1895 N300 Mayo's Cut Plug Cap Anson SGC GOOD 2

Sold For:

$9,000

Year:

1895

Auction:

2025 January

Lot #:

12

Category:

Pre-1900 Baseball Cards (1830-1899)

Graded GOOD 2 by SGC. Classic N300 Mayo's Cut Plug of Hall of Famer Cap Anson dating from his playing days as first baseman and manager of the Chicago Colts (later Cubs). There are very few cards of Anson as a player. The Mayo's Cut Plug is one of the very few. This card has a bold portrait and honest corner wear (bottom-right corner is chipped). The blank reverse is clean, with a spot of chipping along the top edge. A premier batsman and leader, Anson is widely regarded as the foremost on-field baseball figure of the nineteenth century. He led the National League in hitting three times and was the first man to get 3,000 hits. As a manager, he took his Chicago team to five pennants. Mayo's Cut Plug is the premier baseball card set from the 1890s. This is a very appealing example of one of Cap Anson's classic cards from this extremely important and popular nineteenth-century series.