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Posted By: Zach Rice

Here is my list, I started it off at 1860 just for a round number.

1860-1869
-1864 Peck and Snyder single player card of James Creighton
-1869 Peck and Snyder Cincinnati Reds

1870-1879
-1871 Mort Rogers Harry Wright(Not really a card but a scorecard)
-1873 Boston team cabinet featuring both Wrights, Spalding, and O'Rourke

1880-1889
-1887 Four Base Hits Mike Kelly
-1887 N690 Kalamazoo Bats Buck Ewing
-1887 N690 Kalamazoo Bats Keefe
-1887 N690-1 Kalamazoo Bats team cabinet Boston with Radbourn, O'Rourke, and Kelly
-1888 N172 Anson in uniform
-1888 Joseph Hall New York team cabinet

1890-1899
-1893 Just So Tobacco Cy Young
-1895 N300 Mayo Cut Plug Adrian Anson

That is my personal list of the most important cards of the 19th century. Of course not everyone is going to agree but to me these cards listed above represent the very best of the decade they were produced in.