i am continuing to pick up singles for my 1955 bowman set, but it is getting harder and harder to do without getting into the $10/card range. these two sheets were relatively easy to fill out, thanks to the fact that i had a couple of the big names in my collection already.
sheet 16, cards 121 through 128:
here are the backs:
sheet 17, cards 129 through 136
a couple of hall of famers there with richie ashburn and bob feller. both of those cards were part of the partial set i already owned when i started this endeavor, so i didn't need to seek them out. i did pick up a clean version of harvey kuenn's card - no gold star on this one.
the error is only visible on the back - his name is misspelled as "kueen"
but they kept the spelling correct on the front. go figure.
i find it interesting that the back of giel's card mentions his teammate johnny antonelli, who precedes him on the checklist. both majeski and garcia mention the 1954 world series, and the writeup on garcia's card is pretty dense. he also mentions babe ruth, yogi berra, and bob lemon. it's cool to see a card where the player featured grew up with babe ruth as their childhood hero.
here are the backs:
it's nice to see richie ashburn referencing a duke snider catch as the best he's ever seen. bob feller refers to his opening day no-hitter as his biggest thrill and lists ted williams as the greatest hitter he's seen. that's a departure from the more often mentioned stan musial, but it makes sense given feller pitched in the american league.
there is another version of kuenn's card, and it's an error. his corrected card is on the sheet above, and i picked up his error to put at the end of the set
A. Good job on spotting Alvin Dark. I just added his autograph to my A's collection.
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Very cool that Babe Ruth was his childhood hero. It's sad and still hard to comprehend that that generation is almost entirely gone.
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