1951 Topps Ringside #42, Tiger Flowers 🥊 Boxing Pioneer
Tiger Flowers was the first African-American world middleweight champion (1926). He died one year later, 1927, so boxing cards of Tiger Flowers are very scarce.
This card is part of Topps’ debut boxing release.
This set sits at a crossroads for Topps because it incorporates pre-modern card design along with post-war printing improvements. This set was released just before Topps' 1952 Baseball set, which revolutionized card collecting.