1.5x2-5/8". 300+ card set. The 1911 Sporting Life (M116) Baseball card set was distributed to subscribers of the popular magazine "Sporting Life", the primary competitor of the well-circulated "Sporting News."  The cards feature full-color likenesses of each player centered within a white border with the player's surname, the team's city and league printed at the bottom. The unnumbered cards were sold by mail in 12-card lots issued in 24 series, with the final three series being the rarest. (This final group of 72 cards has "Over 300 subjects" printed on the reverse, while the majority of the set have various ads from the weekly paper on the backs. Blue-background cards are scarcer than the pastel or other backgrounds. The third series of the 1911 Sporting Life reveal minor differences in sizing, color and portrait styles.

  Tommy Leach was a professional baseball outfielder and third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball from 1898 through 1918 for the Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds. He was a NL home run leader in 1902 and a World Series Champion in 1909.