Cardboard Time Machine

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Let's take a trip. Through time.

We're going to travel from 1887 through 2017, stopping by to get a baseball card each year. I'll need your help. Here are the rules for our trip:

(1) Each post must feature a picture of a baseball card that was issued one year after the card featured in the previous post. So, for example, if someone posts a 1985 Carlton Fisk, the next post must feature a card from 1986, and the post after that must feature a card from 1987, and so on.

(2) If there is a year in which no baseball cards were issued, you can say as much in your post and skip that year. But make sure that none were issued before you do this. Time travel is expensive, and I want to make sure to get as many cards as possible on this trip.

(3) If you make a post, wait a reasonable period of time before making another one. Give others a chance to play.

(4) In addition to posting the picture of the card, post a little something about the player featured. As long as we're traveling through time, we might as well learn something.

I'll go first. It's 1887, here's John Clarkson.

Interesting tidbits about Mr. Clarkson: He taught Cy Young a better curve, he owned a cigar store, and he died at the McLean Psychiatric Hospital 47.