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Originally Posted by Volod
Under-appreciated set that was the first I collected as a kid in 1952. Always recalled the Joe Adcock card because I was puzzled by the letters on the sign, since at the age of eight, I knew nothing about FCC callsigns. I asked my older brother and he was no help, so went to the old man and, after studying it for a minute, he told me it was the brand of our huge console television.  |
Yeah, that Adcock card also has a really cool design. The backgrounds on some of those early Bowman cards are just as interesting as the players sometimes.
In looking at the horizontal numbers listed above, it looks like none of the cards with numbers higher than 197 were horizontal....so there aren't any in the shorter printed "high numbers". I wonder if there was a reason behind that?