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Posted By: davidcycleback

The general rule is that anything nice with baseball content from 1800s has at least some financial value-- booklet, ticket, program, ribbon, prints, etc. Original 1800s baseball material is scarce.

If the illustrations are woodcuts/wood-engravings, the pages will have value. A quick, though inexact way to tell if it's a woodcut is look up close and see if the image is made up of lines or tiny dot pattern. If it's lines, it's more likely to be a woodcut. A dot pattern wouldn't mean it's a fake or anything, but that it's not a handmade print like a woodcut ... If the photos/content have to due with the 'Brotherhood' league, it will have even more value. The Brotherhood was essentially the Federal League of the 1800s, and many top players played in it.