Best Cards of the Fifties

[paulcarek]

A handful of my favorites, many of which have already been mentioned:

1950: Bowman Feller and Rizzuto
1952: Bowman Musial and Mantle, Topps Roberts (the big grin just says "baseball" to me for some reason)
1953: Bowman Color Musial, Mathews
1954: Topps Williams #250, Bowman Doby (great color, majestic Yankee Stadium setting)
1955: Topps Aaron
1956: Topps Clemente, Banks, Kaline, Robinson (love this set)
1957: Topps Clemente, Snider
1958: Topps WS Batting Foes, Brooks Robinson

Of the above, I'd put the '50 Bowman Feller, '52 Bowman Musial, and '56 Topps Jackie on my "all-time" list, regardless of decade.

[JasonL]

and nowhere has anyone mentioned one of my faves: the Wilson Franks Campanella.

I would also score the 51 Bowman Doby and Campanella cards very high. And generally any high grade 50 or 51 Bowman with great color and registration are extremely hard to beat for eye appeal.

I would sell any 1958 and 1959 Topps cards in any grade to get something of similiar dollar value in one of the early Bowman sets, so in my opinion, none of the decades great cards can actually come from those sets.

[Chris-Counts]

Another great card from the 1950s in the 1953 Stahl Meyer of Campanella. I wish I had one to display. It's the same shot as the 1951 Bowman, but with a much wider view of the stadium behind him ...

Originally Posted by JasonL

and nowhere has anyone mentioned one of my faves: the Wilson Franks Campanella.

I would also score the 51 Bowman Doby and Campanella cards very high. And generally any high grade 50 or 51 Bowman with great color and registration are extremely hard to beat for eye appeal.

I would sell any 1958 and 1959 Topps cards in any grade to get something of similiar dollar value in one of the early Bowman sets, so in my opinion, none of the decades great cards can actually come from those sets.

[Doug]

That video on youtube that I posted mentioned the picture from the 1950 Bowman Ted Williams was reused on the 1951 which I found interesting. Were there any other 1951 Bowman cards that reused the same image? I'm Bowman-ly challenged so I really don't know a thing about them.

[paulcarek]

Rizzuto, Slaughter, Frisch, and Durocher come to mind. Although with Leo they at least changed his uniform from road to home.