1916 M101-5 Sporting News Babe Ruth #151 (P.-Boston, Blank Back)
(Tustin, CA) - A high grade 1916 M101-5 Sporting News baseball
card set, one never before seen in the mainstream hobby, has
been consigned to Memory Lane's upcoming auction. The set spent
nearly a century in the hands of a Midwestern family before
recently being graded by PSA, where it instantly became their
second highest graded set of all-time.  Memory Lane will sell
the five most valuable cards in the set, including a PSA 5 Babe
Ruth, separately from the remaining 195 cards in an auction that
begins November 30.  The offered group of 195 carries a GPA of
5.371, or EX+, making it one of the finest known set of this
issue which is considered the most comprehensive set of the era
and includes numerous Hall of Famers, minor stars and commons
who never appeared on another card.  The M101-5 set was
distributed by several different businesses as a promotion
during the 1916 season. Some were printed with advertising on
the reverse while others, incl