Confused, this is one for the sleuths.
So I'm in the process of listing a handful of 1927 E126's on ebay right now (subtle plug, right?) One of them makes no sense. ET Cox is Ernie Cox who pitched one inning in his Major League career, for the White Sox. That in and of itself makes it pretty weird that he has a card. In fact I would guess it would put him pretty heavily into the running for shortest Major league career represented on a pre-war Major league card. But that's NOT the weird part.
The aforementioned inning was in 1922!!!, and he has no stats, major or minor league, after that. At least not on baseballreference.com. So, is the collecting world 100% on the date of the e127 set? I see no other evidence of uncertainty. Why on earth, in a 60 card set, did they honor a guy who pitched 1 inning, five years earlier???!!!
Last edited by Aquarian Sports Cards; 02-25-2017 at 05:15 PM.
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