Here’s wondrous artifact from the popular 1961 Post Cereal Baseball issue, found here in its coveted form of complete or partial panels, easing some of the concerns typically attributed to relying on the scissoring skills of an earlier generation of American youth. Gussy this up with a sparkling card of arguably the greatest player of his era, Willie Mays (plus fellow Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm) and you have the makings of a monster. This was General Mills’ first of three important baseball card sets that would ultimately be a significant addition to the classic 1960s Topps mainstream issues. With such a lofty pedigree comes great cachet, with this complete panel reasonably cut well outside the card image surfaces. This panel features seven cards but does not include the typical advertising section, with a roster that includes Mays, Wilhelm and legendary Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson, plus four players of considerable merit in their own right: Yankee Killer Frank Lary, the boisterous Bronx Bomber and later manager Billy Martin, and standout hurlers Ed Roebuck and Gene Conley; the panel is attractively presented in a PSA 2 holder, with (mk) qualifier, and probably presents in an even better fashion. The qualifier stems from tiny, largely unobtrusive pencil “dash marks” of about 1/8 of an inch and do not intrude on the card surfaces.