1911 T205 ED WALSH Gold Border Piedmont SP PSA Authentic Altered WHITE SOX HOF

Description: Item Description: You are bidding on a Professionally Graded 1911 T205 ED WALSH Gold Border Piedmont Tobacco SP SHORT PRINT PSA Authentic Altered (Trimmed) CHICAGO WHITE SOX HOF. A very nice specimen from the 1911 T205 Gold Border Tobacco card set, one of the most widely collected sets of all time. For more vintage T205, please check out my other items: Shipping and Handling: Item will be packaged carefully and shipped securely. There are two shipment options available: USPS First Class and USPS Priority Mail. Item will be packaged securely between two rigid pieces of cardboard. First class shipments will be sent in a bubble mailer and Priority shipments sent in a box or flat rate padded envelope (packaged in small box inside the envelope). Please select your shipping option at checkout. I combine shipping at no extra charge for any additional items purchased. Thanks! About Us: Welcome to iconsportscards. I specialize in vintage sets and factory certified autograph and memorabilia cards from Hall of Fame greats. I pride myself on customer satisfaction, and providing a quality product at a reasonable price. Best offers are welcome on many of my items, and I'm always happy to help a customer work out a deal, so please do not hesitiate to contact me if you see anything you like from my Ebay Store. All sportscard singles ship for one low rate, no matter how many items you buy! About The Set: The 1911 T205 Gold Border tobacco set is one of the most sought after and collected baseball card sets produced prior to 1950. The cards were produced by multiple tobacco brands, and used as a marketing scheme to sell cigarettes and tobacco products. Each individual tobacco company printed their name/insignia on the back of the card. The rarer backs command a higher value, depending on the rarity of the card/brands printed on the back. T205 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia T205 Christy Mathewson T205 Chief Bender T205 John Dunn The tobacco card set known as T205 was issued in 1911 in cigarette and loose tobacco packs through 11 different brands owned by the American Tobacco Company. It is a landmark set in the history of baseball card collecting. History The name T205 refers to the catalog designation assigned by Jefferson Burdick in his book The American Card Catalog. It is also known informally as the "Gold Borders" set due to the distinctive gold borders surrounding the lithographs on each card. The T205 set consists of 220 cards, which includes many variations and short prints. The set consists of three different leagues: the American, National, and Minor Leaguers. The American League can be identified by the baseball diamond surrounding the portrait of the player sporting their team logo near the top. The National League displays a simple colored background with the first-ever use of a facsimile autograph of the player. Minor Leaguers are made up of 12 cards printed with noticeably different and more detailed borders. The cards measure 1-7/16" x 2-5/8" which is considered by many collectors to be the standard tobacco card size. The T205 set is one of the most popular sets of the tobacco/pre-war era, second only to T206. The large number of variations, number of stars, and colorful artwork give it enormous appeal to collectors. There are 27 Baseball Hall of Fame members in the set (in alphabetical order): Home Run Baker, Chief Bender, Roger Bresnahan, Mordecai Brown, Frank Chance, Fred Clarke, Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Hugh Duffy, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Miller Huggins, Hughie Jennings, Walter Johnson, Addie Joss, Rube Marquard, Christy Mathewson, John McGraw, Tris Speaker, Joe Tinker, Bobby Wallace, Zack Wheat, Cy Young. With a little effort the set can be completed minus the most difficult card to obtain, the elusive Hoblitzell no stats. Tobacco Brands that Produced T205 Cards T205 cards were issued with 17 different backs, representing the 11 different brands of cigarettes/tobacco with which the cards were issued. Due to the same card having different backs, there are actually far more than 220 "different" T205 cards. The 17 backs are: American Beauty Black American Beauty Green Broad Leaf Black Broad Leaf Green Cycle Drum Hassan Factory 30 Hassan Factory 649 Hindu Honest Long Cut Piedmont Factory 25 Piedmont Factory 42 Polar Bear Sovereign Sweet Caporal Factory 25 Black Sweet Caporal Factory 42 Black Sweet Caporal Red New Error Discovered: The sports memorabilia community recently discovered an uncorrected error on Cycle brand cards of Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson. While his pitching record should (and typically does) read 37-11, on Cycle cards it is listed as 37-1. While it is difficult to determine rarity and value due to a lack of market data, the card is expected to be more common and less expensive than the Hoblitzell no-stats variation. Ed Walsh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other people named Ed Walsh, see Ed Walsh (disambiguation). Ed Walsh Walsh with the Chicago White Sox in 1911 Pitcher / Manager Born: May 14, 1881 Plains Township, Pennsylvania Died: May 26, 1959 (aged 78) Pompano Beach, Florida Batted: Right Threw: Right MLB debut May 7, 1904, for the Chicago White Sox Last MLB appearance September 11, 1917, for the Boston Braves MLB statistics Win–loss record 195–126 Earned run average 1.82 Strikeouts 1,736 Teams As player Chicago White Sox (1904–1916) Boston Braves (1917) As manager Chicago White Sox (1924) Career highlights and awards World Series champion (1906) MLB wins leader (1908) 2× AL ERA leader (1907, 1910) 2× MLB strikeout leader (1908, 1911) MLB record 1.82 career ERA Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Inducted 1946 Election Method Veteran's Committee Edward Augustine Walsh (May 14, 1881 – May 26, 1959) was a pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball. From 1906 to 1912, he had several seasons where he was one of the best pitchers in baseball. Injuries shortened his career. Walsh holds the record for lowest career earned run average, 1.82.[1] He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Early life Walsh was born in Plains Township, Pennsylvania, to Michael and Jane Walsh. He worked in the Luzerne County coal mines when he was young. Walsh started his professional baseball career with the 1902 Wilkes-Barre Barons.[2] MLB career Peak years Walsh made his major league debut in 1904 with the Chicago White Sox and pitched his first full season in 1906, going 17–13 with a 1.88 ERA and 171 strikeouts.[3] In Game Three of that year's World Series, which the White Sox won over the Chicago Cubs in six games, Walsh struck out a then-World Series record 12 batters. He also struck out at least one batter each inning of that game; this feat has since been duplicated only once, by Bob Gibson in the 1968 World Series opener. From this season through 1912, Walsh averaged 24 victories, 220 strikeouts and posted an ERA below 2.00 five times. He also led the league in saves five times in this span. His finest individual season came in 1908 when he went 40–15 with 269 strikeouts, 6 saves and a 1.42 ERA.[4] In 1910, he posted the lowest ERA (1.27) for a pitcher with at least 20 starts and a losing record. Walsh also set an American League record by pitching 464 innings in a season. On August 27, 1911, Walsh no-hit the Boston Red Sox 5-0. Interviewed for Lawrence Ritter's book The Glory of Their Times, Hall-of-Famer Sam Crawford referred to Walsh's use of a pitch that was later outlawed: "Big Ed Walsh. Great big, strong, good-looking fellow. He threw a spitball. I think that ball disintegrated on the way to the plate, and the catcher put it back together again. I swear, when it went past the plate, it was just the spit went by".[5] In 1910, the White Sox opened White Sox Park, which was soon nicknamed Comiskey Park by the press in honor of team owner Charles Comiskey. The name was officially changed to Comiskey Park in 1913. An apocryphal story goes that architect Zachary Taylor Davis consulted Walsh in setting the park's field dimensions. Choosing a design that favored himself and other White Sox pitchers, rather than hitters, Walsh made Comiskey Park a "pitcher's park" for its entire 80-year history.[citation needed] Later career A 1911 Ed Walsh T205 tobacco card Walsh was a workhorse who pitched an average of 375 innings annually during the six seasons of 1907 through 1912. After the 1912 season, Walsh reportedly requested a full year off to rest his arm.[6] Nevertheless, he showed up for spring training the following season, contending, "The White Sox needed me—implored me to return—so I did".[6] As baseball historian William C. Kashatus observed, "It was a mistake".[6] Walsh's playing time began dwindling in 1913.[6] It has been claimed that he came into spring training in poorer physical shape than other members of the White Sox pitching staff, and his pride led him to try to keep up with the other pitchers in terms of pitch speed before getting into adequate shape, thereby causing damage to his pitching arm. "I could feel the muscles grind and wrench during the game, and it seemed to me my arm would leap out of my socket when I shot the ball across the plate", Walsh later recalled. "My arm would keep me awake till morning with a pain I had never known before".[6] He pitched only 16 games during the 1913 season, and a meager 13 games over the next three years.[6] By 1916 Walsh's arm was dead. He wanted a year off, but Charles Comiskey released him instead.[7] He attempted a comeback with the Boston Braves in 1917, but was let go, ending his major league career.[7] He later did some pitching in the Eastern League and gave umpiring a try, after which he was a coach for the White Sox for a few years. Walsh retired with 195 wins, 126 losses[6] and 1736 strikeouts. His career 1.82 is the lowest major league ERA ever posted,[6] but is unofficial since ERA was not an official statistic in the American League prior to 1913. Though he has the second lowest career WHIP in MLB history (about 1.00), it is the lowest ever for a major league pitcher with 10 or more seasons pitched. Later life Walsh was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.[7] In 1999, he was ranked number 82 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players,[8] and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 2011, he was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.[9] Walsh's son Ed Walsh, Jr. played for the White Sox from 1928 until 1932.[10] Walsh died on May 26, 1959, nearly two weeks after his 78th birthday. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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