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According to my 1952 Bowman card, Campanella had quite a year in '51
I was pretty happy to pick up a nice raw, mid grade Roy Campanella for my 1952 Bowman set. So I was reading the back of card after I received it to see how "Campy" did in 1951. And wow, with all due respect to Hack Wilson, I would think we would hear more about his 1951 season!
Who can spot the inflated number? (And no, I unfortunately didn't find a new 1952 Bowman error. ALL the cards have that typo. But I didn't know that at first, so I enjoyed "discovering" this error.) Camp.jpg |
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I will play along
He had 108 RBIs and not 198 Hack Wilson holds the records for most RBIs in a season ( 191) Last edited by redalpha7; 12-10-2018 at 03:39 PM. |
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You are correct! I know uncorrected errors aren't rare, but that's a pretty big error. I wonder....since there was no internet, my guess is that many boys used their baseball cards as the "official stats record" of their favorite players. I wonder how many school yard fights were started by young Campanella fans claiming that he knocked in 198 runs in 1951, much to the dismay of the other more knowledgeable fans around. |
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What makes it even funnier is that Topps and Bowman only listed the past year's stats (and not a yearly breakdown) on the back of their cards in those days, so in 1953, 1954 and so on, no one on the playground would have been able to 'prove' Campy didn't knock in all of those runs that year. When those kids reached high school in 1957, they finally had the stats on the back to prove the case...but by then they only cared about girls, and not cards, so the point was moot.
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'52 long hot summer
Ah, I think some of the Bowman press guys that year must have been amusing themselves by messing with kids' heads. Maybe they just wanted to see if anyone actually read those card backs.
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Wow! 142 ribbies on 90 hits. Guessing he 1.000 with runners in scoring position haha.
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