First Buzz: 2024 Bowman Chrome baseball cards (updated)

What: 2024 Bowman Chrome baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 11
Box basics: Two autos per 12-pack (two mini-boxes) hobby box (12 boxes per case) or three autos per HTA box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here
Sapphire Checklist: Click here
Sapphire Odds: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman will arrive this week via an early pre-sale with no details ultimately yet available other than a preliminary checklist and the odds as seen above.

Keep reading for more info.

The Basics: The basic sets will be 100 cards for each part of this one -- rookies/veterans and prospect sets. Joining them will be Bowman Ascensions, International Impact, It Came To The League, My First Bowman, Gladiators Of The Diamond, Retrofractor variations, rookie photo variations, Etched In Glass variations, Rookie Color Run variations, 2023 AFL Fall Stars, Bowman Spotlights, 1999 Bowman Chrome 25th Anniversary with International versions (/100) also in play and, of course, prospect autographs and rookie autographs. Joining them among the ink will be Sandy Koufax Retrofractors, Prime Chrome, My First Bowman, International Impact, Gladiators Of The Diamond, AFL Fall Stars, Bowman Ascensions, image variations, a set of Relic autos and a selection of prep All-America game autos. All parallel info can be seen in the odds file linked above. ... Across all sets, some of the signers here include Mason McGwire, Elly De La Cruz, Jasson Dominguez, Jackson Holliday, Jack Leiter, Jackson Merrill, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dylan Crews, Adley Rutschman, Bobby Witt Jr., Ronald Acuña Jr., Shohei Ohtani, Corbin Carroll, Gunnar Henderson, Jackson Chourio, Anthony Volpe and Corey Seager for starters. ... Boxes opened at $269.99 via Topps.

Update (Aug. 16): Hobby boxes will typically include one prospect Shimmer parallel, one My First Bowman, four International Impact cards and the two autos. On the case level, finds will include one Bowman Ascension card or one Bowman GPK card as well as one Gladiators of the Diamond card. ... Etched In Glass variations will be one in 720 packs, while new parallels will include Reptilian cards in Blue, Green, Gold, Orange and Red as well as standard Black Refractors. (Full parallel details can be seen on the odds file and in gallery below. ... Inserts will have Mini-Diamond (/150), Orange (/25) and 1/1 Superfractors in most instances with some adding Gold and Red into the mix. ... Also in the mix will be Bowman Pearl packs roughly one in 10 cases with each four-card Refractor pack having three prospects and one rookie/veteran. ... In HTA boxes there will be exclusives with HTA Choice (/150) autos, Green Lava (/99), Gold Shimmer (/50), Orange Wave (/25) and Red Wave (/5). Joining them will be Prime Chrome Signatures Orange (/25)

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Update (Sept. 5): There will be seven-pack mega boxes for this release with five Chrome packs and two Mega Chrome packs -- 20 boxes per case. Click here for odds in mega box. Click here for checklist for that version. The 35-card boxes opened at $44.99 via Topps and are set to arrive Oct. 2.

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Update (Nov. 18): There will be a Sapphire Edition for this one -- see the odds and checklist up top.

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