CLASSIC FOOTBALL CARDS
Bowman's 1950 football cards are a classic in many ways, offering snapshots of the still-developing professional game and the era's life and culture more than seven decades ago.
The set was produced at an important moment in pro football history — the first season of an expanded league resulting from a merger between the National Football League and the All-American Football Conference.
It was Bowman's second football series and among the earliest nationally distributed sets devoted solely to the sport. Bowman's first football set was a black-and-white series produced in 1948, the same year the company produced its first baseball cards under the brand.
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