A question for the REAL old-timers!

50sBaseball · #1 11-18-2019, 09:32 AM

I am 73 and bought wax packs from 1953-1961. In my younger years, I was guided by older brothers, with whom i traded. As a few others have already said, we were mostly interested in who was on the front of the card, and were most interested in players on our favorite teams.
I noticed that card backs were different colors, but so what? I never thought one might be more valuable. I never got a 1958 Topps Frank Herrer error card, but had I done so, I would have felt ripped off...like this card is defective. I remember getting a 6-card pack 1957 Topps pack and all the cards were badly out of focus...I felt cheated by Topps!
Though I did read the backs of cards, and found it interesting who were World War II veterans and the jobs that ballplayers had in the offseason, it was all secondary to who was on the front. Occasionally, we might find an "error" of some sort on the back of the card, but it was no big deal. And we could not easily Google to find out if a birthdate or HR total was wrong. The cards were what they were and we enjoyed them for what they were. Great times!

50sBaseball · #2 11-18-2019, 09:44 AM

Make that Pancho Herrera, not Frank, in the 1958 Topps set.

ocjack · #3 11-18-2019, 02:18 PM

Cover page and two sample pages of the Nozaki book. As stated above, it used to take research and conversations with others to determine error/variation cards. I remember roaming many card shows looking in the 1957 commons bin for Frank Bakep. Fwiw, in probably 7-10 years of searching, I was only able to find 2.

jsanz · #4 11-19-2019, 12:36 PM

Great thread. So much fun to read about cards when it was just a hobby. I collected in the 80's so it was a very different experience. We did have a lot of fun with cards. I still think back to some great memories.

Leon · #5 11-22-2019, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ocjack

Cover page and two sample pages of the Nozaki book. As stated above, it used to take research and conversations with others to determine error/variation cards. I remember roaming many card shows looking in the 1957 commons bin for Frank Bakep. Fwiw, in probably 7-10 years of searching, I was only able to find 2.

So there were some error collectors, just not the abundance of them today. Thanks for posting those pages...

JayZim13 · #6 11-22-2019, 09:21 AM

I'm 75. The first cards I remember were the 1954 Topps. We loved the cards and really just wanted our favorite players. I also collected 1955 and 1956 Topps. I bought all my cards from a local candy store in the Bronx. I never saw a Bowman baseball card, but did see lots of 1955 Bowman football. My cards were important not for just the players but for flipping.
I stopped buying cards in 1957. Started buying 45 records and discovered girls!

droid714 · #7 11-22-2019, 02:45 PM

Thanks to everyone who has responded, very interesting stuff!

I have another question along these same lines and I don't want to start another thread if I don't have to.

It has to do with the 1952 Bowman football set. I'm curious, were the large and small cards sold side-by-side, or did the large cards come along after the small cards sold out?

If they were sold side-by-side, why would anybody buy the small ones if they could buy the large ones?

I'd love to hear from someone who was there "back in the day"!

tedzan · #8 11-22-2019, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by droid714

Thanks to everyone who has responded, very interesting stuff!

I have another question along these same lines and I don't want to start another thread if I don't have to.

It has to do with the 1952 Bowman football set. I'm curious, were the large and small cards sold side-by-side, or did the large cards come along after the small cards sold out?

If they were sold side-by-side, why would anybody buy the small ones if they could buy the large ones?

I'd love to hear from someone who was there "back in the day"!

Early in the Fall of 1952, BOWMAN issued their FB set. In order to compete with the very popular larger size 1952 Topps BB cards, Bowman re-sized
their regular set of FB cards. Then re-issued these larger size cards circa....Nov/Dec of '52.

TED Z

T206 Reference
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