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RobertSThe strange thing about the 1908 Reading card with Baker is that Baker is shown standing next to Dan Shaugnessy, the player for whom he was traded to the Athletics! Weird -- Shaugnessy obviously arrived in Reading before Baker departed which just happened to coincide with the team photo...
BTW, Shaugnessy later went on to become the president of the International League from 1936 to 1950.
Here are some other postcards featuring major leaguers while they were in the minors:
(Nashville team with future Dodgers and Reds star first baseman, Jacob Daubert. Other players on this team who played in the big leagues include Hub Perdue, Pryor Mcelveen, Win Kellum, Jack Hardy, Carl Sitton, George Hunter, and Harry Bay.)
(New Britain Connecticut Minor League Class B team with Armando Marsans, Rafael Almeida, Alfredo Cabrera and Luis Padron who had formerly played together in Cuba for the Almendares team. All would go on to play in the Major Leagues, with Marsans and Almeida signing with the Cincinnati Reds in 1911.)
(1907 Tecumseh Ball Club and their star, Fred Merkle, who would join the New York Giants the following year. In 1907 Merkle led Tecumseh to the Southern Michigan League championship by clobbering a league leading six home runs.)
(Major leaguer, Addison "Ad" Brennan, with the US Army, Company D, 27th Inf., Ft. Sheridan, Ill baseball team, c. 1916-17. Brennan pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1910 to 1913 before signing with the Federal League Chicago Whales in 1914-15. Brennan is most well-known for his celebrated decking of NY Giants manager John McGraw in a fistfight beneath the Polo Grounds stands in 1913. Both he and McGraw were suspended for five days. After his release from the Army, he pitched one game for Cleveland and two games for Washington in 1918.)
(1924 Baltimore Independednt League Champions, featuring Lefty Grove.)