Rookies & Prospects Fuel 2009 Topps Chrome Baseball

2009 Topps Chrome Baseball, shipping late July, features Rookies and Prospects galore!

With the recent World Baseball Classic, the baseball community got to see some of the game’s up and coming talent from across the globe…  Yu Darvish (Japan),  Norichika Aoki (Japan), Hisashi Iwakuma (Japan), Masahiro Tanaka (Japan), Yoennis Cespedes (Cuba) and Aroldis Chapman (Cuba)  just to name a few.

These young stars are some of the 100 different WBC players in this year’s Topps Chrome offering.

And to boost this list of future stars,

 Every Hobby Box  Guarantees 2 Autographed Rookie Cards

featuring the likes of  Matt LaPorta, Koji Uehara and Elvis Andrus.  There are 23 in all.

Here’s the breakdown:

220 Base Cards

220 Base Card Parallels:

Refractor (1:3), Blue (#’d to 199), Gold (#’d to 50), Red (#’d to 25), Superfractor (1 of 1), Printing Plates (1 of1)

23 Autographed Rookies:

 2 per hobby box!

23 Autographed Rookie Parallels:

 Refractor (#’d to 499), Blue (#’d to 199), Gold (#’d to 50), Red (#’d to 25), Superfractor (1 of 1), Printing Plates (1 of1)

100 World Baseball Classic:

1 in 4 packs (image attached)

100 World Baseball Classic Parallels

 Refractor(#’d to 500), Blue (#’d to 199), Gold (#’d to 50), Red (#’d to 25), Superfractor (1 of 1), Printing Plates (1 of1)