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Originally Posted by Rad_Hazard
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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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.
