1909-11 T206 Sweet Caporal 150/25 Bill Bergen - Batting PSA VG-EX 4

T206 Sweet Caporal 150/25 Bill Bergen – Batting PSA 4 – The Worst Bat, The Best Glove

From the landmark 1909–1911 T206 tobacco card series, the cornerstone of pre-war baseball collecting. Produced by the American Tobacco Company and inserted into cigarette packs, the release preserved the players of baseball's Deadball Era in vivid lithographic color across one of the most complete checklists ever assembled.

Bill Bergen occupies a uniquely curious corner of baseball history: widely regarded as the worst-hitting regular player in major league history, he batted a staggering .170 over his career and posted a catastrophic .139 average in 1909 — the lowest single-season mark by any player with qualifying at-bats. And yet Brooklyn kept him in the lineup year after year because of what he did when the pitcher threw the ball. Bergen was an exceptional defensive catcher with an arm that controlled the running game as well as any backstop of his era, making the "Batting" pose on this card a genuine irony embedded in cardboard.

This example features the "Batting" pose paired with the Sweet Caporal 150/25 advertising reverse and carries a PSA VG-EX 4 grade, presenting solidly for a tobacco card well over a century old. A must-have conversation piece for collectors who appreciate baseball's most memorable statistical oddities.