1911 T3 Turkey Red #42 Cy Young Cabinets-Checklist Back PSA GOOD 2

1911 T3 Turkey Red #42 Cy Young Cabinets-Checklist Back PSA 2 - Baseball’s Winningest Arm, Painted for the Parlor

The 1911 T3 Turkey Red #42 Cy Young belongs to a completely different class of early baseball collectible. These were not small tobacco cards meant to disappear into a pocket; Turkey Red cabinets were large-format, richly illustrated showpieces, designed to be admired. Young is presented against an expansive ballpark scene, giving the piece an almost fine-art quality and making it a dramatic representation of the pitcher whose name would eventually become synonymous with excellence on the mound. The Checklist Back further identifies this example within one of the Deadball Era’s most celebrated issues.

Graded PSA GOOD 2, this cabinet has endured for well over a century while preserving the unmistakable visual character that makes T3s so compelling. Their oversized dimensions created an entirely different set of survival challenges than traditional tobacco cards—edges, corners, surfaces, and the broad illustrated field all had to withstand generations of handling and storage. On a card of this age and scale, the grade tells only part of the story; the experience of owning an original 1911 Cy Young cabinet is the real attraction.

And there may be no player better suited to the grandeur of the format. Young retired with 511 victories, 749 complete games, and 7,356 innings pitched—numbers so far removed from modern baseball that they border on the unimaginable. Decades later, baseball permanently attached his name to the award honoring the game’s finest pitchers.