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Ted ZanidakisSomehow you misundertood what I said......
I said.....
"I am not certain that the 1948 Leaf FB cards preceded the Bowmans that year."
"that year".....meaning 1948. I never said the 98-card 1948 Leaf FB set was issued in 1949.
I have some doubts that the 1948 Leaf FB set was issued before the 1948 Bowman FB set
in 1948. In 1948 Leaf.....1st issued a non-sports set of PIRATES.....then they issued their
"Knock Out Bubble Gum" Boxing set of 50 cards (printed on White cardboard stock).
This set was so popular they reprinted it (this time with 49 cards) on Gray cardboard stock.
And finally, sometime in the Fall of '48 issued in two Series their FB set.
Leaf was very busy throughout 1948 producing millions of GUM cards.
I collected all these sets as a 9 year old kid....and there might have been other sets, that I
am unaware of; that Leaf produced in 1948.
TED Z