Bowman Spotlight Inserts Returning with Vets & Prospects
The next release of Bowman is bringing back the popular Spotlight insert. Set to release on May 7th, 2025 Bowman will now feature, for the first time since its inception, veteran players on the Spotlight insert checklist. Topps made the announcement on their official X (formerly Twitter) account.
FIRST LOOK: Bowman Spotlight trading cards are back. For the first time ever, this collection includes a mix of prospects and veterans.
— Topps (@Topps) April 24, 2025
These cards will be available in 2025 Bowman Baseball, arriving on May 7th 🗓️ pic.twitter.com/feGoEbV0vI
The first year Topps released the inserts there were 20 names on the checklist. However each of the last two years the shrunk it to just 15.
According to Beckett.com, here is the list of the 15 names included in the checklist for 2025 Bowman.
These inserts have gained quite the following. The darkened background with a cutout of the player illuminated by, a spotlight. In previous years you could get these cards in a variety of parallels, though the parallel list for 2025 Bowman has not been made public as of the publishing of this article. In both 2023 and 2024, there were seven different parallels: mini-diamond (#/150), aqua (#/125), green (#/99), gold (#/50), orange (#/25), red (#/5), and superfractors (1/1), with the green refractors being exclusive to retail and orange refractors exclusive to hobby.
Adding veterans to this year's checklist will create a whole new chase. While prospecting is always a good motivation for collectors, they are unproven. So pulling a veteran and/or a veteran parallel in this set is a nice new luxury.
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