1919–21 W514 Buck Weaver #91
The man banned for what he knew rather than what he did.
- Issue
- 1919–21 W514 Strip Cards
- Year
- 1919-21
- Number
- #91
- Subject
- Buck Weaver
- Grade
- SGC AUTH
- Cert #
- 5332957
- Population
- 11 at this grade (per Card Ladder)
1919–21 W514 Strip Cards
Crudely drawn, blank-backed cards sold in strips at candy, grocery and drug stores and cut apart by hand, which is why no two have the same edges. At 120 cards, W514 is the largest and best-known strip set, and its 1919–21 issue dates line up exactly with the Black Sox scandal. It includes seven of the eight banned White Sox (all but Fred McMullin) plus manager Kid Gleason, and for players like Swede Risberg and Lefty Williams it is one of very few cards made during their careers.
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The most sympathetic of the eight. Weaver attended early meetings about the fix but is not known to have taken money, and he hit .324 in the Series while playing hard. Landis banned him anyway for "guilty knowledge" — sitting in on the conferences and not telling the club. He petitioned for reinstatement for the rest of his life and never got it. Acquitted by the 1921 jury; banned the next day with the others.
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