What set sealed Bowman's fate?

[Il Padrino]

Originally Posted by Theoldprofessor

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Great thread! But the preceding is, in my opinion, not quite correct. I'm an old guy -- I collected in the early 50s --- and I remember that my friends and I did not care for the set that in many ways replicated the set from the year before. But that was in 1951. Many of those cards were just longer versions of the same picture. See, for example, the Williams entries for 50 and 51.

It's true that the 51 set had more cards, but they were still pretty much ignored, at least in my crowd. We liked the autographed 52s much better, not to mention that set from the new company ... um ... Topps. They were really cool.

Great post, thank you for sharing your early collecting experience. I can only imagine what it must have been like to pull pack fresh Mantles, Joe D, Willie Mays, etc. sure takes you back in time and I wasn't even there.