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Posted By: Hankron

For sake of posterity and for service of those who think those brown stains on back are tobacco--, the 1888 Baseball 'Scrapps' were not issued as independant singles, and not sold in candy or tobacco boxes. Each Baseball Scrapp would have been part of a sheet containing a variety of different little die-cuts, and the Scrapp would have been punched out from this sheet. They were specfically designed to be punched and glued into a little boy's or girl's scrapbook. This explains why almost all 1888 Baseball Scraps originate from a scrapbook and more often than not have the remnants of brown wood glue (sometimes mistaken for tobacco stains) on back.