Top 100 Jose Canseco Baseball Cards – 1999 Bowman Gold & International Refractors 

Bowman did an incredible job in 1999 with their refractors – they just might be my favorite bowman release from Jose’s playing days. The gold refractor on the left is /25 and absolutely impossible – you never see it!
 
Heck, the only other Canseco I ever saw was missing the serial number, which I let go of years ago. (I believe it is the one that’s on ebay now.) An Andruw Jones recently sold for nearly $400 & a Sabathia RC hit $3,500.
 
Stealing its thunder a bit in the design department (IMO), is the international refractor /100. It is easier to find (eBay shows the last one sold a couple years ago.)
 
Does having such a beautiful (and less rare) parallel of the same card steal some of the gold /25’s mystique? Maybe – I guess we won’t find out from a value perspective until/unless one hits the auction block, but being such a beautiful card numbered to /25 from 1999 should definitely punch its ticket to be in the conversation as an upper echelon card from the 90s.

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