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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

To the best of my knowledge, there are 14 known baseball subjects in N566, all players from New York and Brooklyn, but well over 500 total subjects including actors, politicians, bridges, etc. All of the Newsboys I've seen have numbered photos.

It seems unlikely that a 15th baseball subject of a team from Arcadia, California, un-numbered, would show up at this late date. Why would the National Tobacco Works issue cabinets of well know professional New York baseball players and then a team card of an unknown Southern California team? It would certainly be possible to buy a non-baseball subject Newsboy cheaply and replace/cover up the original subject picture. But that doesn't mean that it's not a vintage photo.

The RKO most people think of is RKO Pictures, founded in 1929 in Hollywood. RKO could stand for anything, though. Perhaps the initials of the team sponsor. The photo doesn't actually say California. There is an Arcadia in Pennsylvania. Could there be another Arcadia somewhere else?