This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2017
The current high bids for the cumulative group of singles, $80,444.00, is currently higher than the total for the complete set, $53,082.00 (this lot is currently winning)
Graded VG/EX+ 4.5 by PSA. Joe Tinker compiled a lifetime batting average of .266 and stole 336 bases in 13 full seasons in the majors, but he is best known for anchoring the defense of a team that many consider the greatest of the Deadball Era, if not of all-time. "It is impossible to speak of the great deeds which made the Cubs of 1906 the most formidable team in the history of the game without due mention of their peerless shortstop, Joe Tinker," wrote F. C. Lane in Baseball Magazine. "The shadow of Hans Wagner has long obscured the deeds of the short-field men, and the great Dutchman will go down in history as the most incomparable shortstop who ever played the game."