1952 Bowman - Card Gallery
 

The 1952 Bowman set is, in my opinion, visually, the best postwar set. I don't think Topps (yes 52 or 53) even come close so...

Let's see those 52B!

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My only variation in the set....and # 2 if we are doing the order thingy

Here are a few.

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Jeremy--Are we just doing highlights or are we doing the set ? Up to you I suppose

I suppose I should have specified. I would say anything is fair game at this point, I just like looking at 52B, so go crazy!

I've been toying with the idea of completing the set since I have the core star cards. It's absolutely beautiful, so the more I see the more I'm likely to want to go for it.

Going wild. :p

1952 b

Can't let it go...
 

I loved the '52 Bowman cards, both baseball and football, as a kid collector. Mostly for their aesthetic appeal, but to some extent because stores in my hometown for some reason did not stock Topps cards. When recollecting the set in my second childhood - the 1980's - it amazed me to find that one card I had never seen as a kid was numerically right smack between two cards that I had pulled out of waxpacks in great quantities. Could it be that the Bowman Gum Company in 1952 deliberately limited distribution of card number 101 in my region? Since it was the only number I could never find in the set's second series, it remains a collectibles conspiracy theory that I entertain to this day.:rolleyes:

1952 Bowman: "First Black Players"
 

Campy was the first black catcher; the others integrated their initial team and, in Doby's case, the American League. During the 1951 World Series, Irvin and Thompson joined Willie Mays to form the first black outfield.

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