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Posted By: Josh Evans

Hmmmm...

One of the qualifiers for a baseball card being a baseball card is that there is some sort of advertising relating to it. It must be essentially a premium of sorts. Hence, the 1868 Brooklyn Atlantics or the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Peck & Snyder carte-de-visites are first in my book.

This piece is merely a game card. It may be baseball, it may be card, but it is certainly not a “baseball card.” A cool piece though but a baseball card as much as any of the more commonly found chap books of the period.

But definitely a neat and very smart promotion by Mr. Kevin Keating to say the least and he even got it into the Smithsonian (the National was a little easier). Good job Kevin and good exposure for the hobby.

But the Smithsonian should probably stick to what they know, wooly mammoths and the Spirit of St. Louis.

Josh