1958 Hires Root Beer Baseball
The (66) card set came with attached advertising tabs.
Cards with their tabs are extremely difficult to find and quite expensive.
Cards measure around 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 without their tab and are numbered #10
thru #76, with #69 missing.
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Although very small at only (66) cards, it did not lack in star power with
Hall-of-Famers including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Pee Wee Reese, Don Drysdale,
Richie Ashburn, Bill Mazeroski, Duke Snider, Larry Doby and others...
The wood grain 'knot hole' card design was quite popular at the time and
was brought back by their 2003 Bowman Heritage issue.
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