Incredibly rare card from an obscure multi-sport issue from Mexico that were intended to be affixed into an album. The set included 152 cards of wrestlers, along with athletes representing soccer, bullfighting, baseball, boxing, basketball, cycling, football, and a number of other sports figures (billiards, tennis, Olympians, etc). There are 23 baseball players included. This DiMaggio along with the card of Jim Lamarque, who only played in Mexico in 1951, help us pinpoint the likely date of the set to 1952.

The cards are rare enough that although the album indicates that the set contained 320 cards, just 60 are currently known to exist. Just five of the 60 are baseball players, and this is the only example featuring Joe DiMaggio, making this his most rare card. The card is clearly a tribute to the Yankee Clipper, as he is pictured at the Yankees' suite in the Squibb Tower on December 11, 1951. It was then that DiMaggio tearfully announced his retirement, rejecting a $100,000 offer to play in 1952, stating "I can no longer produce for my ballclub, my manager, my teammates, and my fans the sort of baseball their loyalty to me deserves."

The epitome of class and dignity on the field, DiMaggio is featured here in a colorized version of the photo, wearing a business suit but with a baseball glove on his left hand, extended over a large image of Yankee Stadium. SGC has graded the card POOR 1, due primarily to a small tear at the top edge and some glue staining on the reverse, a likely result of having been removed from the album at some point.  The technical grade hardly matters, however, as this is the only known example of the card - DiMaggio collectors will be searching for a long, long time before finding a higher-grade example. An incredible rarity, the most rare of all Joe DiMaggio's cards, from an obscure Mexican issue of which just 60 cards are known to have survived.