Mickey Cochrane

Portrait of Mickey Cochrane, baseball player for the Chicago White Sox. Inset portrait of Lou Gehrig. Big League Chewing Gum (R-320) series. Printed on front: "Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane. Lou Gehrig says. G.G. Co., 1934." Printed on back: "No. 2, 1934 series. Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane, manager, Detroit Tigers. Mickey Cochrane rates as the best batting catcher in the American League and in 1933 rolled up an average of .322. He's a great hitter, a shrewd ball player and a good catcher. In 1928, he won the title of most valuable player in the American League. Last season he made 104 runs out of 138 hits in 130 games. At the end of the 1933 season he was traded by the Philadelphia Athletics to Detroit and signed to manage the Tigers. Mickey Cochrane was born in Bridgewater, Mass., played football at Boston University, and started minor league baseball in 1923. He was purchased from Portland, Ore., in 1924 by Connie Mack for $50,000, and stayed with the Athletics from 1925 to the end of 1933 when he went to Detroit. He is 5 feet, 10-1/2 inches tall and weighs around 180 pounds. This is one of the 1934 series of pictures of Big League baseball stars. Collect the entire series. Big League chewing gum, Goudey Gum Co., Boston. Made by the originators of Indian gum. G.G. Co., 1934."