Play Ball infused a little flavor into their cards by including nicknames on front, not quite as stuffy as other card issues from the 1940s.
Offered are 70 cards from the famous '40 Play Ball set. These were secured from a collection of a Milwaukee resident and have never been offered before. The average grade is GD to VG. Included are: #2 Arndt Jorgens (GD with corner wear toning), #5 Monte Pearson (FR with burn mark on front and corner wear), #9 Charley Keller (VG), #14 Donald McNair (EX), #16 Cecil Travis (GD), #17 Charles Myer (VG), #19 Kendall Chase (GD), #20 John Lewis (VG), #22 Sam West (VG), #23 Emil Leonard (GD, #25 Bob Johnson (GD), Wally Moses (EX), #28 Gene Desautels (GD), #29 Roger Cramer (FR with crease), #30 Moe Berg (GD), #31 John Wilson (VG), #32 James Bagby (VG), #33 Fred Ostermueller (GD), #35 Joe Heving (VG), #36 James Tabor (GD), #39 Thomas Carey (FR), #42 Bud Thomas (GD),#43 Ervin Fox (GD), #44 Dizzy Trout (VG), #45 Ralph Kress (GD), #48 James Sewell (GD), #50 Hal Trosky (VG), #52 Myril Hoag (GD off center l/r), #54 Bill Trotter (VG), #58 Bill Posedel (GD), #62 John Hassett (VG), #63 Peter Coscarart (EX), #64 Van Mungo (VG-EX), #65 Fred Fitzsimmons (VG), #66 Ernie Phelps (PR/FR with writing on front and red ink residue on back), #70 Luke Hamlin (GD), #71 Melo Almada (FR with pencil mark on reverse), #72 Chuck Dressen (GD), #73 Bucky Walters (VG), #75 Frank McCormick (GD), #77 Bill Hershberger (GD), #79 Harry Craft (VG), #80 Bill Myers (VG), #81 Walter Berger (VG), #89 Bill Jurges (VG to EX), #93 Harry Danning (VG), #94 Gus Suhr (VG), #97 Morris Arnovich (GD), #99 Sylvester Johnson (EX/MT), #100 Hershel Martin (EX), #101 Del Young (VG), #106 Lemuel Young (VG), #108 John Rizzo (GD), #112 James Brown (VG), #113 Morton Cooper (EX), #114 Lonnie Warneke (VG), #115 Miguel Gonzales (VG), #118 Charles Hoyt (VG), #121 Richard Donald (EX), #123 Oral Hildebrand (GD), #127 Harold Ruel (VG), #130 Jesse Milan (FR with stain and red ink on back), #136 Henry Pippen (GD), #137 Ed Miller (VG), #152 James Wilson (VG), #153 Bill McKechnie (FR), #154 Walter Brown (FR), #164 Raymond Berres (EX), #166 Wilbur Brubaker (GD) and #169 Charles Street (VG).
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