Professional baseball player (1890-1956) who was one of the eight players banned from the Major Leagues for his connection to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Louis Heilbroner Baseball Statistical and Information Bureau card, 5 x 3, filled out on the reverse in black ink by Buck Weaver. The card front features typed information relating to Weaver’s 1911 season with the San Francisco Seals minor league team, with Weaver correcting his batting stance in pencil and adding “1920 B”; on the reverse Weaver writes the names of the various clubs he played for from 1910 to 1920: “1910 Cleveland N.T, 1910 Northampton York, 1910 Chicago A. N.T, 1911 San Francisco, 1911 Chicago A." Weaver writes "19" and "20," indicating that he was still with Chicago. Another hand has added “Dead” to the front, and the reverse features an affixed article mentioning Weaver’s death in 1956. In fine condition. Louis Heilbroner (1861-1933), a one-time manager for the St. Louis Cardinals, was a pioneer in baseball statistics who in 1909 founded Heilbroner's Baseball Bureau Service, the first commercial statistical bureau dedicated to baseball, and began publishing the Baseball Blue Book.
