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Originally Posted by tedzan
Hi David K.
With all due respect to Buck Barker......I have to differ with the above stated timeline of the 1949 LEAF BB cards. I collected these cards when I was 9 years old in 1949.
I remember very well that in our neighborhood (New Jersey), the 1st series of 49 cards were available in early Spring of 1949. These LEAF cards preceded the 1st series
of the 1949 BOWMAN cards by at least 2 months.
If you are interested, check out my well researched (8-page) article on the 1949 LEAF BB set published in the OLD CARDBOARD magazine (Issue #9, Fall 2006).
Furthermore, Warren Bowman sued the LEAF GUM CO. because of its infringement on Bowman's Copyright (issued in 1948).... "BASEBALL BUBBLE GUM"
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Thanks, Ted. That sentence of mine was poorly worded, and the fault is all mine, not Buck Barker's. I should have just said that the Leaf cards were all issued in 1949 rather than 1948 (as is now universally acknowledged, in line with your recollection), and noted that Barker did not mention them (or 1949 Bowman baseball) in his article in the June 1949 Sports Exchange Trading Post. Even if Barker wrote the article as late as May 1949, all this means is that the Leaf cards had not yet come to his attention by then. But he was in St. Louis, where the cards may well have been introduced later than on the East Coast.
I thought you had written something about the 1949 Leafs, but I didn't look it up until just now. Nice article. I see that you say in there that Bowman's lawsuit against Leaf involved both the slogan "Baseball Bubble Gum" and the rights to picture certain players. So my sentence was again poorly worded, but it was at least partly right.