R. Marquard Port.

Richard William "Rube" Marquard (1886–1980) appears here on the T206 White Border tobacco set in the portrait variation, paired in the issue with a separate pitching-pose card. The switch-hitting, left-handed pitcher had been signed out of the minors for an unprecedented $11,000 by John McGraw — a price tag that earned him the early-career nickname "the $11,000 lemon" when he failed to immediately justify it in his first New York Giants seasons. By the time the T206 series concluded its 1909–1911 distribution run, Marquard had silenced the lemon talk: he was on his way to a 19-game winning streak to open the 1912 season, the longest single-season streak any modern major-league pitcher has produced. The portrait pose is a cleaner studio composition than its action counterpart, and pairs naturally with the other T206 Giants stars Christy Mathewson and Roger Bresnahan. Marquard pitched into the 1925 season, with stops in Brooklyn, Cincinnati, and Boston after his Giants peak, and ultimately outlived virtually every contemporary on the 1909-era card market — surviving past his 93rd birthday into the era of artificial turf and free agency. He died June 1, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971 by the Veterans Committee, a selection that drew years of debate from the bWAR crowd but was ultimately defensible on the strength of his prime years with McGraw's Giants.