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 by PSA. The years in which Young pitched in the major leagues (1890-1911) saw a number of significant changes in baseball, which included an increase in the distance from the pitcher’s mound to home plate, and the introduction of the foul strike rule. Fifteen times Young was a 20-game winner, and in five of those seasons he was actually a 30-game winner. There were even three seasons when he lost more than 20 games, but each time he came back and won as many as or more the following year. He was present at the birth of the American League and threw the first pitch ever thrown in a World Series game. Winning three games in the 1903 World Series, Young also stands as the only pitcher to win a game in both the Temple Cup, the postseason championship series that had obtained in the National League in the years 1894-1897, and in the World Series, which began in the twentieth century. The offered card presents at a level above the VG/EX that it has been graded and appears more in line with a grade of EX.