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Hal LewisJay: YES, the 1873 Boston team cabinet and the 1894 Baltimore team cabinets that I own are NOT "baseball cards" to me. They are just neat rare items that are the closest that I can get.
YES, the G&B "card" of Spalding is clearly a "card" while the 1873 cabinet is NOT. However, since the G&B was produced long AFTER his playing days had ended... it is not really any different than a 1950 Callahan card of Spalding to me. In other words, Spalding has ZERO "REAL baseball cards" to me.
YES, "game cards" DO count as cards because you had to BUY them from some company other than a photographer's studio, and because they were distributed to the public.
Once again ... as long as I could have gone into Woolworth's in my hometown as a kid in 1895 and purchased the GAME in order to collect the "CARDS"... then it counts to me!