Barry Larkin Collection 1,033: 1996 Bowman - #17 - Bowman's Best Preview Atomic Refractor

Barry Larkin

Year:  1996

Brand:  Bowman

Insert set:  Bowman's Best Preview - Atomic Refractor

Card number:  17

The 1996 Bowman set featured an insert set that was basically a preview for the upcoming Bowman's Best set.  The checklist for the Bowman's Best Preview set was 30 cards in total - and seeing as how the cards were seeded 1:12 packs for the base insert, 1:24 packs for the Refractor version, and 1:48 packs for the Atomic Refractor version, the set is quite tough to put together in whole!  For the record, here's the full checklist (each card has three versions as noted above).

• BBP1 Chipper Jones
• BBP2 Alan Benes
• BBP3 Brooks Kieschnick
• BBP4 Barry Bonds
• BBP5 Rey Ordonez
• BBP6 Tim Salmon
• BBP7 Mike Piazza
• BBP8 Billy Wagner
• BBP9 Andruw Jones
• BBP10 Tony Gwynn
• BBP11 Paul Wilson
• BBP12 Pokey Reese
• BBP13 Frank Thomas
• BBP14 Greg Maddux
• BBP15 Derek Jeter
• BBP16 Jeff Bagwell
• BBP17 Barry Larkin
• BBP18 Todd Greene
• BBP19 Ruben Rivera
• BBP20 Richard Hidalgo
• BBP21 Larry Walker
• BBP22 Carlos Baerga
• BBP23 Derrick Gibson
• BBP24 Richie Sexson
• BBP25 Mo Vaughn
• BBP26 Hideo Nomo
• BBP27 Nomar Garciaparra
• BBP28 Cal Ripken, Jr.
• BBP29 Karim Garcia
• BBP30 Ken Griffey, Jr.

I'm pleased to report that I now own all three versions of Larkin's card, his base Bowman's Best Preview (which I showed off years ago on the blog), and the Refractor version (which I'll have to show off in a future Barry Larkin Collection post)!  Nice to have this little set complete...too bad I'm nowhere near having the actual 1996 Bowman's Best set complete as well!