Night Owl Cards

I received an interesting question from Mark of the blog Mark's Ephemera yesterday. He was wondering if there has ever been a subset of any kind, issued in a mainstream set, of all of the baseball commissioners. I already knew the answer to this was "no," but I did some brief scoping and still came up with "no." The baseball card world just doesn't care about commissioners. Never has. In almost every case, only exceptional circumstances has allowed a commissioner to appear in a major baseball card set. In the case of A. Bartlett Giamatti here, commissioner No. 7, the poor guy had to die before he received a card. It hasn't been as dire for the other commissioners, but good luck finding a card of some of them. Perhaps the commissioner with the most luck getting his face on cards is Ford Frick, the third baseball commissioner, who ran the majors from 1951-65. His reign coincided with the boom in baseball cards, and in 1959, Topps made Fric...