The early 1990's were a time when baseball cards were issued with anything and everything. Literally everything. In fact, one could make the case that the 1994 baseball strike happened because of baseball cards. The MLBPA collected so much money from the trading cards deals in the late 80's and early 90's that there was no fear of the loss of income from a work stoppage. Ironically, the 1994 work stoppage led to many companies stopping to use baseball cards to promote their products.
For example, in 1991, 1992, and 1993, but there would be no Jimmy Dean cards in 1994, 1995 or 1996. They issued a small set in 1997 before backing out for good.
Here is the 1992 Jimmy Dean set. Just 18 cards in this set, which is nice in that is fits nicely on two pages. Only 5 of the 18 are in the Hall of Fame, so a fairly low percentage, but all very familiar names.
Another oddball issue with a nice back design. Actually the front design is decent. Add some logos and you've got a solid oddball issue. Although they didn't pick a very flattering photo for Cecil.
ReplyDeletealways liked the Dean sets. Cecil obviously getting Dean sausage samples on the side.
ReplyDeleteI like this set but there is room for improvement. I think it would've been better with logos and horizontal name plates.
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