Featured autograph - Brad Peacock

Peacock was part of the Houston Astros World Series team this past year and while he didn't pitch well in his outings during the American League Division and Championship Series - he appeared in 4 games during the World Series and struck out 8 batters while allowed 2 runs in 7 innings.

2012 Bowman hobby three pack recap

2012 Bowman three pack break [$3.25 each from a card shop] - I was fortunate to pull a Blue parallel of Albert Pujols since he is one of 'my guys.'

Pack one
#160 R.A. Dickey
#175 Starlin Castro
#5 Brennan Boesch
#BCP 68 Jeff Malm - Chrome
#BCP 12 Rafael Ortega - Chrome
#9 Cole Hamels - Gold parallel
#BP 63 Todd McInnis
#BP 1 Justin Nicolino
#164 Max Scherzer
#81 Eric Hosmer

Pack two
#207 Adron Chambers
#102 Clay Buchholz
#BCP 62 Kes Carter - Chrome
#BCP 41 Zach Walters - Chrome
#167 Asdrubal Cabrera - Gold parallel
#49 Albert Pujols - Blue parallel serial #'d 251/500
#BP 81 Taylor Whitenton
#BP 55 Jose Vinicio
#202 Tyler Pastornicky
#3 Jered Weaver

Pack three
#138 Heath Bell
#197 Michael Fiers
#BCP 37 Michael Crouse - Chrome
#35 Aroldis Chapman - Gold parallel
#BB 23 Josh Hamilton - Bowman's Best insert
#BP 98 Greg Bird
#BP 84 Bryan Brickhouse
#BP 50 Jose Valverde
#41 B.J. Upton
#169 Stephen Strasburg

2012 Bowman retail three pack blister recap

2012 Bowman three pack blister [$9.49 each at a Target] - the white borders in this year's Bowman base set make the set look a little less claustrophobic.

The metronomic black borders that was a trademark of Bowman had gotten stale and it's nice to change things up this year - even it's just the borders of the base cards.

Purple border pack
#BP 73 Will Swanner
#BP 107 Joe Ross
#BP 1 Justin Nicolino

Pack one
#8 Paul goldschmidt
#113 Yovani Gallardo
#160 R.A. Dickey
#BCP 31 Nick Maronde - Chrome
#BCP 89 Austin Hedges - Chrome
#145 Brandon Phillips - Gold parallel
#BP 79 Josh Bell
#BP 36 Michael Brady
#33 Chris Young
#176 Ichiro

Pack two
#175 Starlin Castro
#5 Brennan Boesch
#BCP 94 Charlie Tilson - Chrome
#BCP 104 Joc Pederson - Chrome
#172 Bud Norris - Gold parallel
#98 Nyjer Morgan - International parallel
#BP 78 Nick Castellanos
#BP 43 Rookie Davis
#23 Colby Rasmus
#28 Mat Latos

Pack three - first pack I actually opened and looking at the last card to start off the pack, it looked like I got a base Yu Darvish.

#106 Pedro Alvarez
#167 Asdrubal Cabrera
#BCP 17 Tyler Austin - Chrome
#BCP 9 Eddie Rosario - Chrome
#71 Hanley Ramirez - Gold parallel
#BP 24 J.R. Graham
#BP 89 Austin Hedges
#121 Neftali Feliz
#133 Gio Gonzalez
#209 Yu Darvish