FS $12.000 1913 WG5 National Baseball Game Complete EX

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The score card has a Tom Barker back. It has Fenway Brewing ad on the front. As acquired by me circa 1985, most probably as originally packaged.
Overall condition is Excellent, with slight toning. Pictures taken with the camera look perhaps whiter than they are, while the scans look more yellowed than they are in reality.
Creases on Rucker, Sweeney, two of the batter cards, and Milan.

Ty Cobb appears on two cards. He is seen on one of the unnamed action cards as a sliding baserunner.

Cobb is not named but it is a picture of him. The card has increased in value over the years but is still not quite as valuable as Cobb’s primary card with a closeup of him and with his name printed on it.

This card has gained quite a bit of traction as one of Cobb’s more affordable cards.

Distributors
Early advertising for the game from the Boston Globe in 1913 showed where this game could be purchased. Ads listed a total of 17 Boston dealers, including: Henry Siegel Company, Houghton & Dutton, C.F. Hovey, Shepard Norwell Company, Murphy Brothers, Iver Johnson Sport, William Read & Sons, Linscott Sporting Goods, Hooper, Lewis and Company, Samuel Ward and Company, Hill, Smith and Company, Liggett Drug Stores, Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores, Klein’s Drug Stores, Walker-Bintel Drug Company, D.H. Posner, and the Timothy Smith Company.

In addition to those options, the game was also available at all hotel and railroad news stands.