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.

Akin, Seattle N.W.L.

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.