The 1954 Bowman Baseball
card set consisted of 224 cards that measure 2
1/2" by 3 3/4. Bowman competing against the Topps Chewing Gum Company for dominance of the baseball card market quickly printed their cards. so quickly that about 40 of the set's 224 cards had statistical errors.
variations exist in this set because of statistical errors that were subsequently corrected.
Topps signed exclusive contract with Ted Williams, who had been
serving in Korea for the previous three years. Bowman was forced to
pull card #66 of Williams from its set and replace it with a card of
Jimmy Piersall (who was also featured on card #210). After the 1953 season, the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore, and Bowman's artists had no idea what the Orioles
uniform would look like. So they simply made the uniforms up.
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Variations:
- 12A Roy McMillan (At
Bats - 551/1290) 12B Roy McMillan (At Bats -
557/1296)
- 22A
Sam Mele (putouts - 213/1661) 22B Sam Mele (putouts
- 217/1665)
- 25A
Wes Westrum (field avg.- 1.000/.987) 25B Wes Westrum
field avg. - (.982/.986)
- 26A
Billy Cox (field avg. - 1.000/.960) 26B Billy Cox
(field avg. - .972/.960)
- 28A
Jim Greengrass (birthplace Addison, NJ) 28B
Greengrass (birthplace Addison, NY)
- 33A
Victor Raschi (no traded line) 33B Victor Raschi
(traded line)
- 35A
Eddie Joost (Quiz answer is 8) 35B Eddie Joost (Quiz
answer is 33)
- 38A
Orestes Minoso (field avg.-.895/.961) 38A Orestes
Minoso (field avg.-.963/.963)
- 41A
Alvin Dark (.986/.960 field avg.) 41B Alvin Dark
(.968/.960 field avg.)
- 43A
Bob Friend (20 shutouts in quiz question) 43B Friend
(16 shutouts in quiz question)
- 47A
Granville Hamner (field avg.-.970/.953) 47B G.
Hamner (field avg.-.953/.951.)
- 53A
Don Lenhardt (field avg -.969/.984.) 53B Don
Lenhardt (field avg - .966/.983.)
- 61A
Eddie Miksis (.954/.962 field avg.) 61A Eddie Miksis
(.954/.961 field avg.)
- 67A
Carl Scheib (.306 pct. with two lines under bio) 67B
(.306 pct. with one line under bio) 67C Carl Scheib
(.300 pct.)
- 80a.
John Logan (Runs - 106) 80b. John Logan (Runs -
100)
- 81a.
Jerry Coleman (field avg.-1.000/.975) 81b. J.
Coleman (field avg.- 952/.975 field)
- 82a.
Bill Goodman (field avg. - 965/.986) 82b. Bill
Goodman (field avg. -.972/.985)
- 85a.
Jim Dyck (.926/.956 field avg.) 85b. Jim Dyck
(.947/.960 field avg.)
- 93A
Bill Serena (field avg. - .983/.966) 93B. Bill
Serena ( field avg. - .977/.966)
- 94A
Solly Hemus (assists - 476/1343) 94B Solly Hemus
(assists - 477/1343)
- 99A
Pete Suder (field avg. - .985/.974) 99B Pete Suder
(field avg. - .978/.974)
- 103A
Stephen Souchock (putouts-144/1192) 103B S. Souchock
(putouts-147/1195)
- 105A
Sal Maglie (Quiz answer is 8) 105B Sal Maglie (Quiz
answer is 1904)
- 124A
Gus Bell ( errors - 15/27) 124B Gus Bell ( errors -
11/26)
- 138A.
Gil Hodges ( field avg. - .993/.991) 138B Gil Hodges
( field avg. -.992/.991)
- 139A
Preston Ward ( field avg. - .961/.992) 139B Preston
Ward ( field avg. - .990/.992)
- 140A
Saul Rogovin (7-12 won/lost with 2 stikeouts) 140B
Saul Rogovin (7-12 won/lost with 62 stikeouts) 140C
Saul Rogovin (8-12 won/lost)
- 145A
Billy Martin ( field avg. -.985/.983) 145B Billy
Martin ( field avg. - .983/.982)
- 153A
Whitey Lockman (assists - 100/331) 153B Whitey
Lockman (assists - 102/333)
- 156A
Everett Bridges ( assists - 320/467) 156B Everett
Bridges ( assists - 328/475)
- 163A.
Dave Philley (152 games with no traded line) 163B
Dave Philley (152 games with traded line) 163C Dave
Philley (157 games with traded line)
- 174A
Pete Castiglione (field avg. -.966/.959) 174B P
Castiglione (field avg. -.970/.959)
- 179A.
Morris Martin (era -44) 179B Morris Martin (era
4.44)
- 185A.
Daryl Spencer (field avg. -.941/.944) 185B Daryl
Spencer (field avg. -.933/.936)
- 212A
Owen Friend ( field avg. - .964/.957) 212B Owen
Friend ( field avg. - .967/.958)
- 216A
Jerry Snyder (field avg. - .988/.988) 216B Jerry
Snyder (field avg. - .968/.968)
- 217A
Henry Thompson (field avg. -.956/.951) 217B H
Thompson (field avg. -.958/.952)
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- NTR - No
Traded Line
- TR -
Traded Line
- VAR -
Variation
- RC -
Rookie Card
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