1955 bowman complete through 104!

my 1955 bowman set is coming together at a decent pace, and i've completed a few more front end sheets to share.

here is sheet 12, cards 89 through 96

hall of famer lou boudreau is probably the biggest name here, but hank thompson's card gave me the toughest time to acquire. andy seminick seems out of place as he upsets the teammate pairing, but that is becoming more common as we progress through the set.

here are the backs:

it's nice to see sal maglie's nickname mentioned on the back of his card, but there is only one non-narrative card back here. on the back of art ditmar's card, he shares several of his biggest baseball thrills, including his first big league win that came on the last day of the 1954 season. that means that ditmar is the last pitcher to record a win for the philadelphia athletics, as they relocated to kansas city for the 1955 season. staying on that topic, jim hunter was the last kansas city a's pitcher to win a game, and j.t. ginn holds that distinction for the oakland version of the a's.

here is sheet 13, cards 97 through 104

this is a great sheet of cards with johnny podres, jim gilliam, jerry coleman, bobby thomson, and eddie mathews. on this sheet, it's don johnson who is out of place and messing up the teammate duos.

here are the backs:

ted williams, who is famously absent from this set, is namechecked on the back of thomson's card as the best hitter thomson has ever seen.

the don johnson card is one of the cards in the set that has an error variation. the one shown above is the correct version, with this being the error

that is ernie johnson showed there. ernie obviously pitched for the braves, while don was an oriole. the back of the card is still don's

and this error is reversed on card number 157. i hope to get there with these posts very soon!