In addition to looking for cards in books I encourage you to check evidence of prior ownership, signatures, labels, bookplates etc, and then check for annotations or markings. On the baseball side I have found books owned owned by former players, including a great book on cricket (chadwick, 1873) that has Alfred H. Wright's signature and notes including one about Harry Wright. A H Wright was a very early sports writer/editor who also managed the first Philadelphia NL team in 1876. On the non baseball side I have found a letter from the 1906 Nobel prize winner for physics (discovered the electron), and an odd volume of a set of Shakespeare signed by a signer of the Declaration of Independence. I also seek out obvious association copies like this, but these are examples of unexpected finds. Check out signatures etc, especially in older volumes.
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