Early Wynn, 38. I cannot find card 41 Mel Clark or card 24 Al Aber, so the streak seems to end here, 25-40 running two ways.

Building off 121/122, here are some more, starting with 123:

124 Antonelli

125 Giel

126 Goodman

127 Hank Majeski. What a great name.

128 Mike Garcia. This streak in the 120's is a lot harder to find examples of this way, possibly it was a border row on the SP'd sheet that had the highs:

Other copies show Garcia was the right border card in it's row, so the streak probably ends here.

120 Burtschy also appears to be a border card, as they both can show white on one long side. The streak is presumably 121-128.

What I remember most from putting this set together was how hard it was to find a Willie Mays that wasn't really short.[/QUOTE]

The 2 Mays that I have are not cut short. They're both in nice shape.

The 2 Mays that I have are not cut short. They're both in nice shape.[/QUOTE]



Nice, I finally ended up buying a SGC graded one to crack out for my ungraded set.

Funny story, I bought my Mantle and Mays from the same dealer at the same time here on Net54. The Mays was a full 1/4 inch shorter. I emailed him and he told me to return it and he would sent me another. The next one was only 1/8 of a inch shoter than the Mantle.:eek:

As I was rooting through boxes of cards, I remembered this thread when I ran across a 1955 Bowman #1 Hoyt Wilhelm with a small bit of dark running down its right side. It sort of intermingles with the shadow from the flash, unfortunately, but it is there...

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Why would the first card in the first series (Wilhelm) be located on a sheet right next to a card with a dark background from a later series?

It looks to me like Wilhelm was on the outer edge of the sheet and that isn't another card, but I'm not familiar with 50's Bowman sheets.

The light border cards are not a series. Bowman's 1955 sheets were much larger than the sheets used earlier in the decade, and many featured dark and light bordered cards together. They seem to have replaced some cards and kept others as time went on, with multiple sheet layouts.

There are a ton of pics in this thread of cards showing an adjacent card of another color, and one of the sheets.

Wilhelm is often found with the red line at right. I'm not sure if this is a black line, or part of a darker color card. Here's another copy showing more of it.

I don't think that black is part of another card. I found another 55 Wilhelm that is very similar to the 62 Topps method of wedding different sheet patterns together.

I think your copy here makes it clear that is indeed the case.

I believe basically every card in the set can be found with that thinner light line on its margins.

There are also multiple colors of the thicker divider lines during different stretches on different borders. Black, Red, Blue at least.

I always thought it was odd that the famous 55B pack break a few years ago contained both, Ernie Banks (a high #) and Mickey Mantle (not a high number). If these were from different series, they shouldn't have been in the same pack. I think.

I'm just depressed that my thread-reactivating, hoytstanding discovery was nothing. Bummer. :rolleyes:

Hoytstanding, I see what you did there! It’s not nothing, just a different something. I’m not clear on the colored bar lines on some borders, I’m not sure if it denotes the edge of a sheet. It’s recurring on a ton of the cards. There’s definitely clues into all the layouts with them