2001 Bowman Heritage Cubs

Bowman Heritage was another brand that a card from Chad inspired me to chase.  I've got all of them in hand now and today I'll show the Cubs from the set's premiere.

The set was issued in late-2001.  The huge success of Topps Heritage, which came out in early 2001, probably inspired Topps to do the same thing with Bowman.

The 2001 Bowman Heritage is based on the 1948 set.  While Heritage debuted with the landmark 1951 Topps set, Bowman in 1948 was pretty dull.  Black and white cards with white borders and not printing on the front is about as dull as you can get.

The BH set was made up of 440 cards.  The final 110 cards were short-printed.  Of the 440 cards, 16 of them belong to Cubs.   Lucky for me that Topps didn't follow the lead of the '48 Bowman set, because it doesn't have any Cubs among the 48 cards.  In fact, the 1948 set has players from just 10 of the 16 teams.  Besides the Cubs, the White Sox, Red Sox, Browns, Senators, and Tigers were excluded.

See how many of these 2002 Cubs players you can name.  With no printing on the front, and the cards being 19 years old, it might not be an easy task.  I know that I had to check the backs to see who several of the players were.  I've made it a little easier for you by showing the cards in alphabetical order.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We've got Hee Seop Choi, Juan Cruz, Tom Gordon, Ricky Gutierrez, Todd Hundley, Jon Lieber, Fred McGriff, Corey Patterson, Sammy Sosa, Matt Stairs, Kevin Tapani, Julian Tavarez, Rondell White, Kerry Wood, Eric Young, and Julio Zuleta.

How many did you know?