Hmmm, the red sleeves is an interesting argument against a colorized B&W photo.
When I mentioned "good authority" in my post above, I was referring to Griffins here on Net54. He mentions it in this
old thread on CU, and I also found it referenced in
a very thorough article on the '53 Bowman Color set by Dean Hanley which appeared on SCD in 2010.
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The most famous card in the 1953 Bowman set, #33 of Pee Wee Reese is actually a painted over Black & White photo.
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I wonder where this idea of the card being a colorized B&W photo originated. Maybe Griffins will see the thread and chime in.
BTW, one thing I learned from Dean's article about the set (I never noticed this feature on the backs):
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The card backs also had empty spaces below the player’ s statistics so that the kids could write in the player’ s statistics for 1953. Thank goodness, that only a few of the kids took Bowman’s suggestion to deface the cards with handwritten numbers.
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