Vintage Sport Card Auction
Lot 206:
Not sold
Description
This 1955 Bowman baseball card features Lloyd Merriman and is identified as card number 135 in the set. The card utilizes the distinctive horizontal television set design with a wood-grain border characteristic of the 1955 Bowman series. The front displays a color photograph of Merriman in a batting stance wearing a Chicago White Sox cap, with his name MERRIMAN printed in a white box at the bottom right. The reverse of the card contains player biographical information, 1954 statistics, and a short narrative mentioning his military service in Korea and his trade from the Cincinnati Redlegs to the Chicago White Sox. Visible printed marks on the reverse include No. 135, Lloyd Merriman, OUTFIELD, CHICAGO WHITE SOX, the copyright B.G.H.L.I., and PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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