2006 Bowman is a baseball card set distributed by Topps. It was the first Bowman release after the new Rookie Card Logo and rules went into effect. Now players who had yet to appear in a major league game would not be allowed to be included in the base set, only as an insert. Topps' responded by including a Prospects and Chrome Prospects insert set. In reality the new rules hurt the main Bowman set and 2006 saw the Draft Picks and Prospects and Bowman Chrome sets really rise in popularity. For the 2006 set, Bowman also stopped producing the Rookie of the Year dual relic card and did not include any game used inserts.