Joba in the Box

Papa Poop and I were doing our monthly ritual of opening some baseball cards when we struck gold in a box of 2007 Bowman Chrome.
He got very excited when he pulled a Joba Chamberlain rookie autograph. The card came out late in the season right when Joba was hot, creating a flurry of activity for it, because at the time no other company had a Joba card.



But I did even better, pulling a red refractor Chris Carter. Bowman Chrome has several different versions of its cards. There is the regular card, a refractor (numbered to 500), an Xfractor (225), blue refractor (150), gold refractor (50), orange refractor (25), red refractor (5) and superfractor (1). So they only made 5 versions of the card I got. Red refractors are so rare Beckett doesn't even list a price on them. And who the hell is Chris Carter? At the time I didn't know but he is a slugging first baseman in the White Sox system who is considered a top prospect. Carter's regular card is worth $3, meaning his red refractor is worth at least 100 times that.



After discussion with Master Bates and Papa Poop we decided to put both of the cards for sale on eBay.