Several youth baseball magazines occasionally bound uncut sheets of baseball cards into issues of the magazine. This was generally done as a New Year's gift to purchasers. Yakyu Shonen (Youth Baseball) attached cards to one issue
that featured participants in the 1949 San Francisco Seals Tour of Japan. The cards were attached in three, 16 card sheets. Two sheets depict Japanese stars who opposed the Seals on the Tour. The third sheet consists of four
Japanese players and 12 members of the Seals. The three sheets of this lot have been removed from the magazine. Seals in this set include Leroy Jarvis, Con Dempsey, Al Lien, Cliff Melton, Gene Brocker, Reno Cheso, Dick Lajeskie, Jim
Moran, Dario Lodigliani, Roy Nicely, Frank Shofner and Jackie Tobin. Japan Hall of Famers include Victor Starffin, Bozo Wakabayashi, Tetsuharu Kawakami, Tokuji Iida, Hiroshi Oshita, Michio Nishizawa, Katsumi Shiraishi, Makoto
Tsuruoka, Shigeru Chiba, Fumio Fujimura, Takehiko Bessho, Hideo Fujimoto, Makoto Kozuru, Noboru Aota, Hiroshi Nakao and Michinori Tsubouchi.
Size: Each card, if cut from the sheet, would be 1 11/16" x 2 1/2". Each of the three uncut sheets is 7 1/8" x 10 1/8".
Condition: Each page has missing paper in the areas which originally held the staples. However, this does not affect the condition of any of the cards, as the missing paper, in each case, ends beyond the nearest card's right hand border.
The card of Michio Nishizawa has a piece missing at lower left. Some cards exhibit foxing, darkening, or wrinkling in spots, but many would be Nm/Mt if cut from the sheet.