2017 Bowman 70th Anniversary Buybacks "1990"

Card Review: 9.2
This card looks better without the 70th logo.  You can read about my profuse praise for the original, or un-altered copy (as this is technically an original too), here.  As far as the "buyback" logos go, this is probably the best that I've seen.  It's actually very well done, especially compared to the "Rediscover Topps" nonsense that I've seen so much of this year.

I don't know much about these cards.  I didn't know they were a thing until I saw a couple on eBay, and I had to do a google search just to figure out what it was called and what packs they were falling out of.  There really wasn't much out there on them, with differing opinions as to whether they exists with different color stamps, and if they how many different colors, and which colors are the most/least common.  I'm not losing any sleep over it, as I don't consider these "unique" cards and view my collection as complete without them.  I have plenty of 1990 Bowman.  Some dude stamping copies in a factory 27 years later doesn't make them "new."

Number of Copies in my collection: 1

1990 Bowman Tiffany #114

Card Review: 8.8  This card just doesn't lend itself well to the Tiffany treatment.  In fact, the colors look better on the standard '90 Bowman, a set that has a very nice retro feel to it. Still, as a whole, I like this card, and am always a fan of the red batting practice jersey. 

It's also, as far as I can tell, relatively scarce.  Which makes sense given the relative (compared to other sets of the time) scarcity of '90 Bowman.  I don't have any production numbers to back up these claims, I'm just going off my own numbers.  Which given the general cross section of locations and cards sent to me over the years, as well as my own efforts to purchase, I believe my numbers and patterns they present have some legitimacy to them at this point.

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2012 update: 4
2013 update: 5

2014 update: n/a

2015 update: n/a

2016 update: n/a

2017 update: n/a

2018 update: n/a

2019 update: n/a

2020 update: n/a

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: n/a

2023 update: 7

1990 Bowman #114

Card Review: 9.7  In theory, I shouldn't be wild about the idea of a Jamaican themed front design for a base set, or this style of stats used on the back, but it somehow 1990 Bowman makes it all work.  I consider this the last truly great Wallach card.  In 1992 the baseball card as it had traditionally been known and defined, ceased to exists.  There were few holdouts in 1991, but none that I like as much as this Bowman.  I think this set as a whole, is wildly under appreciated.  Topps was taking risks with the early Bowman reboots, and they didn't get any credit for it until the mid-90's when the '92 set was suddenly deemed "scarce" (I don't believe it to be any less common than any other '92 set).

I actually would bet on this '90 set having lower production runs than '92.  I remember having an extremely difficult time finding this card in 1990, and actually had to resort to buying an Expos team set.  Nobody on my block was buying much Bowman, and I bought out most of the only box of it I saw in a store all summer trying to pull this one.

Number of this card in my collection: 7 (they came easier after the 1st one)
2012 update: 13
2013 update: 45
2014 update: 51
2015 update: 76 
2016 update: 84
2017 update: 91
2018 update: 101
2019 update: 121

2020 update: 130

2021 update: 135

2022 update: 158

2023 update: 171

2024 update: 177

2025 update: 180

2026 update: 182