After Dean"s dominant 1934 season a St. Louis shirt manufacturer called Rice-Stix produced a two-card set consisting only of the popular Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul. The cards were inserted into boxes of shirts in 1935. While "Rice-Stix" sounds like a food brand the company was actually named after two of its founders William Stix and Henry Rice. The company was headquartered in St. Louis in the 1930s and manufactured many different brands and types of clothing. The "Dizzy and Paul Dean Shirts" were issued by this company and included the colorful painting-like cards. They also produced Dizzy and Paul Dean pens that were distributed to salespeople to pass along to their accounts.The card image is a composite image comprised of a grandstand photo of Sportsman"s Park from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper and a photo of Dean taken by H.A. Meade identified in our research as either a Midwest company of some sort or an individual photographer. Regardless Meade produced other images of individual Cardinals players during the "Gas House Gang" era. A copy of the original photo of both Dizzy and Paul is included with this listing for reference purposes but is not part of the lot.The Rice-Stix cards are particularly scarce and aggressively sought after by prewar baseball collectors as they are a colorful and beautiful example of two of the most popular players of the live ball era with the Dizzy Dean ranking among the most dominant pitchers to perform in the 1930s. Despite a career cut short by extreme overuse and resulting injury Dean remained one of baseball"s most popular and lasting personalities maintaining a successful career in broadcasting well into the 1960s. One of baseball"s true greats Dean was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953 and the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame in 1976.Population DataPSA Population: 20 total graded 11 higherSGC Population: 14 total graded 4 higher