1940 PLAY BALL COMPLETE SET OF 240

After enjoying success with its initial effort in 1939, Play Ball was back in 1940 with a bigger set and a new design. This set featured 240 cards in all, making it the largest of the Play Ball issues. Some of these cards, including many of the high-numbered series (cards #181-240), feature Hall of Famers who had long retired, like Walter Johnson, Willie Keeler, Chief Bender, and Pie Traynor. The set's key cards include Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and the legendary "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, accounting for one of the latter’s few appearances in a prominent baseball card series. It is the addition of these old-timers, coupled with the scarcity of the high-number series that includes many of those greats, that makes this the most sought-after and valuable of the three Play Ball issues. This appealing EX set features cards mostly in the VG to NM-MT range. Keys are: #1 J. DiMaggio PSA 5 EX, 6 Gomez PSA 7 NM, 7 Dickey PSA 7 NM, 27 T. Williams PSA 2 GD, 40 Greenberg VG+, 41 Gehringer VG-EX, 87 Hubbell PSA 5 EX, 88 Ott PSA 6 EX-MT, 119 Alexander PSA 7(MC) NM, 120 Johnson PSA 2 GD, 132 Mack PSA 7(MC) NM, 133 Foxx PSA 8(ST) NM-MT, 141 Stengel PSA 4 VG-EX, 168 Wagner PSA 5 EX, 170 Speaker EX, 175 Mathewson PSA 4 VG-EX, 180 Cochrane PSA 6 EX-MT, 232 Jennings PSA 6 EX-MT, 224 Traynor EX OC, 225 Jackson PSA 7 NM, 230 Faber VG-EX, 234 Chance PSA 7 NM, 235 McGraw PSA 6 EX-MT, 236 Bottomley EX-MT OC, 237 Keeler PSA 5 EX, 238 Lazzeri PSA 5 EX.