And here's a card with Jim Bouton himself:

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Originally posted by Bill Mullins:
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.

Here are a couple of cards from the "Foot Locker Slam Fest Collector Cards" 10-card set (Big League Cards, 1989).

And this Beatlefest 4-card promo set (Big League Cards, 1994):

Here's one from 1994 by Big League Cards that promotes the "Cynder" 3-issue comic series published the following year. It's one of the few BLC cards listed in PCE2008 due to its greater collector interest. It had a print run of 1000 but it's not a card you see when you go through an Ebay dealer's inventory. I had never seen one before last year.

Here's one with actor Chuck Connors (Big League Cards, 1990). I don't know if it was part of a "Movie Star" set or something printed on his behalf.

Connors was famous for his title role in the late 50's-early 60's TV western, "The Rifleman." I remember him for bringing to life a character, King Powers, from the Spenser novels in the TV series, "Spenser for Hire."