Moving on......
To formally kick off Serial History, I am going to look at an older Andrew McCutchen on card autograph from 2011 Triple Threads. There are multiple parallels of this card to track down including the base/99, sepia/75, emerald/50, sapphire/10, wood/1, and ruby/1.
Sadly the only copy I have is this Gold version numbered 19/25.
The Pirates won the World Series in 1925. It was their second World Series title, the other being from 1909. Three more titles would follow in 1960, 1971, and 1979.
The 1925 Pirates had 3 future Hall of Famers on their team: Kiki Cuyler, Pie Traynor, and Max Carey.
Some highlights of the World Series Champions that occurred during the season can be described below.
Hall of Famer, Kiki Cuyler lead the league in triples (26), times on base (291) and runs scored (144). (Sadly I don't have a single card of Kiki)
Glenn Wright performed an unassisted triple play on May 7th.
I was shocked to see Penny Sleeve for Your Thoughts post about Glenn Wright and the 1925 Pirates last week.
In addition to having a Glenn Wright cut auto, I also have autographs of the following:
Hall of Famer, Max Carey
Max Carey was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1961 by the Veterans Committee. He was a ten time National League stolen base champion and is 9th All-Time with 738 career stolen bases. He finished his career with 2,047 singles (47th all time). He had 290 career sacrifice hits showing his ability to help his team win games selflessly. That remains 13th best all time. Despite playing fewer games in left field than center field throughout his career, he still holds the 8th most double plays turned as a left fielder with 30. As a Centerfielder he appears in the top 20 All-Time for a number of defensive stats including assists (4th most 221 total), putouts (14th most with 4,589), and double plays (4th most with 58).
Hall of Famer, Pie Traynor has been on my want list for an autograph for awhile and I was able to add his 1933 Goudey card and a cut auto just about a month ago.
He is the team's greatest third baseman in the history of the Pirates. The Pirates retired numbered 20 in honor of Pie.
He finished his career with 2,416 hits and a .320 batting average while amassing 1,273 RBI over 1900 career games at the hot corner. He was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1948 on his 5th year on the ballot.
Babe Adams may not be a Hall of Famer, but he is one of the greatest Pirates pitchers in their long history. He holds the team record for wins by a right hander (194), shutouts (47), and lowest walk rate 1 walk per 14+ innings pitched.
One of his most memorable moments was pitching all 21 innings of a pitching dual in 1914. He didn't allow a walk in all 21 innings.
Wowza. That's an insane lineup of autographs! I like those HA strip cards. Was recently bidding on one, but lost out.
ReplyDeleteGeez, those are some serious autographs that you got right there! And you even got Glenn Wright! I knew that your post on the subject would be better, and I was right... it was :)
ReplyDeleteThose are very cool autographs!
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