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Graded GOOD 2 by SGC. This is the ONLY example graded at this level by SGC with none graded higher! The 1911 M131 Baltimore News Newsboys Series set is an incredibly rare baseball-card issue. Presented is the key card from the set: Hall of Famer Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers. This set is very similar in design to George Close Candy but with each player image printed against a light blue background on the front and with the reverse featuring advertising along the top: “The Baltimore News Newsboys Series – Prize of $1.00 to First 35 Boys Getting Full Set of the Following:" followed by the thirty-card checklist. Jefferson Burdick gave this E94-related issue its own catalog number (M131) in the American Card Catalog because it is clearly a distinct issue from E94. Based on the reverse advertising, this set might have been a special promotion produced for and marketed exclusively to the Baltimore News newsboys. This type of severely limited distribution would certainly account for their extreme rarity. To date, SGC and PSA have combined to grade a total of just sixty-one cards (of all subjects) from the entire set, including only four examples of Cobb. This card gets our vote as perhaps the rarest of all Ty Cobb cards. This newly discovered example displays moderate creases, even corner wear, and light toning on front and back. The important "Baltimore News Newsboy Series" line at the top of the card remains boldly printed. This is a very rare opportunity to acquire a remarkable example of the key Hall of Famer from one of the rarest prewar issues in all of card collecting, and it would make a significant addition to any Ty Cobb, Hall of Fame, or type-card collection. Reserve $25,000.