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Did Leaf Freeze Out Bowman in 1949?
Posted By: Dave Hornish
I have long wondered why there was no 1949 Bowman FB set. Looking at it semi-logically (half-assed, if you will) it seems Bowman had the FB market locked up until Topps bought them after the '55 season but did Leaf have it so locked up in '49 that Bowman decided to punt? |
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Did Leaf Freeze Out Bowman in 1949?
Posted By: Chris Counts
That's a great question. It seems to me that if Bowman made a '49 football set, it would probably have looked like the '49 baseball set. But I'll bet their baseball cards far outsold their football cards, and Bowman was too busy to make a football set in the summer of '49 because they a) were adding a late series to the '49 baseball set, and b) were busy gearing up for the following baseball season, when they would unveil the first of a series of much more ambitious and attractive sets. I've long believed the Bowman sets from '50-'53 are among the finest baseball cards ever produced (the Bowman '50-52 football are equally amazing), and it must have taken a great effort to create and reproduce the first set in particular of such high quality images. |
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Did Leaf Freeze Out Bowman in 1949?
Posted By: Dave Hornish
Chris-yes Bowman cards from the period you mentioned are among the best designed cards in the post war era. They had a number of stellar non-sport sets as well in there. |
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Did Leaf Freeze Out Bowman in 1949?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
Warren Bowman would sue anyone (or anything) at the drop of a dime. Early in 1949 the Bowman |
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Did Leaf Freeze Out Bowman in 1949?
Posted By: John E
Given that they lost, I guess I would have preferred Leaf get out of the business altogether rather putting out that half a**ed '49 football set. |
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