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The First Baseball Card: 1869 Peck & Snyder

8 April 2007

Though Harper’s Weekly - a nationally distributed newspaper first published in 1857 - had printed baseball woodcuts for at least a decade - the first American baseball card was circulated in 1869.  It is a team card that was distributed by desperate retailers trying to spread the word about their company.  Known as the Peck & […]