1909-11 T206 Sweet Caporal Red Kleinow - N.Y., With Bat PSA VG-EX 4

T206 Sweet Caporal Red Kleinow – N.Y., With Bat PSA 4 – Highlanders Backstop

Printed during the famed 1909–1911 T206 tobacco card run, this card comes from the most celebrated pre-war baseball release in the hobby. Distributed through cigarette packs by the American Tobacco Company, these richly lithographed cards preserved the players and personalities of baseball's strategic Deadball Era.

Red Kleinow served as the primary catcher for the New York Highlanders during the early 1900s, holding down one of the most demanding positions in baseball through an era defined by strategic game-calling and the physical demands of working with a full rotation of starters. Sharing a dugout with the emerging powerhouse that would one day become the Yankees, Kleinow was part of a franchise still finding its footing in the American League's competitive early years.

This example features the New York designation and the "With Bat" pose paired with the Sweet Caporal advertising reverse and carries a PSA VG-EX 4 grade, presenting solidly with strong overall eye appeal for a tobacco card well over a century old. A clean mid-grade representative of the Highlanders' pre-war catching corps.