Earliest smiles in baseball cards
There's an odd reality that people didn't smile in photographs for many years. Looking through a bunch of vintage baseball cards it seems that held true for cards as well.
The earliest true actual smile (not a smirk or slight smile) is clearly Hughie Jennings. But it's the very fact that he is smiling that makes that card so unique. Before the 1930's there doesn't seem to be many happy players.
What examples are there of actual smiling players in vintage card sets?
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