"Barnacle Bill" Posed was  pitching with the Boston Bees in the late 1930s, one of two major league teams which which he spent time in his career. Posedel lost three years to World War II as a member of the US Navy.  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.