Highest priced BASE Bowman Chrome cards at release?

[011873]

With Stras selling in the $25 range, it got me thinking about what other basic BC cards have sold so high at release (No shortprints like 2001/2002 BC).

I dont remember the numbers, but these guys come to mind, can anyone add?

Travis Lee
Jose Cruz
Corey Patterson
Sean Burroughs
Josh Hamilton
Jason Stokes
Alex Gordon

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

Jason Hart 2000 Bowman Chrome was in the $25 range.

Hank Blalock had just hit two cycles in a row less than week before the release of 2001 Bowman Chrome and I think he was hitting .420 plus upon release and that card was tough to pick up cheaply.

 

[cmnkb8]

I remember the A. Gordon's going for $20+ a pop on Ebay when it came out back in '06. I scooped up 2 dozen of them a couple months after release on thepit.com for around $11 each, thinking they were a steal . They actually went up to about $15 per on thepit in '07 when he first debuted...I should have sold them off....all downhill from there. Instead I held on too long and finally dumped them last fall for about 10% of what I paid before commission. Lesson learned.

I don't know the market rate for Travis Lee back in '97, but I remember my card shop offering $10 if I pulled one out of packs when the product came out. Man, I bought at least 50 packs at $3 a pop of 1997 Bowman Chrome. I never pulled the base Chrome, but instead I pulled an International Refractor of Lee, and the card shop owner offered $100 on the spot. I, being the young naive kid I was back then, of course said no, and proclaimed, "This guy will be the next Junior and it will be worth $500 in a few years!" Of course, as it turned out, Travis Lee went on to have an unremarkable career, and I wound up selling the card in 2003 for about $18 on Ebay... ::facepalm:: :benson:

 

[AmishDave]

I remember the A. Gordon's going for $20+ a pop on Ebay when it came out back in '06. I scooped up 2 dozen of them a couple months after release on thepit.com for around $11 each, thinking they were a steal . They actually went up to about $15 per on thepit in '07 when he first debuted...I should have sold them off....all downhill from there. Instead I held on too long and finally dumped them last fall for about 10% of what I paid before commission. Lesson learned.

I don't know the market rate for Travis Lee back in '97, but I remember my card shop offering $10 if I pulled one out of packs when the product came out. Man, I bought at least 50 packs at $3 a pop of 1997 Bowman Chrome. I never pulled the base Chrome, but instead I pulled an International Refractor of Lee, and the card shop owner offered $100 on the spot. I, being the young naive kid I was back then, of course said no, and proclaimed, "This guy will be the next Junior and it will be worth $500 in a few years!" Of course, as it turned out, Travis Lee went on to have an unremarkable career, and I wound up selling the card in 2003 for about $18 on Ebay... ::facepalm:: :benson:

I remember pulling the Cruz Jr. Bowman and being offered $10 on the spot. Basically my same reaction :benson:

On the other hand, when Elite '99 Football came out, I pulled (outta just one pack being purchased of the product) Tim Couch, which I promptly sold for $40 on the spot