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~ 1983 Marketcom, Inc. & The Sporting News ~

Complete 5-card PROTOTYPE Set

Baseball Americana ~ The Conlon Collection

All five cards issued by Marketcom, Inc., in 1983 to announce its forthcoming set. Though issued in standard size (2-1/2" by 3-1/2" size) the actual product* later produced by Marketcom was quite different from the prototypes.

A Unique Twist

In an interesting twist, the statistics featured on the card backs of these were career stats to the date of the photograph, a formula never followed in any other Conlon set.

Condition: Excellent-Plus/Near Mint or better

~ Complete 5-Card Set ~

#83-1 Lewis (Hack) Wilson, Chicago Cubs 1929 ~ #83-2 Joseph Edward Cronin, Pittsburgh Pirates 1926 ~ #83-3 Walter (Barney) Johnson, Washington Senators 1926 ~ #83-4 Paul (Daffy) Dean, St. Louis Cardinals 1934 ~ #83-5 Cornelius (Connie Mack) McGillicuddy, Philadelphia Athletics 1926

*Marketcom's actual product turned out to be a large format (4-1/2" by 6-1/8") set of sixty (60) All-Stars of the 1933 American, National and Negro Leagues as selected by The Sporting News.

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