On Aug 25th 1908, Connie Mack brought up Shoeless Joe from the Greenville Spinners to play for the A's. Joe just didn't fit in with the College bred players
on the A's team. He played in only a handful of games with the A's in 1908 & 1909.
Meanwhile, the Philadelphia based American Caramel Co. (ACC) issued the 1st series of their E90-1 set in the latter part of 1908. Cards such as the CYoung
(Boston Amer.), and other player's cards in this 1st series support this late 1908 date. And, as we all know, they included Joe in their early series of E90-1
set. The A's were "hot-stuff" in 1909 with their new stadium (Shibe Park) and a great team....ACC capitalized on this by included the following twelve A's in
their E90-1 set......
HR Baker
Jack Barry
Chief Bender
Eddie Collins
Harry Davis
Jimmy Dygert
Heinie Heitmuller
Joe Jackson
Harry Krause
Stuffy McInnis
Eddie Plank
Ira Thomas
In the Spring/Summer of 1909, the 1st (150) Series of the T206 set was available which included only these A's players......
Bender
Davis
Murphy
Nicholls
Oldring
and,
a short supply of Eddie Plank cards
Now, we can speculate over the possibility that ACC controlled the "player's rights" to their hometown guys; therefore, preventing the T206 set designers
from portraying many of the A's guys in their 1st series.
In 1910, Joe played for the New Orleans Pelicans. On July 30th 1910, Connie Mack traded Joe Jackson to Cleveland for Bris Lord. Unlike his short stint with
the A's, Joe felt at home with his Cleveland team mates; and, he demonstrated this by batting .408 in 1911.
By then the T206 era was over.
But, it's very fascinating that Joe Jackson is not featured in any major Tobacco or Candy sets during his great playing years (1911-1920)....with the excep-
tion of the 1917 Collins-McCarthy set.
Did I omit any other card set in this period featuring Joe Jax ?
Thanks to Scot Reader for my "T206" HINDU Joe Jackson card.
TED Z