This regional set was issued late in the 1949 baseball season and quickly faded into obscurity.  In the aftermath of World War II, sports card manufacturers were just beginning to resume production, with 1948 sets produced by Bowman and Leaf along with some smaller issues like Topps Magic Photo, Swell Sport Thrills and the like.  Many of these sets featured black and white photograph and many did not approach the level of quality that card-producing companies would reach just a few years later.  Amidst the approaching postwar boom, Eureka Sportstamps were one of the more attractive baseball issues.  The stamps themselves were issued on team sheets that could then be broken into individual stamps to be affixed in a stamp album that contained additional biographical information on each player.  Featuring only National League players (along with the NL President and commissioner of baseball), the Eureka set contained sixteen Hall of Famers among the 200 subjects featured.  Initially a thinly-traded issue due to its scarcity (and possibly because of the lack of AL players), the set has grown in popularity as collectors discover its beauty and difficulty.  Presented here is a complete 200-stamp set, each of the stamps affixed in the original album.  The the cover of the album is well-worn, the spine and a large tear repaired with clear tape, and significant creasing and staining elsewhere, it has done its job as a cover, which is to protect the interior contents.  While the pages exhibit wear, the stamps are largely carefully affixed into the album, resulting in a fantastic display.  An interesting, oddball piece that includes key early stamps of Warren Spahn, Stan Musial, Gil Hodges and Jackie Robinson.  200 stamps total.