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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

My reply to your.....
...."the 1954 Bowman Williams is another card that hasn't proven to be as rare as once thought.
I'm pretty sure I remember Larry Fritsch telling the story that as a kid in 1954, he bought a pack
of Bowmans and all five cards were Williams!"......

You stated this story exactly as I heard it 26 years ago. And, I believe Fritsch recalled it as it was.
It is not an experience, as a kid, that one would forget. I know I can still recall opening up certain
wax packs from the late 1940's or the 1950's and remembering what cards were in them.

The Bowman Gum Co. was dumping their 1954 Ted Williams card (#66) as fast as they could because
Topp's executive Sy Berger, himself an avid Ted Williams fan, took Bowman to court over the rights to
Ted Williams.
Recall that the 1954 Topps set's #1 & #250 cards are Ted and it was in the market before Bowman.

TED Z