![]() ![]() 1963 Topps FootballThe 1963 Topps Football set contained (176) cards. The set was jam packed with rookies including: Bob Lilly, Deacon Jones, Ray Nitschke, Willie Wood, Jim Marshall...Note: You may be on that page right now. |
![]() ![]() 1950 Bowman FootballThe 1950 Bowman Football set contained (144) cards.Bowman did not publish football cards in 1949. In an agreement with Leaf Card Company, Bowman allowed Leaf to be the exclusive company to print 1949 cards and in exchange Leaf would leave the card market, leaving Bowman an exclusive on Football cards for a few years till Topps entered the market.
TOP ROOKIES: Y.A. Tittle, Otto Graham, Elroy 'Crazy Legs' Hirsch,
Lou Groza, Tom Fears, Glenn Davis, Joe Perry...
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![]() ![]() 1952 Bowman SMALL FootballThe 1952 Bowman SMALL Football set was a duplicate of their LARGE set except ..... wait for it ....IT WAS SMALLER - same exact cards - but SMALLER !!! Click for complete 1952 Bowman SMALL Football info & inventory Note: You may be on that page right now. |
The first important and mainstream basketball set was issued by Bowman in 1948. Other than a Topps set in 1957-58 and a 1961-62 Fleer set, there were no mainstream basketball sets issued until Topps started producing yearly sets beginning with their 1969-70 set featuring the rookie card of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who then went under the name of Lew Alcindor.
In hockey, there were a few sets issued in the 1910's and while O-Pee-Chee issued some sets in the 1930's, the real modern sets began in 1951 with the itroduction of Parkhurst's first set.
In racing, while cards go back as far as the early Indy car days of 1911, modern racing sets began in 1988 with the issues released by MAXX.