Owner of an 11 year major league career, Chet Laabs was still la young player in his third season when this 1940 Play Ball card was distributed.  He signed the card in blue, a tough card to sign due to the amount of dark imagery on the card.  Laabs passed away in 1983, and signed cards of him are difficult as a result.  The card originates from the Shibe Park collection of autographed cards, an original owner collection carefully collected by a teenage boy who, in 1939 and 1940, obtained many autographs from players arriving at the train station near Shibe Park, and continued for many years to obtain signatures in person and through the mail.