[Baseball Rarities]

Barry and Jim,

I never remember the Baltimore News cards ever being considered just schedules. Maybe "Schedule Cards" would be an accurrrate description, but I think that it is wrong to dismiss it as just a schedule.I think that it is a baseball card that happens to have a schedule on the back of it.

To me all you have to do is look at the cards - they look like typical baseball cards of the era. Their main focus was the player that was pictured on the front of the card. Their dimensions are the size of a normal baseball card and were printed on typical baseball card stock. The cards were obviously made to be collected as they pictured a plethora of players from Baltimore's two professional teams - the Orioles and the Terrapins.

Even the backs of the cards (one version) state "This Card Given To ______."

I think that they are baseball cards which happen to have a schedule (an advertisement for the team) on the reverse of them as opposed to an advertisement for cigarettes, candy or whatever else.