Today we offer you this one of a kind T206 Birdie Cree PSA 7 baseball card with an Old Mill back. This is the only example graded PSA 7, and there is only 1 example graded higher. Birdie Cree was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He spent his entire 8-year career (1908-1915) with the New York Highlanders, which would become the New York Yankees. Cree made his Major League debut on September 17, 1908 at the age of 25. He was a solid outfielder until 1911, when he had an extraordinary season. He had or tied career highs in every major category, with the highlights being 22 triples, 48 stolen bases and a .348 batting average. He was third in the league in stolen bases and because of his great performance, he was tied with Hall of Famer Tris Speaker for 6th highest in the voting for MVP. As a matter of fact, he was the only non-Hall of Fame player in the top six for the MVP voting. He also hit his only career grand slam in 1911. Cree was on pace for another amazing season in 1912, but his season was cut short by a wrist injury from a Buck O'Brien pitch and he only played a total of 50 games. He hit .332 in that time. On April 22, 1910 Cree was hit in the head by a pitch thrown by Walter Johnson. Cree never again lived up to his amazing 1911 season, playing over 100 games only once in the remaining four years of his career. Rejecting baseball disdainfully, he ended his career early on September 21, 1915 with a .292 career batting average, 132 stolen bases and 62 triples. In the field, Cree had a career .962 fielding percentage.
