1928 Ice Cream question--order of scarcity?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Leon,

You have to have the Babe Ruth card in this set; it is the key.

The Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, PA boasts to be the oldest
in the country. It's just up the road from where I live here in
Pennsylvania and well worth visiting it. In the Prohibition era
Yuengling was resourceful by converting their plant to produce
Ice Cream since the government prevented them from brewing beer
And, in 1928 they issued a 60 card baseball set as a premium to
go with their ice cream products.

The key card in the set of course is Babe Ruth. One could trade
this card in for Yuengling's ice cream products. And, many back
then did this, which of course resulted in less Ruth cards that
have survived for us collectors.

Years ago I tried to complete this set and I thought being near
the area that these cards were available would make it easy. It
was not as easy as the above posts are eluding to by the rank-
ings. I must admit I haven't tried to complete the Sweetman set
or the others.