Great idea for a thread, Leon! What amazing relics!
I think my oldest identifiable baseball-related item is an 1889 Chicago Daily News "Daily schedules of League and American Association Games of Baseball." According to Baseball Reference, the American Association teams of that year were: Brooklyn Bridegrooms, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics, Cincinnati Red Stockings. Baltimore Orioles, Columbus Solons, Kansas City Cowboys and Louisville Colonels. I have seen schedule booklets like this for "League and Western Association games" but I've not seen this one when I've searched.
I'm not an advanced schedule collector, but I'd guess it's either fairly rare or there's just not that much interest in schedule-collecting these days.
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