Why are 1953 Bowman color so awesome?

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Originally Posted by riggs336

Bowman definitely covered all the bases in 1953. If you didn't like beautiful cards you could buy their black and white sister set.

I believe that the Black & White "set" is actually the last two series of the entire 1953 Bowman set. The company simply ran out of funds to print those last two series in Kodachrome. But every other detail of those 64 cards seems to match the first 160 color cards. It's kind of a shame that Bowman invested so much in the endorsement by Joe DiMaggio of the set. But since his contract apparently only covered the "color" cards, Bowman resorted to the later austerity strategy. Here's a second series sheet of 32 cards.