Archive for '1886'

1886 Old Judge N167 Baseball

8 April 2007

Although the 1869 Peck & Snyder Cincinnati Red Stockings card is recognized as the first tru baseball card, the first pure domestic baseball card set was issued by Old Judge in 1886.  This was a time when Mike "King" Kelly, Adrian "Cap" Anson and Charlie Comiskey ruled the early diamond.
Classified as the N167 set, the […]

1886 Red Stocking Cigar

8 April 2007

One of the earliest baseball cards ever printed, the 1886 Red Stocking Cigar baseball card set actually consists of three known cards.  The three players depicted are C. G. Buffington, Capt. John F. Morrill, and Charles Radbourn.  These unnumbered cards were discovered by a collector named Jim McClean.  Each lithographed card features black and red, […]