This set was unknown to the hobby until 2014. To date only two copies of each card in this lot are known to the hobby. We believe the set may be complete at 27 cards, as only cards containing playing cards of diamonds and spades have been seen, plus there is one "replacement card". In the image of the card fronts which accompanies this lot, the Hall of Fame members comprise the first two rows. They are (top row, l to r) Tetsuharu Kawakami, Shigeru Mizuhara, Masaichi Kaneda, Kazuhisa Inao (second row, l to r) Minoru Murayama, Yasumitsu Toyoda, Takao Kajimoto and Kazuhiro Yamauchi. The non-HOFers are (third row, l to r) Kazuhisa Kondo, Yukio Ozaki, Kiyoshi Oishi, Hiroshi Gondo, (bottom row, l to r) Takeshi Kuwata, Kunio Jonouchi, Masahiro Kubo and Masayuki Dobashi. Interestingly, the purple backs display a large uniform number next to names of players who wore that uniform number in 1962. The card backs seem to be unrelated to the fronts. Additionally, most of the players mentioned on the backs are not known to have cards in this set! This is an exceedingly rare grouping from the Golden Era of Japan Pro Baseball.

Size: Each card is 2 1/8" x 1 1/2".

Condition: Near Mint, Nm/Mt and Mint