1916 Fleischmann Bakery (D381) Tris Speaker — without coupon
An oversized bakery portrait from the year Speaker was traded from Boston to Cleveland. Like most survivors, the redemption coupon was clipped long ago.
- Issue
- 1916 Fleischmann Bakery (D381)
- Year
- 1916
- Variation
- (Without Coupon)
- Subject
- Tris Speaker
- Grade
- SGC 2
- Cert #
- 6645989
- Population
- 1 at this grade (per Card Ladder)
1916 Fleischmann Bakery (D381)
Tall, black-and-white cards wrapped with bread by New York's Fleischmann Bakery (and, far more rarely, Boston's Ferguson Bakery), both subsidiaries of the General Baking Company. Each card carried a detachable coupon: fifty of them plus fifty cents bought a leather "Kodak Album," and no example of that album is known today. Because most coupons were clipped and redeemed, cards like this one survive "without coupon." The oversized format gives some of the most detailed player portraits of the period, many credited to Underwood & Underwood.
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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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