E102 NNO Joe Tinker

Joe Tinker (1880–1948) played shortstop in the famed Chicago Cubs infield of the early dead-ball era, the right-handed hitter and thrower who fed Johnny Evers to start more rally-killing double plays than the National League cared to count. Tinker helped the Cubs to four pennants between 1906 and 1910 and to World Series titles in 1907 and 1908, the last championships the franchise would win for more than a century. This card is from the E102 Anonymous Set of 25, the smaller unmarked caramel release that ran in parallel with the better-known E101 issue during the late 1909–1911 confectionery window, depicting Tinker in his Cubs uniform. He later jumped to the Federal League as player-manager of the 1914 Chicago Whales, taking the upstart circuit's pennant in its second and final year of major-league existence. He died July 27, 1948 in Orlando, Florida. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1946 alongside Evers and Chance.