This 1909-11 Jake Weimer tobacco card has earned an SGC 4.5 VG-EX+ grade. Tobacco cards from this era are the foundation of pre-war baseball collecting, and solid mid-grade examples with clean eye appeal are a classic entry point for collectors building pre-war player runs.
Jake Weimer was a left-handed pitcher of the dead-ball era who pitched for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds, posting several 20-win seasons early in his career. He appears among the hundreds of players documented by the tobacco card issues of the period, which remain the cornerstone of pre-war collecting. Pre-war cards of players like Weimer remain essential for set builders.
