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Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss
Bumping this very ancient thread.
REA has an 1869 Peck & Snyder Cincinnati Red stockings Trade Card, which (along with the CDV versions) is undoubtedly the first “card” of a professional baseball team. But what is the first baseball card ever?
I propose it’s this 1859-1860 Brooklyn Athletics CDV. Thoughts?
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That is not a baseball card, it is a photo. I don't believe that trade cards, CdVs or for that matter cabinets are baseball cards and certainly not newspaper inserts or pins. To me a baseball card is something that looks like a card. If you showed it to someone outside the hobby they would recognize it as a baseball card. I believe the first baseball cards are the N167s put out by Goodwin in 1886.