Love of the Game is proud to offer multiple lots featuring Black Sox starter Eddie Cicotte in this auction, a man who rode the entire rollercoaster from heights of stardom through a signature scandal and major league expulsion.

This PSA PR 1 Cicotte card provides an accessible way to get Black Sox intrigue and overall scarcity in one package. Few of Standard Biscuit's sponsored  cards survived to the modern day, with just two shown on the population report! Its rounded corners and surface markings impact less obvious parts of his card, making it a diamond in the rough for something so hard to find in any condition.

Eddie Cicotte looms larger than most within the Black Sox scandal, driving his hobby prominence far above your average pennant winner. As starting pitcher, he excercised real influence over Chicago's chances to win in 1919 and delivered a pair of poor efforts in losses that put his team in a hole on their road to infamy. Long after his expulsion from the game by Commissioner Landis, Cicotte would claim that he spent 45 years of clean living to make up for his bad choices. Whatever peace that life brought him after baseball, cards showing one of Chicago's "eight men out" remain alive with cunning and controversy.