Simon Nicholls Phila AL

Simon Nicholls Phila was born 1882, and died 1911. He was associated with the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. His likeness survives in the cardboard record on the T206 White Border issue. The T206 White Border set, issued by the American Tobacco Company between 1909 and 1911 and distributed in cigarette packs, remains the most widely collected of all pre-war baseball card releases. Career statistics and full game-by-game records for many deadball-era contributors are incomplete in the surviving sources, leaving the cards themselves as a primary witness to the player's place in the professional game. This particular catalog entry corresponds to the card variant identified as "Simon Nicholls Phila AL".