Vintage Seattle Player O The Week award goes to Akin from this 1910 “mouthpiece cigarette” baseball card. All we can piece together from Akin’s card is that he was a mean, if not sullen, bunter.
You couldn’t let ol’ Baby Face Akin’s baby face fool you — he meant business and he meant to bunt.
All the time.
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| Akin, Seattle N.W.L. |
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| Obak Mouthpiece Cigarettes. “Surpass Imagination.” Base Ball Series 175 Subjects Selected From Pacific Coast And Northwestern Leagues. Image courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
He was also adept at wielding the bat when bears roamed the infield.
Third baseman Roy Akin spent two years with the Seattle Turks of the Northwestern League.