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Specs
Year: 1958
Title: Hires Root Beer
Size: 2-5/16″ by 7″ with tabs or 2-5/16″ by 3-1/2″ without tabs
Number in Set: 66
Overview
Hires Root Beer cards were issued one card per six-pack of Hires Root Beer. Hires printed the cards with detachable coupons (via perforated tab), encouraging collectors to “Join the Hires Baseball Club Today.” Collectors removed the tabs for the promotion, so finding them in their original form (with a tab attached) is challenging. The cards display the player’s name, position, and team beneath a color photo surrounded by a knot-hole like faux wood.
The back of the card features biographical info, a bottle cap with the card number, a fact box, and of course, a picture of Hires Root Beer.
The set begins at card #10 and ends with #76, skipping #69 for a total of 66 cards.
Hires printed an 8-card 1958 Test Issue as well.
Example
Key Cards
The key cards are Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Duke Snider.
Checklist
10 Richie Ashburn
11 Chico Carrasquel
12 Dave Philley
13 Don Newcombe
14 Wally Post
15 Rip Repulski
16 Chico Fernandez
17 Larry Doby
18 Hal Brown
19 Danny O’Connell
20 Granny Hamner
21 Dick Groat
22 Ray Narleski
23 Pee Wee Reese
24 Bob Friend
25 Willie Mays
26 Bob Nieman
27 Frank Thomas
28 Curt Simmons
29 Stan Lopata
30 Bob Skinner
31 Ron Kline
32 Willy Miranda
33 Bobby Avila
34 Clem Labine
35 Ray Jablonski
36 Bill Mazeroski
37 Billy Gardner
38 Pete Runnels
39 Jack Sanford
40 Dave Sisler
41 Don Zimmer
42 Johnny Podres
43 Dick Farrell
44 Hank Aaron
45 Bill Virdon
46 Bobby Thomson
47 Willard Nixon
48 Billy Loes
49 Hank Sauer
50 Johnny Antonelli
51 Daryl Spencer
52 Ken Lehman
53 Sammy White
54 Charley Neal
55 Don Drysdale
56 Jackie Jensen
57 Ray Katt
58 Frank Sullivan
59 Roy Face
60 Willie Jones
61 Duke Snider
62 Whitey Lockman
63 Gino Cimoli
64 Marv Grissom
65 Gene Baker
66 George Zuverink
67 Ted Kluszewski
68 Jim Busby
70 Curt Barclay
71 Hank Foiles
72 Gene Stephens
73 Al Worthington
74 Rube Walker
75 Bob Boyd
76 Al Pilarcik