Most significant or sought after postwar cards (besides Mantle)

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by rats60

How did 84 Donruss raise the bar on card quality? Early Donruss and Fleer cards were of very poor quality compared to Topps. They were a thinner, flimsy card stock. That is why I bought very little of those sets. They were just cheap looking cards.

Donruss cut production in 84 at a time when the hobby was exploding. It was a perceived scarcity of 84 Donruss and 84 Fleer Update that created demand for their products, not putting out a better quality product.

I was actually referencing Russ' comments regarding '89 Upper Deck. I really liked that set and the finished look. I think that set ushered in the era of the shiny stuff.

As for my top cards in terms of significance - here it is:

1948 Leaf Robinson
1951 Bowman Mantle
1954 Topps Aaron
1954 Bowman Williams
1955 Topps Clemente, Koufax

-Z

[JollyElm]

It's right there in the title of the thread--Most significant or sought after postwar cards (besides Mantle)--yet people keep including Mantle. What's with this complete obsession with Mickey Mantle????!!!!!!! This site should be retitled the All Mantle, All the Time forum. Come on!!!!!!

[begsu1013]

mantle, mantle, mantle!

(in my best jan brady voice)

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

mantle, mantle, mantle!

(in my best jan brady voice)

Haha!! Nice!!!!

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

I was actually referencing Russ' comments regarding '89 Upper Deck. I really liked that set and the finished look. I think that set ushered in the era of the shiny stuff.

As for my top cards in terms of significance - here it is:

1948 Leaf Robinson
1951 Bowman Mantle
1954 Topps Aaron
1954 Bowman Williams
1955 Topps Clemente, Koufax

-Z

What is 1948 Leaf?

[sago]

1948 Leaf Paige
1949 Bowman Duke Snider
1955 Topps Koufax
1963 Topps Pete Rose
1967 Topps Tom Seaver

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by rats60

What is 1948 Leaf?

Here it is (not mine):

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

Here it is (not mine):

That is a 1949 Leaf. I own one. It is dated 1949 and describes his 1948 season where he hit .296 and drove in 85 runs. So, I'll ask again, what is a 1948 Leaf?

[Hammerin'Hank]

Originally Posted by rats60

That is a 1949 Leaf. I own one. It is dated 1949 and describes his 1948 season where he hit .296 and drove in 85 runs. So, I'll ask again, what is a 1948 Leaf?

I believe the 1948 Leaf and 1949 Leaf are identical on the front..........just different on the back.

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by rats60

That is a 1949 Leaf. I own one. It is dated 1949 and describes his 1948 season where he hit .296 and drove in 85 runs. So, I'll ask again, what is a 1948 Leaf?

1948 Leaf is what they were called for a very long time, and some of the cards have a 1948 copyright on the back. However, the hobby, sometimes resistant to change, has since come to some general conclusion that in fact they were issued in 1949. Much of this due the fact that some old-time collectors remember buying them in packs in 1949 - Ted Z, for instance. When I scooped up a few in the Sixties they were definitely thought of, at least among the crowd I collected with in L.A., as 1948. My 2007 Standard Catalog lists them as 1949. I now call them 1949, but I sometimes catch myself thinking 1948; old habits die hard.

[Hammerin'Hank]

Originally Posted by Paul S

1948 Leaf is what they were called for a very long time, and some of the cards have a 1948 copyright on the back. However, the hobby, sometimes resistant to change, has since come to some general conclusion that in fact they were issued in 1949. Much of this due the fact that some old-time collectors remember buying them in packs in 1949 - Ted Z, for instance. When I scooped up a few in the Sixties they were definitely thought of, at least among the crowd I collected with in L.A., as 1948. My 2007 Standard Catalog lists them as 1949. I now call them 1949, but I sometimes catch myself thinking 1948; old habits die hard.

Thanks for the clarity. I see graded versions in holders listed as both 1948 and 1949 and assumed they were issued in 2 different years.

[pawpawdiv9]

Here is 2 cards i have that are 48/49 LEAFS:
Those the copyright says 49 on them.
A fellow board member wrote a article on OldCardboard discussing this in lengthy detail: http://www.oldcardboard.com/ref/BBC-...ail.asp?id=796
And here is the NET 54 ARCHIVED THREAD: http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...1948+1949+Leaf

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