Early Baseball Theme Playing Cards
 

Recently I've been thinking of something other than "baseball cards" to collect that would light my fire. If anyone has any photos of early "playing cards" from the 1900's, through maybe the 1950's, I would love to see them. Also, any information would be welcome. I was thinking of the regular 52 card decks, and any other baseball game cards. Individual cards, rather than the whole game would work for me. Something that would look nice an album. Thanks for any info.

Different sport, but the circa 1909 James Jeffries Championship Boxers player card set is great. High quality and featuring all the day's greats-- Jeffries, Sullivan, Jack Johnson, Abe Attell et al. Fronts include ports of the boxers or scenes from famous matches. The back of each pictures Jeffries in a bowler. You can find singles and complete sets. The original box is often found with a tax stamp, which is kind of note.

http://www.huntauctions.com/imgfeb03/400b.jpg

This is kind of a cool one I found that was in a stack of 30 or so cards (each featuring a different product like a monkey for a buck, etc.), which also came with a small stack of smaller cards representing different monetary denominations. It may have been a early game of playing like one was running a store or something.

http://www.starsofthediamond.com/wguncbaseball.JPG

-Rhett