http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2009/08/22/where-did-all-the-packers-go/ News, trivia, and musings of interest to vintage football card collectors Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2009/08/22/where-did-all-the-packers-go/comment-page-1/#comment-2320 B is for Bowman | Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog Fri, 07 May 2010 22:01:30 +0000 http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/?p=1143#comment-2320 [...] Bowman’s follow-up to their classic 1952 sets was the dismal 1953 Bowman set. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the ugly white football on the front of the cards, but that’s not the only problem. Outside of the white football, the cards are dark–often too dark to get a good scan–and there is not a single significant rookie card in the set. The card distribution is strange, too: there are 96 cards in the set, and only two of them are Packers. [...] [...] Bowman’s follow-up to their classic 1952 sets was the dismal 1953 Bowman set. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the ugly white football on the front of the cards, but that’s not the only problem. Outside of the white football, the cards are dark–often too dark to get a good scan–and there is not a single significant rookie card in the set. The card distribution is strange, too: there are 96 cards in the set, and only two of them are Packers. [...]

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