1928 Harrington's Ice Cream Tris Speaker #28
A scarce brand of the F50 ice cream issues, dated to Speaker's final big-league season. Placed with the caramel and bakery issues as a confectionery cousin, though it post-dates Ruth's arrival; it could move to Other.
- Issue
- 1928 Harrington's Ice Cream (F50)
- Year
- 1928
- Number
- #28
- Subject
- Tris Speaker
- Grade
- SGC 1
- Cert #
- 2200596
- Population
- 1 at this grade (per Card Ladder)
1928 Harrington's Ice Cream (F50)
One of four nearly identical 60-card F50 issues of 1928 (Harrington's, Tharp's, Yuengling's and Sweetman), small black-and-white cards given out with ice cream. Yuengling's is by far the most commonly seen; Harrington's is one of the scarcer brands. It is a late, post-Ruth confectionery cousin of the caramel and bakery issues, and one of the last cards to show Tris Speaker, who played his final season in 1928.
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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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