If you've ever bought a repack, whether in box or pack form, you have probably pulled what is referred to as a Hygrade card. For whatever reason, the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards is reluctant to call these cards that. Under "Hygrade," it refers you back to a set called "Baseball's All-Time Greats," which is the title that runs at the top of every card. But Hygrade is the company that issued this set. The Hygrade Sports Card Company put out its own price guides and also this set of legendary players. The set was issued as part of a "beginner's baseball card kit," along with an album, in 1987. Those 50 cards are found more frequently than the second half of the set. That's right, there's a first half and a second half. The second half of 50-plus cards (I think it's 51, although I get conflicting reports) was issued an undetermined number of years later. And although nobody calls cards from the second half of the set ...
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