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Posted By: Joseph

The front of this wonderful 19th Century advertising/trade card (currently for sale on a major Bay Area internet auction web site) is interesting enough...like, what the heck is a Combination Room? A gambling emporium, perhaps? Surely it doesn't have anything to do with Cambridge University (the only ref I could find).

But it's the verso that makes this piece spectacular. That being a 4-day schedule for both the National League and the Brotherhood (ie Player's League). Relics from the one-year (1890), years-before-its-time league are rare indeed.

Here's my question: what do the 1-16 numbers below the matchups represent?