My definition is a little less restrictive than Barry's. I think a baseball card is a piece of paper/cardboard portraying a baseball image, that was not part of a publication, that could be acquired by the general public. The caveat of not being part of a publication was meant to exclude baseball pictures in a newspaper or magazine from this definition. This would allow for CdVs (I think these were also sold by the photographer in the case of famous teams), exhibits, cabinets, postcards, trade cards, etc. My and Corey's requirement about a baseball image raises an interesting question about the grand match tickets coming up in REA, since the image there is of Harry Wright, or Harry and Sam Wright together, as a cricket player.
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