The 1961 Golden Press Hall of Fame that Ben speaks of is indeed a cherished issue to a lot of us baseball card collectors. They aren't valuable, except in graded MINT (still relatively cheap) or GEM MINT. They were among the first baseball cards I ever got. I first saw them in first grade when my buddy Len brought them to school to show the guys. He told me you could get them at the Jewel supermarket in Skokie, Illinois where we both lived.
So the next time my Mom went shopping I accompanied her to Jewel, looked around and saw the carousel display of Golden Press booklets and there I found it! Fortunately, she said yes when I asked her if she would buy the booklet for me.
Golden Press was a company that I believe made numerous non-sport card sets and put them out in large folders. The cards were die-cut on the pages and could easily be taken out. The folder contained 33 different cards. There was only the one series of Baseball Hall-of-Famers. It cost around 39-59 cents. It was probably issued nationally in places like supermarkets.
The quality and selection of the Golden Press colorized pictures was superb. Another respondent said they were much better than the Fleer and they really were. Some of the Fleers are very nice, and the mixture of background colors adds to their appeal. But the Golden Press is, if memory serves, completely composed of full-length action poses that are just so much superior to Fleer it should have been very embarrassing to them.
The fact they're relatively easy to find really should not matter. They're simply beautiful cards. Fleers are rarer, but they're often flat out ugly. Golden Press were beautiful and today they still are. They were a means of introducing me to pre-war baseball players.
'Nuf said. ---Brian Powell
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10-23-2014, 02:38 PM
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