1909-1911 T206 Hooks Wilkse New York Nationals Pitching w Cap White Brdr Card #

Description: This 1909-1911 T206 Hooks Wilkse New York Nationals Pitching with Cap White Border Card Unknown Back is the exact item you will receive and has been certified Authentic by REM Fine Collectibles. George Leroy "Hooks" Wiltse (September 7, 1879 – January 21, 1959) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1904 to 1915. He was the younger brother of pitcher Snake Wiltse. Hooks" earned his nickname because of the movement of his exceptional curveball and was one of the earliest pitchers to have a curveball regarded as being much more effective than his fastball. From 1904 to 1914, he pitched for the National League's New York Giants. During that time, he combined with teammate Christy Mathewson for 435 wins, making them one of the best lefty-righty duos in history. Wiltse won five pennants with the Giants and pitched 3+1⁄3 innings in the 1911 World Series. On July 4, 1908, Wiltse pitched a perfect game through 26 batters until he hit Philadelphia Phillies pitcher George McQuillan on a 2–2 count in a scoreless game. This was the only occurrence of a pitcher losing a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning by hitting a batter until Washington Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer did so on June 20, 2015. Like Wiltse, Scherzer eventually completed a no-hitter, but unlike Wiltse, Scherzer had a 6–0 lead and was able to retire the next batter to end the game. Home plate umpire Cy Rigler later admitted he should have called the previous pitch strike three, which would have ended the inning. Wiltse pitched on, winning 1–0 in ten innings, with the hit-batsman the only lapse separating him from a perfect game. Wiltse's ten-inning complete game no-hitter still remains a Major League record. "I missed being the only pitcher of all time to pitch a perfect ten inning game because Cy Rigler miscalled a strike. He admitted afterward he could have called it one. It was a tough break for the next pitch struck McQuillan on the shoulder and put him on first base. It had been a perfect game for eight and two-thirds innings." As a pitcher, Wiltse was an above average hitter and fielder and was occasionally used as a position player to include playing first base in game two of the 1913 World Series where he cut down two runners at home plate in the ninth inning. He posted a career .210 batting average (156-for-743) scoring 81 runs with 2 home runs, 79 RBI and drawing 50 bases on balls. In 1915, he jumped to the Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the Federal League, which is where he ended his major league career. He continued to play minor league baseball on and off until 1926. His last appearance came with the Reading Keystones, where he played in five games at the age of 46 Following his retirement from baseball, Hooks returned to his hometown of Syracuse, New York, where he worked in real estate and became involved in local politics, serving as a local alderman and property assessor. Synonymous with the phrase “tobacco card,” the 1909-1911 T206 series consists of 524 distinctly different "White Border" player portrayals measuring about 1-7/16" by 2-5/8”. The cards were designed to conform to the packages they shared with their American Tobacco Company products. The T206 collection includes 390 cards featuring major league players (with multiple poses and captions for the same player counted separately) and 134 minor leaguers, each in a straightforward and simple arrangement. Never assigned a formal title by its maker, the issue derives its T206 identity from a single line in Jefferson Burdick's definitive volume, The American Card Catalog. T206s were released from the 1909 through 1911 seasons, with the majority showing reverse side advertising of the company's popular tobacco brands. The most common backs tout the brands Piedmont, Sweet Caporal, Old Mill and Sovereign trademarks. Numbering 16 varieties in all, the hierarchy of scarcity ascends from those four names upward through such exotic types as American Beauty, Carolina Brights, and El Principe de Gales, the less-common brands Cycle, Polar Bear, and Tolstoi, and nears its culmination with seldom-seen Broad Leaf, Drum, Hindu, Lenox, and Uzit logos. The pinnacle of cardback scarcity is the "Ty Cobb" reverse design, wherein Cobb is termed "King of the Smoking Tobacco World." This specific advertisement is only found on the Ty Cobb red back portrait. Eventually, T206 content expanded to accommodate fans residing outside the relatively few major league cities of the time. Minor league players from a number of associations and towns were added to the set's cumulative roster. Captions were updated on certain player cards to reflect trades, and poses switched to keep the issue fresh. The obstacle to completing the more than 500-piece set lies with its fabled rarities. Certain "key" players in the set are famously elusive, with the unchallenged crown jewel being T206's Honus Wagner entry, which enjoys a mystique and apocryphal tales like no other. All cards occur with predictable frequency on the want lists of those enthusiasts who wish to conquer the classic White Borders.

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