Any love for vintage bowman? Your thoughts?

[ALR-bishop]

Color TV on cards at a time when probably less than a million folks had a color TV.

Plus all those great umpire cards

[skelly423]

Here is a scan of my first two binder sheets of 1950 (that gap is for the Jackie, which I have, but can't bring myself to crack out of the slab). The whole set looks awesome when flipping through the binder.

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[55koufax]

I have only two Bowman sets I admire and collected.

1. 1953 Bowman Color.
2. 1955 Bowman FB

[Chris-Counts]

I believe the Bowman sets from 1950-52 are the most underrated in the hobby. The artwork is unique, and there's nothing quite like it. I'm still trying to figure out how so many images were created — and similar style images were made for three football sets, as well as non-sports sets. Whoever created them deserves credit as a prolific artist. The three sets, which are overshadowed the glorious 1953 Bowman color set, perfectly capture one of baseball's greatest eras.

[ALR-bishop]

On the 50 set, completing it with all the no copyright variations is challenging

[Bigdaddy]

Two thoughts:

• In true Rodney Dangerfield fashion, the OP did not capitalize 'Bowman' in the title of the thread
• The 1951 and 1955 Bowman Willie Mays cards are the nicest cards of all his playing days issues.

And that's all I have to say about that.

[Volod]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Color TV on cards at a time when probably less than a million folks had a color TV.

Plus all those great umpire cards

Aw, c'mon...Why couldn't a kid in any era admire a guy with this bio? Plus - Big Jim's greatest fame came from TV commercial ads for beer in which he stole scenes from Boog Powell.