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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Sorry, but he will have to produce it before I believe it... since he has millions of cards and could have just been mistaken in his memory.

I just can't believe that they would CHANGE the whole back of a card on the printing press just because they printed some in December 1948 and some in January 1949.

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Here is an example of the 1948 BOWMAN backs:



As you can see from the site below... the stats referenced on the card (51 homers) are his 1947 stats:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mizejo01.shtml

Thus, there is zero doubt but that the 1948 Bowman set came out in 1948.