The 1941 Playball set is considered one of the most beautiful and popular issues of the prewar gum card era. Featuring brilliantly colorized photos many culled from the 1940 Playball issue the 72-card set features numerous Hall of Famers and highly desirable cards including those of Joe DiMaggio Ted Williams and Pee Wee Reese. The set is extremely desirable among collectors today due in part to its beautiful design and player selection its tough high-number series and its manageable size. The last major mainstream card issue before World War II the 1941 Playball issue remains extremely popular. Presented is an alluring group of cards representing 89% of a complete set including 21 of the 23 difficult high number cards. While the overwhelming majority of the cards fall into the G-VG range the majority are very pleasing with only typical age-related wear (corners edges etc) reducing the technical grades of the cards. A complete condition breakdown would find 14% falling into the VG/EX range 41% VG; 27% G; 13% F and 5% lesser. Included in the collection are the following: #1 2 3 4 6 Carl Hubbell (VG/EX); 7 8 Mel Ott (F); 9 11 12 15 Joe Cronin (VG); 16 17 18 Hank Greenberg (G); 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 61 62 63 64 Bobby Doerr (VG/EX) 65 66 67 68 69 70 Bill Dickey (P) 72 Lefty Gomez (G). An easy way to pick up nearly 90% of a complete 1941 Playball set including the majority of the issue's tough high number cards. Note that the set's three key cards - those of Ted Williams Pee Wee Reese and Joe DiMaggio - are also available elsewhere in this auction. 64 cards total.