John, 👍👍. Great video intro about the cards. What a great set. Love how it focus on just baseball and serves as a great “odd ball” alternative to 52 Topps & Bowman. The 52s were also given out w/ popcorn at some theaters. This came to surface as BR was sued which implies these are unlicensed cards even if the photos used were legitimately owned. Berk Ross was a fantastic photographer. My favs are Willie Mays, Ted Williams, & Robin Roberts. The Mays, Mantle , and Roberts images (like many in this set) have been reused by many other card makers in that era.
@WadeBoggsFan
Ай бұрын
Thanks Tony! I did not know that they were also given out with popcorn in theaters. Very interesting concept. I had forgotten that Williams was in that set. Really like that card. Would love to pick up a copy someday to add to my collection.
@ACollectorsDream
Ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@WadeBoggsFan
Ай бұрын
Thanks Orlando!
@kevincurtis6550
Ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing, John. Nice variety of cards that made the list. Figured the Mantle would be number one, too. Would have liked to have seen better color images like the 51 Bowman set.
@WadeBoggsFan
Ай бұрын
Thanks Kevin. I agree...that's the only negative I have with the set. It seems that on some of the cards the registration between the black and white image and the colorization is off and makes it blurry. Similar to the 49 Bowman set. I think the difference between the 52 Berk Ross and the 51 Bowman is that the Berk Ross incorporated the actual black and white image, while the Bowman set was completely an artist rendition of the image.
@godisgreat8462
Ай бұрын
Well done my friend
@WadeBoggsFan
Ай бұрын
Thanks Ken!
@cryptonite8495
Ай бұрын
I have the '51 Berk Ross Musial and it looks like '52 Berk Ross just repeated the image. Dimaggio looks like a bargain compared to the ones above him on the list!
@WadeBoggsFan
Ай бұрын
Yes, I believe the Musial and possibly the DiMaggio are the same image in both the 51 and 52 sets. Not sure why other than saving money by not paying for a different image? And yes, the 52 DiMaggio does seem like a bargain. I'd rather have his 52 than his 51 just for that reason...more affordable.
@jamesnguyen7069
Ай бұрын
sheeesh another insane video. @8:48 underrated card
@WadeBoggsFan
Ай бұрын
I think the 52 Berk Ross set is a very underrated set. Maybe because there are not as many compared to the Bowman and Topps issues. But they are great cards and the set is packed with lots of hall of famers.
@mandogmac
Ай бұрын
What products were these paired with? Bubblegum? Tobacco?
@WadeBoggsFan
Ай бұрын
From what I can tell, they weren't distributed with any product. Only packs of cards or as a complete set. However, a commenter stated that he thinks some were given out with popcorn at some movie theaters.
@marksantucci4230
Ай бұрын
So Cleveland has 1 player Satchel Paige or Larry Doby? do you think it has to do with smaller city's like St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington or do you think it has to do with very little sports coverge No cable tv so no Espn, No clubhouse interviews a different way of life back then? 1 per team except the new York teams interesting? the cards look like 1948 and 1949 cards they have that look which closer looks to 1948 and 1949 than what the 50's look like? the photos scream more Red Schoendist , Warren Spahn, Ralph kiner than the 50's so if you look at the 1953 cards topps and bowman those more look like the Ted Williams? 1956 cards look the Ted Williams but the other cards have that presense of what 1940's look Ike?
@WadeBoggsFan
Ай бұрын
In the 52 set there are actually 3 players from the Indians - Larry Doby, Bob Feller, and Bob Lemon. With it being such a small set (72 cards) there wasn't room to include a lot of players for each team. So they probably chose the more well-known players and the bigger teams, such as the Yankees, had more "star" players that were more well-known so that's probably why there are more players from certain teams than others. Plus, for whatever reason, the cards were distributed mainly in the New York area, so it would make sense for them to include as many players from those three teams as they could so people/kids would want to buy the cards.
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