1915 General Baking Co. (D303) Tris Speaker
A scarce bakery issue packed with loaves of bread, showing Speaker in his Red Sox years.
- Issue
- 1915 General Baking Co. (D303)
- Year
- 1915
- Subject
- Tris Speaker
- Grade
- PSA 1
- Cert #
- 27520370
- Population
- 3 at this grade (per Card Ladder)
1915 General Baking Co. (D303)
A small, colorful bakery set of about 49–51 cards issued "with compliments of General Baking Company" and packed with its Star Bread, French Bread and Little General Bread. The fronts share their artwork with the E106 American Caramel issue; only the backs differ. Long catalogued as a 1914 issue, it is now generally dated to 1915. The same parent company stood behind the 1916 D381 Fleischmann cards elsewhere in this collection.
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"The Grey Eagle" played the shallowest center field of his day — almost a fifth infielder — and still holds the career record for doubles (792). Traded from Boston to Cleveland in 1916, he arrived just after Jackson left for Chicago, and as player-manager he led Cleveland to the 1920 championship the same season the Black Sox scandal broke. He entered the Hall of Fame in 1937.
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