Half of the players in this set are enshrined in the Japan Baseball Hall of Fame. Shigeru Mizuhara, Kazuto Tsuruoka, Masaichi Kaneda, Shigeru Sugishita, Victor Starffin, Hideo Fujimoto, Takehiko Bessho,
Atsushi Aramaki, Ryohei Hasegawa, Tetsuharu Kawakami, Michio Nishizawa, Tokuji Iida, Fumio Fujimura, Shigeru Chiba, Futoshi Nakanishi, Yasumitsu Toyoda, Katsumi Shiraishi, Hiroshi Oshita, Kaoru Betto and Wally Yonamine.
Negro Leaguer Larry Raines is also included in this set. These full color cards list the player's name in hiragana along with the team name and position along the bottom.
This set was originally housed in a small box that was presented to readers of the January 1954 issue of Omoshiro Book which was on sale in December 1953.
Size: 2" x 2 3/8".
Condition: Most player cards are Ex/Mt. Fujimura has writing on back, Toyoda (HOF) and Masayasu Kaneda (Non-HOFer) both have vertical creases.
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