The 1948 story is also untrue.
This is allegedly a 3 sheet 108 card production, arranged so that cards 1, 4, 7, 10, and so on are sheet 1, cards 2, 5, 8, and so forth are sheet 2 and 3, 6, 9 and so on are sheet 3.
The evidence for this that Ted et al. used, and all the other false claims about Bowman sheets and series, is surviving panels. All these surviving panels lack any indica that they are a complete sheet, none of the enlarged edges that the border of a full sheet would have, or even a believable size that would make much production sense.
While printing blocks on a sheet, of course, follow the surviving panels, these blocks and panels are not sheets and they are not series as has been long claimed.
This card is allegedly the top right corner of sheet 1. Clearly, that is not the case and there was a block above. Above #25 Pat McHugh appears to be card #108 Buford Ray, placing sheet 3 above sheet 1.
1948 Bowman is clearly a 1 series and sheet release, and was not done on 36 card sheets. That sheet probably rotated subjects in the way typical of Bowman but Topps didn't do or copied block patterns an unequal number of times onto a static sheet. the 3rd sequence block cards do actually appear to be relative short prints, unlike the 1952 Bowman Large's for which there is no real evidence that the SP story is actually true and considerable evidence that it is false.
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