Please help with this issue. What do I have here?

[Rich Klein]

From checking a couple of players whose careers are short, seems to indicate your item was issued in 1954. I base that on having Sam Jethroe whose brief career ended with a cameo in 1954 and Harry Agannis who had a two-year major league career in 1954/55. Whatever the item is, it is certainly very cool.

Regards
Rich

[sflayank]

i forgot what theyre called but you can usually find 3 or 4 sets at the national
mike mosier can tell you what they are called

[ALR-bishop]

If you want to contact Mike and send him a scan he has a web site, www.columbiacitycollectibles.com or e mail him atmike@columbiacitycollectibles.com . Mike is pretty good on odd ball stuff and pretty generous with his knowledge

[Rich Klein]

it was discovered that Mike has the sheets up for the cheap price of $1599 on an BIN.

It was titled something like 1955 All-American Photos,...

Pretty cool item; no matter what the value is, and something I wished I had known in my Beckett days to catalog as I loved to list sets like that. Hopefully Bob can get that set into the F&W (Krause) data base

Rich

[GoldenAge50s]

Under the heading "Golf" looks like a couple of tennis players also!

[Exhibitman]

From the list of boxers it may be a bit earlier. Billy Peacock's career seems to have ended in 1953 and Pierre Langlois's in 1955.

[frankhardy]

Thank for the info. I did email Mike through Ebay and he gave me some good info on them. He said that he has owned 3 sets in 25 years and has only seen one other set sell in an auction about 10 or 15 years ago. He also said that he didn't even know what to call the set until he found a membership card and letter.