From The PSA Experts: 1948 Leaf Baseball

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A set that can frustrate even wealthy card collectors due to the many hard-to-find short prints and condition scarcity, it's loved for it's first-time inclusion of many star players.

Curator of Collections, Card Cyber Museum

Check out this colorful and flamboyant 1948-49 issue from Chicago's own Leaf Gum Co.

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By 1948, Rosie the Riveter was back in her kitchen, and Major League rosters had returned to the talent-filled glory of the prewar years. Naturally, baseball cards returned, and again were embraced by America's culture. The first new product was a matter-of- fact effort by Bowman, which offered a straightforward array of rather small, completely unembellished black and white photo cards. The second, right on the heels of that no-frills product, was the comparatively flamboyant 1948-49 issue created by Chicago's Leaf Gum Company.

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