[Belfast1933]

Not for sale, only for share…

My newest HOF “playing days” card quest has taken a bit of a tangent turn….

I just picked up this amazing, original July 1869 Harpers Weekly (full edition!) with this incredible image of baseball’s first-ever professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, with pioneer Hall of Fame brothers, George and Harry Wright.

As a cool bonus, check out the image adjacent to the Red Stocking image - an unusually busy collection of images celebrating peace…. from the US Civil War (!) which ended 4 years before this paper was produced.

I am a HOF card collector like so many of you - but I encourage you to do yourself a favor and add some breadth to your vintage collectuon and you’ll LOVE your own finds like this!

Happy Friday,

Jeff