| Identified by the American Card Catalog as E107, this circa 1903
set is significant because it was one of the first major baseball
card sets since the days of the Old Judge issues in the 1880's.
It established the pattern for most of the tobacco and candy cards
that were to follow over the next two decades. Measuring approximately
1-3/8" X 2-5/8", cards feature black-and-white player
photos with the name, position and team along the bottom. The back
states simply "One of a hundred and fifty prominent Baseball
players," although blank-backed varieties of this set are fairly
common. Also found have been cards with a diagonal overprint stating
"The Breisch-Williams Co." establishing the producer of
the set. The Type I set consists of 147 different players although
11 additional variations can be found. The Type II cards are thicker
than those in Type I and may have been cut from an advertising piece.
Many of the photos were used in other sets, like T206 and M116 Sporting
Life. Extremely rare card - first ever graded by PSA!
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