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Chase was a star, and many historians feel he was perhaps the best first baseman of the Deadball Era.  He was an excellent hitter, hitting .300 or more nine times during his 15-year career, including 1916 when he won the NL batting title with a .339 average.  He finished with 2,158 hits over his career, with a lifetime .291 average, which is pretty good for the Deadball days.  He was by all accounts the slickest and most mobile first baseman in the game, covering tons of ground and making astonishing plays with regularity.  He also made a lot of errors and led the league in this dubious category more than once.  Which may relate to his exit from the game.  Allegations of gambling and throwing games followed Chase throughout his career, intensifying in his later years.  Although nothing was ever proven, he was effectively banned from the game after the 1919 “Black” Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were thrown out of organized baseball for fixing the World Series.  A true Deadball star, with an asterisk.

This one has a Polar Bear back, and is graded 4 VG-EX by SGC

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