Boss Schmidt
date: label: date made
content: 1911
name: label: referenced
content: Detroit Tigers
label: maker
content: American Tobacco Company
notes: label: Description
content: Polar Bear cigarette T205 baseball card series 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: 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.
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: 2000.3001.038
label: nonaccession number
content: 2000.3001
label: catalog number
content: 2000.3001.038
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