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Posted By: barrysloate

First of all, we don't know the exact year that the Jim Creighton trade card was made. 1865 is a good guess but my theory is it is more likely 1867. He died in 1862 and all we know is it was issued sometime after that, as the back of the card discusses his death.

The earliest baseball CdV dates to about 1861, and that is the Brooklyn Atlantics. It is the earliest one discovered so far, and it would be hard to imagine an earlier one.