⚾ Jeremy Peña 2022 Bowman's Best #26 Refractor Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 GEM MINT — Born Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, University of Maine Black Bears, 2022 Houston Astros World Series MVP, 2022 ALCS MVP, First Shortstop in History to Win Both Awards in the Same Postseason, 2022 AL Gold Glove, 2022 Bowman's Best Refractor RC, PSA 10 GEM MINT — The Premium Refractor RC of the Shortstop Who Replaced a Legend and Became a Champion

Card #26 from the 2022 Bowman's Best baseball set in the Refractor parallel — the premium Bowman's Best RC of Jeremy Peña, the Houston Astros shortstop who replaced Carlos Correa following Correa's departure in free agency and who responded in 2022 by winning the American League Championship Series MVP, the World Series MVP, and the AL Gold Glove at shortstop — a postseason performance that made him the first shortstop in baseball history to win both ALCS MVP and World Series MVP in the same year — graded PSA 10 GEM MINT. Bowman's Best is a premium Topps product with high-end card stock and aesthetics that occupies a tier above the standard Bowman product in terms of design quality, and the Refractor parallel within Bowman's Best adds the chromium refractor treatment to that premium stock. Peña at #26 in the Bowman's Best Refractor, at PSA 10 GEM MINT, is the premium refractor RC of one of the most compelling 2022 postseason stories in baseball: the rookie who stepped into one of the most pressure-filled environments in professional sports and produced the most decorated postseason performance in Astros history. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — The University of Maine — The 3rd Round — The Astros Path

Jeremy Peña was born September 22, 1997, in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic — the Caribbean capital that has produced an extraordinary concentration of major league baseball talent, a city whose baseball culture has supplied the leagues with shortstops, outfielders, pitchers, and catchers across generations. He attended the University of Maine at Orono — an America East program in the northernmost corner of the continental United States, a college baseball program whose geographic isolation from the major recruiting trails in the South and West makes a future major league shortstop from Maine a particularly distinctive origin story. The Houston Astros selected Peña in the third round of the 2018 MLB Draft, 102nd overall, and he moved through their minor league system steadily, arriving in the major leagues in 2022 as the starting shortstop for a defending World Series champion at the exact moment when his job description included replacing one of the best shortstops of his generation. He more than met the moment. Condition: NOS.

🏆 ALCS MVP + WS MVP — The Historic Double — The 2022 World Series — The First Shortstop Ever

The 2022 postseason was Jeremy Peña's stage, and he played it at a level no shortstop had produced in a single postseason in the history of the sport. In the ALCS against the New York Yankees, Peña was the decisive offensive force — his hitting, his fielding, and his overall presence earned him the ALCS MVP award. In the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, he continued that performance to win the World Series MVP — completing what became the first time in history a shortstop won both the ALCS MVP and the World Series MVP in the same season. The Houston Astros won the 2022 World Series in six games, and Peña was at the center of that achievement. The AL Gold Glove at shortstop that same year confirmed the defensive excellence that complemented the postseason hitting. The 2022 Bowman's Best Refractor #26, in PSA 10 GEM MINT, was produced during the season of all these achievements — the premium Bowman's Best refractor RC of the shortstop who made history in a single postseason. Condition: NOS.

📦 Item Details

Card: 2022 Bowman's Best #26 Jeremy Peña Refractor Rookie RC. Grade: PSA 10 GEM MINT. Parallel: Refractor. Format: Bowman's Best premium refractor RC. Set position: #26. Player: Jeremy Peña. Born: September 22, 1997, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. College: University of Maine Black Bears. Draft: 102nd overall (3rd round), 2018 MLB Draft, Houston Astros. MLB Debut: 2022. Career: Houston Astros (2022-present). 2022 Awards: ALCS MVP, World Series MVP (first shortstop in history to win both in the same year), AL Gold Glove (SS). Condition: NOS.

⚾⭐ Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic. The capital. The baseball pipeline. The Caribbean culture. University of Maine. Orono. America East. The northernmost path to the major leagues. The 2018 draft. 3rd round. 102nd overall. Houston. The Astros. The defending champions. Carlos Correa's departure. The opening at shortstop. The rookie. Jeremy Peña. The replacement. The 2022 season. The ALCS. The Yankees. The ALCS MVP. The World Series. The Phillies. The World Series MVP. Six games. Houston champions. ALCS MVP plus WS MVP. The first shortstop ever. The same year. The Gold Glove. The perfect postseason. The 2022 Bowman's Best. #26. The Refractor. PSA 10. GEM MINT. The premium Bowman's Best refractor RC of the shortstop who made history in October 2022. In the slab. Verified.