There is an account of Bowman’s efforts in 1953 to retake the baseball card market with bigger color cards after the 52 Topes success in Dean Hanley’s “The Bubble Gum War: The Great Bowman & Topps sets from 1948 to 1955”. The 53 Bowman set, revered today, was a bust in the 53 market against the 53 Topps set.
Congrats on finishing the Colored set. Agree the B&W is a must for “completion”
|