Perez Steele Celebration 1989
This set was issued in 1989 with no updates. The set commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the 10th anniversary of Perez-Steele Galleries. The issue was limited to 10,000 sets and portrayed 44 living (at the time) Hall of Famers and a checklist. The art is painted after the style of the W.S. Kimball set of 1888. The box of cards is housed in a larger box along with an album that was designed like the Allen & Ginter "Album of Worlds Champions" of 1887. Each leaf of the album contained reduced versions of the cards that were set on decoratively illustrated backgrounds. The set was intended to feature all living hall of famers - though not all of the players gave signed on. Sometime between the design and the release, three players - Lefty Gomez, Judy Johnson and Bill Terry - passed away making the autographed set complete at 41 cards.