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1950 Bowman Baseball
Cards
1950 Bowman is an
interesting set to collect because this was the only year in which Bowman
had a monopoly on the baseball card business. No other national issues were
released that year; Leaf ceased production in 1949 and Topps would not issue
its first set until 1951. This set contains many great Hall of Fame cards
of players like Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, Warren Spahn, Bob
Feller, Phil Rizzuto, Duke Snider, and Pee Wee Reese.
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The
1950 Bowman set contains 252 cards. Cards #1-72 are scarce and are very
difficult to find. Like the 1949 Bowman set, the 1950 Bowman cards measured 2
1/16" by 2 1/2", quite a bit smaller than what is now considered the standard
size for baseball cards. The photographs on the front of the cards are colorized
black and white photographs, with some black outlining.
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The 1950 Bowman set marks
the first time that Bowman would use this technique. Bowman would continue to
feature this card front until color photographs were issued in the 1953 Bowman
Color set. Most of the portraits are vertical, but a few of them (notably
Snider and Berra) are horizontal. |
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As for the backs of the
cards, the backs are similar to the 1949 cards, except that they appear in a
horizontal format, and the advertisements have been removed. In keeping
with the format used by Bowman in most of its issues, the player's name,
team, position and biographical information appear along with a five-star
Bowman logo above a statistical write-up. |
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The 1950 Bowman set also
included, for the first-time, cards of non-playing managers like Casey
Stengel and Leo Durocher. This trend continues today. This set also
included Ted Williams’ first Bowman card. Interestingly, Bowman used the
same Williams picture for the 1951 Bowman set as they did for the 1950
Bowman set. The last card in the set is #252 DeMars, which is very difficult
to find in great condition.
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