Berk Ross issued a set of 72 cards in 1951 from a number of different sports, with 40 of those cards featuring baseball players. The rest are a mix of football and basketball players, boxers, golfers, figure skaters and Olympic athletes.
The cards look a lot like subdued 1950 Bowmans. They are the same size, have a similar uncluttered design and sometimes use the same player pictures that were used in that Bowman set. Back feature a few vital measurements and a single line of 1950 statistics.
Called Hit Parade of Champions, the cards were issued as two-card panels and four separate series. The cards are numbered by their series, so 1-1 through 1-18 are the first series, 2-1 through 2-18 make up the second series and so on. The first ten cards in each series are the baseball players. A set can be considered complete at 40 cards, but a truly complete set will feature all 72 subjects. A perforation was made between the two cards in each panel, so few are found intact today.
Joe DiMaggio - who never appeared on a Bowman card and had remained largely out of card sets since 1948-'49 Leaf - is the key card to the set. A rookie card of Whitey Ford appears as well. Aside from a mix of stars and Hall of Fame players, the other athletes include Olympic legend Jesse Owens, Raging Bull subject Jake LaMotta, golfer Ben Hogan, boxer Sugar Ray Robinson and skater Dick Button have cards in the set as well.
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