Kid's story from the Summer of 1950......
After collecting the 1948 and 1949 Bowman cards, us kids were very excited to see the colorful 1950 Bowman cards in the Spring of 1950. During that Summer (when we
were not playing Baseball (or stickball), five of us 10 year olds would gather at one of our porches and play Black Jack....using these Bowman cards as "chips".
I guess I was pretty good at playing Black Jack, since from my original Sportscard collection I recovered 222 cards (of the 252) from this set.
Two 8-card panels from the 1st series (#1 - 72)
5th 36-card complete uncut sheet....#145 - 180
(Pardon this segmented scan....this 36-card sheet is simply too large for my scanner. I had to improvise.)
TED Z
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