Extremely scarce card from the first of two sets produced by Bishop & Company, a Los Angeles-based candy maker.  The 30-card set contains only players from the Pacific Coast League, with five players from each of the league's six teams.  Each card features a black and white photo of its subject, set against a colored background of either black, blue, green, purple or yellow (the black backgrounds are the most rare).  The 1910 issue can be differentiated from the 1911 due to the lack of company identification on the card reverse.  The cards are extremely scarce today; it is unusual to find even one card from the issue in a hobby auction.  We are thrilled to present the largest grouping of the cards in recent memory, broken into individual lots to encourage type card collectors to fill in a hole in their collections.

Pitcher Gene Krapp managed parts of four major league seasons - two with the Cleveland Indians in 1911 and 1912, and two with the Buffalo Federal League team in 1914 and 1915.  In 118 games across those two seasons he managed a 3.23 ERA.  In his two PCL seasons (1910 and 1913), he was a standout, going 29-16 with a 1.26 ERA with the 1910 Portland Beavers and returning to Portland in 1913 to win 12 games.  His blue-background card has been graded GOOD 2 by SGC with visible surface wear and several creases.