Bowman Baseball Releases 2024 Card Sets Featuring MLB Prospects
The 2024 season’s prospects come alive in the 2024 set of Bowman Baseball cards. Along with a set of 100 cards full of elite stars and emerging rookies, the collection releasing May 8 features the 150-card Bowman Prospect set “showcasing future game-changers,” the brand says.
The all-new designs for the 2024 series highlight the allure of the prospects in a range of styles popular from Bowman, from the Chrome Prospect series to a slew of different autograph varieties. Within the popular Chrome Prospect collections are two fresh series, a new Black Refractor Parallel and Rose Gold Mini-Diamond Refractor Parallel, both numbered to 10 cards.
The 100-card base set includes 13 different Parallel cards—from the numbered 499 Sky Blue Border Parallel right down to the numbered five Red Border Parallel—and one-of-one Platinum Border and Printing Plates varieties.
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The Bowman Prospect cards feature 28 unique Parallel varieties, including the one-of-one SuperFractors.
Special edition Insert Cards include a mix of new sets. Of the 11 total Insert Card series options, six of them are brand new. The Bowman A.I. features future stat predictions done with artificial intelligence. The Base Set Gold Refractor, Rising Infernos, 1955 Bowman Anime and Prospect Power Up designs give the 2024 Bowman set a renewed perspective on the year’s prospects.
Recurring Insert Cards include the Gladiators of the Diamond, Origin of Greatness, Bowman Spotlights, ROY Favorites and Bowman’s Scout’s Top-100 sets.
The 2024 Bowman Baseball set heavily plays on autograph varieties, including the rare one-of-one SuperFractor versions in the ROY Favorites, Prospects Power Up and Gladiator of the Diamond categories, among others.
The Autograph styles feature 16 different Parallel or Refractor varieties within the Chrome Prospect Autograph series, nine designs in the Chrome Rookie Autograph series, three Refractor designs in the new Rising Infernos Autographs—with 25 Orange Refractor cards, five Red Refractor and one SuperFractor—three in the Bowman Scout’s Top-100 Autographs collection, four in the Gladiators of the Diamond Autographs series, four in the ROY Favorites Autographs set, two in the Dual Bowman Prospects Autographs series and two in the Prospects Power-Up Autograph Variation design.
Bowman says “ultra-rare” four-card Pearl Refractor Packs will randomly drop in boxes of 2024 Bowman Baseball cards. With differing ways to purchase the Bowman collections—both in retail setups and hobby setups—collectors can approach the hobby differently in an effort to embrace the prospects that highlight the 2024 Bowman Baseball cards.
Tim Newcomb covers business and gear for Baseball America.
