Here’s yet another fascinating card from the giddy days of the late 1950s, a 1959 Home Run Derby Hank Aaron that is one of the key cards in the charming black-and-white, blank-backed baseball card issue. At 3 1/8th -by-5 ¼ inches, the cards feature the 20 players who took part in the campy slugging contest that was the forerunner of the high-dollar and even higher-glitz extravaganza that is held each year alongside the All-Star Game. He was known as a line-drive hitter and one of the finest hitters in the game by 1959 so his dominance of the 1959 event was hardly a surprise; The Hammer wound up winning six of his seven appearances, earning a cool $2,000 for each victory and the overall title. In 1959, the made-for-television Home Run Derby was held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, with relatively modest television production values ruling the day and nobody in the stands watching. The 20-card set was sponsored by and presumably distributed through AMC dealers across the country, with the genuine scarcity of the cards contributing to a significant hobby profile more than 65 years later. As he is with virtually any issue from his playing career, the Aaron is among the most important and in a genuinely difficult peripheral issue, this PSA 4 example is one of barely more than three dozen that have been slabbed by PSA.