Early bowman baseball: Artist

tedzan · #1 05-27-2011, 09:13 AM

Are you sure that your top picture is Nellie Fox ?

(1) The BB player in this picture resembles White Sox outfielder Dave Philley more so than Nellie Fox.

(2) Nellie Fox started with the Philadelphia A's in 1947, and traded to the White Sox for the 1950 season.
Fox was not depicted in the Bowman sets till 1951. He is depicted in a different pose than the one in your top picture.

(3) The Ned Garver picture is circa 1948-1949 and was the image used by Bowman to create his 1949 & 1950 Bowman cards.

TED Z

Chris-Counts · #2 05-27-2011, 11:08 AM

The inclusion of Kramer makes me wonder if they really are Bowmans. He basically didn't arrive on the scene until '55, and didn't play in the pros until '57. Clarke started up about the same time. Why would Bowman create such a crude prototype in '56 when their artists, by that time, were producing much better work? The design would make sense if Bowman created it in '49, but not '56. Also, I've seen a few '56 Bowman proofs (Shuba and Koshorek?) and they look nothing like these cards ...

BillyCoxDodgers3B · #3 05-27-2011, 11:10 AM

I recall reading a 1984 article about the '56 Bowman proofs. Too bad they didn't have the chance to issue them. One of the proposed styles resembled the 1958 Hires cards IIRC.

toppcat · #4 05-30-2011, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBirkholm

I recall reading a 1984 article about the '56 Bowman proofs. Too bad they didn't have the chance to issue them. One of the proposed styles resembled the 1958 Hires cards IIRC.

I am pretty sure Topps produced the Hires cards. They were famous for recycling designs, even if they originated with Bowman.

enoch47 · #5 06-08-2011, 11:52 PM

I think in 56 bowman was going to release a college set in the classic 1948 bowman look, this time in color, we may never known. I have seen the Hires, those would have been some cool cards as a mainstream bowman release.

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