who was Honus Wagner and what made this card so valuable?
Wagner was a legendary Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, one of the first five players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Nicknamed the “Flying Dutchman, he was National League batting champ in eight of his 21 seasons, finishing his career with a lifetime average of .329. He retired in 1917 with more hits, runs, runs batted in, doubles, triple and steals than any other National League player. The two key factors in the value of such a paper collectible (as in many other fields) are rarity and condition. A “tobacco” card inserted into a cigarette package – which predated the more familiar Topps, Fleers, and other bubble gum cards – there are now only about 60 Honus Wagner T-206 cards known to have survived. One reason usually given for this scarcity is that Wagner, a staunch nonsmoker, got an injunction demanding that the American Tobacco Co. withdraw his image from the 1909-11 series of cards, fearing that it would encourage young people to smoke – although this notion is cast
Related Questions
- Why are cigarettes purchased from out-of-state cigarette dealers by telephone, mail order, or over the internet priced lower than the cigarettes sold by retailers in this state?
- who was Honus Wagner and what made this card so valuable?
- Desktop Cigarette: Cigarettes, tobacco industry, cancer, etc.?!?!?
