1909–11 American Caramel (E90-1) Ty Cobb
Cobb on the caramel set that also holds Jackson's rookie card: the two great hitters of the age in one checklist.
- Issue
- 1909–11 American Caramel (E90-1)
- Year
- 1909
- Subject
- Ty Cobb
- Grade
- PSA 1.5
- Cert #
- 54723278
- Population
- 14 at this grade (per Card Ladder)
1909–11 American Caramel (E90-1)
Issued by the American Caramel Company of Philadelphia and packed one to a box of caramels, E90-1 is the best-known caramel set of the pre-war era. The backs promise "100 subjects," but collectors have since documented roughly 120 cards of 108 different players, printed across 1909–1911. Marketed to children rather than smokers, the cards took a beating, and PSA notes that only about 1% of graded examples top a 6. It holds the consensus rookie card of Joe Jackson alongside Cobb, Mathewson, Wagner, Young and Baker.
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"The Georgia Peach," the fiercest competitor of the Deadball Era and still the highest career batting average in major-league history (.366). He won a dozen batting titles in a thirteen-season stretch and received the most votes of anyone in the first Hall of Fame election in 1936. Cobb and Jackson were contemporaries and rivals; Cobb led the American League the year Jackson hit .408.
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