Displayed is a 1919 Cincinnati Reds World Series Championship ring, created from a broach that was presented to pitcher Jimmy Ring. The offered ring is a size 6.5 which leads us to believe Ring made the ring for his wife. Inside, it is stamped "14K." There is a diamond in the center. The center "baseball diamond" has almost faded completely, but one can see the similar outline. The face of the ring has many very tiny scratch marks. Overall, the ring is in very good condition in view of its age of over a century. The ring comes from the only World Championship ever won by Jimmy Ring and originates from a family member. Ring, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, pitched for four Major League teams: Cincinnati Reds (1917-1920); Philadelphia Phillies (1921-25 & '28); New York Giants (1926); St. Louis Cardinals (1927). After pitching sparsely in 1917-18, Ring took on a more prominent role for the Reds in 1919, and he was one of six Cincinnati hurlers to win at least 10 games that season, as he went 10-9, with a fine 2.26 ERA. In the 1919 World Series against the Chicago White Sox, Ring started Game 4 against ace White Sox right-hander Eddie Cicotte. Later, this World Series would become notorious as eight White Sox players were banned from baseball for life for planning to fix the Series or at the least discussing with gamblers the fixing of the World Series. Ring shut out the White Sox in Game 4 as one of the later-banned White Sox players, pitcher Eddie Cicotte, made two errors, rather strangely and blatantly, to help the Reds to two runs and a 2-0 lead that stood up for a Cincinnati win. The Reds had a good team that season, and the "Black Sox," as Chicago's fixers came to be called, throwing of the Series robbed honest players, on both sides, of the satisfaction that a valid triumph in an honest Series would have given them. Ring stayed with Cincinnati in 1920 and had one of his better seasons, going 17-16, with a 3.54 ERA. In 1923, he had a truly amazing record: he went 18-16, with a 3.87 ERA for a terrible, last place Phillies team that had a season record of merely 50-104. That great season by Ring had writer Ian Riccaboni (of Philliesnation.com) calling Ring "a poor man's Steve Carlton." Riccaaboni favorably compared Ring's 1920 season to that of Steve Carlton for the last place Phillies in 1972, when Carlton went 27-10 for a last place Phillies team that finished 59-97 for the season and 37.5 games behind the first place Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League East Division.