The background of Bryan Braves team giveaways is as incomplete as most of the sets in my collection.
The background is this: beginning in 1989, the Braves began issuing quality player cards on a given day (usually Tuesday), but never gave away complete sets at one time, nor did they make it possible to acquire them through the team, such as the gift shop.
The cards' sponsor was the team's hot dog supplier at the time. As a result, Dubuque was the brand name on cards from 1989-91, Lykes from 1992-96 and Bryan from 1997 until the team discontinued the individual card giveaway in 2003. There was no individual set in 1996.
Beginning in 1990, the same sponsors produced similar, occasionally identical, perforated sets with the team photo giveaway. These cards were slightly smaller. Team set photo card sets were also discontinued in 2003.
The 1997 set totaled 36 normal sized, unnumbered cards unofficially with no pattern to their giveaway. I am missing Greg Maddux and coach Jim Beauchamp, but their cards have a same photo as the perforated set (which I have shown the two MIA cards as representing). Since these have never been posted in the Trading Card Database or in any encyclopedia, I wanted to share this amazing looking set.
The backs were very detailed stats in black and white.
(Beauchamp from team photo set)