Go to this video and jump to 18:24. They look to have been made by Big League Chew.

Has anyone ever seen them?

They look to have been made in 1995 by the "Ms. Foundation". Here's a closer look at a "pack", but more likely, these were issued as a full set.

https://www.radcliffe.harvard....ading-card-pack-1995

I mistakenly said "Big League Chew", I meant "Big League Cards".

Big League Cards was an outfit that would print custom baseball-style cards for people. I think Jim Bouton was behind it. The had a very consistent design motif, and the cards in the videos match that motif. So even if the Ms. Foundation was the publisher, I suspect that they had BLC do the actual production.

Another example of their work:

https://www.comc.com/Cards/Bas...84825/Graded/BVG/8_5

(and note that it is graded as a "promotional card")

And now that you've posted the link to the full set, I'm pretty sure I saw it when it was released 25 years ago, and that I picked one up. Whether or not I can find it in my hobby room after so many years is another story.

More background on Big League Cards.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...outon.com/cards.html

Although initially orders went directly to Bouton, he eventually licensed the name "Big League Cards" to a print company. I'm not sure if they exist anymore.

Big League Cards seems to have been the go-to company for many companies/organizations to have promo cards done. I have seen cards done by Big League for a few TV and radio stations across the country, including a card I have for a local radio station. The Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band cards were also done by Big League.

Jess

Here are two cards from the Billboard magazine 36-card set done by Big League Cards (1989). It was a gift to subscribers featuring photos of employees on the fronts with bio info and jokes on the back.

With a few exceptions, I see those Big League cards as being in the same realm as locally produced hot air balloon cards, or clown entertainers. There's just too many and they are too obscure to make a list of them. Like the Choice ones the Philly Show cards are printed with.

Here are some other examples by Big League Cards starting with a card from the Hogettes set, cards that promoted an unofficial Washington Redskins fan club of sorts (a different card every year given out in unknown quantities from around 1985 to around 2003).

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There's a thread about the Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band set but here's an image of the cards for this one.

And here's a BLC single that probably isn't listed anywhere. It's a promo for a San Francisco Bay Area radio station DJ. It's one of perhaps hundreds of cards printed to promote radio and TV stations across the country. Todd decided not to include these kinds of cards in PCE because there are just too many of them.

I looks like it was signed to me but I think it says "To Joss." I found it in a bargain box years ago and got it for around a buck as part of a lot.

Here's another one of those Big League Cards. It promotes a media escort company which is different from an escort service.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
. . . which is different from an escort service.

And just how much knowledge do you have about escort services?

What, exactly, do you want to know?

Well, I had one question, but it turned out that the answer was "Forty bucks, same as in town."

As a wise man once remarked, " 'Nuff said."

Well, uh, I just know what a friend in Alabama told me about them. It's just what I heard.

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Originally posted by catskilleagle:
. . . which is different from an escort service.

And just how much knowledge do you have about escort services?