With a ball in his right hand, Al Shaw rears back to throw in his gray Cardinals uniform in front of a colorful background in this offering. This example has sharp corners and edges, with centering just east of perfect. Some extremely light tobacco staining on the front borders and back keep this beauty from grading even higher than it did. SGC has only ever graded 137 total examples of this Piedmont 150 back version of the Shaw, with only 10 receiving a higher grade than the EX 5 offered here.

Albert Simpson Shaw played from 1907 to 1909 with the St. Louis Cardinals, for nine end-of-season games in 1907 and for more than 100 games in each of the following two years. For the next four years he played in Single A and Double A, until he came back to the majors for the two years the Federal League was in existence. He enjoyed two very good seasons with the Brooklyn Tip-Tops in 1914 and the Kansas City Packers in 1915.