Boss Schmidt
date: label: date made
content: 1909-1911
name: label: Associated Name
content: Detroit Tigers
label: maker
content: American Tobacco Company
notes: label: Description
content: Piedmont Cigarettes T206 baseball card featuring Boss Schmidt of the Detroit Tigers.
label: Description
content: Catcher Charles “Boss” Schmidt played Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1906-1911) where he had a lifetime .243 batting average with 124 runs batted in. Schmidt would play many years in the Minors following his time in Detroit.
label: Description
content: T206 is a modern collector’s designation for a set of cards found in American Tobacco Company products between 1909-1911. The cards had different backs depending on which of the 16 American Tobacco Company brands in which they were found.
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.3001.036
label: nonaccession number
content: 2000.3001
label: catalog number
content: 2000.3001.036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, baseball
label: Object Name
content: baseball card
label: Object Name
content: cigarette card
label: Object Name
content: card, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm