Vintage Die-cut Questions

[aelefson]

Hi-
I recently acquired the die-cut baseball players scanned below at a flea market and I have several questions regarding them. They are blank backed. They were in a scrapbook filled with other blank backed Victorian era scraps, and these came off perfectly with no soaking needed. The Chicago players were on both sides of one page and the other team was on the second page. The New York image scroll was on the second page, and each page also had the manager type person with the cane. Here are my questions.

1. What are these from? They look very familiar to me. Did they come from a game? Or, were these designed for scrapbook pasting (like the R&S series, et al)? Something else?
2. What approximate year are they from? My guess was 1905-1910, but I could be off.
3. Is the red uniform team supposed to be NY? Were there other teams produced?

I would really appreciate any additional information regarding these.
Thanks in advance,
Alan Elefson
aelefson@hotmail.com