • 35 Hideo Nomo
  • 36 Jason Kendall
  • 37 Roger Clemens
  • 38 Dmitri Young
  • 39 Jason Giambi
  • 40 Jim Edmonds
  • 41 Ryan Ludwick
  • 42 Brandon Webb
  • 43 Todd Helton
  • 44 Jacque Jones
  • 45 Jamie Moyer
  • 46 Tim Salmon
  • 47 Kelvim Escobar
  • 48 Tony Batista
  • 49 Nick Johnson
  • 50 Jim Thome
  • 51 Casey Blake
  • 52 Trot Nixon
  • 53 Luis Gonzalez
  • 54 Dontrelle Willis
  • 55 Mike Mussina
  • 56 Carl Crawford
  • 57 Mark Buehrle
  • 58 Scott Podsednik
  • 59 Brian Giles
  • 60 Rafael Furcal
  • 61 Miguel Cabrera
  • 62 Rich Harden
  • 63 Mark Teixeira
  • 64 Frank Thomas
  • 65 Johan Santana
  • 66 Jason Schmidt
  • 67 Aramis Ramirez
  • 68 Jose Reyes
  • 69 Magglio Ordonez
  • 70 Mike Sweeney
  • 71 Eric Chavez
  • 72 Rocco Baldelli
  • 73 Sammy Sosa
  • 74 Javy Lopez
  • 75 Roy Oswalt
  • 76 Raul Ibanez
  • 77 Ivan Rodriguez
  • 78 Jerome Williams
  • 79 Carlos Lee
  • 80 Geoff Jenkins
  • 81 Sean Burroughs
  • 82 Marcus Giles
  • 83 Mike Lowell
  • 84 Barry Zito
  • 85 Aubrey Huff
  • 86 Esteban Loaiza
  • 87 Torii Hunter
  • 88 Phil Nevin
  • 89 Andruw Jones
  • 90 Josh Beckett
  • 91 Mark Mulder
  • 92 Hank Blalock
  • 93 Jason Phillips
  • 94 Russ Ortiz
  • 95 Juan Pierre
  • 96 Tom Glavine
  • 97 Gil Meche
  • 98 Ramon Ortiz
  • 99 Richie Sexson
  • 100 Albert Pujols
  • 101 Javier Vazquez
  • 102 Johnny Damon
  • 103 Alex Rodriguez
  • 104 Omar Vizquel
  • 105 Chipper Jones
  • 106 Lance Berkman
  • 107 Tim Hudson
  • 108 Carlos Delgado
  • 109 Austin Kearns
  • 110 Orlando Cabrera
  • 111 Edgar Martinez
  • 112 Melvin Mora
  • 113 Jeff Bagwell
  • 114 Marlon Byrd
  • 115 Vernon Wells
  • 116 C.C. Sabathia
  • 117 Cliff Floyd
  • 118 Ichiro Suzuki
  • 119 Miguel Olivo
  • 120 Mike Piazza
  • 121 Adam Dunn
  • 122 Paul Lo Duca
  • 123 Brett Myers
  • 124 Michael Young
  • 125 Sidney Ponson
  • 126 Greg Maddux
  • 127 Vladimir Guerrero
  • 128 Miguel Tejada
  • 129 Andy Pettitte
  • 130 Rafael Palmeiro
  • 131 Ken Griffey, Jr.
  • 132 Shannon Stewart
  • 133 Joel Pineiro
  • 134 Luis Matos
  • 135 Jeff Kent
  • 136 Randy Wolf
  • 137 Chris Woodward
  • 138 Jody Gerut
  • 139 Jose Vidro
  • 140 Bret Boone
  • 141 Bill Mueller
  • 142 Angel Berroa
  • 143 Bobby Abreu
  • 144 Roy Halladay

Prospects (Greens)

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  • 145 Delmon Young
  • 146 Jonny Gomes
  • 147 Rickie Weeks
  • 148 Edwin Jackson
  • 149 Neal Cotts
  • 150 Jason Bay
  • 151 Khalil Greene
  • 152 Joe Mauer
  • 153 Bobby Jenks
  • 154 Chin-Feng Chen
  • 155 Chien-Ming Wang
  • 156 Mickey Hall
  • 157 James Houser
  • 158 Jay Sborz
  • 159 Jonathan Fulton
  • 160 Steven Lerud
  • 161 Grady Sizemore
  • 162 Felix Pie
  • 163 Dustin McGowan
  • 164 Chris Lubanski
  • 165 Tom Gorzelanny

First Year Players (Blues)

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  • 166 Rudy Guillen RC*
  • 167 Aarom Baldiris RC*
  • 168 Conor Jackson RC
  • 169 Matt Moses RC*
  • 170 Ervin Santana
  • 171 Merkin Valdez RC
  • 172 Erick Aybar RC
  • 173 Brad Sullivan RC*
  • 174 Joey Gathright RC
  • 175 Brad Snyder
  • 176 Alberto Callaspo
  • 177 Brandon Medders RC
  • 178 Zach Miner RC
  • 179 Charlie Zink RC
  • 180 Adam Greenberg
  • 181 Kevin Howard RC
  • 182 Wanell Severino
  • 183 Chin-Lung Hu RC
  • 184 Joel Zumaya RC
  • 185 Skip Schumaker
  • 186 Nic Ungs RC*
  • 187 Todd Self RC
  • 188 Brian Steffek
  • 189 Brock Peterson RC
  • 190 Greg Thissen RC*
  • 191 Frank Brooks
  • 192 Scott Olsen RC
  • 193 Chris Mabeus
  • 194 Dan Giese
  • 195 Jared Wells
  • 196 Carlos Sosa RC*
  • 197 Bobby Madritsch
  • 198 Calvin Hayes RC*
  • 199 Omar Quintanilla
  • 200 Chris O'Riordan RC*
  • 201 Tim Hutting RC*
  • 202 Carlos Quentin RC
  • 203 Brayan Pena RC
  • 204 Jeff Salazar RC
  • 205 David Murphy RC
  • 206 Alberto Garcia
  • 207 Ramon Ramirez RC
  • 208 Luis Bolivar
  • 209 Rodney Choy Foo RC*
  • 210 Fausto Carmona RC
  • 211 Anthony Acevedo RC*
  • 212 Chad Santos RC
  • 213 Jason Frasor RC
  • 214 Jesse Roman RC*
  • 215 James Tomlin RC*
  • 216 Josh Labandeira RC
  • 217 Ryan Meaux RC*
  • 218 Don F. Sutton RC*
  • 219 Danny Gonzalez RC*
  • 220 Javier Guzman RC*
  • 221 Anthony Lerew RC
  • 222 Jon Connolly RC*
  • 223 Jesse English
  • 224 Hector Made RC*
  • 225 Travis Hanson
  • 226 Jesse Floyd
  • 227 Nick Gorneault RC
  • 228 Craig Ansman RC*
  • 229 Paul McAnulty RC
  • 230 Carl Loadenthal RC*
  • 231 Dave Crouthers RC*
  • 232 Harvey Garcia RC
  • 233 Casey Kopitzke RC*
  • 234 Ricky Nolasco RC
  • 235 Miguel Perez RC
  • 236 Ryan Mulhern
  • 237 Chris Aguila RC
  • 238 Brooks Conrad RC
  • 239 Damaso Espino RC*
  • 240 Jereme Milons
  • 241 Luke Hughes RC
  • 242 Kory Casto RC
  • 243 Jose Valdez
  • 244 J.T. Stotts
  • 245 Lee Gwaltney RC*
  • 246 Yoann Torrealba RC
  • 247 Omar Falcon RC*
  • 248 Jon Coutlangus
  • 249 George Sherrill
  • 250 John Santor
  • 251 Tony Richie
  • 252 Kevin Richardson
  • 253 Tim Bittner RC*
  • 254 Chris Saenz RC
  • 255 Jose Capellan RC
  • 256 Donald Levinski RC*
  • 257 Jerome Gamble RC*
  • 258 Jeff Keppinger
  • 259 Jason Szuminski RC
  • 260 Akinori Otsuka RC
  • 261 Ryan Budde RC
  • 262 Marland Williams RC*
  • 263 Jeff Allison RC*
  • 264 Hector Gimenez RC
  • 265 Tim Frend RC*
  • 266 Tom Farmer RC*
  • 267 Shawn Hill RC
  • 268 Mike Huggins RC*
  • 269 Scott Proctor RC
  • 270 Jorge Mejia
  • 271 Terry Jones RC*
  • 272 Zach Duke RC
  • 273 Jesse Crain RC
  • 274 Luke Anderson
  • 275 Hunter Brown
  • 276 Matt Lemanczyk RC*
  • 277 Fernando Cortez RC
  • 278 Vince Perkins RC*
  • 279 Tommy Murphy RC
  • 280 Mike Gosling RC
  • 281 Paul Bacot RC*
  • 282 Matt Capps RC
  • 283 Juan Gutierrez RC*
  • 284 Teodoro Encarnacion
  • 285 Chad Bentz RC
  • 286 Kaz Matsui RC
  • 287 Ryan Hankins
  • 288 Juan Carlos Oviedo RC (a.k.a. Leo Nunez)
  • 289 Dave Wallace RC*
  • 290 Rob Tejeda RC
  • 291 Paul Maholm RC
  • 292 Casey Daigle RC
  • 293 Tydus Meadows RC*
  • 294 Khalid Ballouli RC*
  • 295 Benji DeQuin RC*
  • 296 Tyler Davidson RC*
  • 297 Brant Colamarino RC*
  • 298 Marcus McBeth RC
  • 299 Brad Eldred RC
  • 300 David Pauley RC
  • 301 Yadier Molina RC
  • 302 Chris Shelton RC
  • 303 Nyjer Morgan RC
  • 304 Jon Devries RC*
  • 305 Sheldon Fulse
  • 306 Vito Chiaravalloti RC*
  • 307 Warner Madrigal RC
  • 308 Reid Gorecki RC
  • 309 Sung Jung RC*
  • 310 Pete Shier
  • 311 Michael Mooney RC*
  • 312 Kenny Perez RC*
  • 313 Michael Mallory
  • 314 Ben Himes
  • 315 Ivan Ochoa RC
  • 316 Don Kelly RC
  • 317 Tom Mastny RC
  • 318 Kevin Davidson RC*
  • 319 Brian Pilkington RC*
  • 320 Alex Romero RC
  • 321 Chad Chop RC*
  • 322 Kody Kirkland RC*
  • 323 Casey Myers RC*
  • 324 Mike Rouse RC
  • 325 Sergio Silva RC*
  • 326 J.J. Furmaniak RC
  • 327 Brad Vericker
  • 328 Blake Hawksworth RC
  • 329 Brock Jacobsen RC*
  • 330 Alec Zumwalt RC*

Autographed First Year Players

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Topps announced that each player signed 2000 copies of their Autographed First Year Player card; however, the cards are NOT serial-numbered.

  • 331 Wardell Starling RC*
  • 332 Estee Harris RC*
  • 333 Kyle Sleeth RC*
  • 334 Dioner Navarro RC
  • 335 Logan Kensing
  • 336 Travis Blackley
  • 337 Lincoln Holdzkom RC*
  • 338 Jason Hirsh
  • 339 Juan Cedeno RC*
  • 340 Matt Creighton RC*
  • 341 Tim Stauffer RC
  • 342 Shingo Takatsu RC
  • 343 Lastings Milledge
  • 344 Dustin Nippert RC
  • 345 Felix Hernandez RC
  • 346 Joaquin Arias
  • 347 Kevin Kouzmanoff
  • 348 Bobby Brownlie
  • 349 David Aardsma RC
  • 350 Jon Knott RC

Parallels

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All 350 cards are available in the following Refractor parallels.

  • Refractor (Un-Autographed: un-numbered; First Year Player Autographs: limited, but not serial-numbered, to 500 copies)
  • Gold Refractor (Un-Autographed: serial-numbered to 50; First Year Player Autographs: limited, but not serial-numbered, to 50 copies.)

X-Fractors

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Inserted into each Hobby box as a box topper was a pack containing one X-Fractor. X-Fractors exist for all 330 un-autographed base cards and each is serial-numbered to 172 copies; however, only 162 were inserted into box topper packs. Randomly inserted into box topper packs were ten "Instant Winner" cards good for an entire set of X-Fractors. It is believed that the first ten serial-numbered copies of each X-Fractor were set aside for this contest, and cards numbered 11 and above were inserted into packs. The odds of finding an Instant Winner card were 1:103,968 box topper packs. Collectors had until August 30th, 2006 to redeem any Instant Winner cards.

Meanwhile, X-Fractors for the 20 Autographed First Year Player cards (cards #331-#350) were randomly inserted into packs. According to Topps, each player signed 250 X-Fractors, but the cards are NOT serial-numbered. Instant Winner sets did NOT include the Autographs.

First Year Player Blue Refractors

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In addition to an X-Fractor, each Hobby box topper pack also included a redemption card good for a First Year Player Blue Refractor. Each redemption card had a code which had to be entered onto thepit.com (which Topps owned at the time), to see which First Year Player Blue Refractor they received. Only the 165 first year players (cards #166-#330) were included in this set were serial-numbered to 290 copies.

Once redeemed, collectors could choose to have their Blue Refractor delivered to them, or let it sit in their thepit.com account. Delivered Blue Refractors were encased in a plastic holder, similar to an eTopps card.

However, First Year Player Blue Refractors have surfaced of non-first year players:

  • Derek Jeter
  • Ken Griffey, Jr.
  • Chipper Jones

These Blue Refractors seemingly were not intended to be produced and/or released but leaked onto the secondary market. The Jeter, Griffey, and Jones cards have the same blue refractor finish on the front and the "Blue Refractor" text printed on the back but were not serial numbered.

Autographs

Stars of the Future

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Each Stars of the Future triple autograph is limited, but NOT serial-numbered, to 500 copies and also available in a Refractor parallel.

  • MHD Nick Markakis / Shawn Hill / Eric Duncan
  • YSS Delmon Young / Kyle Sleeth / Tim Stauffer
  • LHC Chris Lubanski / Harvey Garcia / Chad Cordero