2012 Bowman Chrome - Dodgers Relics & Autos

I've been a bit unplugged of late, so as a result I haven't been posting anything here over the past several days.  With the regular season over and the hated Giants in the World Series a glum cloud has began to form.  Like with the storms that have recently found there way overhead, I find myself ducking for cover.  Unfortunately, the lack of another sport to occupy my mind is absent this winter, so I imagine the compulsion to stay in the dark may continue.  On the other hand, maybe I just needed a respite in order to recharge those batteries.

After all, the Baseball hobby never stops, and at least I'm not a fan of the Astros.

So, without further adieu I continue on this trek by following up on my post from last week focused on 2012 Bowman Chrome Dodgers base cards by now featuring the handful of inserts available to collect.  See them below.

There appears to be only one Dodgers autographed card inserted in the set.  It is of prospect Pratt Maynard.  Pratt was a 3rd round draft pick of the Dodgers in 2011.  Check out his stats, here.

As for inserts of some Dodger stars all we have to look forward to are the Legends in the Making Inserts die-cut cards of Clayton Kershaw and Matt Kemp.  I haven't been a big fan of cards like this in the past, but I have to admit that these look cool.

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2012 Bowman Chrome Baseball Cards- Dodgers Base Cards

Another week, another new Baseball card set.

I'm not sure what the purpose of this new set is.  It's like deja vu.

Officially released yesterday, Topps unveiled their 2012 Bowman Chrome card set.  It is very similar to their normal Bowman set they released in May of this year.  Go here to see the base cards from the normal 2012 Bowman set, here.

In fact, for the base cards it uses the exact same checklist (except Loney is not included in this new set) and photographs (except the Kershaw appears to be cropped in a little closer).  Significant differences include a couple of new rookies (Elian Herrera and O'Koyea Dickson) and a new numbering system for the cards.

Check out the Dodgers base cards to the set below.  I'll have the handful of Dodgers inserts posted up later on.

45 Clayton Kershaw

97 Matt Kemp

Below is the Dee Gordon card, but as you can see it is a green parallel that can only be found in retail packs.  As always, there are numerous parallel versions of each base card in the set.

123 Dee Gordon

177 Elian Herrera RC

186 Ted Lilly

Below is the only Dodgers Bowman Chrome Prospect card in the set (at least I didn't recognize any of the other names in the published checklist).  Similar to the Dee Gordon card above, this Dickson rookie card is a parallel card.  It is a orange border version and is numbered to #25.

BP172 O'Koyea Dickson

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