First Buzz: 2016 Bowman Chrome baseball cards (aka Return of the Vending Box)

What: 2016 Bowman Chrome baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 7
Box basics -- Hobby: six packs and one autograph per mini-box, two mini-boxes per box (12 boxes per case); Vending: 80 cards total -- 33 Chrome base cards, 33 Chrome Prospects cards, three autographs, five Bowman Chrome Prospects exclusive Refractors, six Bowman Scouts Updates inserts.

What's buzz-worthy: One of the hobby's heavyweights returns with a new mini-box format for standard boxes and a vending box option -- complete with exclusives -- for those who rip in bulk.

See a gallery and more ... below.

The Basics: The new look also comes with some new inclusions -- Arizona Fall League cards and Relics - along "with a richer rate of color variations." ... Prospects will have standard Refractors along with Blue, Green, Gold, Orange, Red and 1/1 Superfractor and printing plates. On-card prospect autos will have the same rainbow but no Gold in standard wax. ... Rookie autos will have the same rainbow. (Most production quantities are TBD for autos.) ... Also among the autograph options will be Prime Position autos with Green, Gold, Orange and Supers -- while prep All-American cards also will be in the mix.

The Arizona Fall League inserts will be hobby-only focusing on Fall Stars, while Bowman Scouts and Out of the Game will focus on impact players with a retro design.  The first two inserts here will have autographed parallels. ... The AFL Fall Stars Game Relics will be jumbo swatches from game-used memorabilia for top players -- hats, bases and bats -- with parallels that will include Orange (/25) and 1/1 Superfractors. ... Also in play will be Refractors That Never Were -- with autographs -- and Blue Shimmer Hot Packs. ... The base set size was not revealed but those cards will have a rainbow of Purple, Blue, Green, Gold, Orange (/25), Red (/5) and 1/1 Supers and plates. All but standard Refractors will be serial-numbered -- volumes are TBD.

Among the Vending Box exclusives will be 33 base cards from 2016 Bowman printed on Chrome stock, and Black & Gold Prospect Refractors. ... The Gold Prospect autos will only be found in Vending, not in any other packs. ... Some boxes will have Orange Shimmer packs.

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