Frank Schulte
Object Details
- Description
- Piedmont Cigarettes T205 baseball card featuring Frank Schulte of the Chicago Cubs.
- Outfielder Frank M. Schulte played Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs (1904-1916), Pittsburgh Pirates (1916-1917), Philadelphia Phillies (1917) and Washington Senators (1918). 1911’s recipient of the Chalmers Award, given to the National League’s Most Valuable Player, Schulte won two World Series with the Cubs (1907, 1908). The left-handed batter had a career batting average of .270, 92 home runs and 793 runs batted in.
- T205 is a modern collector’s designation for a set of cards found in American Tobacco Company products in 1911. The cards had different backs depending on which of the 16 American Tobacco Company brands in which they were found.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1911
- ID Number
- 2000.3001.037
- nonaccession number
- 2000.3001
- catalog number
- 2000.3001.037
- referenced
- Chicago Cubs
- maker
- American Tobacco Company
- Object Name
- card, baseball
- baseball card
- cigarette card
- card, cigarette
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- web subject
- Sports
- name of sport
- Baseball
- level of sport
- Professional
- Record ID
- nmah_1424533
