Great thread - thanks to the OP for starting it. As a lifelong Cardinals fan I managed to acquire an original Cards team picture or photo from every year since 1900. For many of the early years it's a team montage removed from a Spalding or Reach guide from that year (I didn't remove them) or something like these two images - a team picture from an April 1900 St. Louis Globe Democrat newspaper and another from a 1903 Tip Top magazine. But for many of the years it's an actual photo. My oldest real photo is from 1921 and I'm always on the lookout for the few years I'm still missing.
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