Hage's Dairy of Southern California issued three card sets in three
years starting in 1949. According to researcher David Levin, the cards were not included in any of their products, however,
they were issued in boxes of popcorn sold at the concessions stands at
Lane Field Park, home of the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast
League. The first and most rare of the three sets is the 1949 F65-1
Hage's set, consisting of 105 different cards printed on thin stock. The
unnumbered, blank-backed cards have images printed inside a white
border. The half-tone images were printed in one of four color tints:
Black & White, Sepia, Blue, or Green.
Seattle's Heinz Becker
is the subject
of this example, graded Authentic by SGC. A poorly cut upper edge, some snow on the image, and some faint soiling on the reverse which does not affect the font keep this card from a numerical grade. However, the
scarcity of this issue far outweighs any cosmetic flaws on
this example.
SGC has only ever graded 2 total examples of this 1949 Hage's Dairy card,
with NONE receiving a higher grade than the Authentic offered here of Seattle's Heinz Becker.