Since his baseball card debut in the 1949 Bowman high-numbers, Snider appeared in every Bowman set through 1954, but he was absent from the final Bowman baseball set, the 1955 "Color TV" issue.
I think my version of a '55B Duke Snider card belatedly fills that void.
As of this posting, I have not yet printed the cards. I'm still dithering about which front to use. The smaller projection uses the background from the 1955 Bowman Frank Sullivan card. The larger projection repurposes the background of Brooks Lawrence's '55B. They are the same backgrounds I used in the two versions of my 1955 Bowman-style Sandy Koufax rookie customs.
The image of Snider swinging was lifted from an Upper Deck tribute card.
As football season is well under way, I really should be shifting my card-making efforts to some additions to my 1955 All-American updates and perhaps some other styles.
Keep watching this space for the results.
I noticed in the list of your photobucket images a head and shoulders shot of Duke Snider which looks it was taken at Connie Mack stadium. Was that picture meant to be used by Bowman in their '55 set?
ReplyDeleteYes, considering its similarity to Gil Hodges 1955 Bowman, I believe this original Flexichrome was considered for use in 1955 for a Duke Snider Bowman card. The square format, however, would have been difficult to fit into the set's horizontal format.
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