The First Baseball Card - Shoebox Treasures

[Dazed]

What was the first baseball card ever made?

If ever there was going to be an industry that would have nailed down the precise first of its kind, it would be baseball cards. After all, the hobby is practically built upon carefully constructed and scrutinized checklists. The slightest printing errors are cataloged and noted, with differing...

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Which one do you think is the first baseball card?

What's your Favorite card of all-time and the favorite card you own?

Also, what's the oldest card you own? Understood if you don't want to share this info.

Enjoyed the video shout out to board member @tim carroll!

 

[finestkind]

That was a great topic. Thanks for posting it. My oldest card is from the Old Judge tobacco set from 1887 N172. There are 5 cards of Eddie Hogan with 5 different poses. I have 4 of them.

 

[Dilferules]

I couldn't say one way or the other what the actual oldest card is, it's all in the eye of the beholder. I have several T206 cards, those are my oldest. As a team collector of a team that didn't officially begin until 1901, I'll probably never feel the need to pay up for a 19th century card. I would love to get the 1906 Fan Craze cards of Connie Mack, Rube Waddell, Eddie Plank, and Chief Bender...that's about as far back as I would see my collection reasonably stretching.

My best T206's:

 

[dano7]

My oldest is an 1887 N28 A&G Joseph Mulvey

While my favorite of my collection is my 1951 (my birth year) Bowman Mantle (SGC 40), though my 1956 Yellow Basepaths Mantle pin that I got for a penney from a gum ball machine is right up there!

 

[JoshHamilton]

Oldest/favorite

I agree with everything Brian said regarding the earliest baseball cards. I don’t care about distribution method or any other semantics, but I do think to constitute a “baseball card” it should feature individual players (opposed to team photos). The Lansingburgh set fits that criteria

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