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Great start. Best of luck in building the set. It was the first set post the acquisition of Bowman. Note how many of the cards feature grass and base running. Also, unnumbered check lists arrive in packs and we first get team cards. You can do the fist 180 cards in gray or white back. Grays tougher in 1 to 100 and whites tougher in 101 to 180. And if you wanted to expand beyond the basic set, there was a baseball subset of the 1956 Hocus Focus set and a baseball only set of Pins/Buttons.


There are 3 different versions of team cards for the Cubs ( 11), Phils( 72), Indians (85), Reds ( 90), Braves (95) and Orioles ( (100). There are at least 3 versions of the Laurin Pepper card ( 108), and two of the Temple card (212).
And Miller ( 263), Schmidt ( 323) and Robinson ( 302) can be found with recurring back omissions

And similar to the cropping DP variations he wrote about for the 1963 set, George Vrechek has identified similar cropping differences in several 1956 cards
http://www.oldbaseball.com/refs/Hobb...and_Ends_2.pdf