These are often called Dairy Queen statues, but I am not sure if Dairy Queen also distributed them. All of the ads I have ever seen have only been from Tastee-Freez.
The player selection was interesting. It seems that the players in this set were exclusive, causing the Robert Gould set from the same year to use all different players (and a weaker roster!). One would have thought that players like Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Whitey Ford, Nellie Fox, and Warren Spahn would have been included in one of the two sets, but maybe contract issues prevented it. Or maybe just looking back it's easier for us to pick out all-stars that became hall of famers.
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