Here is another vintage Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball card in my collection. This time I show you a 1922 Exhibit card of Walter "Dutch" Ruether.
These cards are much larger than your typical Baseball card (about the size of a modern postcard), and were produced by the Exhibit Supply Company of Chicago. They were distributed solely in vending machines. For the price of a penny you pulled out a couple of cards. The back of this card is blank, although in subsequent years a postcard back was added.
Dutch Ruether - notice the card above misspells his name - was a starting pitcher for the Brooklyn team from 1921 to 1924. He came to the Brooklyn Robins (as they were known back then) by way of a trade with Cincinnati for future Hall of Famer Rube Marquard. Overall, he compiled 54 wins, with a 3.97 ERA, and a 99 ERA+ with Brooklyn.
Below are his career stats, via Baseball-Reference.
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