What is your favorite set of the 50's?
 

I'd love to hear other people's opinions on what their favorite set of the 50's is, and why you like that set. I really enjoy the sets from the 50's and have been trying to figure out which one was my favorite.

I was born in 1977 so I didn't ever get to see any of the players from the 50's in action so I only know the players from what I've read and the very limited film I've seen of the era. I think my favorite set is 1951 bowman. I love the vintage logo's on the front of the cards, I love that the set has a great group of hall of farmers such as Sammy Baugh and Otto Graham. It's got a couple of good rc cards with van brocklin and Landry. Overall it's just a solid set all around.

I'd love to hear what other people think as there are a ton of great sets from that decade. I can honestly think of at least eight other sets from that decade that I am tempted to make my #1, but if I can only choose one 1951 bowman would be it.

1957 Topps. Great looking cards, great lineup of RCs

To me, there are two great sets of the 50's. The 1951 and 1952 Large Bowmans. I love them both equally, and might rate them as the best two football sets, period.

I really love the 1950 Bowman set because that set's Sammy Baugh is one of my favorite cards.

I also really like the 1957 Topps set.


If you're going oddball, the Bread For Health set and the Bazooka cards are two great ones.

I love the early 1950s Bowman cards and 1957 Topps. 1952 Bowman Large is definitely my favorite, due the great artwork and oversized card size. I completed the 1950, 1951 Bowman and 1957 Topps sets and am 6 cards away from 1952 Bowman Large and 10 cards away from 1952 Bowman small. I don't see myself completing the 1953-1955 Bowman sets.

A great question! I love all of the Bowman sets from the '50s and a few of the Topps ones. I'll throw in some votes for:

1950 Bowman. Love the color on these cards and the smaller size.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VA...Q=w535-h640-no

1955 Topps All-American - Iconic tribute set with incredible star power that goes all the way back to the beginning of American Football.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Of...w=w920-h736-no

My two favorite odd ball sets from this era, though, were mentioned above.

1950 Bread for Health - the only football bread label set produced.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Zh...A=w640-h627-no

1959 Bazooka - incredibly hard set of 18 cards that copies the baseball design from the same year

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N8...w=w357-h640-no

jeff

1956 Topps. I love the design of the cards.

1955 Topps All-American! That's my personal favorite!

Another vote for the 55 Topps All-American

Thanks for the input guys, I agree with all of you and for some strange reason decided to start on the 1952 bowman large set. If anyone has doubles they want to sell please let me know. Looking to do the commons in raw vg to ex condition and the hall of famers probably in psa 5 or better although a nice looking psa 4 can do. The sp's I'll probably just take what I can get. Going to throw consistency out the window. Figure it will be a nice multi year project for me.

One of the fun things about the 56's is that the backgrounds tend to show print flaws, so if you are not a condition bug (and I'm not), you can look for clean cards that aren't necessarily sharp cornered and piece together a really appealing group for peanuts:

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That's a beautiful set and good luck pulling it together. Tracking the SP's down for a reasonable price will be the fun part.

jeff

1959 Bazooka followed closely by 1957 Topps.

I agree. Love the 56 set. I had over 50% of the set and decided to sell it about a year ago. Still kicking myself for that decision. I may start it again soon.


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Hands down the 1951 Bowman set for me. Beautiful artwork; similar in style to the 1951 Bowman baseball set (my favorite baseball set), and really, the Bowman cards from 1950-52 are beautiful miniature works of art.

58T. Largely because Topps mirrored the front design in its 1959 Topps Baseball offering.

I would go with 57 Topps and 51 Bowman. Two great looking sets.