1949 LEAF BB set re-visited....show us your cards
 

Jason

Furthermore,
BOWMAN also sued LEAF over the use of BOWMAN's logo "BASEBALL BUBBLE GUM" on their waxpacks.



..................... 1949 BOWMAN ............................................... 1949 LEAF .........................
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TED Z

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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
 

We have here a rare occurrence in Sportscards where a well-known Baseball player's Rookie card is actually his Football card.


1948 LEAF
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...ieJensen25.jpg . http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...eJensen25b.jpg



TED Z

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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
 

My favorite 1949 LEAF FB card, Johnny Lujack.

Note
LEAF continued printing the FB cards (Fall of 1949) with the Gray cardboard stock of which they printed the 1949 BB cards.


So, let's see some more of your 1949 LEAF BB cards.
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...nyLujack25.jpg . http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...yLujack25b.jpg



TED Z

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Sorry to bump on old thread but this caught my eye as I was rabbit holing something. How does a card get this rounded of corners and not have creases? Pretty nice centering too. :cool:

Great thread, btw. :)

. 1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
 

Hi Leon..... " How does a card get this rounded of corners and not have creases? "

Not unusual. When we were not flipping these LEAF's in 1949, we were "scaling" them (from a distance of about 6 feet, or so) towards the front stoop of our homes.
The guy whose card was the closest to the 1st step of the stoop won all the cards piled upon the pavement. If you should get a "leaner", you won twice the number
cards piled upon the pavement. And, if someone knocked down your leaner with his toss, he tripled the win. Typically, anywhere from 2 to 6 guys would participate
in this game. It was a very popular sport among us 10 year old kids in the late 1940's to early 1950's.
So these thick cardboard LEAF cards did not easily crease, but their corners sure became quite worn. Here are 4 examples from my original (70 year-old) collection.
Note, no creases but quite worn corners. I have many more of these "rounded -cornered" cards. However, they are hidden away in my "mysterious archives", which
I cannot find.

http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...ndGordHopp.jpg


TED Z

T206 Reference
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