According to PSACard.com, the 1953-54 Briggs Meats baseball set is a 40-card set featuring 28 players from the Washington Senators and 12 more players from the New York teams (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, New York Yankees). Issued as two-card panels measuring approximately 4-1/8” by 5-1/2”, each pair was cut from a hot dog package from the Washington, D.C. area and featured a bold red border. Once the 2-1/4” by 3-1/2” cards were cut into individual items, they showed no border. A full-color posed player photograph with a white strip below the image had the player’s facsimile signature as well as his printed name. The Senators cards, however, showed the facsimile autograph and some biographical information. These blank-backed cards carried the same photographs of the New York players as the 1954 Dan-Dee Potato Chips and 1953-55 Stahl-Meyer Franks.

Erwin Porterfield and James Runnels are the subjects of this uncut panel, which is in unbelievable condition considering it came out of a hot dog package 70 years ago. While the corners are slightly soft, the edges look very nice, especially for the grade.

Some surface abrasions affect the front, as well as some light foxing, and the center is creased vertically between the two players, but the fact that the images are as bright, bold, and clear as they are, and that all of the text at the bottom of the cards and at the top and bottom of the uncut panel is present and legible is nothing short of a miracle. The scarcity of this issue far outweighs any perceived cosmetic flaws on this example.

SGC has only ever graded 12 total panels of any two-player combination from the entire 1953-54 Briggs Meats set. This Good 2 example is the only time they have ever graded this combination of Erwin Porterfield and James Runnels.