if it wasn't topps or upper deck, i pretty much ignored it during the 1990's. as such, i missed out on the bowman craze, although i did finally buy a pack of 1992 bowman in 1997 for too much money. and yes, i know bowman is made by topps, but it is separated in my mind even as i consider stadium club to be "topps stadium club" and finest to be "topps finest" unlike most collector reference materials. at any rate, i have no recollection of when i first learned about bowman's best, but i do know that finding refractor parallels was not easy.
these days, there are traders like sluggo who send me things, and one card that arrived recently was this 1997 bowman's best mirror image refractor parallel
projecting rookies, or even young players in general, is always tough, and neither guerrero nor sadler came close to the accomplishments of biggio or knoblauch, but they still had careers that spanned several seasons. these cards are snapshots in time and i am glad to have this one in my collection
the other dodger rookies in this set are paul konerko who was paired with mark mcgwire, and adrian beltre who shared space with chipper jones. not sure if i will ever find those refractors.
thanks sluggo!
I didn't open a lot of Bowman's Best back in the 90's. Figured if I was gonna roll the dice and try and pull a refractor... I'd buy packs of Finest (and that wasn't very often except 1995-96 Finest hockey). But I do remember buying some of the Mirror Image refractors from different sports.
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